Elizabeth C. Harris
Areas of Interest
Education, Families, Social Inequality
Education
B.A. Asian and Islamic History, University of California, Santa Cruz 1993
M.A. Sociology, California State University, East Bay 2007
Current Research
I am currently working on two research projects. The first draws on qualitative interviews to study the process through which middle-class parents of children in special education deploy cultural and economic capital in order to procure specialized services for their children. I am interested in how the structure of the special education system, combined with differential levels of parental cultural capital, produce highly stratified educational opportunities for children in special education.
My second research project is a secondary data analysis of qualitative interviews of low-income women in New Orleans. In conjunction with Elizabeth Fussell, who collected much of the data, I am looking at whether having children at a young age, in difficult economic circumstances, helped to spur young women to evacuate New Orleans during Katrina.
Recent Publications & Presentations
2008 Society for the Study of Social Problem:
Harris, Elizabeth. “The Social Construction of Cognitive Disabilities in Children.”
2008 Pacific Sociological Association:
Harris, Elizabeth.“The Social Construction of Cognitive Disabilities in Children.”
2007 California Sociological Association:
Harris, Elizabeth and Patricia Jennings. “Writing Across the Curriculum.”
Contact Elizabeth
Office: Wilson-Short 237
Phone: (509) 335-4595 (msgs)
Email: elizabeth_harris@wsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae (Pdf)
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