Simone Ispa-Landa

Graduate Student in Sociology

03/11/2008

Research Interests

children's living arrangements; information poverty & decision-making; cultural logic; sociology of education; race/ethnic/minority relations; qualitative methods; post-Soviet societies; gender roles in comparative context; life course research; transition to adulthood

Previous Degrees

M.A. Harvard 2003 Regional Studies (Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia)
BA Hampshire College 1999

Qualifying Paper Title

"Gender Schemata Persistence in Post-Soviet Russia"

Committee

Jason Kaufman, Orlando Patterson, and Martin K. Whyte

Prospectus Title

"Social Effects of an Urban-to-Suburban Racial Desegregation Program: A Natural Experiment"

Committee

Orlando Patterson (advisor), Rob Sampson, William Julius Wilson, Chris Winship

Miscellaneous Additional Information

Oral Exam Topic

"Family Contexts of Afro-American Children's Living Arrangements"

Oral Exam Committee Members: Orlando Patterson, Martin K. Whyte, and William Julius Wilson

Conferences at Which I've Made Presentations

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2007. "The Persistence of the Strong Woman/Infantile Man Discourse in Post-Soviet Russia." Paper presented at the Regular Narratives and Practice in Organizations and Post-Socialist State Ideology Session of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting, New York, August 11-14, 2007.

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2006. "Rapport, Reciprocity, and Truth-Telling in Qualitative Data Exchanges." Paper presented at the Regular Ethnography Session of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 11-14, 2006.

Ispa-Landa, Simone. 2006. "Suspended Causality: Cultures of Intimacy among Two Cohorts of Russian Families." Paper presented at the Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, IL, March 29-April 2, 2006.

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