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1 Tom Laidley Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology New York University Lafayette St., 4 th Fl. Phone: New York, NY tml312@nyu.edu Research and Teaching Interests Stratification and Mobility, Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Public Health, Child Development, Quantitative Methods and Causal Inference Education Ph.D. Dissertation: New York University, Sociology, Summer 2018 (Expected) Essays on Urban Form, Life Chances, and Wellbeing in the US Committee Members: Dalton Conley (Chair), Harvey Molotch, Patrick Sharkey, Florencia Torche B.A. Boston College, Sociology and Philosophy, cum laude, 2008 Senior Thesis: Primed Reactions to Global Warming and the Cognitive Dissonance of American Attitudes Advisor: Juliet Schor Peer-Reviewed Publications Laidley, Thomas "The Problem of Sprawl." Contexts 15(3): Conley, Dalton, Thomas Laidley, Daniel W. Belsky, Jason M. Fletcher, Jason D. Boardman, and Benjamin W. Domingue "Assortative Mating and Differential Fertility by Phenotype and Genotype Across the 20th Century." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(24): Conley, Dalton, Thomas M. Laidley, Jason D. Boardman, and Benjamin W. Domingue "Changing Polygenic Penetrance on Phenotypes in the 20th Century Among Adults in the US Population." Scientific Reports 6: Laidley, Thomas M "Measuring Sprawl: A New Index, Recent Trends, and Future Research." Urban Affairs Review 52(1): Laidley, Thomas M "The Privatization of College Housing: Poverty, Affordability, and the U.S. Public University." Housing Policy Debate 24(4): Laidley, Thomas M. (equal co-authorship with Luka Carfagna, Emilie DuBois, Connor Fitzmaurice, Monique Ouimette, Juliet Schor, and Margaret Willis) "An Emerging Eco-Habitus: The Reconfiguration of High Cultural Capital Practices Among Ethical Consumers." Journal of Consumer Culture 14(2):

2 Laidley CV 2 Laidley, Thomas M "The Influence of Social Class and Cultural Variables on Environmental Behaviors: Municipal-Level Evidence from Massachusetts." Environment and Behavior 45(2): Laidley, Thomas M "Climate, Class, and Culture: Political Issues as Cultural Signifiers." The Sociological Review 61(1): Under Review and in Preparation Grätz, Michael, Kieron J. Barclay, Øyvind Wiborg, Torkild H. Lyngstad, Aleksi Karhula, Jani Erola, Patric Präg, Thomas Laidley, and Dalton Conley. "Comparing Sibling Similarity in Education Within and Between Countries." Under review. Laidley, Thomas, and Dalton Conley. "The Effects of Active and Passive Leisure on Cognition in Children: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Weather." Under review. Laidley, Thomas, Piyapat Sinsub, and Dalton Conley. "Skin Tone, Discrimination, and Hypertension: Using Sibling Fixed-Effects to Address Family-Level Heterogeneity." Under review. Laidley, Thomas. "Housing Wealth, Inter Vivos Transfers, and College Enrollment in the U.S." In preparation. Laidley, Thomas. "Particulate Pollution, Public Health, and the Built Environment: New Causal Evidence." In preparation. Laidley, Thomas. "Causal Pathways Between the Built Environment and Mobility in the U.S." In preparation. Grants, Fellowships and Awards Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University MacCracken Fellowship, New York University (varies annually) 2011 Summer Research Fellowship ($4,375) for qualitative project on changing demography of Boston, Department of Sociology, Boston College 2010 Summer Research Grant ($4,000) for qualitative project on climate change and consumption, Department of Sociology, Boston College Ph.D. Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Boston College (varies annually) 2008 Scholar of the College, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College

3 Laidley CV McCarthy Prize, Most Distinguished Scholar Thesis in the Social Sciences, Boston College Teaching Experience 2012 (Spring) Teaching Assistant (Associate Professor Eve Spangler), SC040- Social Theory 2011 (Fall) Teaching Assistant; Recitation Leader, two discussion sections (Professors Juliet Schor and Prasannan Parthasarathi), SC025 People and Nature: The History and Future of Human Impacts on the Planet 2011 (Spring) Teaching Assistant (Assistant Professor Brian Gareau), SC031- Society and Environmental Transformations 2010 (Spring) Teaching Assistant (Associate Professor Eve Spangler), SC072- Inequality In America 2009 (Fall) Teaching Assistant (Associate Professor Leslie Salzinger), SC040- Global Sociology Invited Presentations and Conferences 2017 "Concerted Cultivation, Social Capital, and Cognitive Gains in Childhood: Causal Evidence from the US." Health, Bodies, and Wellbeing, Section on Children/Youth/Adolescents Paper Session, Annal Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal, QC 2017 "Housing Wealth, Inter Vivos Transfers, and College Enrollment in the US." Housing, Section on Community and Urban Sociology Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal, QC 2016 "Housing Wealth, Inter Vivos Transfers, and College Enrollment in the US: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Rosters and Transfers and Time Use Conference, Ann Arbor, MI 2013 "The Emergence of an Eco-Habitus Among High Cultural Capital Consumers." (With Connor Fitzmaurice and Monique Ouimette.) Consumption and Inequality, Section on Consumers and Consumption Paper Session, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY 2013 Town and Gown in America: Housing, Poverty, and the U.S. Public University. Education and Inequality, Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY

4 Laidley CV The Influence of Social Class and Cultural Variables on Environmental Behavior: Municipal-Level Evidence from Massachusetts. Measuring Environmental Progress through Perceptions, Beliefs and Behaviors, Section on Environment and Technology Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV 2011 Demographic Polarization in the Urban Core: A Boston Case Study. Graduate Research Symposium, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 2011 Polarization, and Demographic Transition: A Boston Case Study. Institute for the Liberal Arts Urban Studies Seminar, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Other Work Experience and Research 2014-Present Research Assistant: Connected Learning Research Network, MacArthur Foundation (PI: Dalton Conley) - Preparing reports and peer-reviewed papers on student outcomes using Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Add Health datasets 2010 (Summer) Author- Policy brief on the initial industry objections to and subsequent success of Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards (CAFE), Center on Policy Initiatives, San Diego, CA. Professional Service Reviewer: Urban Affairs Review, Environment and Behavior, Housing Policy Debate, Acta Sociologica, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, The Sociological Review Sociology Graduate Student Association co-chair, NYU Sociology, Professional Affiliations American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Inequality, Poverty and Mobility; Environment and Technology; Children and Youth Sections New York Academy of Sciences Technical Skills R, STATA, GIS (Arc/Q/GRASS), Python (Intermediate)

5 Laidley CV 5 References Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology with appointments in the Office of Population Research and Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University Ph: (609) Daltonclarkconley@gmail.com Harvey Molotch, Professor of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University Ph: (212) Harvey.molotch@nyu.edu Patrick Sharkey, Associate Professor of Sociology and Wagner School of Public Service, New York University Ph: (212) Patrick.sharkey@nyu.edu