Education:
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center - 2008 (Sociology)
M.A., Queens College (CUNY) - 2006 (Sociology)
B.A., California State University, Northridge - 2003 (Psychology)
A.A., College of the Canyons - 2001 (Psychology)
Areas of Expertise:
Race and ethnicity, urban communities, ethnographic methods, family, Caribbean migration.
Books and Publications
The Playdate: Parents, Children, and The New Expectations of Play. NYU Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2016
Mose Brown, Tamara and Joanna Dreby. Artificial Divide: Family and Work in the Ethnographic Field. Temple Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013
"'West Indianness' as an Ethnographic Presentation of Self in the Field: Black Canadians Across the Border." Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, June, 5.1. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Who's the Boss? The Political Economy of Unpaid Care Work and Food Sharing." Feminist Economics, Summer. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Mose Brown, Tamara and Erynn Masi de Casanova. "Representing the Language of the Other?: African American Vernacular English in Ethnography." Ethnography. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare and Caribbeans Creating Community. New York: New York University. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2011
Mose Brown, Tamara and Erynn Masi de Casanova. "Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations." Women's Studies Quarterly 37.3&4. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
PSC CUNY Grant (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
Faculty Fellowship Publication Program fellowship. 2009-10. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Leonard and Claire Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship, for research on aging Jamaicans. 2009-10. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC CUNY grant. 2009-10. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
New Faculty Fund, for "Aging Jamaicans in Kingston." (Awards and Honors) 2009
Research Activities
Researching aging Jamaicans in New York and Kingston, Jamaica, as part of the larger research being conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine. 2010
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Going from Deh to They: Translating West Indians in Ethnography." Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, March 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations." The Mother Symposium, Women's Studies Quarterly. New York, Feb. 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Competing Spaces: How West Indian Childcare Providers Negotiate Public and Private Space." Dreamland Pavilion: Brooklyn and Development Conference. Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Professional Leadership
Director of Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Chairwoman, Paper Awards Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Faculty and Student Disciplinary Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Theory Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Other Professional Activities
Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the American Sociological Association 2020
Chapter representative, Alpha Kappa Delta, the honors society for sociology majors. 2010
Faculty mentor, Sociology Club. 2010
Organizer, Sociological Undergraduate Research Competition. 2010
Mentor, Presidential Scholar's Program, Brooklyn College, 2009-10. 2009
