Research Summary:Charles Hirschman is Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. He is the immediate past president of the Population Association of America (2005) and retiring chair of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. During the 2005-06 academic year, he is a Bixby Visiting Scholar at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC while he is on leave from the University of Washington.
His current research is focused on race and ethnic disparities in the transition from high school to college. With grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he directs the University of Washington-Beyond High School Project. The UW-BHS project surveyed serveral cohorts of high school seniors in Washington State from 2000 to 2005. The students were reinterviewed one year after high school graduation and will serve as the baseline of a projected longitudinal study. The objectives of the UW-BHS project are to explain race and ethnic disparities in educational attainment and to evaluate the Gates Foundation's "Washington State Achiever Program," a program designed to increase college enrollment among low income students. The UW-BHS data are serve as the basis of a new NICHD funded project to study the concepts and measurements of race and ethnic identities among young adults.
Recent Publications:- Hirschman, C.; Mogford, L., (Forthcoming), Immigrants and Industrialization in the United States, 1880 to 1920, Social Science Research.
- Hirschman, C.; Perez, A. D., (Forthcoming), Immigration and Nativism in the United States and Europe: Demography and Globalization versus the Nation-State, The Attractiveness of the European and American Social Models for New Members and Candidate Countries of the European Union, Alber, J.; Gilbert, N., Oxford University Press.
- Perez, A. D.; Hirschman, C., (Forthcoming), Estimating Net Interracial Mobility in the United States: A Residual Methods Approach, Sociological Methodology.
- Perez, A. D.; Hirschman, C., (2009), The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the U.S. Population: Emerging American Identities, Population and Development Review: 35, 1-51.
- Hirschman, C., (2008), The Future of Demography, Asian Population Studies, 4: 3, 233-234.
- Hirschman, C., (2008), Review Essays : Immigrants and Boomers, Sociological Forum, 23: 3, 624-626.
- Hirschman, C., (2008), BookReview Essay: Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 620: 1, 307-310.
- Hirschman, C., (2008), What Happened, Sociologically Speaking, During the Twentieth Century? A review essay of Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years, by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout., Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 37, 415-417.
- Hirschman, C.; Massey, D. S., (2008), Places and People: The New American Mosaic, New faces in new places : the changing geography of American immigration, Massey, D. S., 1-21, Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
- Hirschman, C., (2007), Immigration and an Aging America: Downward Spiral or Virtuous Circle?, Social Structures : Demographic Changes and the Well-being of Older Persons, Schaie, K. W.; Uhlenberg, P., Springer, New York.
- Hirschman, C., (2007), The Impact of Immigration on American Society: Looking Backward to the Future, Transit - Europaische Revue, 32, 84-99.
- Hirschman, C., (2007), The Structure of Teenage Employment: Social Background and the Jobs Held by High School Seniors, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 25, 189-203.
- Hirschman, C.; Edwards, J., (2007), Social Change in Southeast Asia, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Ritzer, G., 9, 4374-80, Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA.
- Jacobson, M. F.; Hirschman, C., (2007), Review - Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post -- Civil Rights America, American Journal of Sociology, 113: 1, 274.
- Brown, S. K.; Hirschman, C., (2006), The End of Affirmative Action in Washington State and Its Impact on the Transition from High School to College, Sociology of Education, 79: 2, 106.
- Emeka, A.; Hirschman, C., (2006), Who Applies For and Who Is Selected for Washington State Achievers Scholarships? A Preliminary Assessment, Public policy and equal educational opportunity : school reforms, postsecondary encouragement, and state policies on postsecondary education, St. John, E. P., 207-22, AMS Press, Inc., New York.
- Hirschman, C., (2006), The Meaning and Measurement of Ethinicity in Malaysia: An Analysis of Census Classification, On the margins of Asia : diversity in Asian states, Keyes, C. F., Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, Mich..
- Hirschman, C.; Alba, R.; Farley, R., (2006), Race and Ethnicity: Definitions and Measurement, Historical statistics of the United States : earliest times to the present, Carter, S. B.; Sutch, R., Cambridge University Press, New York.
- Emeka, A.; Hirschman, C., (2005), Who Applies For and Who Is Selected for Washington State Achievers Scholarships? A Preliminary Assessment, Public Policy and Equal Educational Opportunity: Readings on Equal Education, John, E. S., 21, 177-206, AMS Press, New York.
- Hirschman, C., (2005), Population and Society: Historical Trends and Future Prospects, The Sage Handbook of Sociology, Calhoun, C.; Rojek, C.; Turner, B. S., 381-402, Sage Publications, London.
- Hirschman, C., (2005), Immigration and the American Century, Demography, 42: 4, 595.
- Hirschman, C., (2005), Immigration and the American Century. (PAA Presidential Address), Demography, 42: November, 595-620.
- Hirschman, C.; Lee, J., (2005), Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment in the United States, Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms, Rutter, M.; Tienda, M., 107-138, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Hirschman, C.; Tolnay, S. E., (2005), Social Demography, Handbook of Population, Dudley, L.; Poston, D. L.; Micklin, M., 419-449, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
- Snipp, C. M.; Hirschman, C., (2005), Assimilation in American Society: Occupational Achievement and Earnings for Ethnic Minorities in the United States 1970 to 1990, The Shape of Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Bills, D., 93-117, Elsevier, JAI, Amsterdam.
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Ph.D. 1972, University of Wisconsin. Demographic change in Southeast Asia, ethnic and social stratification, fertility and the family.
