Filiz Garip - Scholars at Harvard

Department of Sociology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496 5351
Fax: (617) 496 5794
[email protected]
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/garip/
Filiz Garip
Appointments
Harvard University
2011-Present. Associate Professor of Sociology.
2007-2011. Assistant Professor of Sociology.
2008-Present. Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
2008-Present. Faculty Associate of the Inequality and Social Policy Program.
2009-2010. Distinguished Research Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs.
2010-2012. Director of the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, Institute for
Quantitative Social Science.
2012-2013. Director of Academic Programming of the Undergraduate Research Scholars
Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Education
Princeton University
2007. Ph.D., Sociology.
Dissertation: From Migrant Social Capital to Community Development: A
Relational Account of Migration, Remittances, and Inequality.
Committee: Paul DiMaggio (Chair), Sara Curran, Douglas Massey, Bruce Western,
Viviana Zelizer.
2005. M.A., Sociology.
2002. M.S.E., Operations Research & Financial Engineering.
Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2000. B.Sc., Industrial Engineering.
Books
Filiz Garip. (in progress) Crossing Paths: The Diversity in Mexico-U.S. Migration.
Under advance contract from Princeton University Press.
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Articles
Filiz Garip. 2014. “The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Wealth Accumulation
and Distribution in Rural Thailand.” Demography 51(2): 673-698.
Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip. 2014. “Who Donates Their Bodies to
Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status among California WholeBody Donors. Social Science & Medicine 106: 53-58.
Filiz Garip. 2012. “Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms of Wealth
Inequality in 119 Communities from the Mexican Migration Project Data.” Demography
49: 1335-1360.
Filiz Garip. 2012. “Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S.
Stream from 1970 to 2000.” Population and Development Review 38(3): 393-433.
Filiz Garip. 2012. “An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling
Migration as a Mechanism for Selection.” Population Research and Policy Review 31(5):
637-663.
Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul Mortorana, and Scot Lozanoff. “Individuals’ Decision
to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in
Hawaii.” PLoS ONE 7(8): e42673.
Paul DiMaggio and Filiz Garip. 2012. “Network Effects and Social Inequality.” Annual
Review of Sociology 38: 93-118.
Paul DiMaggio and Filiz Garip. 2011. “How Network Externalities Can Exacerbate
Intergroup Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 116(6): 1887-1933.
Re-printed as “When Do Social Networks Increase Inequality?” in Social
Stratification: Class, Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 4th Edition
edited by David B. Grusky, Manwai C. Ku, and Szonja Szelényi. 2008. Boulder:
Westview Press.
Recipient of the Analytical Sociology Best Paper Award at the 2013 International
Network of Analytical Sociologists Conference.
Filiz Garip and Sara Curran. 2010. “Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities:
Changing Character of Migrant Streams in Rural Thailand.” Population Research and
Policy Review 29: 659-685.
Filiz Garip. 2008. “Social Capital and Migration: How Do Similar Resources Lead to
Divergent Outcomes?” Demography 45(3): 591-617.
Sara Curran, Steven Shafer, Katherine Donato, and Filiz Garip. 2006. “Mapping Gender
and Migration in Sociological Scholarship: Is It Segregation or Integration?”
International Migration Review 40(1): 199-223.
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Sara Curran, Filiz Garip, Chang Chung, and Kanchana Tangchonlatip. 2005. “Gendered
Migrant Social Capital: Evidence from Thailand.” Social Forces 84(1): 225-255.
Chapters
Filiz Garip and Bruce Western. 2011. “Model Comparison and Simulation for
Hierarchical Models: Analyzing Rural-Urban Migration in Thailand.” In Handbook of
MCMC, Edited by Galin Jones, Steve Brooks, Xiao-Li Meng, and Andrew Gelman. CRC
Press.
Filiz Garip. 2011. “Remittances.” Entry in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online,
edited by George Ritzer. Entry in the Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George
Ritzer.
Articles Under Review
Filiz Garip, Burak Eskici, and Ben Snyder. “Network Effects in Migrant Remittances:
Evidence from Household, Sibling and Village Ties in Nang Rong, Thailand.” Article for
Special Issue of the American Behavioral Scientist.
Filiz Garip and Asad Asad. “Migrant Networks.” Chapter for the Emerging Trends in
the Social and Behavioral Sciences edited by Bob Scott and Stephen Kosslyn.
Filiz Garip and Asad Asad. “Social Mechanisms Underlying Network Effects in
Mexico-U.S. Migration.” Chapter for Social Mechanisms at Work edited by Jens Rydgren
and Christofer Edling.
Work in Progress
Paul DiMaggio and Filiz Garip. “Network Effects and Social Inequality: How
Mechanisms Matter.”
Filiz Garip and Maocan Guo. “How Homogeneity and Consolidation Shape Cumulative
Migration Dynamics.”
Filiz Garip, Ben Snyder and Burak Eskici. “Network Effects in Migrants’ Remittances:
Evidence from Sibling Networks in 51 Rural Thai Villages.”
Sara Curran, Filiz Garip, and Chang Chung. “Heterogeneous Migration Flows Across
Destination and Gender in Thailand.”
Filiz Garip and Asad L. Asad. “Mexico-U.S. Migration in Time: From Economic to
Social Mechanisms.”
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Reviews
Filiz Garip. 2009. Review of For Better or For Worse: Vietnamese International
Marriages in the New Global Economy by Hung Cam Thai. American Journal of
Sociology 115(1): 282-284.
Scholarly Awards and Recognition
2013.
Analytical Sociology Best Paper Award at the International Network of
Analytical Sociologists Conference for “How Network Externalities Can
Exacerbate Intergroup Inequality.”
2009.
George Kahrl Excellence in Teaching Award of the Department of Sociology,
Harvard University.
2006.
Best Student Paper Award of the ASA Population Section for “Social Capital and
Migration: How Do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes?”
2005-06. Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University.
2005-07. Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, Princeton University.
Grants
2014.
NIH R21 Grant (under review): “Discovering Peer Groups to Understand
Migration Behavior,” as a Principal Investigator with Co-Investigator Alan Qi
($275,000).
2013.
Research grant from the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at the Harvard
Kennedy School for “Why People Migrate? The Diverse Mechanisms of MexicoU.S. Migration 1970-2000.” ($6,400).
2013.
Research grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
for “Why People Migrate? The Diverse Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration
1970-2000.” ($10,000).
2012.
Research grant from the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies for
“Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from
1970 to 2000” ($7,500).
2011.
Research grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
for “Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream
from 1970 to 2000” ($20,000).
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2011.
Research grant from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for
“Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from
1970 to 2000” ($10,000).
2010.
Seed grant from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies for
“Integrating Novel Network Models with Social Theories to Understand
Heterogeneous Population Migration” ($26,000).
2010.
Junior Faculty Synergy Semester Grant from the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs ($40,000).
2009.
Research support by the Milton Fund of Harvard University for “Cluster
Analysis of Mexico-U.S. Migration Flows in 1970-2000” ($30,000).
2008.
Research support by the Clark Fund of Harvard University for “Internal
Migration, Remittances, and Community Development in Thailand” ($6,000).
2008.
Junior Faculty Research Assistant Grant of Harvard University ($2,500).
2006.
Research support by the Center for Migration and Development of Princeton
University for: “Migration and Inequality in Thailand” ($1,000).
2005.
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for: “From Migrant Social Capital to
Community Development: A Relational Account of Migration, Remittances and
Inequality” ($7,500).
2005.
Program in Urbanization and Migration Dissertation Research Grant, Princeton
University ($5,000).
2005.
Research support by the Center for Migration and Development of Princeton
University for: “Uncovering the Black Box of Cumulative Causation,” with Sara
Curran ($2,400).
2005.
Departmental Support for Dissertation Research, Department of Sociology,
Princeton University ($1,000).
2005.
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Travel Grant
($1,500).
2004.
Research support by the Center for Migration and Development of Princeton
University for: “Globalization, Social Change and Localities,” with Sara Curran
($5,000).
Invited Talks
2014.
“Crossing Paths: The Diversity in Mexico-U.S. Migration.”
Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights Program Lecture, Harvard University, April
2014.
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Forum on Migration, Barnard University, February 27.
2013.
“Chasing Dreams: The Diverse Motivations Behind Mexico-U.S. Migration”
Sociology Colloquium, Yale University, October 2.
2013.
“Why People Migrate? The Diverse Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration.”
Organizational Behavior Seminar, School of Management, Yale University,
January 22.
Sociology Colloquium, Duke University, January 25.
PSTC Seminar, Brown University, February 7.
Radcliffe Institute On the Road Talk, Harvard Club in New York, February 19.
Sociology Colloquium, Columbia University, February 27.
Suessmilch Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock,
Germany, April 19.
Organizational Behavior Seminar, Stanford Graduate School of Business, May
15.
2013.
“Mexico-U.S. Migration in Time: From Economic to Social Mechanisms.”
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop, Harvard University, February
7.
2012.
“The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Wealth Accumulation and
Distribution in Rural Thailand.”
Conference on Immigration and Poverty: Economic and Social Connections,
Policy Approaches, UC Davis, May 17-18, 2012.
2011.
Commencement Keynote Address
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June.
2011.
“Social Networks, Migration and Inequality.”
CIFAR, Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being Program Meeting, Ottawa,
ON, June 1-3.
Seminar for the BLISS Program, Harvard University, June.
2010.
“Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from
1970 to 2000.”
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Immigration Seminar, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies,
November.
Methods Seminar, Boston College, November.
2010.
“Repeat Migration and Cumulative Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth
Inequality in Mexico.”
Economy, Justice and Society Seminar, University of California, Davis, May.
2010.
“How Do Network Externalities Lead to Intergroup Inequality?” with Paul
DiMaggio.
Social Change Harvard-Manchester Initiative, Summer Workshop, June.
2009.
“Do Migrant Remittances Lead to Inequality?”
Harvard-MIT Economic Sociology Workshop, April.
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Demography, The Bay Area
Population Colloquium, April.
Social Change Harvard-Manchester Initiative, Summer Workshop, June.
2009.
“An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a
Mechanism for Selection.”
Brown University, Population Studies and Training Center Colloquium,
February.
2009.
“How Do Network Externalities Lead to Intergroup Inequality?” with Paul
DiMaggio.
Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Applied Statistics
Workshop, February.
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Management Department, Labor Lunch and
Social Networks Seminar Series, February.
2008.
“International Migration in Context: Migrant Types, Strategies, and Outcomes.”
Harvard University, Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop, April.
2008.
“How Network Externalities and Relational Homophily Induce Intergroup
Inequality: Illustrations from Technology Diffusion and Rural-Urban Migration,”
with Paul DiMaggio.
Harvard-MIT Economic Sociology Workshop, April.
Princeton University, Economic Sociology Workshop, October.
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2006.
“Social Capital and Migration: How Do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent
Outcomes?”
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson Scholars Workshop. February.
Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, October.
New York University, Department of Sociology, November.
Yale University, Department of Sociology, November.
University of Oregon, Department of Sociology, November.
University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology, December.
Harvard University, Department of Sociology, December.
2005.
“Migrant Social Capital and Inequality: Case of Internal Migration in Thailand”
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand.
November.
2005.
“Decomposing Migrant Social Capital: A Theoretical Framework for Empirical
Studies.” Princeton University, Center for Migration and Development
Workshop. October.
Conference Presentations
2013.
“How Homophily and Consolidation Shape Cumulative Migration Dynamics
from Mexico to the United States” (with Maocan Guo). Annual Meetings of the
Population Association of America Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, April
10-12.
2013.
Discussant for Session 204: “Demography of the Foreign-Born.” Annual
Meetings of the Population Association of America Annual Meetings, New
Orleans, LA, April 10-12.
2011.
“Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Flows from
1970 to 2000.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Las
Vegas, NV, August 19-23.
2011.
“Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in
Mexico.” Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America Annual
Meetings, Washington, DC, March 30-April 2.
2011.
“Peer Effects in Migrants’ Remittances: Evidence from Sibling Networks in 22
Rural Thai Villages.” The International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St.
Pete Beach, Florida, February 8-13.
2009.
“An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a
Mechanism for Selection.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association, San Francisco, CA, August 8-11 and Population Association of
America Annual Meetings, Detroit, MI, April 30-May 2.
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2009.
Discussant, Regular Session on Data and Methods of Migration Analysis.
Population Association of America Annual Meetings, Detroit, MI, April 30-May
2.
2008.
“Origin Community Networks and Diffusion of Remittance Behavior among
Mexico-U.S. Migrants.” European Population Conference, Barcelona, Spain,
July 9-12.
2008.
“International Migration in Context: Migrant Types, Strategies and Outcomes.”
Population Association of America Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, April
17-20.
2008.
Discussant, Regular Session on Spatial Dimensions of Local Processes.
Population Association of America Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, April
17-20.
2007.
“Internal Migration, Remittances and Community Development.” Population
Association of America Annual Meetings, New York, NY, March 29-31.
2006.
“Decomposing Migrant Social Capital: A Theoretical Framework for Empirical
Studies.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, August 12-15.
2006.
“Social and Economic Determinants of Migration and Remittances: An Analysis
of 22 Thai Villages.” Population Association of America Annual Meetings, Los
Angeles, CA, March 29-April 1.
2005.
“Community Migration History and Patterns of Change in Migrant
Characteristics: Evidence from Nang Rong, Thailand” (with Sara Curran).
Society for Comparative Research Graduate Student Retreat, Budapest, Hungary,
July 3-4 and Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Philadelphia, PA, August 13-16.
2005.
“Advancing Theory and Evidence about Migration and Cumulative Causation:
Destination and Gender in Thailand” (with Sara Curran and Chang Chung).
International Population Conferences of the International Union for the Scientific
Study of Population, Tours, France, July 18-23 and Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 14-17, 2004.
2003.
“Migration, Cumulative Causation and Gender: Evidence from Thailand” (with
Sara Curran, Chang Chung, and Kanchana Tangchonlatip). Princeton University
Program in Urbanization and Migration, Conference on African Migration and
Urbanization in Comparative Perspective, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 4-7.
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Teaching Experience
Harvard University
Economic Sociology (Graduate level)
Qualifying Paper Seminar (Graduate level)
Workshop on Social Networks and Social Capital (Graduate level)
Money, Work and Social Life (Undergraduate level)
Junior Tutorial: Understanding Latin American Migration Flows to the United
States (Undergraduate level)
Junior Tutorial: Understanding Mexican Migration Flows to the United States
(Undergraduate level)
Service
To Harvard University
Director of Academic Programming of the Undergraduate Research Scholars
Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (2012-2013)
Director of the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, Institute for
Quantitative Social Science (2010-2012)
Hoopes Prize Committee (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Policy Committee (2008Present)
Junior Faculty Advisory Board for Social Science (2008, 2009)
Committee for Undergraduate Degrees, Department of Sociology (2012-13)
Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee, Department of Sociology (2010, 2011,
2012)
Spring Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology (2011, 2014)
Inter-Ivy/Sorenson Graduate Student Conference Committee, Department of
Sociology (2011)
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology (2008, 2009, 2011)
Committee for Higher Degrees, Department of Sociology (2008, 2009)
General Exams Committee, Department of Sociology (2011)
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Pre- and Mid-Dissertation Research Grants Committee, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University (2011, 2012)
To Princeton University
Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee (2005).
To the Profession
Consulting Editor for the American Journal of Sociology (2011-2013).
Prize Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Economic
Sociology, Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award (2007-08).
Reviewer, National Science Foundation, American Journal of Sociology,
American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Social
Science Research, Demography, Population Studies, Journal of Mathematical
Sociology.
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