John D. Skrentny

Department of Sociology 0533

UC-San Diego

9500 Gilman Dr.

La Jolla, CA 92093-0533

Ph: 858-534-0484

jskrentny@ucsd.edu

Education

1994 Harvard University, Ph. D., Sociology

1990 Harvard University, A.M., Sociology

1988 Indiana University, B.A., Sociology and Philosophy

Professional Experience

2002-present Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

2000-02 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California,

San Diego

2001 Visiting Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (UC Education Abroad Program)

1999-00 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California,

San Diego

1998 Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

1994-1998 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

1991-94 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1991-1994

Research Interests and Courses Taught

Research Interests:

American Political Development/Policy-Making

East Asian Politics and Society

Human Rights

Law and Society

Race/Ethnicity/Immigration

Courses Taught:

Classical Sociological Theory (undergraduate and graduate courses)

Immigration

Political Sociology (undergraduate and graduate)

Law and Society; Law and Culture, Sociology of Law, Comparative Law

Modernization and Globalization in East Asia

Honors and Awards

2006 Social Science Research Council Korean Migration and Development Postdoctoral Fellowship

2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (for “The New Racial Division of Labor”)

2005 Mentor Recognition Award, University of California-San Diego

2005 Author-Meets-Critics sessions at meetings of American Sociological Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association for The Minority Rights Revolution

2003 The Minority Rights Revolution, Outstanding Book, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association; Finalist, Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians

2002 Institute of Labor and Employment Targeted Research Grant for “The Social and Political Bases of Equal Employment Opportunity Law”

2001 University of California-San Diego Committee on Research Grant for “The Twilight of Asian Exceptionalism?” Part II

2000 University of California-San Diego Committee on Research Grant for “The Twilight of Asian Exceptionalism?” Part I

1998 Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professorship, University of Pennsylvania (endowed chair)

1998 Moody Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library

1997-98 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton

University Center for Human Values

1997 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship (declined)

1996 University of Pennsylvania Faculty Research Fellowship

1996 University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant

1996 Claire Levy Schwartz and Cary M. Schwartz Foundation Grant for Course Development (Law and Society Program)

1993 Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund Research Grant, Harvard Law School

1991-93 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction Teaching Award; Harvard University

1988-91 National Science Foundation Fellow

1990 Winner, Society for the Study of Social Problems student paper competition in environment and technology

1988 Phi Beta Kappa

Works in Progress

“After Civil Rights”: Analysis of the meaning of race in the workplace in the contemporary United States and its relationship to legal and policy development. Book project in progress.

With Dong-Hoon Seol. “Ethnic Return Migration and Hierarchical Nationhood: Korean Chinese Foreign Workers in South Korea.” Under review.

With Amy Binder. “Change from the 53^rd Floor: On Elite Challengers, the Nature of Social Movements and the Unappreciated Power of Social Movement Theory.” Under review.

Scholarly Publications

2008 “Are America’s Civil Rights Laws Still Relevant?” Du Bois Review 4: 1-22.

2008 With Thomas J. Sugrue. “The White Ethnic Strategy.” In Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, Harvard University Press, pp. 171-192

2007 With Stephanie Chan, Jon E. Fox and Denis Kim. “Defining Nations in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Migration Policy.” International Migration Review 41: 793-825

2006 “Law and the American State.” Annual Review of Sociology 32: 213-44

2006 “Policy-Elite Perceptions and Social Movement Success:

Understanding Variations in Group Inclusion in Affirmative Action,” American Journal of Sociology. 111 (May): 1762-1815

2004 “Policy-Making is Decision-Making,” Studies in American

Political Development 18: 70-80

2004 With Dong-Hoon Seol. “South Korea: Importing Undocumented Workers.” In Wayne A. Cornelius, Takeyuki Tsuda, Philip L. Martin, and James F. Hollifield, eds., Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective [second edition], Stanford University Press, pp. 475-513

2004 With Paul Frymer. “The Rise of Instrumental Affirmative Action:

Law and the New Significance of Race in America.” In Connecticut Law Review 36: 677-723

2002 The Minority Rights Revolution, the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Reviewed in Washington Post Book World, The Nation, and The Boston Globe

2002 With Dong-Hoon Seol and Catherine Lee. “International Norms and Domestic Politics: A Comparison of Migrant Worker and Women’s Rights in South Korea,” in Korean Studies Forum 1: 139-64.

2002 With Clark Cunningham and Glenn Loury. “Passing Strict

Scrutiny: Using Social Science to Design Affirmative Action Programs,” Georgetown Law Journal. 90: 835-82

2001 “Affirmative Action and the Failure of Presidential Leadership,” in Stanley Renshon, ed., One America? Presidential Leadership and the Dilemmas of National Diversity, Georgetown University Press, 103-29

2001 "Republican Efforts to End Affirmative Action: Walking a Fine Line," in Marc Landy, Martin Levin and Martin Shapiro, eds., Seeking the Center : Politics and Policymaking at the New Century, Georgetown University Press, 132-71

2001 (editor) Color Lines: Immigration, Affirmative Action and Civil Rights Options for America, University of Chicago Press

1999 With Robin Rogers-Dillon. "Administering Success: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Implementation of Welfare Reform," Social Problems 46: 13-29.

1998 "The Effect of the Cold War on African-American Civil Rights:

America and the World Audience, 1945-1968," Theory and Society 27: 237-85

1998 "State Capacity, Policy Feedbacks, and Affirmative Action for

Blacks, Women and Latinos," Research in Political Sociology, 8:279-310

1998 With Paul Frymer. "Coalition-Building and the Politics of

Electoral Capture During the Nixon Administration: African-Americans, Labor, Latinos," Studies in American Political Development 12: 131-161

1998 Invited editor of special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on

"Affirmative Action: Dynamics of Policy Development." The issue contains an essay, "Affirmative Action: Some Advice for the Pundits." American Behavioral Scientist, 41: 877-85

1996 The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in

America, University of Chicago Press. Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, American Political Science Review, New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Philadelphia Inquirer, Publishers Weekly (starred review), Booklist (starred review), Kirkus. A recommended book in Society

1994 "Pragmatism, Institutionalism and the Construction of

Employment Discrimination," Sociological Forum, 9: 343-369

1993 "Concern for the Environment: A Cross-National Perspective,"

International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 5: 335-352

Other Publications

2007 “L’Affirmative Action Américaine en Déclin,” Le Monde diplomatique, 54 (May, No. 638): 14

2006 Review of Nancy MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace for American Journal of Legal History 48: 232-233

2006 “The Dying Debate Over Racial Justice,” The Forward, Nov. 17

2005 Review of Cynthia Estlund, Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy for Work and Occupations 32: 369-70

2005 “South Korea, Immigration to,” entry for Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present volume 3 (Oxford: ABC-CLIO), pp. 561-64

2004 Review of Michael K. Brown, et al, Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society for Journal of American History 90: 1109-10

2004 Review of Richard L. Pacelle, Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender and Reproductive Rights Litigation for American Historical Review 109: 942-3

2003 “Égalité Devant L’Emploi aux USA: Une Politique Frileuse et Incohérente,” Hommes & Migrations November-December, No. 1246: 28-43

2003 Review of Heather Ann Thompson, Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City for Left History 8: 154-8

2003 “What’s Still Unsaid,” Newsday, “Currents,” June 29, 2003, p. A26-7

2002 “The Future of Civil Rights: A Dialogue.” Participant. Focus on Law Studies. 27: 1-12

2002 “Judges in U. of Michigan Case Skirted the Thorniest Issues.” Chronicle of Higher Education. May 31, B20

2002 “Inventing Race” The Public Interest No. 146 (Winter): 97-113

2001 Review of Peter Skerry, Counting on the Census? for Transaction: Social Science and Society 38: 86-90

2001 “Affirmative Action and New Demographic Realities,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 16, B7-B10

2000 “The Origins and Politics of Affirmative Action,” in Peter Kivisto and Georganne Rundblad, eds., Multiculturalism in the United States (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press), 269-86

1998 Review of Barbara R. Bergmann, In Defense of Affirmative Action (New York: Basic Books, 1996). Contemporary Sociology 27: 350-51

1998 Review of Paul D. Moreno, From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997). Journal of Southern History 64: 786-88

1998 Reviews of Sunita Parikh, The Politics of Preference: Democratic

Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997) and Richard F. Tomasson et al., Affirmative Action: Pros and Cons (Washington, DC: American University Press, 1996). Contemporary Sociology 27: 121-123

1996 Review of Stephen Steinberg, Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995). Social Forces 75:752-3

Conference Presentations

2007 “Human Rights and Immigrant Settlement in East Asia.” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2006 “Erasing Difference: Official Group Categories and Real-World Group Differences.” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2006 With Amy Binder. “Should We Be Surprised When the Powerful Want Progressive Change (and Make it Happen?)” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2005 Author, “Author Meets Critics” sessions at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Midwest Political Science Association, and Western Political Science Association for The Minority Rights Revolution

2005 With Stephanie Chan, Jon E. Fox, and Denis Kim. “Defining Nations Across Borders: State Preferences for Co-Ethnic/Return Migrants in Europe and East Asia.” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2005 With Paul Frymer. “Race-Based Hiring and Police Departments.” Meeting of the Law and Society Association

2004 With Paul Frymer. “Law and the Changing Meaning of Race in the Workplace.” Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

2004 Panelist at Plenary Session, “The Scholarship and Legacy of Hugh Davis Graham,” Conference of the Journal of Policy History

2003 “When Race-Based Hiring is not Affirmative Action.” Meeting of the Law, Culture and Humanities Association

2002 With Catherine Lee. “Why No Family Reunification Rights for Immigrants to East Asia?” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2002 “The State Related Consequences of Social Movements.” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2002 Organizer, panel on Affirmative Action: Domestic and International Perspectives. Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2001 “Minority Rights as National Security Policy.” Meeting of the American Political Science Association

2001 With Dong-Hoon Seol. “How Do International Norms Affect Domestic Politics? A Comparison of Migrant Worker and Women’s Rights in South Korea.” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

2000 “Cold War Effects on Domestic Policy: Winners and Losers.” Meeting of the Social Science History Association

1999 “The Cold War, Black Civil Rights, and the Origins of Bilingual Education.” Conference of the Journal of Policy History, St. Louis

1998 “The Cold War Effects on Civil Rights: Some Comparisons and Qualifications.” Meeting of the Social Science History Association

1998 With Robin Rogers-Dillon. “Administering Success: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Implementation of Welfare Reform.” Meeting of the American Sociological Association

1997 "The Culture of American Government." Meeting of the Social Science History Association

1997 "Affirmative Action Law and Policy: Is There Really a Principle at Stake?" Meeting of the American Political Science Association

1996 With Paul Frymer. "Group Capture During the Nixon

Administration: The Impact of Race and Electoral Laws on African-American Interests in the Party System." Meeting of the American Political Science Association

1996 "The Politics of Affirmative Action: Who Benefits and the

Difference It Makes." Meeting of the Social Science History Association

1996 "Cultural Analysis and the Administrative Origins of Affirmative

Action." Meeting of American Sociological Association

1996 With Paul Frymer. "Playing by the Rules: The United States, the

Soviet Union, and the Cold War Human Rights Culture" Meeting of American Sociological Association

1996 With Paul Frymer. "Captured Minorities and the Rise of the

Republican Coalition." Meeting of the Western Political Science Association

1995 "The New Institutionalism and Political Change: The Case of Affirmative Action for Women." Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society

1992 "Pragmatism, Institutionalism and the Construction of Employment Discrimination." Meeting of the American Sociological Association

1990 "Variations in Concern for the Environment in Industrialized Nations." Meeting of the American Sociological Association

Invited Presentations and Speaking Engagements

2007 With Dong-Hoon Seol. “Why Is There No Immigrant Settlement in Korea?” Invited presentation at the International Conference on Migration and Development, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, June. This paper was also presented at the Immigration and Politics Workshop, UCLA, February

2007 “Culture in the Sociological Study of Race and Ethnicity.” Invited presentation at the Third Annual Culture Conference, University of California, San Diego, May

2007 With Dong-Hoon Seol. “Hierarchical Nationhood and the Future of Korea. Invited Presentation at the Conference on the Korean Nation and Its Others,” University of Hawaii-Manoa, April

2006 With Dong-Hoon Seol. “Emigration, Immigration and Nation Building in Korea.” Invited presentation at the Social Science Research Council Fourth Annual Summer Institute on International Migration, held at UCSD, June

2005 With Stephanie Chan, Jon Fox and Denis Kim. “Defining the Nation in East and West: A Comparative Analysis of Return Migration Policy.” Invited presentation at Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migrants in Comparative Perspective, conference held at UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

2005 Invited manuscript review panelist for James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (Oxford University Press), Miller Center Fellowship Conference, University of Virginia

2005 “The Ironies of Affirmative Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era,” Notre Dame University, African-American Studies Speakers Series

2004 “The Minority Rights Revolution: How Weak Groups Can Win Big in American Politics,” presented at Cambridge University and Oxford University, American History faculty

2004 With Dong-Hoon Seol. “Joseonjok Migrant Workers’ Identity and National Identity in Korea.” Presented at the Korean Identity Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

2004 “The Rise of Instrumental Affirmative Action: Law and the New Significance of Race in America,” Miller Center of Public Affairs, American Political Development Seminar, University of Virginia

2003 Panelist, “Affirmative Action: The Legitimacy of an International Comparison,” Connecticut Law Review Symposium: “Affirmative Action: An International Perspective on a Global Dilemma,” University of Connecticut Law School

2003 With Paul Frymer. “Affirmative Action and Race as a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification: The Difference and the Difference It Makes.” “The Color Lines Conference,” Harvard University Law School

2003 “Civil Rights Policies for the 21^st Century,” presented to Middlebury College

2003 Workshop Organizer, “Studying Immigration Politics and Law,” Summer Institute on International Migration, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD and Social Science Research Council

2003 Panelist, “Diverse Approaches to Affirmative Action in University Admissions,” Program in Ethics in Society and the Stanford Center on Ethics, Stanford University

2003 “An Elite Perceptions Theory of Social Movement Success,” Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle

2002 Chair of Panel (Immigration), Law and the Disappearance of Class in Twentieth Century America, University of Pennsylvania Law School

2002 “Equal Employment Opportunity Policy in the US: Half-Hearted and Incoherent,” Conference on French and U.S. Anti-Discrimination Policy, Winthrop-King Institute, Florida State University

2001-02 “The Minority Rights Revolution,” presented to the Department of Sociology, UCLA; Institute for Governmental Studies, University of California-Berkeley; Department of Sociology, Stanford University; Department of Political Science, Brandeis University, Department of Government, Harvard University

2002 With Dong-Hoon Seol. “How Do International Norms Affect Domestic Politics? A Comparison of Migrant Worker and Women’s Rights in South Korea,” presented to the Korean Studies Program, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei Univeristy

2001 “Who Are America’s Minorities and How Was that Decided?” presented to the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University

2000 “A Primer on Affirmative Action,” presented as part of the Policies of Opportunity: Fairness and Affirmative Action in the 21^st Century conference series, Center for Policy Studies, Case Western Reserve University

1999 "The Minority Rights Revolution: How War and the Black Civil Rights Movement Changed American Politics," Sociology Brown-Bag Lecture Series, University of Arizona

1998 "Two Roads to New Rights: Democracy, Bureaucracy and the

Accommodation of Language Difference," Workshop on Organizations, Institutions and Economic Sociology, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

1998 "Uncontentious Politics: Title IX and Women's Equality in Education," Workshop on Contentious Politics, Columbia University. Also presented to Indiana University in 1999

1998 "Affirmative Action: Some Advice for the Pundits," presented at Barnard College, jointly sponsored by departments at Barnard and Columbia University

1997 Panelist at the Issues Conference of the Congressional Hispanic

Caucus Institute, Issues Conference

1997 "Policy-making and Policy-Rescinding: Affirmative in the 1960s and 1990s," presented at the Conference on the New Politics of Public Policy, Gordon Public Policy Center, Brandeis University

1997 "Race, Gender and the Pragmatics of Justice," presented to the Princeton Society of Fellows, Princeton University

1997 "The Political Origins of Bilingual Education," presented to the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University

1997 "The Ironies of Affirmative Action," presented to the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

1997 "Minority Rights and the American State," presented to the Fifth Annual Conference on the Individual vs. The State: Financing Constitutional Identity: How Taxation and Spending Determines Citizens' Identity, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

1996 "The Rights Revolution and the American Community," presented to the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community

1996 "The Origins and Resilience of Affirmative Action," presented to the Gordon Public Policy Center, Brandeis University

1995 "The Civil Rights Movement in Global Context," presented at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology Culture Cluster

Professional Activities

University of California-San Diego Academic Service:

2007 Chair, Faculty Committee to Study Creation of Law and Society Major

2006-07 Member, Graduate Program Committee, UCSD Department of Sociology

2005-06 Member, Recruitment Committee, UCSD Department of Sociology

2004-05 Chair, UCSD Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity

2003-04 Chair, Recruitment Committee, UCSD Department of Sociology

2003-04 UCSD Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity

2003-06 Member, Advisory Committee of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, UCSD

2002-present Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Law and Society Program, UCSD

2000-present Research Associate, UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration

Studies

2002-03 Chair, Graduate Program Committee, and Department Vice-Chair, Department of Sociology

2002 Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, member

2000-01 Chair, Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology

1999-00 Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology

University of Pennsylvania Academic Service:

1996-97 Organizer, Department of Sociology Colloquium Series

1996-97 Faculty Committee on Law and Society Minor

1996-97 Faculty Advisor, Sociology Undergraduate Advisory Board

1996-97 Search Committee for Lauder Chair in International Relations

1996 Instructor for University of Pennsylvania Washington Semester Program, Spring

1996- Faculty Committee on Joint Degree Program in Law and Sociology

1995-96 Co-Organizer, Workshop in American Political Development

1995-96 Adviser, Freshman Advising Program

1995-96 Graduate Program Committee

1994-96 Executive Committee

1994-95 Undergraduate Program Committee

Harvard University Academic Service:

1993 Panelist, Derek Bok Center Teaching Symposium

1992-93 Department of Sociology, Colloquium Committee

1990-91 Department of Sociology, Graduate Student Admissions Committee

General Professional Service and Activity:

Reviewer for American Behavioral Scientist, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Business History Review, Cambridge University Press (Political Science), Columbia University Press (Political Science), Harvard University Press (Legal Studies; Sociology), The Historian, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of American History, Journal of Policy History, Law and Social Inquiry, National Science Foundation (Sociology), Policy Studies Journal, Oxford University Press (History), Princeton University Press (Political Science, Sociology), Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Theory, Stanford University Press (Sociology), State University of New York Press (Political Science), Temple University Press (Sociology), University of California Press (Political Science), University of Michigan Press (Political Science), University Press of Kansas (History) and the University of Chicago Press (Sociology and Political Science)

American Sociological Association (ASA), member, 1989-present

Member of Culture Section, 1989-1999

Member of Political Sociology Section, 1992-present

1999 Book Award Committee

2000 Book Award Committee

2007 Book Award Committee

2007- Member, Section Council

Member of Race and Ethnic Relations Section, 1991

Member, Sociology of Law Section, 1996-present

2005 Chair, Nominations Committee

2007 Member, Student paper award committee

2007 Member, Section Council

American Political Science Association, member, 1995-2004

Social Science History Association, member, 1996-2000

Eastern Sociological Society, member, 1994-96

Participant, Seminar on Contentious Politics, Columbia University, 1997-98

Participant, Workshop on Politics, Power and Protest, New York University, 1997-98

Other Activities

Member of Amicus Group, Brief Amicus Curiae of Social Science and

Comparative Law Scholars (Filed June 1, 2001), Adarand Constructors v. Mineta, argued October, 2001

Radio and television appearances: 1996: Chicago NPR, Minnesota NPR, New Mexico NPR, Houston commercial radio (to discuss The Ironies of Affirmative Action); 2002: Illinois NPR, Philadelphia commercial radio (to discuss The Minority Rights Revolution); 2003: KGTV-San Diego, KUSI-San Diego (to discuss Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action); KPBS-San Diego “Full Focus” (to discuss California referendum to ban collection of racial data by state government); 2004: KGTV-San Diego (discussing minority access to UC’s), San Diego NPR (discussing 50^th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education decision)