SOAN Colloquium: Dr. Roberta Spalter-Roth

We are very excited to announce that our next speaker for the colloquium on Wednesday, March 4th will be Dr. Roberta Spalter-Roth, and she will talk about her research on “Three Sisters from the Outer Boroughs: Stories of Class Reproduction in the 1940s and 1950s." 

Roberta Spalter-Roth is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Center for Social Science Research at the George Mason University.  She was previously the Research Director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and a faculty member at the George Washington University where she created the Women in Public Policy Program and the American University. Her research has informed sociologists, the media, and the broader scientific community about trends in sociology and other social sciences including job markets, enrollments, degrees, departments, career trajectories, networks, salaries, and the role of sociology and social sciences in the greater science project.  Major activities include designing studies and collecting, analyzing, and disseminating findings.  At George Mason she has been responsible for an NSF-funded workshop and a final report on social science research in the policy process (with Amy Best).  She has also been working on a project, with the help of George Mason students), that examines minority career trajectories in sociology and economics.  With Jim Wittee she has just received another NSF grant to create a major data set for rejected and accepted manuscripts for ASA journals. She is also Principal Investigator of a number of other NSF-funded grants, such as the Bachelor’s and Beyond longitudinal survey, and teaching and learning networks. She has published in academic journals and numerous reports and research briefs include work on minority career trajectories, social and professional networks, social capital and employment, student assessment, mothers in the academy, and the distribution of technology. The research briefs can be downloaded for free from the ASA website’s Research on the Profession page at http://www.asanet.org/research-and-publications/research-sociology.