Curriculum Vitae
Department of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA 29697
Email: schofer@uci.edu
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~schofer/
Education
1999 Ph.D. Sociology, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Expansion of the Social Authority and Institutional Structure of Science in the World System, 1700-1990.
1992 M.A. Sociology, Stanford University.
1991 B.A. Sociology, Stanford University, with honors, with distinction.
Employment
2007 - Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
2006 - 2007 Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Minnesota
2000 - 2006 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Research and Teaching Fields
Comparative Political Sociology; Sociology of Education; Quantitative Methods and Statistics; Globalization; Environment; Organizations; Sociology of Science.
Grants, Honors, and Awards
2011 “The Political Consequences of Voluntary Associations, 1970-2006.” UC Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy.
2010 “Institutional Context, Mobilizing Structures, and Participation: Union Membership and Individual Political activity in Affluent Democracies, 1980-2007.” UC Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy. ($1500)
2006 Summer Institute Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA.
2006 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota.
2006 “The Impact of Globalization on National Income Inequality.” University of Minnesota GRPP project (E. Schofer and Eric Dahlin). (approx $5,000).
2006 University of Minnesota Life Course Center. “The Presence and Timing of Educational Track Differentiation: Implications for Enrollments, Achievement, and Inequality.” (Research assistant support)
2005 “The Effects of Educational Expansion on Societal Inequality: Sociological Theories and Cross-National Evidence, 1970-2000.” Spencer Foundation Small Grant ($39,700).
2005 “Explaining Change in National Income Inequality: A Comparative and Longitudinal Approach.” Minnesota Population Center Proposal Development Grant ($9,235).
2005 “The Sources of Inequality in the Structure of Educational Systems: A Cross-National Study, 1960-2000.” University of Minnesota GRPP project (E. Schofer and S. Wick). (approx $5,000).
2004 “The Sources of Civil Society, 1990-2000”. University of Minnesota GRPP Grant (E. Schofer and W. Longhofer.) (approx $5,000)
2004 “Education and Economic Inequality: Longitudinal trends.” University of Minnesota Grant-In-Aid ($22,000)
2004 Barrington Moore Award (Book), Honorable Mention for Science in the Modern World Polity.
2004 “The Sources of Civil Society, 1990-2000”. University of Minnesota GRPP Grant (E. Schofer and W. Longhofer.) (approx. $5,000)
2003 University of Minnesota Single-Semester Leave. “Education and Economic Inequality: Cross-national Evidence, 1960-2000.” (Semester Leave)
2003 “Globalization, International Organizations, and Protest in West Africa, 1990-2000,” with K. Cunnien. University of Minnesota GRPP Grant. ($5,000)
2003 University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. “Educational Expansion and Economic Inequality. ($5,000, declined)
2002 ASA Political Sociology Section Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for the article “The Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement: Voluntary Association Membership in Comparative Perspective.”
2002 Cooperman Summer Institute. “Social Capital in Interdisciplinary Perspective.” ($5,000)
2002 “Impact of Science on Environmental Politics and Economic Growth: A Cross-National Analysis” with F. Granados. University of Minnesota GRPP Grant. (approx. $5,000)
2002 University of Minnesota Life Course Center. “Educational Expansion and Economic Inequality.” (Research assistant support, $3,500)
2001-3 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. “The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education, 1970-2000.” ($50,000)
2001 University of Minnesota McKnight Summer Research Fellowship ($5,000)
2001 University of Minnesota Life Course Center. “The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education, 1970-2000.” (Research assistant support, approx. $3,400)
1998 MacArthur Consortium Dissertation Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford ($14,000).
1995 Field exam in the sociology of science, passed with distinction.
1992 Stanford University Departmental Fellowship ($12,000)
Books
2003. Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization. Stanford University Press. (G. Drori, J. Meyer, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer)
• In translation: 2006. La ciencia en la política mundial moderna: Institucionalización y globalizacion. Ediciones Pomares, S. A., Barcelona-Mexico. Colección Educación y conocimiento: Director Miguel A. Pereyra. Translation: José M. Pomares.
Articles and Chapters
Forthcoming. “When Cultural Resources Matter: The Effects of Youth’s Participation in High-brow Culture on Student Achievement in East Asia.” Sociology of Education. (S. Byun, E. Schofer, and K. Kim)
Forthcoming. “Sociological Institutionalism and World Society.” In Nash, K, A. Scott, and E. Amenata (eds). The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (E. Schofer, A. Hironaka, D. Frank, and W. Longhofer)
2011. “The Structural Sources of Association.” American Journal of Sociology, 117, 2: 539-585. (E. Schofer and W. Longhofer)
2010. “National and Global Origins of Environmental Association.” American Sociological Review, 75: 505-533. (W. Longhofer and E. Schofer)
2007. “Environmental Policy Reform in Asia: NGOs and the Nation-State.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 48:275-295. (D. Frank, W. Longhofer, and E. Schofer)
2007. “Higher Education as an Institution.” In Gumport, P. (ed). The Sociology of Higher Education. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (J. Meyer, F. Ramirez, D. Frank, and E. Schofer)
2006. “Environmentalism, Globalization, and National Economies: Theories and Evidence, 1980-2000.” Social Forces, 85, 2:965-991. (E. Schofer and F. Granados)
2006. “Student Achievement and National Economic Growth?” American Journal of Education, 113 (November):1-29. (F. Ramirez, X. Luo, E. Schofer, and J. Meyer)
2005. “The University in Global Society: Twentieth Century Expansion.” [In German] Die Hochschule, 2/05, 14:81-98. (J. Meyer and E. Schofer)
• In translation: 2006. “La Universidad en Europa y en el mundo: expansión en el siglo xxi.” Revista Espanola de Educacion Comparada, Vol. 13, Madrid, Spain: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
2005. “The World-Wide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review, 70:898-920. (E. Schofer and John Meyer)
2005. “The Effects of World Society on Environmental Protection Outcomes.” Social Forces, 84, 1:25-47. (E. Schofer and A. Hironaka)
2005. “Coup Risk, Counter-Balancing, and International Conflict: Civil-military Relations and International Conflict During the Cold War.” Security Studies, 12, 3. (A. Belkin and E. Schofer)
2005. “Regime Vulnerability as a Cause of Counterbalancing During the Cold War.” Pp. 55-68 (Chapter 4) in A. Belkin. Performing the National Security State: Civil-Military Relations as a Cause of War. SUNY Press. (A. Belkin and E. Schofer)
2004. “Cross-national Differences in the Expansion of Western Science.” Social Forces, 83, 1:215-247. (E. Schofer)
2003. “The Global Institutionalization of Geological Science, 1800-1990.” American Sociological Review, 68 (Dec): 730-759. (E. Schofer)
2003. “Toward a Structural Understanding of Coup Risk: Concepts, Measurement, and Implications.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47, 5 (Oct.):594-621. (A. Belkin and E. Schofer)
2002. “Decoupling in the Environmental Arena: The Case of the Environmental Impact Assessment.” Pp. 214-231 in A. Hoffman and M. Ventresca, Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (A. Hironaka and E. Schofer)
2001. “The Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement: Voluntary Association Membership in Comparative Perspective.” American Sociological Review, 66 (Dec): 806-828. (E. Schofer and M. Gourinchas)
2000. “The Effects of Science on National Economic Development, 1970-1990.” American Sociological Review, 65 (Dec): 866-887. (E. Schofer, F. Ramirez, J. Meyer)
2000. “The Nation State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review, 65 (Feb): 96-116. (D. Frank, A. Hironaka, and E. Schofer)
• Reprinted: Pp. 435-55 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by Michael R. Redclift and Graham Woodgate. Cheltenham, England:
Edward Elgar, 2005.
2000. “Environmentalism as a Global Institution.” American Sociological Review, 65 (Feb): 122-127. (D. Frank, A. Hironaka, and E. Schofer)
• Reprinted: Pp. 461-66 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by Michael R. Redclift and Graham Woodgate. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2005.
1999. “Science Association in the International Sphere 1875-1990: The Rationalization of Science and the Scientization of Society.” Pp. 249-266. In J. Boli and G. Thomas. World Polity in Formation: A Century of International Non-Governmental Organization. Stanford University Press. (E. Schofer)
1999. “The Rationalization and Organization of Nature in World Culture.” p. 81-99. In J. Boli and G. Thomas. World Polity in Formation: A Century of International Non-Governmental Organization. Stanford University Press. (D. Frank, J. Meyer, A. Hironaka, E. Schofer, and N. Tuma)
1997. “The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990.” International Organization, 51, 4 (Autumn): 623-651. (J. Meyer, D. Frank, A. Hironaka, E. Schofer, and N. Tuma)
• In translation: “Die Entstehung eines globalen Umweltschutzregimes von 1870 bis 1990.” Pp. 235-275 in Meyer, John W. 2005. Weltkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. Edited by Georg Kruecken.
1994. “Rethinking History: Change in the University History Curriculum, 1910-1990.” Sociology of Education, 67 (October): 231-242. (D. Frank, E. Schofer, and J. Torres)
Work In Progress (Drafts Available)
“The Multifaceted Nature of Civic Engagement: Forms of Political Activity in Comparative Perspective.” Revise and Resubmit, American Sociological Review. (M. Gourinchas and E. Schofer)
“Unions Membership and Political Participation in the United States.” Second Revise and Resubmit, Social Forces. (J. Kerrissey and E. Schofer)
“Structural Adjustment and National Income Inequality, 1980-2000.” (W. Longhofer and E. Schofer)
“The Effects of High-Stakes Educational Testing on Enrollments, Academic Achievement, Inequality, and Economic Growth: Cross-National Evidence, 1985-2003.” E. Schofer and S. Wick)
“The State and the Expansion of European Science, 1800-1990.” (E. Schofer)
Selected Conference Presentations And Invited Talks
“Labor Unions, Institutional Context and Political Participation.” Presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in Las Vegas, NV, August 20, 2011. (E. Schofer and J. Kerrissey)
“Unions Membership and Political Participation in the United States.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Atlanta, Ga, August 15, 2010. (J. Kerrissey and E. Schofer)
“The Global Origins of Associational Life.” Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California, Riverside, October 28, 2009.
“Structural Adjustment and National Income Inequality, 1980-2000.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 7-11, 2009. (W. Longhofer, E. Schofer, and E. Sowers)
“The State, World Society, and Associational Life.” Sociology Department Colloquium, Columbia University, September 17, 2008.
“NGOs, INGOs, and Social Change: Environmental Policy Reform in the Developing World, 1970-1995.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Boston, MA, August 1-4. (W. Longhofer, E. Schofer, and D. Frank)
“The Effects of Educational Selectivity and Curricular Differentiation on National Income Inequality: Cross-National Evidence, 1970-2002.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Boston, MA, August 1-4. (E. Schofer and S. Wick)
“Higher Education as a Global Institution.” Presented at the Institute for Higher Education Research Forum, University of Georgia, Athens Georgia, May 29, 2008.
“The Structural Sources of Associational Life.” Paper presented at the UCSD Culture Workshop, March 4, 2008. (W. Longhofer and E. Schofer)
“INGOs, NGOs, and Environmental Reform.” Invited talk at the International Studies Public Forum, February 21, 2008.
“Political Space and the Genesis of Politics.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociology Association, New York, August 2007. (B. Lande, M. Fourcade, and E. Schofer)
“World Society and Global Environmental Change.” Risk and Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 26, 2007.
“The Origins of Environmental Association, 1960-1995.” American Sociological Association meetings in Montreal, 2006. (W. Longhofer and E. Schofer)
“The Effects of High-Stakes Educational Testing on Enrollments, Academic Achievement, Inequality, and Economic Growth: Cross-National Evidence, 1985-2003.” American Sociological Association meetings in Montreal, 2006. E. Schofer and S. Wick)
“Cross-National Variation in Civic Engagement.” Center for the Study of the Individual and Society, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, January 24, 2006. (E. Schofer)
“The Multifaceted Nature of Civic Engagement: Forms of Political Activity in Comparative Perspective.” American Sociological Association meetings in Philadelphia, PA, 2005. (M. Gourinchas and E. Schofer)
“The Structural Sources of Associational Life: A Cross-National Analysis.” American Sociological Association meetings in Philadelphia, PA, 2005. (E. Schofer and W. Longhofer)
“The Multifaceted Nature of Civic Engagement: Forms of Political Activity in Comparative Perspective.” Presented at the annual conference of the Social Science and History Association, Chicago, November 18, 2004. (M. Gourinchas and E. Schofer)
“The World-Wide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the conference Toward a Multiversity? Universities Between National Traditions and Global Trends in Higher Education in Bielefeld, Germany, November 13, 2004 (E. Schofer and J. Meyer)
Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization. Author-Meets-Critic Session at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, August 2004. Critics: Thomas Gieryn, Michelle Lamont, Karin Knorr Cetina, Peter Weingart. (G. Drori, J. Meyer, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer)
“When Does Institutionalization Matter? Decoupling and the Consequences of National Environmental Policies, 1950-2000.” SCANCOR Seminar organized by Walter Powell, Stanford University, April 5, 2004. (E. Schofer and A. Hironaka)
“The Multifaceted Nature of Civic Engagement: Forms of Political Activity in Comparative Perspective.” Social Movements Seminar, University of Arizona, March 26, 2004. (M. Gourinchas and E. Schofer)
“The Consequences of Global Environmentalism.” Stanford Comparative Sociology Workshop, Stanford University, February, 2004. (E. Schofer and A. Hironaka)
“Environmental Policies and the National Economies: Theories and Evidence, 1980-2000.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in Atlanta, GA, 2003. (E. Schofer and F. Granados)
“The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education, 1950-2000: A Comparative Analysis.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Education, Toronto, Canada, October 16-18, 2002. (E. Schofer)
“World Society, Decoupling, and ‘Recoupling’: International Pressures and National Environmental Protection.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in Anaheim, CA, 2001. (E. Schofer and A. Hironaka)
“The State and the Expansion of European Science, 1750-1990.” Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, March 29, 2001. (E. Schofer)
“State Structures and Voluntary Associations in Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in Chicago, 1999. (M. Gourinchas and E. Schofer)
“The Nation State and the Natural Environment.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in Chicago, 1999. (D. J. Frank, A. Hironaka, and E. Schofer)
“Does Science Achievement Affect National Economic Development?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Researchers Association, 1998. (F. Ramirez, X. Luo, E. Schofer, and J. Meyer)
“The Spread of Western Science Across the World System.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in San Francisco, 1998.
“The Globalization of Geological Science.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in San Francisco, 1998. (H. Moon and E. Schofer.)
“The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990.” Paper Presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in Los Angeles. (J. Meyer, D. Frank, A. Hironaka, E. Schofer, and N. Tuma)
“The Effects of Science on National Economic Development, 1970-1990.” Paper Presented at the American Sociological Association meetings in Los Angeles. (E. Schofer, F. Ramirez, and J. Meyer)
“Organizational Mortality in the Absence of Economic Competition.” Stanford Center for Organizations Research Conference in Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, 1996. (E. Schofer, J. Chung, and S. Duncan.)
“The Globalization of Invention: The International Diffusion of the Patent System.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA, 1994. (E. Schofer and A. Hironaka.)
“The Rise of an International Organizational Sector: International Science Organizations.” Stanford Center for Organizations Research Conference in Asilomar, 1994. (E. Schofer and P. Mendel.)
“Patterns of United Nations Joining, 1945-1990.” Stanford Center for Organizations Research Conference in Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, 1993. (E. Schofer)
Teaching Experience
Syllabi for recent courses can be found at: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~schofer
2009-10 Advanced Regression Models (grad seminar)
2009-10 International Sociology
2007-8 Event History Analysis (grad seminar)
2007-8 International Sociology
2006-7 Advanced Social Statistics (grad level)
2006-7 Globalization
2000-5 Intermediate Social Statistics (grad level)
2005 Globalization
2004 Globalization Graduate Seminar
2003 Globalization
2002 Sociology of Education
2001 Political Sociology Graduate Seminar
2000 Introduction to Political Sociology
1999 Sociology of Education (MA/grad level)
1996 Sociological Methods
1993 Introduction to Computer Statistics for Graduate Students
Service
2010-13 UCI Sociology Graduate Director
2008-10 UCI Sociology Graduate Committee
2007- Organizer, Irvine Comparative Sociology Workshop
2006 U of MN Sociology Executive Committee
2006 U of MN Sociology Search Committee
2005-7 U of MN College Graduate Fellowship Committee
2004 U of MN Search Committee, Dept. of Political Science
2003-5 U of MN Sociology Graduate Committee
2001 U of MN Sociology Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee
2000 U of MN Sociology Qualifying Examination Committee
Professional Service
2006 ASA Sociology of Education Section, Nominations Committee
2003 ASA Political Sociology Section, Awards Committee
2009- Member, Editorial Board, Sociology of Education
2006-9 Member, Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
Occasional Reviewer: National Science Foundation, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Sociology of Education, The Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Social Problems, Organization Science, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Policy Studies Journal, Research Policy.
References
John W. Meyer Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University.
Francisco Ramirez School of Education, Stanford University.
Frank Dobbin Dept. of Sociology, Harvard University
Ronald Jepperson Dept. of Sociology, University of Tulsa.