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Hilary_Silver@brown.edu

Ph.D. Columbia University

Brown University Research Profile Page

Areas of Interest:
Urban Studies, Political Sociology, Stratification

Professor Silver received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 1984. Her research interests include urban poverty and inequality, urban economic development, neighborhood change, and housing, welfare, and other social policies. She is currently finishing a book on grassroots initiatives to combat social exclusion and unemployment in France and Germany, and is editing a book on The New Yankee City: New Immigrants in Urban New England.

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 has held visiting appointments at the Université de Lille, University of Sussex, New York University, and Columbia University. She has received two Fulbright fellowships, fellowships from the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Bremen, Germany, the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique, INSEE, and INED in Paris, and School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. In summer 2006, she was a visitor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, International Labour Office, Institute for Research on Poverty, the DAAD, and the National Endowment for the Humanities/Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. With the latter grant, she is making a film on South Providence. Her short film, "South Side: The Gains and Strains of Diversity," will air on Rhode Island PBS on the evening of October 26.

Related Websites :
2005 - Social Integration in the New Berlin: A DAAD-Wayland Collegium Conference
2004 - New Immigrants in Urban New England: A Workshop
2003 - New Immigrants in Urban New England: A Workshop
2003 - Social Exclusion, Inequality, and Health: An International Workshop

Recent Publications:
2007
"Shutting Shelter Put Homeless at Risk." Providence Journal (23 March).
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2006
"Social Integration in the 'New' Berlin," German Politics and Society 24, 4 (Winter 2006): 1-48.
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2006
"From Kreuzberg to Marzhan: New Migrant Communities in Berlin," German Politics and Society 24, 4 (Winter 2006): 95-121.
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2006
"From Poverty to Social Exclusion: Lessons from Europe." Pp. 57-70 in Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agendas, ed. Chester Hartman. Lexington Books.
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2006
"Winning by Losing -- Germany's Innocent Nationalism." Providence Journal (15 July).
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2006
"Food Stamps." Pp. 487-91 in International Encyclopedia of Social Policy. London: Routledge.

2006
"Disasters." Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.
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2006
"Social Exclusion." Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.
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2006
"The Social Ecology of Health in New York City," Pp. 139-71 in Community and Ecology: Dynamics of Place, Sustainability, and Politics, edited by Aaron McCright and Terry Nichols. Macmillan/Elsevier.

2006
"New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society, and Culture" by David Halle. Contemporary Sociology (January): 161-2.

2006
"Social Integration in the 'New' Berlin." German Politics & Society (Winter): This is the introduction to a special issue Prof. Silver edited, based on the 2005 DAAD-Wayland Collegium conference that she organized.

2005
"From Poverty to Social Exclusion: Lessons from Europe." Pp. 57-70 in The Emerging Agenda: Poverty and Race in America," ed. Chester Hartman. Lexington Books.

2005
"Redefining Poverty Will Help America's Poor." Pp. 64-70 in How Can the Poor Be Helped? Ed. Geoff Griffin. Thompson/Gale.

2004
"European Policies to Promote the Social Inclusion of Disadvantaged Groups: Lessons for Latin America." Pp. 135-76 in Social Inclusion: Latin America's Development Challenge, ed. Mayra Buvinic and Jacqueline Mazza. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Inter-American Development Bank. Also in Spanish and Portuguese.
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2004
Pobreza e Desigualdade em Nova Iorque." Pp. 39-44 in Hexapolis: Desigualdades e Rupturas Sociais em Metropoles Contemporaneas. Sao Paulo: Educ.

2004
"Urbanism and Its End," by Douglas Rae. City & Community 3, 2 (June 2004): 180-82.

2003
"Social Exclusion: The European Approach to Social Disadvantage." (with S.M. Miller) Indicators 2, 2 (Spring): 5-21.
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