Peter DeWan
Graduate Student in Sociology
Biographical Note
Pete was born in Roxbury, but left when he was a child. He has lived in Los Angeles, New York, Kansas, and Missouri, with briefer stints in various other places. He graduated high school in Los Angeles and attended the University of Kansas and UCLA before graduating from Columbia University with a degree in sociology and education. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a high school teacher, hospital administrator and IT consultant. He currently lives in Dorchester due to its easy access to the fine waters of Boston Harbor.
10/23/2007
- Research Interests
- Reference groups and health Quantitative methods Islam in western societies
- Previous Degrees
- B.A. Sociology and Education, Columbia University, Summa Cum Laude
| Teaching Experience | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pete has taught an individually constructed course on qualitative fieldwork with immigrants, the teaching practicum for graduate students, the tutorial in social theory, and has been a TF for an undergraduate core course on statistical methods. | ||
| Soc 96 | ||
| Soc 305 | ||
- Qualifying Paper Title
- Becoming an American Muslim: Creating Coherence in the Cultural Repertoire
- Committee
- Chris Winship Kathy Newman Neil Gross
- Prospectus Title
- Reference Groups, Ineqality, and Health Outcomes
- Committee
- Chris Winship Nicholas Christakis Peter Marsden
Miscellaneous Additional Information
- Oral Exam Topic
- Assimilation in western liberal societies
- Research Assistantships
- Chris Winship, Nicholas Christakis, Jocelyne Cesari
- Software Skills
- Stata, R, ArcGIS, MPlus
- Conferences at Which I've Made Presentations
- Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting, International School for the Study of Religion and Public Life, University of Massachusetts Biennial Conference on Conflict Resolution
Contact
617-496-5794 (FAX)
618 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138