DAN CORNFIELD
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1980
TITLE:  Professor of Sociology
Editor, Work and Occupations
Professor of Political Science (secondary)
OFFICE:  309 Garland Hall
EMAIL:   daniel.b.cornfield@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE: 615-322-7535
CV: DanCornfieldCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

2013 Chair, Metro Nashville Human Relations Commission

2008-2009 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award, Vanderbilt University

2009 Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Grant, Labor and Employment Relations Association

Currently, Editor, Work and Occupations

Member, Sociological Research Association, 1999-present

Principal Investigator, Immigrant Community Assessment, a study of the social well-being of Arabic, Kurdish, Laotian, Latino, Vietnamese and Somali immigrants in Nashville, funded by Metropolitan Government of Nashville, 2002-2003

Excellence in Education Award from the Industrial Relations Research Association (2000)

Recipient of research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and the National Science Foundation

University Affirmative Action Award (2000)

Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, 1993

Chair, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, American Sociological Association, 1996-97

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  Human Behavior in Organizations
  Self, Society, and Social Change
  Contemporary Social Problems
  Immigration, Community, and Public Policy
  Seminar on Social Problems and Social
    Change

GRADUATE:

  Labor Sociology
  Workshop on Sociological Criticism
  Inequalities and Movements
  Economy & Society


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Work and Occupations
Labor Markets
Labor Movements
Labor-Management Relations
Immigration

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Career paths of Nashville music professionals, sponsored by the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. This is a field study of how and why music professionals combine occupational roles, trade unionism, and entrepreneurialism as they pursue the American Dream.

"Partnering for an Equitable and Inclusive Nashville," is a Background Report on Equity & Inclusion that was prepared in collaboration with the Nashville for All of Us coalition for NashvilleNext, Metro Nashville Government's 25-year social policy planning program. The report was released by Metro Nashville Government on February 25, 2013.
Click here to view the report; click here to view the Vanderbilt University press release.

  Principal Investigator, Immigrant Community Assessment, a study of the social well-being of Arabic, Kurdish, Laotian, Latino, Somali and Vietnamese immigrants in Nashville, funded by Metropolitan Government of Nashville, 2002-2003. Click on these links to view the final report and press releases:
 Nashville-Immigrant-Community-Assessment.pdf
Mayor Bill Purcell's press release
Vanderbilt University press release

Immigrant Labor in Nashville: a field study of work, employment and labor issues among immigrants and refugees in Nashville, a recently and rapidly globalizing, New South city of the U.S. interior. This project is partly associated with the "Urban Labor Revitalization: Large, Mid-size and Global Cities" project of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Daniel B. Cornfield. 2007. "Conclusion: Seeking Solidarity . . .Why and With Whom?" pp. 235-251 in Lowell Turner and Daniel B.Cornfield, eds. Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Daniel B. Cornfield. 2006. "Tendencias Mundiales Recientes en la Sociolog'a de Trabajo." Tratado Latinoamericano de Sociolog'a, pp. 22-132, edited by Enrique de la Garza Toledo. Barcelona: Anthropos Editorial.

Daniel B. Cornfield. 2006. "Immigration, Economic Restructuring, and Labor Ruptures: From the Amalgamated to Change to Win." WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 9 (June): 215-223.

Daniel B. Cornfield. 2005. "Tactics and the Social Context of Social Movement Unionism in the Service Economy." Labor History, vol. 46, no. 3: 347-355.

Daniel B. Cornfield and Angela Arzubiaga. 2004. "Immigrants and Education in the U.S. Interior: Integrating and Segmenting Tendencies in Nashville, Tennessee." Peabody Journal of Education, 79(2): 157-179.

Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon, eds. 2003. Labor Revitalization: Global Perspectives and New Initiatives. Volume 11 in the JAI series, Research in the Sociology of Work. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Daniel B. Cornfield and Randy Hodson, eds., 2002. Worlds of Work: Building an International Sociology of Work (New York: Kluwer/Plenum)

Daniel B. Cornfield, Karen Campbell, and Holly McCammon, eds., 2001. Working in Restructured Workplaces: Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications)

Toby Parcel and Daniel B. Cornfield, eds., 2000. Work and Family: Research Informing Policy (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications)

Daniel B. Cornfield and Bill Fletcher. 1998. "Institutional Constraints on Social Movement 'Frame Extension': Shifts in the Legislative Agenda of the American Federation of Labor, 1881-1955." Social Forces (June).

Daniel B. Cornfield. 1997. "Sindicalismo e Conflictos de Status nos Estados Unidos: Por uma Estrategia de Pesquisa Integrada." Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo, Ano 3, N 6: 157-166.

Daniel B. Cornfield. 1997. "Applying U.S. Research on Labor Union Membership Participation to South Korean Unions: An Assessment." Korean Journal of Population and Development, 26 (December): 121-137.

Robert N. Stern and Daniel B. Cornfield (with Teresa I. Liska and Dee Anne Warmath). 1996. The U.S. Labor Movement: References and Resources. New York: G.K. Hall.

Daniel B. Cornfield and Hyunhee Kim. 1994. "Socioeconomic Status and Unionization Attitudes in the United States." Social Forces. 73: 521-531.