"The Curious Case of Early German Jazz"

Stanford University (2011, March)

"Jazz and the Disconnected: City Structural Disconnectedness and the Emergence of the Jazz Canon (1897 to 1933)". Also presented as "Market Social Structure and the Role of Cities in the Emergence of the Jazz Canon, 1917-29"

Northwestern University (2010, November)
University of California, Berkeley (2010, October)
Strategy Research Initiative (2010, June)
MIT (2010, February)
University of Michigan, ICOS (2009, September)
London Business School (2009, February)
University of Toronto (2008, October)
University of Maryland (2008, November)
New York University (2008, December)
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Economic Sociology Invited Session on Networks and Institutions, Boston, MA. (2008, August)
European Group for Organizational Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008, July)
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (2007, August)

"Identity Sequences and the Early Adoption Pattern of the Jazz Canon (1920-1929)"

Columbia University (2010, December)
Stanford University (2010, November)
European Group for Organizational Studies, Barcelona, Spain (2009, July)

"Signaling Identity or Inferiority? Status, Conformity, and Labor Market Reactions to Silicon Valley Law Firms"

Boston College (2008, October)
Harvard Business School (2007, March)

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"A Sociological Approach to Law Firm Market Position: Consequences for Openly Gay Attorney Disclosures"

Harvard Law School (2010, February) 6

"High-Status Deviance or Conformity? Silicon Valley Law Firms? Engagement in Family and Personal Injury Law"

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY. (2007, August)

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"The Paradox of Market Entry Strategies during the Emergence of Jazz, 1899-1929".

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (2007, August) Panel Discussant
Sloan Center for Working Families International Conference on Workplace Flexibility, University of Chicago. (2006, May)

$Expand\Collapse$ ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS

1996-Present Member: Academy of Management
1997-Present Member: American Sociological Association
2000-2011 Faculty Affiliate: Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture (U. of Chicago)
2001-2009 Faculty Affiliate: Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children & Work (U. of Chicago)
2009-2011 Faculty Associate: Population Research Center (U. of Chicago)

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2010-2011 Fellow: The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford - CASBS (for Class of 2010-2011)
2008-2011 Elected to Economic Sociology Executive Council of the ASA
2008-2011 Elected as Representative-at-Large for the Organization and Mgmt Theory Division of the Academy of Mgmt 9
2008-2009 Charles E. Merrill Scholar, U. Chicago Booth School of Business
2005-06, 06-07, 07-08 Neubauer Family Faculty Fellowship
2002-03, 08-09 Charles E. Merrill Faculty Research Scholar
1998, 2001, 2004 Recipient of Kauffman Foundation Research Grant for Entrepreneurship
1997 Finalist, INFORMS/Org. Science Dissertation Proposal Competition
1996 Academy of Management OB/ODC/OMT Doctoral Student Consortium Nominee (representing Stanford University)
1994-1995 Jaedicke Fellow, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
1990-1991 Fellow, General Electric Foundation Faculty for the Future, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1990 - Present Member, Phi Beta Kappa National Honors Society, Morehouse College

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Since 2007)

$Expand\Collapse$ The Appeal of Cultural Products

$Expand\Collapse$ Firm Status and Interorganizational Networks

$Expand\Collapse$ Extra-organizational Determinants of Promotion Rates

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