KATHARINE M. DONATO
Ph.D. SUNY-Stony Brook, 1988
TITLE:  Professor of Sociology, Chair
Editor, American Sociological Review, 2010-2012
OFFICE:   321G Garland Hall
EMAIL:   katharine.donato@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE: 615-322-7542
CV: KatharineDonatoCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

Fulbright Award, El Colegio de San Luis A.C., Mexico, 2000

Nominated for University Teaching Award, LSU, 1997-98

Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, LSU, 1995-96

Immigrant Parent Involvement in Schools, Communities and Politics, funded by the National Science Foundation (with Melissa Marschall and Audrey Singer) 2006-08, $300,838

Employers and Workers in Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Process of Early Immigrant Incorporation, funded by the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association (with Carl L. Bankston III, Audrey Singer, and Nicole Trujillo-Pagan) 2006-07, $7,000

Immigrants and Schools: Contextual Factors in ParentÕs School and Community Involvement, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation (with Melissa Marschall and Audrey Singer) 2006-07, $151,763

Child Obesity in Migrant and Nonmigrant Households in Mexico, funded by the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2004-06, $40,000

Fertility and Family Planning in Mexican Communities: A Binational Study, funded by The Willliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation (with Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni) 2000-04, $425,000

Changing Places, Changing Faces: Immigration in the Nonmetropolitan United States, funded by the National Research Initiative, U.S. Department of Agriculture (with Charles Tolbert and Alfred Nucci), 2001-2006, $150,000

COURSES TAUGHT

  Population and Society
  Contemporary Mexican Society
  Sociological Research Methods
  Immigration
  Social Statistics
  Demography
  Immigration and Public Health


RESEARCH INTERESTS

International Migration between Mexico and the United States
Social Determinants of Health
Immigrants in the U.S. Economy
Ethnic and Gender Stratification

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Since 2006, Dr. Donato has been a principal investigator on a tri-city project that examines immigrant parent involvement in schools (with Dr. Marshall in Political Science at Rice University). With funding from The National Science and Russell Sage Foundations as well as from Vanderbilt's Center for Nashville Studies, Dr. Donato has supervised the collection of a unique data set from interviews with immigrant parents in New York, Chicago, and Nashville. Together with Dr. Marshall, they use these new data to supplement existing analyses of federal school data and examine variation in immigrant parent involvement and school outreach programs.

Dr. Donato began developing a new project on adolescent health and migration in Mexico (in collaboration with Kathleen Mullan Harris and Krista Perreira at UNC-Chapel Hill).

In late 2007, Dr. Donato received word from the National Institute of Child Health and Development at NIH that funding for a new project, Migration and Access to Care: An Innovative Population-Based Sampling Strategy (with Dr. Weathers from UNC-Chapel Hill), is now pending.

Finally, since 1996, Dr Donato has been a principal investigator on a binational project that examines how the processes of health and migration unfold the life course (see www.mexmah.com). With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and a close collaboration with El Colegio de San Luis in Mexico, the project has collected four waves of longitudinal data from approximately 2,000 Mexican families on both sides of the border.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Donato, Katharine, Jorge Durand, Jonathan Hiskey, and Douglas Massey. Forthcoming. A volume of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science titled, “Continental Divides: International Migration in the Americas." (To see an overview of the issue, click here.)

Donato, Katharine M., Charles Tolbert, Alfred Nucci, and Yukio Kawano; Forthcoming "The Emergence of Non-Metropolitan Immigrant Gateways." in Douglas S. Massey (ed.), New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration. New York, NY: The Russell Sage Foundation.

Donato, Katharine M., and Carl L. Bankston III; Forthcoming "The Origins of Employer Demand for Immigrants in a New Destination: The Salience of Soft Skills in a Volatile Economy" in Douglas S. Massey (ed.), New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration. New York, NY: The Russell Sage Foundation.

Donato, Katharine M., Charles Tolbert, Alfred Nucci, and Yukio Kawano; 2007 "Recent Immigrant Settlement in the Nonmetropolitan United States: Evidence from Internal Census Data." Rural Sociology. 72(4): 537-59.

Donato, Katharine M., Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Carl L. Bankston III, and Audrey Singer; 2007 "Reconstructing New Orleans After Katrina: The Emergence of an Immigrant Labor Market." Pp.217-234 in David L. Brunsma, David Overfelt, and J. Steve Picou (eds.), The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Donato, Katharine M., Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni, and Theresa Thompson-Colon; 2007 "Contando con los Parientes: Redes Sociales, Apoyo Social y Estado de la Salud Infantil en Mexico." Pp.400-30 in Manuel Angel Castillo and Jorge Santibanez (eds.), Nuevas Tendencias Y Nuevos Desafios de la Migracion International: Memorias del Seminario Permanente sobre Migracion Internacional. Volumen II. El Tijuana, MX: Colegio de la Frontera Norte.

Yukio Kawano, Katharine M. Donato, and Charles M. Tolbert II; 2007 "Generational Differences in Mexican-American's Earnings: Comparing the Second, 2.5th and Third Generations." Pp.216-236 in Yoshimichi Sato (ed.), Deciphering Social Stratification and Inequality: Japan and Beyond. Melbourn, Australia: Trans Pacific Press.

Wakabayashi, Chizuko and Katharine M. Donato; 2006 "Caregiving for Economic Well-Being in Women’s Later Life." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47(3): 258-74.

Katharine M. Donato, Donna Gabaccia, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan IV, and Patricia R. Pessar; 2006 "A Glass Half Full? Gender in Migration Studies." International Migration Review 40(1): 3-26.

Curran, Sara R., Steven Shafer, Katharine M. Donato, and Filiz Garip; 2006 "Mapping Gender and Migration in Sociological Scholarship: Is it Segregation or Integration?" International Migration Review 40(1): 199-223.

Donato, Katharine M., Chizuko Wakabayashi, and Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni; 2006 "Effects of Mexico-U.S. Migration on Health." In Mexico-United States Migration: Consequences and Challenges for Both Nations. Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de México.

Donato, Katharine M., Michael Aguilera, and Chizuko Wakabayashi; 2005 "Immigration Policy and the Employment Conditions of U.S. Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic." International Migration 43(5): 5-29.

Donato, Katharine M., Melissa Stainback, and Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni; 2005 "Migración y Salud en México: Resultados para San Luis Potosí." Pp. 46-75 in Jorge Durand (ed.), Vetas: Revista de El Colegio de San Luis. El Colegio de San Luis Potos', A.C.: SLP, Mexico.

Donato, Katharine M., Melissa Stainback, and Carl L. Bankston III; 2005 "The Economic Incorporation of Mexican Immigrants in Southern Louisiana: A Tale of Two Cities." Pp. 76-99 in Víctor Zúñiga and Rubén Hernández-León (eds.), New Destinations of Mexican Immigration in the United States: Community Formation, Local Responses and Inter-Group Relations. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Kanaiaupuni, Shawn Malia, Katharine M. Donato, Theresa Thompson_Colon and Melissa Stainback; 2005 "Counting on Kin: Social Networks, Social Support and Child Health." Social Forces 83(3): 1137-1164.

Read, Jen'nan Ghazal, Benjamin Amick III, and Katharine M. Donato; 2005 "Arab Immigrants: A New Case for Ethnicity and Health?" Social Science and Medicine 61: 77-82.

Wakabayashi, Chizuko and Katharine M. Donato; 2005 "The Consequences of Caregiving: Effects on Women’s Employment and Earnings." Population Research and Policy Review 24: 467-88.

Donato, Katharine M., Chizuko Wakabayashi, Amada Armenta, Shirin Hakimzadeh, and Nora Gallegos Vargas; 2004 "Salarios de las Mujeres y Hombres Inmigrantes a Estados Unidos desde América Latina: Efectos de la Política de Inmigración de los Estados Unidos." In Elaine Levine (ed.), Inserción Laboral de Migrantes Mexicanos y Latinos en Estados Unidos. Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.

Donato, Katharine M. and Evelyn Patterson; 2004 "Women and Men at the Border: Undocumented Border Crossing." Pp. 111-30 in Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey (eds.), Behind the Smoke and Mirrors: Research from the Mexican Migration Project. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Saenz, Rogelio, Katharine M. Donato, Lourdes Gouveia, and Cruz Torres; 2003 "Latinos in the South: A Glimpse of Ongoing Trends and Research." Southern Rural Sociology 19(2): 1-19 [Appeared in 2004].

Donato, Katharine M., Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni, and Melissa Stainback; 2003 "Sex Differences in Child Health: Effects of Mexico-U.S. Migration." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Families and Children's Inequalities, special issue, E. Fussell and A.H. Gauthier (eds.), Summer: 455-77.

EDITED VOLUMES

Gabaccia, Donna, Katharine M. Donato, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan IV, and Patricia R. Pessar; 2006 Gender and Migration Revisited, Special Issue of International Migration Review 40(1).