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MARGARET GRAY

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

POLITICAL SCIENCE

BLODGETT HALL (2008)
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Diplomas / Degrees

PhD, CUNY Graduate Center (2006)

Recent Courses

Direct Work Experience
Independent Study Bias In The Media
Introduction To The American Political System
Race And Politics
Research Design And Methods
The Modern Presidency

Teaching Specializations / Interests

American Politics, Food Politics, Immigration, Labor, Race, and Nonprofit Advocacy.

Research Interests

BOOK PROJECT: Harvesting Expectations: Farmworkers, Food Politics, and Power in New York Agriculture. Under contract with Cornell University Press. Expected completion 2010.

Grants / Sponsored Research

2009: Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant

2005-2006: Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Stony Brook University.

Book Chapters

Gray, Margaret. (2007). Mechanics of Empowerment: Migrant Farmworker Advocacy. In Emory Eliot, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia Ploesch (Eds.). Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation. (pp. 207-224). New York: Palgrave-MacMillan Press.

Recent Articles

Gray, Margaret and Shareen Hertel. (2009, 10). Immigrant Farmworker Advocacy: The Dynamics of Organizing. Polity, 41(4), 409-435

Invited Presentations and Lectures

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Gray, Margaret (30 April 2009). Hate Crimes and Immigration on Long Island, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook University. New York

Gray, Margaret (29 September 2008). El Segundo Encuentro de Latinidades, Convenio Andrés Bello. Tijuana, Mexico

Gray, Margaret (02 August 2008). American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements Section mini-conference on Race, Labor, and Empire. Boston

Gray, Margaret (28 March 2008). Discussant for Columbia University Seminar: Women and Society, (For a paper presented by Helena Schwenken.). New York

Gray, Margaret (01 December 2007). Good Food Now, Just Food’s Regional Summit on Food, Farms, and Community Health. New York

Conference Presentations and Papers

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Gray, Margaret and Traci Levy (29 August 2008). Transnational Workers, Inequality, and Household Structure. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

Gray, Margaret and Shareen Hertel (08 September 2007). Immigrant Farmworker Advocacy: The Dynamics of Organizing. The Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress, Montreal

Gray, Margaret (30 August 2007). Reproducing Inequality on the Farm: Race, Power, and Hiring. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago

Gray, Margaret (10 August 2007). Immigration, Race, and Job Replacement in the Agricultural Workplace. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York

Gray, Margaret (10 March 2007). Organizing Low Wage Workers. The Left Forum Annual Meeting, New York

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

PUBLICATIONS:

Gray, Margaret. “When Inequality Crosses Borders: A Case Study of Hudson Valley Farmworkers,” in Constructed Inequalities: New Perspectives from Latin American History, Politics and Culture, eds. Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygades Robles. Under Contract with Duke University Press.

Gray, Margaret. Review of America’s New Working Class: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age by Kathleen Arnold. Political Science Quarterly, vol. 124 no. 2: 359-360. Summer 2009.

Gray, Margaret. “The Hudson Valley Farmworker Report,” Migrant Labor Project, Bard College. October 2007. http://events.adelphi.edu/news/farmworkers/

Decena, Carlos and Margaret Gray. eds. The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones, Social Text, vol. 24 no. 3 (88). Fall 2006.

Decena, Carlos and Margaret Gray. “Introduction,” in The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones, Social Text, vol. 24 no. 3 (88): 1-12. Fall 2006.

Honors and Accomplishments

Dissertation nominated for the American Political Science Association E.E. Schattschneider Award for Best Dissertation in American Politics by the Department of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006.

CUNY Graduate Center Department of Political Science Award for Best Dissertation in American Politics, 2006.

Professional Activities

-American Political Science Association
-American Sociological Association
-Latin American Studies Association
-Former Co-chair, The Labor Project, A Related Group of the American Political Science Association
-Secretary/Treasure of the Labor Section of the Latin American Studies Association
-Former Co-coordinator of the Immigrants and U.S. Politics Working Group of the American Political Science Association