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2003-2008 |
Joint Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Policy and
certificate in Complex Systems (3.8/4.0) |
University of Michigan |
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2000-2001 |
M.A. in Social Science (3.8/4.0) |
University of Chicago |
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1994-2000 |
B.A. in Social Science (3.7/4.0) |
Bard College |
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Jan 2009
Present |
Research Fellow, Policy Studies
Institute, London
Worked on statistical
analyses using large government data sets to conduct a cost benefit
analysis of active labour market programs and conducted interviews
for a qualitative study of a UK disability program. Initiated a
project comparing international labour market institutions and their
effects as well as a project studying tax devolution and federalism. |
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Jan 2007
Jan 2009 |
Visiting Researcher/Post-doc,
ETH Zurich
Completed
dissertation, presented research to brown bags in Sociology and
Economics, edited and translated articles, taught Social
Stratification, and conducted statistical analyses for the research
group. |
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Jan 2008
Jun 2008 |
Visiting Collaborator,
International Labour Organization, Geneva
Conducted an
international comparative analysis of the causes of atypical
employment, its consequences, and proposed policy solutions. |
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Sep 2006
Jan 2009 |
Editorial Assistant, Journal of
Sociological Methodology
Read manuscripts,
suggested reviewers, and wrote reviews. |
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Sep 2004
Apr 2005 |
Research Assistant, University
of Michigan
Conducted
geostatistical analyses related to racial inequalities in birth
outcomes for the Roadmap to Health Disparities project. |
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Sep 2000
Aug 2003 |
Senior Research Analyst,
Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
Worked on the Welfare
Reform and Beyond project, researching the devolution of American
social policy and its effects. |
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Nov 1999
Jun 2000 |
Research Assistant, University
of Chicago
Translated and
transcribed teacher and student interviews in Spanish and English
for the Students and Standards Project and observed classrooms for
an evaluation of the Adaptive Environments Learning Model. |
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Aug 1998 Sep 1999 |
Case Manager,
Big Brothers Big Sisters of King
County, Seattle
Counselled 40 mentoring
relationships. Developed, budgeted, and implemented a volunteer
training program, and temporarily managed activities. |
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Dec 1998
May 1999 |
Recruitment Manager,
Denise Louie Head Start, Seattle
Managed recruitment budget and
program. Developed community partnerships. Managed a bilingual
(Spanish/English) caseload of 36 families. |
Social Stratification, ETH Zurich
Developed and taught a seminar on social stratification as
guest lecturer. Course included methodological units on measuring
inequality, poverty, and segregation, and substantive units on inequality,
poverty, migration, and discrimination.
Introductory Statistics, Department
of Sociology, University of Michigan
Taught biweekly sections of 10 PhD students. The course began
with normal distributions and ended with OLS regression and ANOVA. Sections
included reviewing homework, learning Stata, and going through class
materials.
Introductory Statistics, Department
of Sociology, University of Michigan
Taught biweekly sections of 20 undergraduate students. The
course began with means and ended with ANOVA. Sections included reviewing
homework and learning how to use SPSS.
Geostatistics, School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Helped students with homework and graded homework and tests.
Material covered included: kriging, anistropy, and inverse modelling.
Homework used primarily Matlab, but also some Arcview GIS.
Hevenstone, Debra. 2009. "National Context and Atypical
Employment" International
Sociology 24.
Hevenstone, Debra. 2008. "Employment Intermediaries: A model
of firm incentives" Journal of Mathematical Sociology 33:1-37.
Hevenstone, Debra. 2008. "Academic Employment Networks &
Departmental Prestige" in Why Context Matters: Applications of Social
Network Analysis, edited by Thomas Friemel. Wiesbaden : VS-Verlag.
Hevenstone, Debra. 2008. "Labour Market Inequality and
Atypical Employment" Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan.
Hevenstone, Debra and Kent Weaver. February 22, 2002.
“Neediest Families in Texas Deserve a Fairer Deal” op-ed Houston Chronicle.
Hevenstone, Debra. 2001. "Testing Variation in Welfare
Reform" Anthropology News 42.
Hevenstone, Debra. 2000. "Overcoming Obstacles to Employment:
Variation in Support Services among Welfare to Work Grantees" Master’s
Thesis, University of Chicago.
In Progress
"European Labour Institutions and the Fixed Term Wage Gap"
(Revised draft submitted to AJS)
"Mandated
Labour Protections and Government Safety Nets: Economic Outcomes and Worker
Security" (initial draft)
"The Consequences of Migration and Voting for the Management
of Tax Decentralization" (submitted grant proposal)
"Mandated Labour Protections
and Government Safety Nets: Economic outcomes and worker security''
International Labour Organisation, Regulating Decent Work Conference. July
8, 2009.
"The Causes and Consequences
of Atypical Employment"
The University of Westminster,
Policy Studies Institute.
November 6, 2008. (invited)
"The Fixed-Term Contract
Wage Gap: An analysis of ten European countries "
International
Sociology Association,
Committee on Social Stratification.
May 15, 2008.
"Taxation and Public Goods
Under Federalism: Exit, voice, and federal redistribution"
Department of Economics
Tartu University.
May 6, 2008. (invited)
"National Context and
Atypical Employment"
Population Association of America Annual
Meeting.
April 2008. (poster)
"Academic Employment
Networks: Centrality in employment"
European Conference on Complex Systems,
Technische Universitat Dresden.
October 2007.
"Academic Employment
Networks: Hiring and prestige"
Applications of Social Network Analysis,
University of Zurich.
September 2007.
"Technological Change,
On-Site Outsourcing, and its Consequences for Stratification"
Population Association of
America. March
2007.
"On-Site Outsourcing:
Spatial diffusion and earnings Differentials"
American Sociological
Association.
August 2006.
"Employer-Employee Matching
with Intermediary Parties"
International Conference on Complex
Systems. June
2006.
University of Michigan Debt
Management Award,
2007
A prize for PhD candidates
nominated by their departments who show academic merit and a commitment to
public service ($10,000).
Rackham Research Grant,
2007
An award for dissertation
fieldwork ($3,000).
IDEAS/IGERT Fellowship,
2006-08
National Science Foundation
funded fellowship for doctoral research in Complex
Systems ($60,000 stipend
plus tuition and fees).
Earl & Esther Johnson
Prize, 2000
A prize from the University
of Chicago's Masters of Arts Program in the Social Sciences for the best
Master's thesis ($1,000).
Co-chair: Complex Systems
Advanced Academic Workshop, University of Michigan, 2006-07
Reviewer: European
Sociological Review, Sociological Methodology, Journal of Criminal Justice
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Language
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English: Mother tongue
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Spanish: Excellent passive
but less active knowledge.
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German: Good
verbal skills, very good reading comprehension, beginner writing
skills. |
Tools/Programming
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Statistics: STATA, R, SAS, SPSS, Matlab
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Network Analysis: Pajek, Guess
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Office: LaTeX, Microsoft Office, Illustrator
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GIS: Arcview, GeoDa
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Java programming with Repast
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Worked in Windows and Linux environments |
Additional Qualifications
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2007-2009 |
ETH Zurich – Courses in German |
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2004/2005 |
ICPSR, Michigan – Summer courses in
Geostatistics and Bayesian Statistics |
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1997 |
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina –
Courses in Social Science and Spanish |
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1995 |
Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Mexico – Spanish
language immersion
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Professional Affiliations
Population Association of
America
American Sociological
Association
International Sociological
Association, RC 28
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