Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
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Born | 1957 (age 63–64) |
Nationality | American |
Education | Fordham University (B.A., 1979), Boston University (Ph.D., 1984) |
Awards | 2014 Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Thesis | Good jobs, bad jobs, no jobs: the stratification consequences of U.S. industrial and occupational structure and change, 1960-1980 (1984) |
Donald "Don" Tomaskovic-Devey (born 1957) [2] is a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Education[]
Tomaskovic-Devey received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1984, both in sociology.[3]
Career[]
Tomaskovic-Devey served as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina for one year (1983-1984) and has held visiting appointments at Stockholm University, Queensland University of Technology, SciencePo, and Bielefeld University. He taught at North Carolina State University for 17 years before joining the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005.[1][3] As of July 1, 2015, he was also working with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to inform its goals and those of other nondiscrimination employment organizations.[4] He was also the president of the Southern Sociological Society for one year (2012-2013).[5] He founded and directs the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Research[]
Tomaskovic-Devey is known for his research on labor markets and workplace inequality.[1] For example, in 2012, he and published the book Documenting Desegregation, in which they noted, among other things, that was ubiquitous in the United States prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.[6] The same book showed that in one-sixth of industries in America, racial segregation between white and black men was increasing.[7] He and Stainback had previously shown (in a 2009 study) that the over-representation of white men among managers in the U.S. had remained virtually unchanged since 1966.[8][6] His recent work with Dustin Avent-Holt advances a sociological approach to inequality focused on the organizational settings that generate inequality. They propose that there are three primary mechanisms leading to the distribution of respect, resources and rewards – exploitation, closure, and claims making. Mechanisms are contained in organizational inequality regimes and conditioned by human tendencies to view categories of people (e.g. races, educational credentials) within status hierarchies. Mechanisms and categories are seen as dynamically shifting in response to local claims and historical-environmental influences.[9] Tomaskovic-Devey also leads the fifteen-country Comparative Organizational Inequality Network,[10] a large group of social scientists developing the big data capacity of nation state linked employer-employee data to explore contemporary inequality topics. Tomaskovic-Devey co-founded the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts.
Honors and awards[]
Tomaskovic-Devey was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 2006, and was the secretary of the American Sociological Association from 2006 to 2010.[3][11] He received the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2014[1] and the Samuel F. Conti Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2016. His papers and books have won multiple awards from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility and Organizations, Occupations, and Work sections of the American Sociological Association.
Publications[]
- Recapitalizing America: Alternatives to the Corporate Distortion of National Policy (1983)
- Poverty And Social Welfare In The United States (1988)
- Gender & Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation (1993)
- Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act with Kevin Stainback (2012)
- Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach with Dustin Robert Avent-Holt (2018)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Sociologist Donald Tomaskovic-Devey Named a 2014 Anneliese Maier Research Award Winner". University of Massachusetts Amherst. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Donald Tomaskovic-Devey". VIAF. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Donald Tomaskovic-Devey CV" (PDF). Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Donald Tomaskovic-Devey". Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "Southern Sociological Society Website". Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, Philip (20 March 2013). "The Problem With Mostly Male (and Mostly Female) Workplaces". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ Harris, Paul (27 October 2012). "Racial prejudice in US worsened during Obama's first term, study shows". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ Stainback, K.; Tomaskovic-Devey, D. (1 October 2009). "Intersections of Power and Privilege: Long-Term Trends in Managerial Representation". American Sociological Review. 74 (5): 800–820. doi:10.1177/000312240907400506.
- ^ Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald; Avent-Holt, Dustin (2019-01-24). "Relational Inequalities". doi:10.1093/oso/9780190624422.001.0001. ISBN 9780190624422. Cite journal requires
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- ^ "Donald Tomaskovic-Devey". Institute for New Economic Thinking. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
External links[]
- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey publications indexed by Google Scholar
- University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
- Living people
- 1957 births
- American sociologists
- Fordham University alumni
- Boston University alumni
- Members of the Sociological Research Association