Eric Tranby
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Graduate Student
1046 Social Sciences
612-624-0081
tran0410@umn.edu
Most Recent CVResearch and Teaching Interests
Social Stratification and Inequality; Welfare State; Life Course; Comparative Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Quantitative Methodology and Statistics.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota. Advisors: Robin Stryker and Scott Eliason. GPA: 3.858. Dissertation Title:
Family Policies and Womens Employment: Welfare States, Labor
. Expected Completion Date: Summer 2009
Markets, and Womens Employment Outcomes in 14 Advanced Capitalist Democracies2005: M.A. in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.
2002: B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN. Graduated with Honors: Cum Laude, Distinction in Major Field
Recent Publications
Tranby, Eric. 2006.
Bringing the State In: A Commentary on Welfare States and Social Inequality.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 23(4): 405-411.Edgell, Penny and Eric Tranby. 2007.
Religious Influences on Understandings of Racial Inequality in the United States.
Social Problems 54(2): 263-288.Eliason, Scott R., Robin Stryker, and Eric Tranby. 2008.
The Welfare State, Family Policies and Womens Labor Force Participation: Combining Fuzzy-Set and Statistical Methods to Assess Causal Relations and Estimate Causal Effects.
Forthcoming in Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis. Edited by Lane Kenworthy and Alexander Hicks. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Tranby, Eric P. and Douglas Hartmann. 2008 “Critical Whiteness Theories and the Evangelical Race Problem: Extending Emerson and Smiths Divided by Faith.”
Classes January 6th, 2006Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
. 47(3): 341-359.