Jen'nan Ghazal ReadAssociate Professor, Sociology |
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Research Interests |
Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and Health | |
| URL | www.socsci.uci.edu/~jennan/ | |
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Academic Distinctions |
2006-08 Carnegie Scholar, "Determinants of Muslim American Political Engagement." 2006 Social Science Assistant Professor Research Award, University of California-Irvine 2001 Odum Award, Best Graduate Student Paper, Southern Sociological Society. 2001 Robert J. McNamara Graduate Paper Award, Association for the Sociology of Religion. 2001 Lora Romera Memorial Graduate Paper Award in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, University of Texas at Austin. 2001 Dissertation Fellowship, limited to top 1% of graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. 1999 Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin. |
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| Appointments | 2001-03. Post-doctoral fellow, Texas Program for Society and Health and Department of Sociology, Rice University. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~soci/ | |
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Research Abstract |
Jen’nan Ghazal Read received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2001 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University before joining the department at UC Irvine in 2003. Her research interests are in gender, ethnicity, religion, and health, and her work particularly focuses on the assimilation experiences of Arab Americans and U.S. Muslims. Some of her earliest research investigated the meaning of the veil among U.S. Muslim women to assess the role of culture in the adaptation process of immigrants. In a similar line of inquiry, her new book Culture, Class, and Work among Arab-American Women (New York: LFB Scholarly, 2004) extends traditional models of female labor force participation to consider the significance of cultural factors in determining ethnic women’s achievements. Currently, she is the principal investigator on a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation that examines the social construction of ethnic and religious identity among Arab Americans in the aftermath of September 11th. Using ethnographic data from an Arab church and mosque, the project assesses the effects of discrimination on the social and economic well being of Christian and Muslim Arab Americans. She is also interested in racial and ethnic differences in health and has just completed a project that examines the effects of immigration and racism on the health status of black Americans. | |
| Publications | 2007. Read, Jen’nan Ghazal and Philip N. Cohen. “One Size Fits All? Explaining U.S.-born and Immigrant Women’s Employment across Twelve Ethnic Groups.” Social Forces 85: 1737-60. | |
| 2007. Read, Jen’nan Ghazal. “More of a Bridge than a Gap: Gender Differences in Arab American Political Incorporation.” Social Science Quarterly (forthcoming in the fall). | ||
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2007. Guest Editor, Special issue of the Sociology of Religion entitled, “The Politics of Veiling in Comparative Perspective: Muslim Integration in the United States and France.” Contributors from the U.S. and France, all articles peer reviewed. • Introduction to special issue, “Square Pegs and Round Holes: State Policies and Muslim Integration in the United States and France.” |
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| 2007. Read, Jen’nan G. and Bridget K. Gorman. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Hypertension among U.S. Women.” Ethnicity & Disease 17: 383-390. | ||
| 2007. Gorman, Bridget K. and Jen’nan G. Read. “Why Men Die Younger than Women.” Geriatrics & Aging 10: 179-182. | ||
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2006. “Gender Inequalities in U.S. Adult Health: The Interplay of Race and Ethnicity.” Social Science & Medicine 62:1045-1065 (with Bridget K. Gorman). 2006. “Gender Disparities in Adult Health: An Examination of Three Measures of Morbidity.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47: 95-110 (with Bridget K. Gorman). |
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2005. “Racial Context of Origin, Black Immigration, and the U.S. Black/White Health Disparity,” Social Forces, 84:181-199 (with Michael O. Emerson). 2005. "Gender Inequalities in U.S. Adult Health: The Interplay of Race and Ethnicity," Social Science & Medicine, forthcoming September (with Bridget K. Gorman). 2005. “Arab Immigrants: A New Case for Ethnicity and Health?” Social Science & Medicine 61:77-82 (with Benjamin Amick III and Katharine Donato). 2005. “Implications of Black Immigrant Health for U.S. Racial Disparities in Health.” Journal of Immigrant Health 7, 3: 205-212 (with Michael O. Emerson and Alvin Tarlov). 2004. "Family, Religion, and Work among Arab-American Women.” Journal of Marriage and Family 67: 1042-1050. 2004. Culture, Class, and Work among Arab-American Women. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing. In a series on “The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society,” edited by Rubén G. Rumbaut and Steven Gold. 2004. “Cultural Influences on Immigrant Women’s Labor Force Participation: The Case of Arab Americans.” International Migration Review 38, 4: 52-77. 2003. “Identity Politics among Arab-American Women.” Social Science Quarterly 84:875-891 (with Susan E. Marshall). 2003. “The Sources of Gender Role Attitudes among Christian and Muslim Arab- American Women.” Sociology of Religion 64,2: 207-222. 2003. “Veiled Submission: Gender, Power, and Identity among Evangelical and Muslim Women in the U.S.” Qualitative Sociology 26, 1:71-92 (with John P. Bartkowski). 2002. “Challenging Myths of Muslim Women: The Influence of Islam on Arab-American Women’s Labor Force Participation.” Muslim World 96, 2:18-39. 2000. “To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation among Muslim Women Living in Austin, Texas.” Gender & Society 14:395-417. (with John P. Bartkowski). |
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| Grants | Russell Sage Foundation, 2007-09 | |
| U.S. Census Bureau 2004-07 | ||
| Borchard Foundation 2006 | ||
| Carnegie Foundation of New York 2006-08 | ||
| Russell Sage Foundation 2004-07 | ||
| Scholar-in-Residence Grant, Borchard Foundation 2007 | ||
| Research Centers | Faculty affiliate, Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy | |
| Faculty affiliate, Center for the Study of Democracy | ||
| Faculty affiliate, Center for Health Policy Research | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5033 | |
| Last updated | 06/16/2008 | |
| (This faculty member is (or was) affiliated with UCI, but does not currently have an active appointment with UCI.) | ||