2005-2007. Racialized Realities: Understanding the Lives of Black, White, Hispanic, and Asian Youth in America. Lousville Institute Research Grant. $38,000.
2001-2003. "A Taste of Heaven? Case Studies of Multiracial Religious Organizations." Louisville Institute Research Grant. $47,000.
1998. The Homeless in Orange County. California Endowment. $13,000.
1995 "Power, Profit, and Upward Mobility in Global Production Networks." Australian University Research Budget Grant. $8,000
Publications
Books
Forthcoming 2009. Growing Up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens (with Richard Flory and Korie Edwards). Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
2005. Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations (with Michael Emerson and Korie Edwards). New York: New York University Press.
Articles
2009. “Welcoming the Stranger: Immigration and Justice in a Global Economy” in Rundle, Steve (ed.) Economic Justice in a Flat World. Authentic Press.
2009. “Gender Climate Among Faculty at an Evangelical College” (with Elizabeth Hall and Shelly Cunningham) currently under review for Sociology of Religion.
2009. “Sanctified Sexism: Discrimination and Gender Schemas in Christian Academia” (with Elizabeth Hall and Shelly Cunningham). Currently under review for Psychology of Women Quarterly.
2003. “The Costs of Diversity in Religious Organizations: An In-Depth Case Study” (with Michael Emerson). Sociology of Religion 64:2 163-181.
2000. “Foreign Investment and Development: The Positive Effects of Socially Embedded Investment in China.” Competition and Change: The International Journal of Global Business and Political Economy 4 325-352.
1999. Review of Chui, Stephen, Ho, K.C., and Lui, T.L 1997. City States in the Global Economy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23(2) 402-404.
1997. “The Third China? Emerging Industrial Districts in Rural China” (with Constance Lever-Tracy). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 21(4)570-588.
1996. “Imperatives for Profitability in Labor-Intensive Export Industries: Implications for China's Economic Development (with Richard Appelbaum).” Journal of Chinese Political Science 2, 2:23-50.
1996. “Cheap Labor Strategies and Export-Oriented Industrialization: Some Lessons from the Los Angeles/East Asia Apparel Connection” (with Richard Appelbaum). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
1995. “Global and Local Subcontracting: Space, Ethnicity, and the Organization of Apparel Production” (with Richard Appelbaum). World Development 23, 8:1363-1374 .
1994. “World Trade in Apparel: An Analysis of Trade Flow Using the Gravity Model.” International Regional Science Review, 17, 2:1-16.
1994. “Commodity Chains and Industrial Restructuring in the Pacific Rim: Garment Trade and Manufacture” (with Richard Appelbaum and David Smith) in Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism edited by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzenewiecz. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Presentations
2008. “Racial Differences in Religious Participation Among Adolescents.” (with Richard Flory and Korie Edwards). Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Lousiville, Kentucky, October 27.
2007. “Gender Climate Among Faculty at an Evangelical College.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Tampa, Florida, November 2.
2006. “Religiously Charged Ethnocentrism and Conflict in Multiracial Congregations.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Portland, Oregon, October 19.
2004. “The Racialized Moral Worlds of Youth (with Richard Flory)” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City, Missouri, October 22.
2004. “The Religious Experience and Practices of Youth (with Richard Flory).” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City, Missouri, October 22.
2004. “Racial Integration in American Religious Organizations.” Presented at the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association-Religion Section. Bristol, UK, March 29-April 1.
2003. “Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Norfolk, VA, October 31-November 2.
2002. “Race at an Evangelical College.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City Utah, November 1-3.
2001. “The Costs of Diversity in Religious Organizations: An In-Depth Case Study.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, Ohio, October 18-20.
2000. “Why Don't They Just Get a Job: Employment and the Working Homeless in Orange County's New Economy.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. August 12-15.
1998. “Foreign Investment and Development: The Positive Effects of Socially Embedded Investment in China.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, Californa, August 21-25.
1996. “The Third China? China's Rural Enterprises as Dependent Subcontractors or as Dynamic Autonomous Firms?” Presented at the annual Asia Pacific Regional Conference of Sociology, Manila, The Philippines, May 28-31.
1995. “The Determinants of Location in Labor-Intensive Industries: Implications for China's Economic Development.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Chinese Scholars of Political Science and International Affairs, Hong Kong, August 22-25.
1994. “Competitive Advantage in the Global Garment Industry.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California, August 5-9.
1993. “Space, Competition, and Global Restructuring in the World-System: Implications for Development Theory.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami, Florida, August 13-20.
1993. “The Geography of Global Garment Production: An Analysis of Trade Flow.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami, Florida, August 13-20.
1992. “Commodity Chains and Industrial Restructuring in the Pacific Rim: Garment Trade and Manufacture.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Political Economy of the World System section of the American Sociological Association, Durham, North Carolina, April 17.