Orly Clergé
114 Eaton Hall
Medford, MA 02155
718-902-4212
[email protected]
Professional Experience
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Medford, MA
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies
Aug 2014-present
Scholar in Residence, Office of Residential Life
Aug 2015-present
Scholar in Residence, Tufts in Talloires, France
Summer 2016
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Postdoctoral Associate, Urban Ethnography Project
July 2013-June 2014
Education
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
Ph.D., Sociology and Social Demography
2013
Dissertation: “Black Identities Revisited: ‘New’ and ‘Old’ African Americans in Middle Class
New York”
Committee: Jose Itzigsohn (Chair), Hilary Silver, Paget Henry
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
M.A. in Sociology
2009
Thesis: “Aspirations, Class and Identity: A Study of the Children of Haitian Immigrants in
Queens, New York” Distinguished Masters Thesis Award
Committee: Jose Itzigsohn (Chair), John Modell
WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA
B.A. in Sociology, Minor in French, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
2005
Teaching and Research Interests
Race and ethnicity, migration/transnationalism, urban sociology, social demography, identity,
ethnography, education
Publications
Clerge, Orly. Black Ethnoburbs: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the Global City. Under
Contract with University of California Press
Michelle Harris, Sherrill L. Sellers, Clerge, Orly, and Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. (Eds).
Stories from the Front of the Room: How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome
Challenges and Thrive in the Academy. Rowman and Littlefield. Forthcoming February 2017
Clerge, Orly, Gabrielle Sanchez-Soto, Jing Song and Nancy Luke. 2015. “I Would Really
Like to Go Where You Go: Partners of Graduate Students as Tied Movers.” Population,
Space and Place. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.1990/full.
Clerge, Orly. 2014. “Balancing Stigma and Status: Racial and Class Identities among Middle
Class Haitian Youth.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 34:6, p. 958-977.
Clerge, Orly. 2014. “Engaging the Minority Middle Class: Imagining Immigrant Integration
into the African American Middle Class.” Sociology Compass. 8:10, p. 1167-1182
Manuscripts in Progress
Clerge, Orly. "The Right to Higher Education for Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing
Issue Framing, Coalitions, and Civic Capacity in Utah and Colorado." Revise and Resubmit.
Clerge, Orly. “Unequal Urban & Suburban School Choice Markets: A Study of Educational
Decision Making among Black (Ethnic) Middle Class Parents.” Under review
Clerge, Orly. Black Millennials: Cultural Belonging among Middle Class Youth.
In Progress.
Clerge, Orly and Jose Itzigsohn. “The Hierarchy of Home: Black Residential Experiences in
New York.” In Progress.
Fellowships and Grants
Urban Ethnography Fellow-Yale University
2014Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Minority Graduate Fellow
2012
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
2008-2011
The Graduate School, Brown University, with Nancy Luke, Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, and Jing
Song. “Adaptation Strategies of Graduate Students’ Partners Project” $2,650
2008-2009
Graduate Fellow, Brown University
2007-2008
Population Studies and Training Center Research Grant, Brown University $3,000
2008
Joseph M. Susan Stampler Paresky ’68 Fellowship, Wheaton College
2005
Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, Phillips Academy
2004
Leadership Alliance, Columbia University
2003
Awards and Honors
Poster Award, Population Association of America, “Black Identities Revisited: The African
American, Haitian and Jamaican Middle Class in New York”
2011
Outstanding Oral Presentation, Graduate Student Conference, “Aspirations, Class and
Identity: The Haitian Second Generation in Queens, New York” Brown University 2010
Poster Award, Population Association of America, “Economic Growth in Ghana and the
Effects of Mother’s Sector of Employment on Childhood Malnutrition”
2008
Horace R. Rackham Fellow, University of Michigan
2005
Lucretia C. Mott Prize in Sociology, Wheaton College
2005
Alpha Mu Gamma French Honors Society
2005
Sally Gale Gilman Award, Wheaton College
2005
Teaching\Research Assistantships\ Work Experience
Teaching Experience
Introduction to Quantitative Methods
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Urban Sociology: Social Problems in the City
Racial Identity in Historical Perspective
Youth of Color
Introduction to Sociology Course, Brown University-Guest Lecturer
Immigration Policy Course, Brown University- Guest Lecturer
Research Methods-Graduate Instructor/Mentor, Leadership Alliance
2014|2015
2015
2015|2016
2015
2016
2012
2010
2009
Work Experience
Managing Editor, City & Community Journal
2011-2012
Brown University Research Assistantships
Latino Employment Patterns in Rhode Island for Professor Jose Itzigsohn
Making Connections Survey Data for Professor Hilary Silver
New England Latino Survey for Professor Marion Orr
Immigration Historical Data for Professor Michael White
2012
2009
2009-2010
2007
Russell Sage Foundation Research Assistant
‘Dominican Immigrants in Providence, Rhode Island’
for Professor Jose Itzigsohn
‘Asian American Entrepreneurs in New York City’ Project
for Professor Pyong Gap Min
‘Collaboration and Political Science Journals’ Project
for Professor Kanchan Chandra
2007
2006-2007
2006
Research Experience (Selected)
“The Gentrifying Brooklyn Study”
2015Researcher: Preliminary research on gentrification trends and black flight in Brooklyn, NY.
“Latino Employment and Earnings Patterns: A Look at Rhode Island”
2012
Co-Researcher (with Jose Itzigsohn): Demographic study of the labor force participation and
earnings of the Latino population in Rhode Island.
“Racial Shuffling: Geographical Mobility of African Americans in Major Cities” 2011-2013
Co-Researcher (with Hilary Silver): Quantitative study of the changing distribution of
African Americans within metropolitan areas and its relationship to racial residential
segregation.
“Aspirations, Class and Identity: A Study of the Children of Haitian Immigrants in Queens,
NY”
2008
(Preliminary Dissertation Work)
Researcher: Independently conducted qualitative and demographic research on the selective
acculturation of Haitian immigrant middle class youth. Project supported by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown
University.
“‘I Will Go with You’: Partners of Graduate Students as Tied-Movers”
2008-present
Co-Researcher (with Professor Nancy Luke, Gabriella Sanchez-Soto and Jing Song):
Qualitative study of ‘tied-movers’ among graduate student family populations. Funded by the
Brown University Graduate School and Department of Sociology.
Conferences and Invited Presentations
“Bright v. Blurry Ethnicity: The Black Middle Class Experience.”
-Society for the Study of Social Problems, Seattle, WA
2016
“Theorizing the Black Ethnoburb”
-Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA
2016
“The School-Neighborhood Shuffle: How Middle Class African Americans and Black
Immigrants do School Choice.”
-Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY
2015
-American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL
2015
“The Walk: Class and Ethnic Faultlines in an Urban Black Neighborhood”
-Yale Urban Ethnography Conference, New Haven, CT
“Ethnic Fractures and the Black Middle Class”
-Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University
2014
2014
“The Jamaican Middle Class: Class Identities in Urban and Suburban Spaces”
-Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY
2013
-American Sociological Association, New York, NY
2013
“The African American Middle Class: Perspectives on Racial Identity, Belonging and
Boundaries”
-American Sociological Association, New York, NY
2013
“Race and Ethnicity: Identities and Institutions “ Panel
-American Sociological Association, New York, NY (Presider)
2013
“Class Cleavages“ Panel
-American Sociological Association, New York, NY (Moderator)
2013
“Black Identities Revisited: “New” and “Old” African Americans in Middle-Class New
York”
-Yale Ethnography Workshop, New Haven, CT
2013
“Racial Shuffling: The Geographical Mobility of African Americans in Major Cities”
-American Sociological Association, Denver, CO
2012
“The State-Level Dream Act: Explaining the Passage and Rejection of In-State Tuition for
Undocumented Students in Utah and Colorado”
-Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, NV
2011
“Black Identities Revisited: A Look at Middle Class Haitians and Jamaicans in New York”
-Population Association of America, Washington, D.C.
2011
“Aspirations, Class and Identity: A Study of the Children of Haitian Immigrants in Queens”
-Population Association of America, Dallas, TX
-Graduate Student Conference, Brown University
2010
“I Will Go With You: Partners of Graduate Students as Tied Movers”
-Population Association of America, Dallas, TX
-Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, RI
2010
“Mapping Neighborhood Housing Foreclosures: A Look at Providence, RI”
-S4 Fellow Program, Brown University, RI
2009
“Economic Growth in Ghana and the Effects of Mother’s Sector of Employment on
Childhood Malnutrition” with Roland Pongou and Professor Jemima A. Frimpong.
-Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA
2008
“Immigrant Community Organizations and their Political Engagement”
Russell Sage Foundation, Conference Organizing Assistant, New York
2006
“Race, Identity, and Integration: A Study of Black Senegalese and Lebano-Senegalese
(Lebanese) Socioeconomic Relations in Dakar”, SIT-Senegal
2003
“Infant Mortality and Race: The Contribution of Socio-Economic Indicators”
Leadership Alliance Symposium, Columbia University
2003
Service
Immigration Task Force, Queensborough President’s Office, New York
Graduate Mentor, ALANA Program, Brown University
Haitian Americans United for Progress, Afterschool Teaching Assistant
ChaRosa Foundation, Teaching Assistant/Grant Writer, Queens, NY
Professional Development Committee, Member
Samuel M. Nabrit Graduate Students Association, Community Service Chair
Brown Graduate Students of Color Conference, Committee Member
2011-2012
2009-2013
2011
2011
2008-2009
2009-2010
2008
Reviewer: City & Community, Journal of Black Studies, Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial
Studies, Journal of Urban Studies, Race and Social Problems
Professional Membership
American Association of Geographers
Association of Black Sociologists
Eastern Sociological Society
American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
2015-present
2012-present
2012-present
2011-present
2011-present
Population Association of America
2008-2012
Languages
Haitian Creole (Fluent)
French (Intermediate)
References
Elijah Anderson
Jose Itzigsohn
Nancy Luke
Marion Orr
Hilary Silver
Professor of Sociology, Yale University
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215-771-2130
Professor of Sociology, Brown University
[email protected]
401-863-2367
Professor of Sociology, Brown University
[email protected]
401-863-2367
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
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401-863-2825
Professor of Sociology, Brown University
[email protected]
401-863-2367