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400 Maxcy Hall 401-863-2559 phone 401-863-3213 fax Hilary_Silver@brown.edu Ph.D. Columbia University
	Editor, City and Community

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Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:
Urban Studies, Political Sociology, Stratification

Professor Silver (Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University) studies urban poverty and inequality and housing, welfare, employment, and other social policies.  Her forthcoming book, Social Exclusion, will be published by Polity Press.  Her feature-length film, “Southside: The Fall and Rise of an Inner-City Neighborhood,” has been airing on Rhode Island PBS.

Professor Silver is also Editor of City & Community, the journal of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Professor Silver has held visiting appointments at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, Korea University, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Université de Lille, University of Sussex, New York University, and Columbia University. She has received three Fulbright fellowships (to France and Germany), fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 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. 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.

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:
2012
"Trends in Neighborhood Stratification." City & Community 11, 4: 341-44
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2012
"Cooperative Housing." Pages 101-107 in Andrew T. Carswell (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Housing, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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2010
“Divided Cities of the Middle East.” City & Community 9, 4 (2010): 345-57.
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2010
"Obama's Urban Policy: A Symposium." City and Community 9, 1: 3-12.
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2010
“Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation” (with Alan Scott and Yuri Kazepov). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34, 3 (September): 1-25.
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2010
“Social Inclusion Policies: Lessons for Australia.” Australian Journal of Social Issues 45, 2 (Winter): 183-211.
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2009
“Reflections on Alfred Adler: A Social Exclusion Perspective.” Journal of Individual Psychology
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2008
“Social Exclusion and Social Capital.” (with Mary Daly) Theory & Society 37, 6 (December): 537-566.
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2007
"Social Exclusion: Comparative Analysis of Europe and Middle East Youth.”  Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution and Dubai School of Government Middle East Youth Initiative Working Paper #1 (September).

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
"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.

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