Hilary Silver
Professor:
Sociology, Urban Studies, Public Policy
Phone: +1 401 863 2559
Hilary_Silver@Brown.EDU
Professor Silver's research interests include urban poverty, housing and homelessness, neighborhood change, unemployment, and social policies in Western Europe.
Biography
Since receiving a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, Professor Silver's research interests have included social exclusion, urban poverty and inequality, urban economic development, neighborhood change, and housing, welfare, and other social policies. Her book, Social Exclusion, will be published by Polity Press. Based on her research and teaching in South Providence, her first film, "Southside: The Fall and Rise of an Inner-City Neighborhood," is airing on RI Public Television. Professor Silver is an Affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University where she co-chairs a study group on "Social Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe." She is Editor of the ASA's urban sociology journal, City & Community. She has held visiting appointments at Nuffield College, Oxford University, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Université de Lille, University of Sussex, New York University, and Columbia University. She has received three Fulbright fellowships, fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Bremen, Germany, the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique, INSEE, and INED in Paris, and School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Other grants she received are from the National Science Foundation, DAAD, International Labour Office, Institute for Research on Poverty, Brookings Institution, and National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently a consultant to the World Bank.
Interests
In 2012, Silver worked on a comparison of migrants in two neighborhoods of Berlin, a new film on homelessness in Rhode Island, a study of Coop City, and her forthcoming book, Social Exclusion (Polity Press). She also consulted for the World Bank on social inclusion policies.
Awards
1975-77
President's Fellow, Columbia University
1977
Robert J. Levin Prize ("Most promise for scholarly contribution to sociology")
1987
"Best Article in Planning," Journal of American Planning Association
1988
Fulbright Scholar, teaching and research in the Sociology of Work, France
1998
Fellowship, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg, Germany
2001
Fulbright Fellowship, "Urban Planning in Berlin and the Neue Laender," Germany
2002-03
International Fellowship, University of Bristol, U.K., December-January
2003
Nominee, Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto
2003-04
Pembroke Faculty Fellow, seminar on "Shame," Brown University
2006
Fulbright Fellowship, "Islam in Europe," Germany and France
2007-08
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
2008
Academic Visitor, Nuffield College, Oxford
Affiliations
2002-present:
Research affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2009-present:
Editor, City & Community
American Sociological Association
- Community and Urban Sociology Section
International Sociological Association
-Research Group 21 on Urban and Regional Development
-Research Group 19 on Social Policy
Council for European Studies
Social Science History Association
Eastern Sociological Society
Urban Affairs Association
Teaching
social inequality, stratification
housing, homelessness
urban sociology, urban policy
political sociology, welfare states, social policy
Funded Research
1984
"The Greenhouse Compact," Ford Foundation
1988
"Why Low-Income, Limited-Equity Cooperatives Succeed or Fail," Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation
1990
"Privatizing European Welfare States," Institute for International Studies, Brown University (Travel grant to Paris and the Hague)
1991-96
"Metropolitan Restructuring, Neighborhood Change, and Concentrated Poverty" (with Michael J. White), National Science Foundation
1991-93
"Women's Family Constraints and Flexible Employment" (with Frances Goldscheider), National Science Foundation
1992-93
"Comparative Trends in Flexible Employment and Poverty," CNRS, France
1993-1994
"Theories of Social Exclusion" and "Exclusion in France, Britain, and the U.S.A.," International Institute for Labour Studies, International Labour Office, Geneva
1994
"Race and Job Dismissals in the Federal Government," Office of Personnel Management, U.S. Government
1995
"Policies to Combat Social Exclusion," Democratic Dialogue, Belfast, No. Ireland
1996
Wayland Collegium Study Group grant on "Providence"
1996
"Contracting between the State of Rhode Island and Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses: A Predicate Study" (with Louise Jezierski), Office of the Governor
1996-2000
"The Dynamics of Food Stamp Participation: Personal and Program Effects on Spell Duration and Episodes" (with Edith Barrett), United States Department of Agriculture and Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1999
"Social Exclusion in the U.S. and France: Work with the General Social Survey and European Household Panel Survey," Laboratoire de Sociologie Quantitative, ENSAE, INSEE (French Census Bureau), May-July
2000
"Social Disruptions, Inequality, and Health," Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques and UNESCO
2002
"Social Disruptions, Inequality, and Health," conference organization grant, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
2003
"Social Disruptions, Inequality, and Health," Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program seed grant ($10,000)
2004
"New Immigrants in Urban New England," workshop grant, Center for Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
2004-06
Study group grant, "Social Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe," Center for European Studies, Harvard University ($3,500 annually)
2004-05
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst [DAAD] conference grant on "Social Inclusion in the New Berlin" ($4,000)
2006
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (NEH), Public Media Project grant ($10,000)
2006
Rhode Island Public Television and R.I. Council for the Humanities, short film initiative on "Here at Home: What Divides Us? What Unites Us?" ($1,000)
2006
"Social Exclusion and Poverty Dynamics," Chronic Poverty Research Centre and Global Poverty Research Group, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester ($10,000)
2006
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst [DAAD], visiting research grant ($11,500)
2011
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst [DAAD] and WissenschaftsZentrum Berlin, visiting research grant
2012
RI Council for the Humanities/National Endowment for the Humanities
