Faculty Affiliate Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies issues of ethnic and social stratification, social mobility, and immigration in the U.S. and internationally. His current research focuses on immigration and ethnicity in U.S. and social change in Southeast Asia.
 

Major Research Projects:

• Concepts and Measures of Race and Ethnic Identities
• The Transition to Higher Education in Washington State

Sample Publications:

•   Charles Hirschman and Liz Mogford. Forthcoming. “Immigrants and Industrialization in the United States, 1880 to 1920” Social Science Research.
• Anthony Daniel Perez and Charles Hirschman. 2009. “The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the U.S. Population: Emerging American Identities.” Population and Development Review 35: 1-51.
• Hirschman, C. and Irina Voloshin. 2007. "The Structure of Teenage Employment: Social Background and the Jobs Held by High School Seniors," Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25: 189-203.
  
• Hirschman, C.; Massey, D. S., Peoples and Places: The New American Mosaic, New faces in new places : the changing geography of American immigration, Russell Sage Foundation, New York. (Forthcoming).

Contact Information:

Charles Hirschman
Email: charles@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/charles/
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