Irene Browne

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-7508
FAX: 404-727-7508
E-MAIL: socib@emory.edu

OFFICE: 207 Tarbutton Hall

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

Degree: Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1991

General Research Area: stratification, gender, work and occupations, immigration.

Current Research: labor market inequality, intersections of race, gender and class, discrimination and Latino immigration in Georgia.

Selected Publications:

Browne, Irene and Rachel Askew. 2006. "Latinas at Work: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity and Class," in Gender, Ethnicity and Race in the Workplace Volume I.

Browne, Irene and Joya Misra. 2003."The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market." Annual Review of Sociology.

"Opportunities Lost? Race, Industrial Restructuring and Employment among Young Women Heading Households," Social Forces 2000.

Latinas and African American Women at Work, (editor), Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

"Explaining the Black-White Gap in Labor Force Participation among Women Heading Households"American Sociological Review, 1999.

Selected Courses

• SOC 225: Sociology of Sex and Gender
• SOC 501: Research Methods and Models: Design
• SOC 585: Race, Gender and Discrimination
• SOC 719/ Women's Studies 585: Gender, Race, and Inequality in the U.S.

Additional Info:

One of her current research projects, funded by the NSF, examines how race and gender influence class mobility strategies among middle-class Dominican and Mexican immigrant families in Atlanta.  She is also collaborating on a study of how gender, race/ethnicity and class shape remittance flows and their consequences among Dominican and Guatemalan immigrants in Atlanta and their countries of origin.