Orly Clergé 114 Eaton Hall 718-902-4212 Medford, MA 02155 orly.clerge@tufts.edu Professional Experience TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Medford, MA Assistant Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies Scholar in Residence, Office of Residential Life Aug 2014-present Aug 2015-present Scholar in Residence, Tufts in Talloires, France Summer 2016 YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT Postdoctoral Associate, Urban Ethnography Project July 2013-June 2014 Education BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI Ph.D., Sociology and Social Demography 2013 Dissertation: Black Identities Revisited: New and Old African Americans in Middle Class New York Committee: Jose Itzigsohn (Chair), Hilary Silver, Paget Henry BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI M.A. in Sociology 2009 Thesis: Aspirations, Class and Identity: A Study of the Children of Haitian Immigrants in Queens, New York Distinguished Masters Thesis Award Committee: Jose Itzigsohn (Chair), John Modell WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA B.A. in Sociology, Minor in French, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa 2005 Teaching and Research Interests Race and ethnicity, migration/transnationalism, urban sociology, social demography, identity, ethnography, education Publications Clerge, Orly. Black Ethnoburbs: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the Global City. Under Contract with University of California Press Michelle Harris, Sherrill L. Sellers, Clerge, Orly, and Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. (Eds). Stories from the Front of the Room: How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy. Rowman and Littlefield. Forthcoming February 2017 Clerge, Orly, Gabrielle Sanchez-Soto, Jing Song and Nancy Luke. 2015. I Would Really Like to Go Where You Go: Partners of Graduate Students as Tied Movers. Population, Space and Place. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.1990/full.
Clerge, Orly. 2014. Balancing Stigma and Status: Racial and Class Identities among Middle Class Haitian Youth. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 34:6, p. 958-977. Clerge, Orly. 2014. Engaging the Minority Middle Class: Imagining Immigrant Integration into the African American Middle Class. Sociology Compass. 8:10, p. 1167-1182 Manuscripts in Progress Clerge, Orly. "The Right to Higher Education for Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing Issue Framing, Coalitions, and Civic Capacity in Utah and Colorado." Revise and Resubmit. Clerge, Orly. Unequal Urban & Suburban School Choice Markets: A Study of Educational Decision Making among Black (Ethnic) Middle Class Parents. Under review Clerge, Orly. Black Millennials: Cultural Belonging among Middle Class Youth. In Progress. Clerge, Orly and Jose Itzigsohn. The Hierarchy of Home: Black Residential Experiences in New York. In Progress. Fellowships and Grants Urban Ethnography Fellow-Yale University 2014- Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Minority Graduate Fellow 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow 2008-2011 The Graduate School, Brown University, with Nancy Luke, Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, and Jing Song. Adaptation Strategies of Graduate Students Partners Project $2,650 2008-2009 Graduate Fellow, Brown University 2007-2008 Population Studies and Training Center Research Grant, Brown University $3,000 2008 Joseph M. Susan Stampler Paresky 68 Fellowship, Wheaton College 2005 Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, Phillips Academy 2004 Leadership Alliance, Columbia University 2003 Awards and Honors Poster Award, Population Association of America, Black Identities Revisited: The African American, Haitian and Jamaican Middle Class in New York 2011 Outstanding Oral Presentation, Graduate Student Conference, Aspirations, Class and Identity: The Haitian Second Generation in Queens, New York Brown University 2010 Poster Award, Population Association of America, Economic Growth in Ghana and the Effects of Mother s Sector of Employment on Childhood Malnutrition 2008 Horace R. Rackham Fellow, University of Michigan 2005 Lucretia C. Mott Prize in Sociology, Wheaton College 2005 Alpha Mu Gamma French Honors Society 2005 Sally Gale Gilman Award, Wheaton College 2005
Teaching\Research Assistantships\ Work Experience Teaching Experience Introduction to Quantitative Methods 2014 2015 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2015 Urban Sociology: Social Problems in the City 2015 2016 Racial Identity in Historical Perspective 2015 Youth of Color 2016 Introduction to Sociology Course, Brown University-Guest Lecturer 2012 Immigration Policy Course, Brown University- Guest Lecturer 2010 Research Methods-Graduate Instructor/Mentor, Leadership Alliance 2009 Work Experience Managing Editor, City & Community Journal 2011-2012 Brown University Research Assistantships Latino Employment Patterns in Rhode Island for Professor Jose Itzigsohn 2012 Making Connections Survey Data for Professor Hilary Silver 2009 New England Latino Survey for Professor Marion Orr 2009-2010 Immigration Historical Data for Professor Michael White 2007 Russell Sage Foundation Research Assistant Dominican Immigrants in Providence, Rhode Island for Professor Jose Itzigsohn 2007 Asian American Entrepreneurs in New York City Project for Professor Pyong Gap Min 2006-2007 Collaboration and Political Science Journals Project for Professor Kanchan Chandra 2006 Research Experience (Selected) The Gentrifying Brooklyn Study 2015- Researcher: Preliminary research on gentrification trends and black flight in Brooklyn, NY. Latino Employment and Earnings Patterns: A Look at Rhode Island 2012 Co-Researcher (with Jose Itzigsohn): Demographic study of the labor force participation and earnings of the Latino population in Rhode Island. Racial Shuffling: Geographical Mobility of African Americans in Major Cities 2011-2013 Co-Researcher (with Hilary Silver): Quantitative study of the changing distribution of African Americans within metropolitan areas and its relationship to racial residential segregation. Aspirations, Class and Identity: A Study of the Children of Haitian Immigrants in Queens, NY 2008 (Preliminary Dissertation Work) Researcher: Independently conducted qualitative and demographic research on the selective acculturation of Haitian immigrant middle class youth. Project supported by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University. I Will Go with You : Partners of Graduate Students as Tied-Movers 2008-present Co-Researcher (with Professor Nancy Luke, Gabriella Sanchez-Soto and Jing Song): Qualitative study of tied-movers among graduate student family populations. Funded by the Brown University Graduate School and Department of Sociology. Conferences and Invited Presentations Bright v. Blurry Ethnicity: The Black Middle Class Experience. 2016 -Society for the Study of Social Problems, Seattle, WA Theorizing the Black Ethnoburb 2016 -Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA The School-Neighborhood Shuffle: How Middle Class African Americans and Black Immigrants do School Choice. -Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY 2015 -American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL 2015 The Walk: Class and Ethnic Faultlines in an Urban Black Neighborhood -Yale Urban Ethnography Conference, New Haven, CT 2014 Ethnic Fractures and the Black Middle Class -Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University 2014 The Jamaican Middle Class: Class Identities in Urban and Suburban Spaces -Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY 2013 -American Sociological Association, New York, NY 2013 The African American Middle Class: Perspectives on Racial Identity, Belonging and Boundaries -American Sociological Association, New York, NY 2013 Race and Ethnicity: Identities and Institutions Panel -American Sociological Association, New York, NY (Presider) 2013 Class Cleavages Panel -American Sociological Association, New York, NY (Moderator) 2013 Black Identities Revisited: New and Old African Americans in Middle-Class New York -Yale Ethnography Workshop, New Haven, CT 2013 Racial Shuffling: The Geographical Mobility of African Americans in Major Cities -American Sociological Association, Denver, CO 2012
The State-Level Dream Act: Explaining the Passage and Rejection of In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students in Utah and Colorado -Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, NV 2011 Black Identities Revisited: A Look at Middle Class Haitians and Jamaicans in New York -Population Association of America, Washington, D.C. 2011 Aspirations, Class and Identity: A Study of the Children of Haitian Immigrants in Queens -Population Association of America, Dallas, TX -Graduate Student Conference, Brown University 2010 I Will Go With You: Partners of Graduate Students as Tied Movers -Population Association of America, Dallas, TX -Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, RI 2010 Mapping Neighborhood Housing Foreclosures: A Look at Providence, RI -S4 Fellow Program, Brown University, RI 2009 Economic Growth in Ghana and the Effects of Mother s Sector of Employment on Childhood Malnutrition with Roland Pongou and Professor Jemima A. Frimpong. -Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA 2008 Immigrant Community Organizations and their Political Engagement Russell Sage Foundation, Conference Organizing Assistant, New York 2006 Race, Identity, and Integration: A Study of Black Senegalese and Lebano-Senegalese (Lebanese) Socioeconomic Relations in Dakar, SIT-Senegal 2003 Infant Mortality and Race: The Contribution of Socio-Economic Indicators Leadership Alliance Symposium, Columbia University 2003 Service Immigration Task Force, Queensborough President s Office, New York 2011-2012 Graduate Mentor, ALANA Program, Brown University 2009-2013 Haitian Americans United for Progress, Afterschool Teaching Assistant 2011 ChaRosa Foundation, Teaching Assistant/Grant Writer, Queens, NY 2011 Professional Development Committee, Member 2008-2009 Samuel M. Nabrit Graduate Students Association, Community Service Chair 2009-2010 Brown Graduate Students of Color Conference, Committee Member 2008 Reviewer: City & Community, Journal of Black Studies, Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Urban Studies, Race and Social Problems Professional Membership American Association of Geographers Association of Black Sociologists Eastern Sociological Society American Sociological Association Society for the Study of Social Problems 2015-present 2012-present 2012-present 2011-present 2011-present
Population Association of America 2008-2012 Languages Haitian Creole (Fluent) French (Intermediate) References Elijah Anderson Jose Itzigsohn Nancy Luke Marion Orr Hilary Silver Professor of Sociology, Yale University Elijah.Anderson@yale.edu 215-771-2130 Professor of Sociology, Brown University Jose_Itzigsohn@brown.edu 401-863-2367 Professor of Sociology, Brown University Nancy_Luke@brown.edu 401-863-2367 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Marion_Orr@brown.edu 401-863-2825 Professor of Sociology, Brown University Hilary_Silver@brown.edu 401-863-2367