Keywords

  • gender inequality
  • quantitative methods
  • race inequality
  • stratification
  • work and organizations

Hirsh, Charlotte Elizabeth

Assistant Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Stratification
  • Race and Gender Inequality
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Work and Organizations
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Law and Society

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affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

service

current professional activities

  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Washington 2005.
  • Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, 2003-2004.
  • Assisted in Preparation of ASA Amicus Brief in Grutter v. Bollinger (University of Michigan Law School)
  • Buildings Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, 2001-2002.

background

educational background

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington, 2006.
  • Dissertation: Organizing Equal Opportunity: How the Workplace Generates and Responds to Sex and Race Discrimination Charges
  • Advisory Committee: Barbara Reskin (Chair), Paul Burstein, Lowell Hargens, Becky Pettit
  • M.A., Political Science, Western Washington University, 2001.
  • B.A., Sociology, Western Washington University, 1999.

professional background

  • Member, American Sociological Association
  • Member, Law and Society Association
  • Reviewer, American Sociological Review, Sociological Quarterly
  • Research Affiliate, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2002-present.

awards and distinctions

  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2006.
  • Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, 2004-2005.
  • Certification in Social Statistics, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, 2004.
  • Dissertation Improvement Grant, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, 2004.
  • J. Alan Ross Foundation Research Grant, Western Washington University, 2001.

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Burstein, Paul and Elizabeth Hirsh. Forthcoming. Interest Organizations, Information, and Policy Innovation in the U.S. Congress. Sociological Forum.
  • Hirsh, C. Elizabeth. 2008. “Settling for Less? The Organizational Determinants of Discrimination-Charge Outcomes.” Law and Society Review 42(2):239-274.
  • Hirsh, C. Elizabeth and Sabino Kornrich. 2008. “The Context of Discrimination: Workplace Conditions,
    Institutional Environments, and Sex and Race Discrimination Charges.” American Journal of Sociology
    113(5): 1394-1432.
  • Burstein, Paul and C. Elizabeth Hirsh. 2007. “Interest Organizations, Information, and Policy Innovation
    in the U.S. Congress. Sociological Forum 22(2):174-199.2
  • Hirsh, C. Elizabeth and Youngjoo Cha. Forthcoming. “Understanding Employment Discrimination: A
    Multilevel Approach” Sociological Compass.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
  • Hirsh, C. Elizabeth. “The Strength of Weak Enforcement: The Impact of Discrimination Charges on Sex
    and Race Segregation in the Workplace.” Conditional accept. American Sociological Review.
    Hirsh, Elizabeth and Julie Kmec. “The Impact of Human Resource Structures: Reducing Employers’
    Discrimination or Raising Employees’ Rights Awareness?” Conditional accept. Industrial Relations.
    Hirsh, C. Elizabeth and Christopher J. Lyons. “Social Status, Workplace Contexts, and Perceptions of
    Discrimination.”
  • Hirsh, Elizabeth and Younjoo Cha. “Discrimination Litigation, Financial Performance, and Workplace Equity.”
  • Reskin, Barbara F., Lowell Hargens, and C. Elizabeth Hirsh. “Picturing Segregation: The Structure of
    Occupational Segregation by Sex, Race, Ethnicity and Hispanicity.”

talks and presentations

  • Hirsh, Elizabeth. "The Organizational Construction of Discrimination-Charge Outcomes." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, August 12, 2006.
  • Hirsh, Elizabeth and Julie Kmec. "The Impact of HR Structures: Reducing Employers" Discrimination or Raising Employees? Rights Awareness? Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, August 14, 2006.
  • Hirsh, Elizabeth. "Discrimination Charges, Inequality, and Organizational Change." Invited Talk, Western Washington University, May 2006.
  • Hirsh, Elizabeth. "The Impact of Discrimination Charges on Workplace Diversity: Evidence from Private Firms." Invited Talk, National Academies of Sciences, February 13, 2006.
  • Hirsh, Elizabeth. "Organizing Equal Opportunity: The Effect of EEO Enforcement on Sex and Race Segregation in the Workplace." Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 16, 2005.
  • Hirsh, Elizabeth. "Resolving Discrimination: Employees, Employers, and Charges of Employment Discrimination." Presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2, 2005.
Keywords: gender inequality, quantitative methods, race inequality, stratification, work and organizations