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Simone Ispa-Landa

Simone Ispa-Landa

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Curriculum Vitae
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Awards/Honors
2009 - Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

2008 - Harvard Graduate Society Merit Fellowship

2007 - Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship for International Research

Research/Scholarship

Education
Year Degree Institution
2011 PhD, Sociology Harvard University
2007 AM, Sociology Harvard University
2003 AM, Regional Studies, Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asian Studies Harvard University
1999 BA, Literary Journalism and Russian Hampshire College


Dissertation
Year Title  
2011 Race, Reputation, and Community Resources: Gender Differences in the Experiences and Effects of an Urban-to-Suburban School Integration Program


Selected Publications
Ispa-Landa, Simone (2013). Gender, Race, and Justifications for Group Exclusion: Urban Black Students Bussed to Affluent Suburban Schools. Sociology of Education: 1-16.
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Ispa-Landa, Simone (2007). Immigrants from Central and Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria, Former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Former Yugoslavia in Mary Waters, Reed Ueda and Helen Marrow, The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965 (pp. 433-444). Harvard University Press.

Ispa-Landa, Simone (2006). Reciprocity, Truth-Telling, and Power in Qualitative Data Exchanges in Tatyana Gurko, Actualnie Problemi v Rossii (pp. 211-21). Reglant.

Ispa-Landa, Simone (2003). Russian Preferred Self-Image and the Two Chechen Wars. Demokratizatsiya: 11: 305-319.

Research Interests
Qualitative methods, race and ethnic relations, social identity, education, gender, American family, intersectionality theory, micro-macro links.

Teaching/Advising


Courses
HDSP 432 Field Methods This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research, including field work, interviewing, and document analysis. Students will explore qualitative research approaches by undertaking their own research study as well as reading and discussing relevant writing on the subject.
LRN_SCI 451 Topics: Field Methods This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research, including field work, document analysis, and interviewing. Students will explore qualitative research approaches by undertaking their own research study as well as reading and discussing relevant writing on the subject. The readings, topics for discussion, and assignments in this course center on three areas: (1) The epistemological underpinnings of approaches to qualitative research. (2) The practice of qualitative inquiry. Students will explore sampling strategies; research design; observation and interview techniques; and approaches to data analysis and data presentation. (3) Other key issues that researchers encounter in doing qualitative research, including ethics and social relationships in the context of field work.
SESP 372 Methods of Observing Human Behavior Guided practice in systematic and participant observation. Observer bias, field notes, unobtrusive measures.





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