Dr. Mary Pattillo
Professor of African American Studies, Chair & Professor of Sociology, Arthur E. Andersen Teaching and Research Professor Address: African American Studies Department 3-133 Crowe 1880 S. Campus Dr. Evanston, IL 60208-2209 Phone: 847-491-2036 Fax: 847-491-9907 Email: m-pattillo@northwestern.edu

Courses:

AFAM 365-0 Black Chicago

Degree:

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Chicago, 1997

M.A. in Sociology, University of Chicago, 1994

B.A. in Urban Studies, Columbia University, 1991

Current Research:

Mary Pattillo received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and is currently the Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity with an emphasis on class stratification, urban sociology, and qualitative methods. Her book, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (University of Chicago Press 1999) won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association.  Pattillo is also co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (Russell Sage 2004).  Her most recent manuscript, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, is based on five years of ethnographic data examining the simultaneous processes of low-income housing construction and gentrification in a black Chicago neighborhood.  Other projects include a comparative study of the transformation of public housing in Chicago and an analysis of racial differences in the class composition of extended families.

Recent Awards:

Various research grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and Chicago Community Trust

2004
Named Northwestern University Arthur Andersen Research and Teaching Professor

2004
Columbia College Alumna Achievement Award

2001
Selected for Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, year to be negotiated

2000
Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section, American Sociological Association

2000
Outstanding Academic Book Award, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

2000
Honorable Mention, Robert Park Award for Distinguished Book Publication, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association

1999
Distinguished Article Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

1997 - 1998
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy, University of Michigan

1992-1997
Dean's Searle Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago

1992-1996
Jacob K. Javits Predoctoral Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education

1996
Robert Park Lectureship in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago

1989-1994
Harry S. Truman Scholarship, U.S. Department of Treasury

Recent Publications:

	Forthcoming 2005. "Poverty in the Family: Race, Siblings and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity." (with Colleen Heflin). Social Science Research
	Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
	"Black Middle Class Neighborhoods." Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 31. Published 2005.
	Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, and Bruce Wester, eds. Russell Sage Foundation Publications 2004
	Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class . Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999.
	2003 Negotiating Blackness, For Richer or for Poorer. Ethnography 4 .
	2003 Intergenerational Assets and the Black/White Test Score Gap, with Ariel Kalil and Monique Payne. In After the Bell: Education Solutions Outside of School edited by Dalton Conley and Karen Albright. New York: Routledge.
	2002 Kin Effects on Black-White Account and Home Ownership, with Colleen M. Heflin. Sociological Inquiry 72(2): 220-239.
	2000 Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. The Limits of Out-Migration for the Black Middle Class. Journal of Urban Affairs 22(3): 225-242.
	2000 Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. Negotiating Adolescence in a Black Middle Class Neighborhood. Pp. 77-101 in Coping with Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community . Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
	2000 May, Reuben A.B. and Mary Pattillo-McCoy. Do You See What I See: Examining a Collaborative Ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry 6(1):65-87. 1999 Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. Middle Class, Yet Black: A Review Essay. African American Research Perspectives 5(1):25-38.
	1999 Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. Consumer Culture among Cuban and Black American Youth. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 1(2):58-63.
	1998 Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. Church Culture as a Strategy of Action in the Black Community. American Sociological Review 63(6):767-84.
	1998 Pattillo, Mary E. A Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle Class Neighborhood. Social Forces 76(3):747-774.