Jordan Andrew Conwell
Curriculum Vitae
October 2014
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Address:
Phone:
E-mail:
Website:
1209 West Arthur Avenue
Apartment 711
Chicago, IL 60626
(440)532-0019
jconwell@u.northwestern.edu
jordanconwell.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
2018 (expected)
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University.
2014
M.A., Sociology, Northwestern University.
2012
B.A., (Magna Cum Laude), Sociology and Rhetoric, Bates College.
PUBLICATIONS (*peer reviewed)
*Ispa-Landa, Simone, and Jordan Conwell. 2015. ““Once You Go To a White School, You
Kind of Adapt:” Black Adolescents and the Racial Classification of Schools." Sociology
of Education.
*Conwell, Jordan. “Josephs without Pharaohs: The Du Boisian Framework for the Sociology of
Education.” Forthcoming in The Journal of Negro Education.
Conwell, Jordan. 2012. “‘I like my tutors always’: East African Students in a Public Library
Homework Help Program.” Undergraduate Journal of Service-Learning and
Community-Based Research, Vol. 1. Available online at
http://www.bk.psu.edu/Documents/Academics/conwell.pdf
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Conwell, Jordan. “Simultaneous Inequalities: Resources, the Black-White Achievement Gap,
and Within-Race Achievement Differences.”
Conwell, Jordan. “The Effect of School Funding Cuts on Kindergarten Math Achievement.”
Jackson, Kirabo and Jordan Conwell. “The Development of the Racial Achievement Gap in the
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): What About Black
Immigrants?”
Prado, Andrea and Jordan Conwell. “It Really is a Social Movement: Charter Schools in
Chicago.”
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
2014
Northwestern Department of Sociology Robert F. Winch Memorial Award for
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant.
2014
Honorable Mention, Northwestern Department of Sociology Robert F. Winch
Memorial Award for Graduate Student Best Second Year Paper (for “Beyond the
Race Coefficient: Family/ School Resources and Within-Race Achievement
Differences”).
2014
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.
2014
Student travel grant from Midwest Sociological Society [$100].
2012-2017
University Fellow, The Graduate School, Northwestern University [$21,876/
year].
2012-2017
Applied Quantitative Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Northwestern
University [$1000 one-time research fund, $400/ year travel fund to present
quantitative research].
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
2015
“Simultaneous Inequalities: Resources, the Black-White Achievement Gap, and
Within-Race Achievement Differences.” Midwest Sociology of Education
Conference, South Bend, Indiana.
2014
“Place and Stigma in Adolescents’ Interpretations of Schools,” (with Simone
Ispa-Landa). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, California. Session title: Sociology of Education: Disadvantaged
Students in Advantaged Contexts.
2014
Contradictory Evidence: Black Achievement Heterogeneity and the Black-White
Achievement Gap. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association,
San Francisco, California. Session title: Sociology of Education roundtable.
2014
“Josephs without Pharaohs: The Du Boisian Framework for the Sociology of
Education.” Guest Lecture at DePaul University to combined session of
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undergraduate courses in Sociology of Education (Prof. Melanie Gast) and
Qualitative Methods (Prof. Brian Sykes), Chicago, Illinois.
2014
“Josephs without Pharaohs: The Du Boisian Framework for the Sociology of
Education.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha,
Nebraska.
2014
“School Talk: Race and Place in Schools and Society,” (with Simone IspaLanda). Annual meeting of Sociology of Education Association, Pacific Grove,
California.
2014
“‘Once You Go To a White School, You Kind of Adapt’: Place and Stigma in
Adolescents’ Interpretations of Schools,” (with Simone Ispa-Landa). Midwest
Sociology of Education Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.
2012
“Is There a Black Immigrant Paradox? K-8 Test Outcomes for Black Immigrant
and Black Nonimmigrant Students.” Poster accepted to annual Meeting of the
Sociology of Education Association, graduate student poster session, Pacific
Grove, California. Did not attend.
2012
“Investigating Overweight Among Children in Ghana, West Africa, 1988-2008.”
Annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, New York.
2011
“Assessing the Role of Social Desirability Bias and Trust Question Interpretation
in the Relationship between Community Diversity and Lower Trust.” Annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association, Undergraduate Honors
Program, Las Vegas, Nevada.
2011
“Does Community Diversity Reduce Interpersonal Trust?” Poster presented at
annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, undergraduate poster session,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
TEACHING ASSISTANCE
Northwestern University (2012-present): Undergraduate Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101);
Graduate Introduction to Applied Regression Analysis (SOC 401-1 and SOC 401-2). Teaching
evaluations for SOC 401-1 and SOC 401-2 available upon request.
Bates College (2011-2012): Research Methods for Sociology (SOC 204).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Memberships
American Sociological Association
Midwest Sociological Association
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American Educational Research Association
External Service
2014-present
Occasional reviewer, Journal of Negro Education, Sociology of
Education.
Local Service
2013-present
Unpaid research assistant, Chicago Teachers’ Union (links to published
reports below).
Privatization of janitorial services in Chicago Public Schools (with Carol
Caref and Sarah Hainds): http://www.ctunet.com/blog/ctu-report-aramarkcps-failures-of-school-maintenance-outsourcing
University Service (Northwestern University)
2014
Speaker on panel about applying to graduate school for undergraduate
students in Northwestern’s Summer Research Opportunity Program
Departmental Service (Northwestern University)
2014
2014
2013-present
Co-coordinator, Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop
Reader for Exum Award (for best undergraduate paper on race/ ethnicity)
Undergraduate Studies Committee
COMPUTING SKILLS
Quantitative analysis: STATA, Mplus, R, SPSS
Qualitative analysis: ATLAS.ti, NVivo
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