Title: Associate Professor

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Joint Appointments: Policy Studies

Office: 3230 EPASW

Phone: (312) 413-9185

Research Interests: critical sociology of education; inequality; children and youth; identity

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Bio: Pamela Anne Quiroz is Associate Professor of Policy Studies & Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1993. She is author of Adoption in a Color-Blind Society (August 2007, Rowman and Littlefield). Using data from popular adoption texts and the Internet, this book provides a critical interpretation of the discursive practices of private adoption, particularly as these practices relate to race.  Her current scholarship focuses on the recent Supreme Court decision regarding race-conscious assignment in K-12 public school systems. She is engaged in a research action ethnography of TRSP, currently the only program in the country designed to maintain student diversity while adhering to the use of permissible means to meet this challenge (elimination of race as a consideration).

Professor Quiroz’ publications also include articles featured in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Contemporary Ethnography, Sociology of Education, Anthropology and Education, and Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization. Professor Quiroz has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and U.S. Department of Education. She has been a fellow at Stanford’s Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. She is currently working on a manuscript, Personal Advertising: Building Trust in a Distrusting Society (to be published by Cambridge University Press), which focuses on the increasing use of personal advertising as a mode of trust-building within our larger social context of declining trust. The book represents ten years of research on personal advertising as one barometer of interpersonal trust: how persons negotiate, innovate and meet the challenges of the postmodern world.