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Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, PhD |
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Research Associate (Assistant
Professor) Sociology (773) 997-0762 RELATED LINKS:
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PERSONAL STATEMENT How do the social networks of parents shape the
opportunities of children in organizational settings? I currently study this
question in schools, which are critical locations of both inequality and
opportunity in modern society. I investigate how parents learn about their
child’s everyday educational experiences through their interactions with
other parents. My findings suggest that micro social systems arise in school
settings where parents share information about their child’s everyday
educational experiences with one another. Parent leaders emerge from these
micro social systems and shape the alignment between school and home
contexts. Also, parents situated in these networks collectively watch the
everyday activities of teachers, shaping informal levels of accountability
inside of schools.
Social surveillance resources, however, were not equally distributed among
parents across social class. I triangulate between several different methods to
investigate these micro interactions over time, including qualitative
analysis, social network analysis and survival analysis. My current research
compares parents’ network dynamics in schools with those found in health care
organizations, which are also important sites of social disparity for
children. In particular, my colleagues and I are examining how parents
situated in different organizational settings learn about their child’s
autism treatments through their social networks. In future, I hope to develop
social network interventions that help parents, clinicians and teachers gain
access to critical everyday information to better manage children’s
educational and health trajectories.
Social Inequality,
Organizations, Sociology of Education, Medical Sociology, Research Methods PROFESSIONAL POSITION 2011 Research Associate (Assistant Professor),
Sociology, University of Chicago 2011 National Academy of
Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008-2011 Postdoctoral Scholar, Committee on Education,
University of Chicago EDUCATION 2005-2007 Ph.D. in Sociology The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Dissertation: Organizational
Inequalities: The Social Production of Parent Surveillance Pressures in
Urban School Dissertation Committee: Richard Taub
(Chair), Andrew Abbott, Elisabeth Clemens, Barbara Schneider, Mario Small 2001-2005 M.A. in Sociology Preliminary Honors The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1994-1996 M.A. in Education University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Thesis:
Parent Involvement in Literacy Education 1986-1988 B.A. English University of California, Berkeley, CA 1984-1986 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL PUBLISHED WORK 2011
McGhee
Hassrick, Elizabeth. “Controlled
Disruptions: How Ethnic
Organizations Shape White Ethnic Symbolic Identities.” Cultural Sociology.
6 (1).(currently
available online on the Cultural
Sociology website) 2009 McGhee Hassrick, Elizabeth
and Barbara Schneider. “Parent Surveillance in Schools: A Question of Social
Class.” American Journal of Education. 115 (2). Link to article 2007
McGhee Hassrick, Elizabeth. “Professional Schools” in The Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Sociology. UNDER CONTRACT Elizabeth
McGhee Hassrick, Stephen Raudenbush
and Lisa Rosen. The Ambitious Elementary School: Its Conception, Design and
Contribution to Educational Equity (Book Manuscript under contract with the University of
Chicago Press) MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION McGhee
Hassrick, Elizabeth Watching Teachers:
Parent Surveillance in the Schoolhouse (Book Draft). McGhee
Hassrick, Elizabeth and Stephen Raudenbush
“Reorganizing the Schoolhouse: A Lottery Study of NKO Charter School”
(Working paper). McGhee
Hassrick, Elizabeth, “Social Networks among Parents and Autism Health Care
Providers” (Working Paper) GRANTS 2011 Co-Investigator. “Social Networks
Among Parents and Autism Heath Care Providers.” NIH. $400,000. Stephen Raudenbush, Principal Investigator. 2009 Co-Investigator, “The University
of Chicago Model for Urban Elementary Schooling.” William T. Grant Foundation
Officer’s Discretionary Fund. $25,000. Stephen Raudenbush,
Principal Investigator. 2009 Co-Investigator. “The Chicago Model for Urban Elementary
Schooling.” Foundation for Child Development. $20,000. Stephen Raudenbush, Principal Investigator. 2006 Co-Investigator, “The Invisible Hand: Parent Accountability Pressures in Urban
Public Schools.” National Science Foundation Sociology Dissertation
Improvement Grant #0623138. $7,011. Barbara Schneider, Principal
Investigator. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2007 Charles Bidwell ASA Travel Fund, University
of Chicago Sociology Department 2006 Benjamin Bloom Dissertation Fellowship,
University of Chicago 2006 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Semi-finalist 2005 Charles Bidwell ASA Travel Fund, University
of Chicago Sociology Department 2001 Center for School Improvement/University of
Chicago Un-Endowed Fellowship 1994 Peace Corps Graduate Fellowship, University
of New Mexico ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS: American
Sociological Association, American Educational Research Association, Society
for Research on Child Development CURRICULUM VITA
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Information: Elizabeth
McGhee Hassrick Committee
on Education University
of Chicago 1155
E. 60th Street 2nd
floor, 276 Phone:
773-997-0762 E-mail:
mchass@uchicago.edu |
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