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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1983; B.A. in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, 1975.

Research Interests: Economic anthropology, labor markets, poverty, and social mobility. Studies the impact of globalization on working-class families.

Appointments: Professor, Department of Sociology; Former Provost, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for 'No Shame in My Game' (2000).

Publications: Authored 'The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition' (Beacon Press, 2012).

Additional Contributions: Frequent contributor to public policy debates on inequality and labor.