ABBY LARSON Curriculum Vitae (08/2012) University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology Email: abby.larson@berkeley.edu Email: abby.larson@stanford.edu (beginning September 2012) http://sociology.berkeley.edu/visiting-faculty/abby-larson http://abbylarson.stanford.edu EDUCATION 2006-2010 Ph.D. New York University, Sociology. A Field-Study of Financial Crisis: New York, London, Frankfurt, 2008. Committee: Richard Arum (Sociology), Craig Calhoun (Sociology), Doug Guthrie (Sociology and Business), and Harvey Molotch (Sociology). 2001 M.A. Stanford University, Sociology. Adviser: John Meyer (Sociology). 2000 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 2012- Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow for Research on Economic Crisis, National Science Foundation & American Sociological Association, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 2010-2011 Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 1
OTHER ACADEMIC/RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS 2010 Visiting Scholar, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany 2008-2009 Academic Faculty, Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Executive MBA Program, Berlin, Germany 2005-2009 Program Manager, Education, Social Science Research Council, New York, NY 2003-2004 Research Development Specialist, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University 2002-2003 Research Consultant, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, NY 2001-2002 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 2005-2008 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. 2008 Larson, Abby and Richard Arum. 2008. 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
2007 Christopher Marquis, Abby Larson, Richard Arum, and Doug Guthrie. 2007. Joel Klein and Leadership in the New York City Public Schools, Harvard Business School Case Study (Cambridge: Harvard Business School). 9-407-065. ARTICLES IN DEVELOPMENT FOR PEER REVIEW 2011-2012 Larson, Abby. (Under Review) Institutional Lock-In, Institutional Exuberance: The Institutional Dynamics of Risk and Return in Systemic Financial Crisis, New York, London, Frankfurt 2008. BOOKS IN DEVELOPMENT FOR PEER REVIEW Larson, Abby. Dissertation currently being developed into a book. MANUSCRIPTS 2008 Larson, Abby. 2008. 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. 2001 Larson, Abby. 2001. 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 2012-1213 Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute (declined) 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation & American Sociological Foundation; Department of Sociology & the Institute for the Study of Social Issues, University of California, Berkeley 2010-2011 Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 3
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Chancellor Research Fellowship for Research on Financial Crisis in Europe 2006-2010 New York University, McCracken Graduate Fellowship 2006-2008 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, $100,000 2001-2002 German Chancellor Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Germany Rhodes Scholar Regional Finalist 2000-2001 Stanford University, Undergraduate Research and Travel Grant, Oxford England 1996-1997 School for International Training, Undergraduate Research Grant, Toulouse, France 1995-1996 Rotary International, Student Ambassadorial Scholarship, Olavarria, Argentina INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2012-2013 Larson, Abby. November 1, 2012. Micro-Institutional Foundations of Debt Financing, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Vancouver, Canada. Larson, Abby. August 2012. Institutional Lock-In, Institutional Exuberance, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado. Larson, Abby. August 2012. Institutional Lock-In, Annual Meeting of the Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 4
Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts. Larson, Abby. April 2, 2012. Institutional Exuberance, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley. Larson, Abby. February 22, 2012. Institutional Exuberance, Institute for the Study of Social Issues, University of California, Berkeley. Larson, Abby. February 6, 2012. Institutional Exuberance, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR), Stanford University. 2011-2010 Larson, Abby. October 27, 2011. Institutional Exuberance, Center for Culture, Organization and Politics, University of California, Berkeley. Larson, Abby. August 20, 2011. Institutional Exuberance. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV. Larson, Abby. May 13, 2011. Institutional Exuberance. Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. 2008 Larson, Abby. May 13-14, 2008. 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. 2001 Larson, Abby. June 2001. 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 2010-2012 Center for Catastrophic Risk Management Experts Group (CCRM), University of California, Berkeley (by invitation only) 2010-2012 Center for Culture, Organization and Politics Working Group, University of California, Berkeley (by invitation only) 2011-2012 Management of Organizations Seminar Group, HAAS School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Abby Larson Curriculum Vitae 5
2010-2012 Academy of Management 2009-2010 Cultures of Finance Working Group, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University (by invitation only) 2006-2007 NYLON (New York-London), New York University and the London School of Economics with Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun (by invitation only) 2006-2012 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