Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
Born1957 (age 6667)
Nationality American
Education Fordham University (B.A., 1979), Boston University (Ph.D., 1984)
Awards2014 Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [1]
Scientific career
Fields Sociology
Institutions University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thesis Good jobs, bad jobs, no jobs: the stratification consequences of U.S. industrial and occupational structure and change, 1960-1980  (1984)

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (born 1957) [2] is a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Education

Tomaskovic-Devey received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1984, both in sociology. [3]

Career

Tomaskovic-Devey served as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina for one year (1983-1984) and has held visiting appointments at Stockholm University, Queensland University of Technology, SciencePo, Bielefeld University, and the Copenhagen Business School. He taught at North Carolina State University for 17 years before joining the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005. [1] [3] As of July 1, 2015, he was also working with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to inform its goals and those of other nondiscrimination employment organizations. [4] He was also the president of the Southern Sociological Society for one year (2012-2013). [5] He founded and directs the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is currently co-editor of the American Sociological Review.

Research

Tomaskovic-Devey is known for his research on labor markets and workplace inequality. [1] For example, in 2012, he and Kevin Stainback published the book Documenting Desegregation, in which they noted, among other things, that workplace segregation was ubiquitous in the United States prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. [6] The same book showed that in one-sixth of industries in America, racial segregation between white and black men was increasing. [7] He and Stainback had previously shown (in a 2009 study) that the over-representation of white men among managers in the U.S. had remained virtually unchanged since 1966. [8] [6] His recent work with Dustin Avent-Holt advances a sociological approach to inequality focused on the organizational settings that generate inequality. They propose that there are three primary mechanisms leading to the distribution of respect, resources and rewards – exploitation, closure, and claims making. Mechanisms are contained in organizational inequality regimes and conditioned by human tendencies to view categories of people (e.g. races, educational credentials) within status hierarchies. Mechanisms and categories are seen as dynamically shifting in response to local claims and historical-environmental influences. [9] Tomaskovic-Devey also leads the fifteen-country Comparative Organizational Inequality Network, [10] a large group of social scientists developing the big data capacity of nation state linked employer-employee data to explore contemporary inequality topics. Tomaskovic-Devey co-founded the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts.

Honors and awards

In 2023 Tomaskovic-Devey was selected for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work. Tomaskovic-Devey was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 2006, and was the secretary of the American Sociological Association from 2006 to 2010. [3] [11] He received the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2014, [1] the Samuel F. Conti Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2016, and the Otto Mønsteds Gæsteprofessorat , Copenhagen Business School in 2022. His papers and books have won multiple awards from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility and Organizations, Occupations, and Work sections of the American Sociological Association. He has been a visiting faculty appointments in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, and Denmark.

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  7. Harris, Paul (27 October 2012). "Racial prejudice in US worsened during Obama's first term, study shows". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  8. Stainback, K.; Tomaskovic-Devey, D. (1 October 2009). "Intersections of Power and Privilege: Long-Term Trends in Managerial Representation". American Sociological Review. 74 (5): 800–820. doi:10.1177/000312240907400506. S2CID   58926710.
  9. Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald; Avent-Holt, Dustin (2019-01-24). Relational Inequalities. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190624422.001.0001. ISBN   9780190624422.
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