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HEATHER DALMAGE, Ph.D.
Roosevelt University
Sociology
430 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605 312.341.3692
hdalmage@roosevelt.edu
Academic Appointments
Roosevelt University, Chicago
2007 to present Professor, Sociology
2002 to present Director, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation
2002 to 2007 Associate Professor, Sociology
1996 to 2002 Assistant Professor, Sociology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
1993 to 1996 Graduate Teaching Fellow
Courses Taught
♦Race and Ethnicity ♦Sociology of Education ♦Sociology of Family ♦Introduction to Sociology ♦Sex,Gender and the Social Order ♦Stratification ♦Women, Work and Family ♦Sociology of Organizations ♦Juvenile Delinquency ♦Contemporary Social Issues ♦Women in U.S. Society ♦ Individuals, Institutions and Power ♦ Global Whiteness ♦Global Race
Education
1996 Ph.D. City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, Sociology.
1992 M.A. DePaul University, Sociology.
1987 B.A. Marquette University, Psychology.
Scholarship
Books
Race in an Era of Change: A Reader. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010 (with
Barbara Katz Rothman).
The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking. Albany: SUNY Press. 2004.
Reviews: Contemporary Sociology; Sociology and Social Welfare; DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race
Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2000.
Reviews: Choice; Contemporary Sociology; Sociology and Social Welfare; Adoption Quarterly; Multicultural Review; Sociology; Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi Valley
Selections Reprinted in:
Andersen, Margaret and Elizabeth Higginbotham eds., Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press, 2006.
Gallagher, Charles ed. Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity (2nd and 3rd editions) New York: McGraw Hill, 2003/2006.
Rosenbaum, Karen and Toni-Michelle Travis eds. The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class and Sexual Orientation (4th edition) New York: McGraw Hill, 2005.
Articles and Book Chapters
Childs, Erica Chito and Heather Dalmage. 2010. “Rearing Biracial Children: The Experiences
of Black Married Fathers,” in The Myth of the Missing Black Father, Roberta Coles and Charles Green, eds. New York: Columbia University Press.
Dalmage, Heather. 2006. “Interracial Couples, Multiracial People, and the Color Line in
Adoption,” in Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society, Katarina Wegar, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Dalmage, Heather. 2006. “Finding a Home: Housing the Color Line,” in Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the ‘Color-Blind’ Era, David Brunsma ed. Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers
Dalmage, Heather. 2004. “My View: Behind the Seams (Multiracial Families in the Housing
Market),” One City: Partners for a Better Chicago. The Chicago Council on Urban Affairs.
Dalmage, Heather. 2004. “Protecting Racial Comfort, Protecting Racial Privilege,” The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking, Heather Dalmage ed. Albany: SUNY Press.
Dalmage, Heather. 2004. "Introduction," The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial
Thinking, Heather Dalmage ed. Albany: SUNY Press.
Dalmage, Heather. 2004. "Mama Are You Brown?: Multiracial Families and the Color Line," in
Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the ‘Color-Blind’ Era, Herring, Cedric, Verna Keith, Hayward Derrick Horton, eds. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Dalmage, Heather. 2003. "Patrolling Racial Borders: Discrimination Against Mixed Race People," Multiracial Child Resource Book, Root, Maria P.P. and Matt Kelley, eds. Seattle: Mavin Foundation.
Isserles, Robin and Heather Dalmage. 2000. “Cultural Capital as Rules and Resistance: Bringing it Home in the Introductory Course,” Teaching Sociology, v.28, no.2: 160-166.
Dalmage, Heather. 1993. "Factors of Integration: The Guatemalan Experience in Chicago," Latino Studies Journal. v.4, no.1: 23-40.
Newsletters, Book Reviews, and Encyclopedias
Dalmage, Heather. 2008. Book Review, “Learning Difference: Race and Schooling
in the Multiracial Metropolis.” Contemporary Sociology
Dalmage, Heather. 2007. “Transracial Adoption,” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity,
and Society, Richard Schaefer, ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Dalmage, Heather. 2007. “Color Line,” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and
Society, Richard Schaefer, ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Dalmage, Heather. 2007. “Cultural Capital,” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and
Society, Richard Schaefer, ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Dalmage, Heather and Nona Burney. 2004. “Conceptualizing Social Justice in the 21st Century,” Proceedings of the Roosevelt University Conference on Teaching. Chicago.
Dalmage, Heather. 1997. “Multiracial Families,” G.I.F.T. Newsletter. Montclair, NJ.
Dalmage, Heather. 1996. “Transracial Adoption: Can We Move Beyond the Debates?”
SSSPReview: Critical Essays and Commentary on Social Research.
Conference Participation
2008 Presenter, “White Ethnic Identity,” Illinois Sociological Association, Chicago, April.
2007 Presenter, “Africans and West Indians: Myth of the Model Minority?,” Society for the
Study of Social Problems, New York City, August.
2006 Presenter, “Teaching Intersecting Locations of Inequality,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal. August.
2005 Presenter, “Adoption and Neoliberal Discourse,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, August.
2003 Presenter, “Balancing Work and Children,” American Sociological Association, Chicago. August.
2003 Presenter, “White Racial Comfort,” American Sociological Association, Chicago. Aug.
2003 Organizer, “Doing Race,” Association of Black Sociologists, Chicago. August.
2001 Organizer, “The Politics of Multiracialism,” Association of Black Sociologists, Anaheim, CA. August.
2000 Presenter, “Shifting Racial Identities: Interracial Relationships,” Society for the Study
of Social Problems, Washington, D.C. August.
1998 Presenter, “Multiracial Families in Stable Racially Diverse Communities” Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco. August.
1997 Presenter, “Interrogating White Identities,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, August.
1996 Presenter, "The Politics of (Naming) Location: Census 2000 and the Multiracial
Community," Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City. August.
1996 Presenter (with Renate Reimann), "In the Best Interest of the Children: How Children Politicize Interracial and Lesbian Families," The Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City. August.
1996 Presenter, "Census 2000: The Addition of a Multiracial/MultiEthnic Category," Eastern Sociological Society, Boston. March.
1995 Presenter, "Interracial Marriage: Subverting the Racial Dichotomy and Hierarchy," The American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. August.
1994 Presenter, “Transracial Adoption Debates: ‘Community’ and the Negotiation of
Boundaries," Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, CA. August.
Invited Talks
2009 The Role of Libraries in Developing Humanity Capital in South Africa, LIASA
Conference, National Library of South Africa, Pretoria, June 2009
2009 Transformation and the Development of Humanity Capital, University of KwaZulu
Natal, Westville Campus, May.
2009 Tripping on the Color Line, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Edgewood Campus, April.
2009 Racial Borders: Mulitracials and Coloureds, University of Cape Town, March.
2009 The Politics of Multiracialism, University of KwaZulu Natal, Centre for Critical
Research on Race and Identity. March.
2009 Understanding Racial Borders. U.S. Consulate, Durban. February.
2006 Interracial Couples, Multiracial Families and the Color Line, 6th Annual Race Summit,
Tallahassee, FL, October.
2006 Multiracial Families and the Color Line, Chicago Public Libraries, The Blackstone
Library. Chicago, May.
2005 Gender, Race and the Workplace, Chicago Council on Urban Affairs, Chicago, September.
2005 Social Justice and Raising Children of Privilege, St. Clemments, Chicago, April.
2004 Pedagogy and Social Justice, Teaching and Learning annual conference, Roosevelt University. May.
2003 Through a Glass Darkly: Female Images in the Media, Women of the Millennium, Chicago, November.
2003 Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, Looking Glass Theatre, Human Relations Foundation, Chicago, August.
2002 Transracial Adoption, Borderpatrolling and the Color Line, Chicago Area Families for Adoption, Oak Brook, IL. April.
2002 Dancing on the Color Line: Transracial Open Adoption, NACLA, Chicago. March.
2001 Tripping on the Color Line, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. Chicago. May.
2001 Tripping on the Color Line, The University of Chicago (talk arranged by the Public Square in conjunction with the Chicago Public Library’s Book Week). October.
2001 Tripping on the Color Line, Georgia State University. February.
2001 Tripping on the Color Line, Biracial Family Network, Chicago.
January.
2000 Gender and Justice, North Shore Series on Justice, Chicago. February.
1998 Women of Color at the Millennium, Human Relations Foundation of Chicago
and the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs, Chicago. June.
1997 Multiracial Families, Ethnicity: Challenges Facing Our Communities, A Symposium, University of Chicago. April.
1997 Black, White or Multiracial Expo for Today’s Black Woman, McCormick Place, Chicago. March.
1997 Relations between the Multiracial Families and the Black Community, Biracial Family Network of Chicago. February.
1997 Racial Identity: No Longer as Simple as Black and White, Illinois Ethnic Coalition and Roosevelt University, Chicago. February.
Media Interviews and Appearances
CBS2 News, “Bears Draft Pick in Spotlight for Demeaning Rap: Latest Case One of Many
Instances of Sexism in Popular Culture (May 1, 2007).
Cosmopolitan, “What’s Interracial Dating Like Today” (July 1, 2005)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Parents Struggle to Start of Multiracial Play Group,” (December
24, 2004)
Red Eye, Chicago Tribune.”Love or Hate? Interracial Relationships,” (June 14, 2004)
NBC5 News, “Mixed Messages, A Special Report (May 29, 2004)
Chicago Sun Times, “Why Did This Girl Run Away?: Biracial Teen’s Quest for Identity
Ended in Death” (October 28, 2001)
The Chicago Tribune, Health & Family section. “Race’s confounding territory: Author wants to clear the way for an overdue dialogue,” (June 3, 2001)
Truth in Action, a television show sponsored by the Chicago Human Relations Commission.
Show discussed, Tripping on the Color Line (April 2001)
The Multiracial Millennium, CAN TV, a six-part television series addressing issues raised in
Tripping on the Color Line. Taped in February and March, began airing April 2001.
The Milt Rosenberg Show, WGN radio, AThe Future of Race in America” (February 7, 2001)
Seventeen Magazine, Q&A section titled, ARace Matters” (January 2001)
Chicago Sun Times, “Love Knows No Color” (February 28, 1999)
San Jose Mercury News, “Hope for Greater Unity: Increases in Mixed-Race Births Could Make Old Divisions Obsolete” (April 4, 1998)
The Brenda Montgomery Show, a radio program on WVON, exploring interracial relationships (November 5, 1997)
MSNBC, Race in America. (May 21, 1997)
WLUA-ABC, Multiracial people in America (May 9, 1997)
Truth in Action, a television show sponsored by the Chicago Human Relations Commission. The
show explored multiracialism (March 1997)
Tampa Tribune. “Race: It’s No Longer a Matter of Black and White,” (November 29, 1995)
Honors and Awards
2009 Awarded research leave, competitive.
2009 Fulbright Scholar, Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, UKZN, SA
2008 Awarded $300,000 grant to expand the Mansfield Institute
2008 Recommended for Fulbright Scholarship to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA
2007 Promotion to Full Professor
2006 Recommended for Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Cape Town, SA by CIES.
2006 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship: Newberry Library Summer
Seminar: Revolution and the Making of Identities: France and Haiti, 1787-1804.
2004 Summer Research grant, competitive
2003 St. Clair Drake Center for African American Studies, Faculty Fellowship
2001 Roosevelt University Competitive Research Leave
1999 Elizabeth Balanoff Outstanding Service Award
1998 Summer Research grant, competitive
1997 Summer Research grant, competitive
1996 David Spitz Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Year Fellowship
1994 Awarded Honor of Distinction - Oral Examinations
1994 University Fellowship
1993 Graduate Teaching Fellowship (three years)
1992 Awarded Honor of Distinction - Masters degree
1992 DePaul University Scholarship
1991 Alpha Kappa Delta, the Sociological Honor Society
Professional Activities and Service
2008/2009 Chair, C. Wright Mills Award Committee
2007/2008 Member (and Chair-elect for 2008/2009), C. Wright Mills Award
Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2006/2007 Member, C. Wright Mills Award Committee, SSSP
2005 to 2008 Representative, Graduate Council, Roosevelt University
2004 to pres. Faculty Affiliate, Initiative for Family and Child Studies, Roosevelt Univ.
2003/2004 Member, Executive Committee, Roosevelt University
2003 to pres. Standing Member, Executive Committee, Chicago Council on Urban Affairs
1999 to 2006 Board of Directors, Chicago Council on Urban Affairs
1999 to 2002 Representative, Curriculum Committee, Roosevelt University
1999 to 2001 Moderator, Student Review Board, Roosevelt University
1998/1999 Local Arrangements Chair, Society for the Study of Social Problems’
annual conference, Chicago
1996 to 1998 Chair, Conference “Color Lines of the 21st Century: Multiracialism in a
Racially Divided World.”
1997/1998 Chair, Social Action Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society
1997 Representative, Strategic Planning Committee Task Force on Faculty,
Roosevelt University
1995/1996 Local Arrangements Chair, Society for the Study of Social Problems'
annual conference, New York City
1994/1995 President, Student Sociological Association, City University of New York.
1994/1996 Representative to the CUNY-wide committee for the creation of an
Intercultural Studies Doctoral Program
1993/1994 Board of Directors (Student Representative): Society for the Study of
Social Problems
Reviewer for:
Minnesota Press
Rutgers University Press
Wadsworth Publishing
Oxford University Press
Contemporary Sociology
Social Problems
Journal of Marriage and Family
Social Issues
Sociological Quarterly
Sociological Focus
Sociological Perspectives
Social Forces
Journal of Family Issues
Political Science Quarterly
Transformations (South Africa)
Gender and Society
African American Review
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