Education
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Biography
Research Interests
Immigration, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Religion, Historical Sociology
Current Research Projects
Ideologies of Equality in American Society, Contemporary Migration to New Orleans
Selected Publications
2009. Public Education – America’s Civil Religion: A Social History (Teachers College Press; with Stephen J. Caldas).
2007. Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation (Rowman & Littlefield; with Stephen J. Caldas)
2002. A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana (Vanderbilt U. Press, with Stephen J. Caldas)
2002 Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity (Praeger; with Jacques Henry)
1998. Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (Russell Sage Foundation; with Min Zhou)
Courses
- Sociology of Education (SOCI 633)
- Foundations of Sociology (SOCI 201)
- Social Problems (SOCI 109)
- Asian American Communities (SOCI 146)