Corina Graif
Graduate Student in Sociology
Biographical Note
Corina's research work addresses questions related to individual socioeconomic and spatial mobility and attainment, neighborhood effects, spatial inequality and urban stratification, immigration, ethnicity and race, and research methods. She also studies the long-term consequences of poverty and dynamics of trust formation, personal and community social capital and social networks; how immigration and ethnic diversity impact neighborhoods either positively, by increasing in-migration of the creative class and knowledge workers for instance, or negatively, by raising crime levels. She is interested in methodological aspects related to measuring life-course mobility, diversity, neighborhood effects, social capital, segregation, spatial diffusion, and experimental design and analysis.
For 2008-2009 she received a Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Project for Justice, Welfare, and Economics, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (an interdisciplinary committee presided by Nobel prize winner, Amartya Sen). In 2008 she also received a research grant from Harvard Real Estate Initiative and an Urban Policy and Governance Research Award from the Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2007 she received the Howard T. Fisher Prize for excellence in Geographic Information Science.
In addition to sociology, she loves hiking in the White Mountains and learning about forms of artistic expression and communication (through image, sound, ritual, and mythology) from all over the world.
09/29/2008
- Research Interests
- Social inequality, urban stratification processes, neighborhood and school effects, residential mobility, life-course development, immigration, race and ethnicity, crime, social organization, social capital and networks, experimental and survey research methods.
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| Soc 179 | Crime, Justice, and the American Legal System | Teaching Fellow |
| Soc 203a | Advanced Quantitative Research Methods | Teaching Fellow |
| Soc 25 | Sociology of Organizations | Teaching Fellow |
- Qualifying Paper Title
- “Diversity as a Way of Life: From Neighborhood Social Differentiation to Spatial Dynamics of the Creative Class”
- Prospectus Title
- “Mobility in Isolation: Neighborhood Effects and the Migration Pathways of the Urban Poor”
- Committee
- Robert J. Sampson, Mary C. Waters, Christopher Winship, Peter V. Marsden
Presentations and Publications
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PUBLICATIONS: 2009. (Forthcoming). Sampson, Robert J. and Corina Graif. “Structural and Temporal Contexts of Trust: Durable Social Processes in Chicago Neighborhoods”. Volume on Trust edited by Karen Cook, Levi and Hardin. Russell Sage Foundation. 2008. (Forthcoming). Sampson, Robert J. and Corina Graif. “Neighborhood Social Capital as Differential Social Organization: Resident and Leadership Dimensions” American Behavioral Scientist. 2007. Lucas, Jeffrey W., Corina Graif, and Michael J. Lovaglia. "Prosecutorial Misconduct in Serious Cases: Theory and Design of a Laboratory Experiment" Pp. 119-136 in Experiments in Criminology and Law. A Research Revolution, edited by Christine Horne and Michael J. Lovaglia. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc. 2006. Lucas, Jeffrey W., Corina Graif, and Michael J. Lovaglia. “Misconduct in the Prosecution of Severe Crimes: Theory and Experimental Test.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 69(1), 97-107. 2004. Tausig, Mark, Rudy Fenwick, Steven L. Sauter, Lawrence R. Murphy, and Corina Graif. “The Changing Nature of Job Stress: Risk and Resources.” Pp. 93-126 in Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being. Volume 4. Edited by Pamela Perrewé. Elsevier. |
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Miscellaneous Additional Information
- Oral Exam Topic
- Immigration, Community Processes, and Crime
- Software Skills
- Stata, Spss, Pajek, Ucinet, ArcGIS, Netminer, Sas, Mathematica, R, Geoda
- Conferences at Which I've Made Presentations
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Graif, Corina. 2007. “Creative Class and Diversity: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Chicago Neighborhoods". Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York. Section on Multi-Ethnic Cities. Organized by Eric Fong. Discussant John Iceland.
Graif, Corina. 2007. “Immigration, Diversity and Residential Segregation: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Neighborhood Growth”. Summer Workshop on Immigration and Social Change in Britain and the U.S. Organized by Mary C. Waters, Robert Putnam, Robert Sampson, June 25-July 6, 2007 University of Manchester, UK.
Graif, Corina. 2006 . "Conceptualizing and Measuring Diversity and its Benefits across Neighborhoods: A Multi-Method Spatial Approach". Graduate Student Conference on Embracing Diversity: Latino Immigration and the Transformation of American Society, Sponsored by Mary C. Waters and Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University, October 13-14.
Graif, Corina. 2005. “Spatial Inequality and Community Wellbeing”. GIS and Population Science Workshop, Population Research Institute and Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences, UCSB 2005 June 19-July 2, Santa Barbara, CA.
Contact
617-710-2401
(Phone)
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33 Kirkland Street
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