ABBY LARSON Curriculum Vitae (08/2012)

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1 ABBY LARSON Curriculum Vitae (08/2012) University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology (beginning September 2012) EDUCATION Ph.D. New York University, Sociology. A Field-Study of Financial Crisis: New York, London, Frankfurt, Committee: Richard Arum (Sociology), Craig Calhoun (Sociology), Doug Guthrie (Sociology and Business), and Harvey Molotch (Sociology) M.A. Stanford University, Sociology. Adviser: John Meyer (Sociology) B.A. with honors Stanford University, International Relations. Adviser: Judith Goldstein (Political Science). INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE Economic Sociology, Organizations, Sociology of Finance, Technology, Education, Social Psychology, Culture, Qualitative Methods, Cross-National Comparative ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellow for Research on Economic Crisis, National Science Foundation & American Sociological Association, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 1

2 OTHER ACADEMIC/RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS 2010 Visiting Scholar, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Academic Faculty, Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Executive MBA Program, Berlin, Germany Program Manager, Education, Social Science Research Council, New York, NY Research Development Specialist, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University Research Consultant, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, NY Visiting Scholar, Free University, Berlin, Germany 2000 Visiting Scholar, Nuffield College, Oxford University 1997 Visiting Student, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France 1996 Visiting Student, National University of Central Buenos Aires, Olavarria, Argentina ENTERPRISES ESTABLISHED The Research Alliance for New York City Schools PUBLICATIONS 2012 Arum, Richard, Jeff Manza, Elizabeth Baker Smith, Abby Larson, and Mike McCarthy, (Forthcoming). Markets, Organizations, and Work, in The Sociology Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination. New York: Pearson Larson, Abby and Richard Arum Stages of Schooling: High School, in Deborah Carr, ed. Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development (Farmingham Hills, MI: Gale Publishers). Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 2

3 2007 Christopher Marquis, Abby Larson, Richard Arum, and Doug Guthrie Joel Klein and Leadership in the New York City Public Schools, Harvard Business School Case Study (Cambridge: Harvard Business School) ARTICLES IN DEVELOPMENT FOR PEER REVIEW Larson, Abby. (Under Review) Institutional Lock-In, Institutional Exuberance: The Institutional Dynamics of Risk and Return in Systemic Financial Crisis, New York, London, Frankfurt BOOKS IN DEVELOPMENT FOR PEER REVIEW Larson, Abby. Dissertation currently being developed into a book. MANUSCRIPTS 2008 Larson, Abby Legal and Regulatory Rights Consciousness and Mobilization: Youth and Student Rights in Comparative Contexts, in affiliation with the international working group for: Improving Learning Environments in Schools: Lessons from Abroad, Richard Arum and Yossi Shavit (Eds). Stanford University Press: Stanford Larson, Abby Master Thesis: Multicultural Republique? French Republican Citizenship and Organizational Variation in French Schools. Stanford University, Department of Sociology. Advised by John Meyer (Sociology) and Judy Goldstein (IR). GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute (declined) Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation & American Sociological Foundation; Department of Sociology & the Institute for the Study of Social Issues, University of California, Berkeley Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 3

4 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Chancellor Research Fellowship for Research on Financial Crisis in Europe New York University, McCracken Graduate Fellowship Social Science Research Council, Planning Grants with Richard Arum As Program Manager for Education Research at the Social Science Research Council, I worked with Richard Arum to organize and raise start-up funds for a new research enterprise to facilitate empirically driven research on New York City Schools. Funds were raised from the following major national and community foundations: $1,146,253: Pyewacket Foundation, $31,000; Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, $60,000; Spencer Foundation, $20,000; WT Grant Foundation, $25,000; MacArthur Foundation, $250,000; New York Community Trust, $60,000; Donors Educational Cooperative, $100,000; Ford Foundation, $100,000; Carnegie Foundation, $50,000; Gates Foundation, $350,253; Wallace Foundation, $100, German Chancellor Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Germany Rhodes Scholar Regional Finalist Stanford University, Undergraduate Research and Travel Grant, Oxford England School for International Training, Undergraduate Research Grant, Toulouse, France Rotary International, Student Ambassadorial Scholarship, Olavarria, Argentina INVITED PRESENTATIONS Larson, Abby. November 1, Micro-Institutional Foundations of Debt Financing, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Vancouver, Canada. Larson, Abby. August Institutional Lock-In, Institutional Exuberance, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado. Larson, Abby. August Institutional Lock-In, Annual Meeting of the Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 4

5 Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts. Larson, Abby. April 2, Institutional Exuberance, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley. Larson, Abby. February 22, Institutional Exuberance, Institute for the Study of Social Issues, University of California, Berkeley. Larson, Abby. February 6, Institutional Exuberance, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR), Stanford University Larson, Abby. October 27, Institutional Exuberance, Center for Culture, Organization and Politics, University of California, Berkeley. Larson, Abby. August 20, Institutional Exuberance. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV. Larson, Abby. May 13, Institutional Exuberance. Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Larson, Abby. May 13-14, Rights Consciousness and Mobilization: Youth and Student Rights in Comparative Contexts, working meeting for Improving Learning Environments in Schools: Lessons from Abroad, New York University Conference Center, La Pietra, Florence, Italy Larson, Abby. June Remnants of Repression: South Africa s Post- Apartheid Policies Regarding Undocumented Workers. Advised by Larry Diamond (Stanford University, Sociology and Political Science). Annual Stanford / Berkeley International Conference on Democracy in Africa, Stanford University. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AFFILIATIONS Center for Catastrophic Risk Management Experts Group (CCRM), University of California, Berkeley (by invitation only) Center for Culture, Organization and Politics Working Group, University of California, Berkeley (by invitation only) Management of Organizations Seminar Group, HAAS School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 5

6 Academy of Management Cultures of Finance Working Group, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University (by invitation only) NYLON (New York-London), New York University and the London School of Economics with Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun (by invitation only) American Sociological Association COURSES TAUGHT 2012 Global Financial Markets: Institutions, Regulation, and Crisis. Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 2008 Social Science Research Methods, Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Executive MBA Program, with David Slocum Sociology of Education, Department of Sociology, New York University, with Richard Arum 2007 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Department of Sociology, New York University, with Ann Morning OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Spanish, German, French Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (e.g. ATLAS.ti, SAS, STATA, Python, etc.) Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 6

Katlyn Marie Carter Department of History, Princeton University 129 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ (510)

Katlyn Marie Carter Department of History, Princeton University 129 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 (510) 725-9768 kmcarter@princeton.edu Education 2017 Ph.D., History Princeton University (expected