Employment Associate Professor of Sociology, Portland State University, 2006-present. Dissertation “Embeddedness and the Entrepreneurial City.” Completed under the direction of Dr. Gary Green. Refereed Publications 1. Articles Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2007. “Reassessing Gentrification: Measuring Residents’ Opinions Using Survey Data.” Urban Affairs Review, 42(4): 583-592. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2006. “Assessing Residents’ Opinions on Changes in a Gentrifying Neighborhood: A Case Study of the Alberta Neighborhood in Portland, Oregon.” Housing Policy Debate, 17(3): 595-624. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2004. “Citizen Participation in Nonprofit Economic Development Organizations.” Journal of the Community Development Society, 34(2): 58-72. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2002. “Local Governments as Risk-Takers and Risk-Reducers: An Examination of Business Subsidies and Subsidy Controls.” Economic Development Quarterly, 16(2): 115-126. Green, Gary, Anna Haines, Adam Dunn, and Daniel Monroe Sullivan. 2002. “The Role of Local Development Organizations in Rural America.” Rural Sociology, 67(3): 394-415. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and Gary Green. 1999. “Business Subsidies and Municipal Controls.” Journal of Urban Affairs, 21(3): 267-279. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and Ann Ziebarth. 1999. “Changes in Rural Banking Markets in Wisconsin: Implications for Community Development.” Journal of the Community Development Society, 29(2): 186‑200. Sullivan, Daniel. 1998. “Local Economic Development Organizations in Small- and Middle-Sized Communities.” Research in Community Sociology, 8: 143-157. 2. Book Review Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2006. “Review of ‘Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America (by Setha Low).’” Contemporary Sociology, 35 (2): 163-164. 3. Invited Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2003. “Trust.” Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, 1412-1414. Editors Christensen, Karen and David Levinson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Non-refereed Publications Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2005. “Invasion-Succession or Welcome Mat? Examining Long-time Residents’ Opinions of a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” Report submitted to Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2005. “Striking the Perfect Balance: Cross-disciplinary Exchange and Support in Assessment Research.” Our Voices: Teaching and Learning at PSU, Scholarship of Teaching Resource Team, Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2004. “How Integrated Are “Integrated” Neighborhoods? Analyzing Neighbor Relations in a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” Our Voices: Teaching and Learning at PSU, Scholarship of Teaching Resource Team, Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. 2004. “Gentrification, Revitalization and McDonald’s: An Opinion Survey of Neighborhood Changes in Eliot.” Eliot News, Winter. Presentations at Professional Meetings Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. “Revising a Sociology Methods Course Based on Learner-Centered Teaching.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, 2009. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and Jose Antonio Padin. “Perceived Disorder in Three Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Examining the Role of Race, Social Class, and Ownership Status.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston, 2008.Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and Jonathan Picarsic. “Fostering Racial and Class Integration in a Gentrifying Neighborhood? The Role of a Neighborhood Association.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York, 2007. Shaw, Sammy and Daniel Monroe Sullivan. “Gentrification and Racial Boundaries.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Montreal, 2006. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. “Gentrification and Community.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, 2005. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and Jose Antonio Padin. “How Integrated Are ‘Integrated’ Neighborhoods? Residents’ Opinions about a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, 2004. Padin, Jose Antonio and Daniel Monroe Sullivan. “How Integrated–Really–Are Racially ‘Integrated’ U.S. Neighborhoods? Study of a Western City.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, 2004. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. “Economic Development Organizations: Public Agencies or Business Elite Organizations?” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago, 2002. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. “Social Capital and Local Government Controls on Business Subsidies.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Anaheim, 2001. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe. “Risk, Uncertainty, and the Local Entrepreneurial State.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago, 1999. Sullivan, Daniel and Gary Green. “To Give or Not to Give: Business and Citizen Influence on Municipal Decisions to Provide Incentives to Businesses.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, 1998. Sullivan, Daniel. “An Analysis of the Organizational and Social Dynamics of Local Economic Growth Promotion.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Toronto, 1997. Sullivan, Daniel. “Financial Deregulation, Mergers and Rural Housing: Is Bigger Better?” Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, 1996. Sullivan, Daniel. “Banking Deregulation: An Asset for Grassroots Urban Development?” Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, 1995. Sullivan, Daniel. “Breaking the Chains of Indebtedness? Garcia’s Peru, 1985-1988.” North Central Council for Latin Americanists, La Crosse, WI, 1994. Honors, Grants, and Fellowships 1. Funded Research Grant Applications (External) Principal investigator. “Examining Race and Ownership Status in Long-time Businesses and Organizations’ Reactions to Gentrification.” National Science Foundation. Project duration: 09/01/08 - 08/31/10. Grant # SES-081794. Amount = $80,000. Principal investigator. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplement for the ongoing project “Planning Grant: Examining Race and Ownership Status in Long-time Residents’ Reactions to Gentrification.” National Science Foundation. Project duration: 02/20/07 - 08/31/07. Grant # SES-0518947. Amount = $11,335. Principal investigator. “Planning Grant: Examining Race and Ownership Status in Long-time Residents’ Reactions to Gentrification.” National Science Foundation. Project duration: 09/15/05 - 08/31/07. Grant # SES-0518947. Amount = $37,706. Principal investigator. “Invasion-Succession or Welcome Mat? Examining Long-time African American Residents’ Opinions of New White Residents in a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” National Science Foundation and American Sociological Association, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. Originally submitted in June 2003. Revised and resubmitted in June 2004. Project duration: 11/05/04 - 12/31/05. Amount = $4,359. Principal investigator. “Organizing Local Economic Development in Rural America.” Rural Sociological Society Dissertation Research. Project duration: 01/01/98 - 12/31/98. Amount = $10,000. 2. Funded Research Grant Applications (Internal) Participant. PSU’s AIM. Integrating sustainability into Urbanization & Community course. 11//08 - 05/09. Amount = $500. Participant. PSU’s AIM. Communicating research results to neighborhood residents and community groups. 01/15/08 - 06/30/08. Amount = $500. Participant. PSU’s AIM course regarding how to create hybrid community-learning courses using WebCT. 01/15/07 - 06/30/07. Amount = $500. Principal Investigator. “Surveying in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Businesses and Residents.” PSU Foundation Faculty Development Grant. Project duration: 11/04/05 - 06/30/06. Amount = $672. Consultant. PSU Scholarship of Teaching Resource Team Project duration: 10/15/05 - 06/30/06. Amount = $500. Principal Investigator. “Conduct Survey of Residents in a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” PSU Foundation Faculty Development Grant. Project duration: 10/15/04 - 06/30/05. Amount = $978. Consultant. “Assessment Research Projects.” PSU Scholarship of Teaching Resource Team Project duration: 10/15/04 - 06/30/05. Amount = $500. Principal Investigator. “Exploring Racial and Socioeconomic Diversity in a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” PSU Diversity Action Council Faculty Grant. Project duration: 12/15/03 - 06/30/04. Amount = $900. Principal Investigator, with Jose Padin as Co-principal Investigator. “How Integrated Are ‘Integrated’ Neighborhoods?” PSU Faculty Enhancement Grant. Project duration: 01/01/03 - 06/30/03. Amount = $2,000. Principal Investigator. “How Integrated Are ‘Integrated’ Neighborhoods? Exploring Neighbor Relations in a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” PSU Scholarship of Teaching Resource Team. Project duration: 10/15/03 - 06/30/04. Amount = $500. Principal Investigator, with Jose Padin as Co-principal Investigator. “Neighborhoods and Race.” PSU Faculty Enhancement Grant. Project duration: 01/01/02 - 06/30/02. Amount = $8,000. Principal Investigator. “Course Development – Urbanization and Community, Portland Neighborhoods.” PSU Foundation Faculty Development Awards. Project duration: 01/01/02 - 06/30/02. Amount = $800. Principal Investigator. “Comparative Analysis of Local Economic Development in the United States.” PSU Foundation Faculty Development Awards. Project duration: 01/01/01 - 06/30/01. Amount = $400. 3. Honors and Awards John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award (PSU), 2003. Other Community Outreach Achievements I met with Sarah Head, teach at Open Meadow High School on October 29, 2008 about her gentrification project/class and how my research can be incorporated. Then, I met with her class to discuss “Gentrification and the Retail Sector” on November 6, 2008. I discussed dogs and gentrification with reporter and was quoted in “Doggie Tales: History, Class, Culture,” by Cornelius Swart. The Portland Sentinel, September 30, 2008. I participated in a gathering with other community activists to help Our United Villages decide (a) how to proceed with their community outreach activities. September 19, 2007; and (b) how to improve race relations. March 22, 2008. I talked to Teresa Lynch of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (based in Boston) regarding economic development opportunities for minorities in Portland’s “inner city.” April 11, 2007. Her organization is doing a study (for Nike) on the impact of the Nike store in the Eliot neighborhood. I talked to Ryan Frank of The Oregonian regarding the meaning of metal bars on some businesses on Alberta Street. I also sent him The Report on Alberta Businesses and Organizations. October 4, 2006. I also provided written comments on February 1, 2007 on a draft for an upcoming series regarding “The Two Portlands.” “Opinions Mixed on Alberta Street,” by Nancy McCarthy. October 25, 2006. Pp. 1, 3. An article in The Skanner that is a combination of a summary of the Alberta Business and Organization Report and quotes from an interview with me. “Portland State Studies Businesses and Organizations on Alberta Street,” by George Bruender. December 2006. P. 3. An article in Concordia News that is a summary of the Alberta Business and Organization Report. “Alberta’s Racial Lines,” by Sarah Blount. October 25, 2006. An article in The Portland Observer that is a combination of a summary of the Alberta Business and Organization Report and quotes from an interview with me. I met with George Bruender of Concordia Neighborhood Association’s Land Use Committee and Lindy Cicada, chair of the Vernon Neighborhood Association, on August 29, 2006 to discuss the Alberta Business and Organization Committee. They are preparing to meet with the city regarding future business development in the Concordia neighborhood. I met with Linda Hunter of Our United Villages to discuss ways in which I could help her organization. I also gave her suggestions for conducting neighborhood surveys and gave her feedback on her survey instrument. March 23, 2006. The Portland Observer, Portland’s weekly newspaper that emphasizes minority issues, wrote a feature-length article that combined a summary of my Alberta residential survey results with an interview with me. “Gentrification Results Surprising,” by Katherine Blackmore. June 22, 2005. I was quoted in stories about neighborhoods and neighbor relations in The Oregonian:
I discussed gentrification with reporter but was not quoted in “Bridging Mississippi: Finding Balance between Revitalization and Gentrification,” by James Waigand, Colleen McDonald, and Cornelius Swart. In & About, March 2005. I performed data analysis, provided Alberta residential survey data, and was quoted in “The G Word,” by Erin Hoover Barnett, Scott Learn and Angie Chuang. The Oregonian, May 26, 2005. I and my Alberta residential research were profiled in the “InPortland” section of The Oregonian, “Alberta issues not so black and white,” by Stephen Beaven. September 15, 2005. My survey data were used in “Joe Benjamin, Sr.: Hosting good times amid changing times,” by Stephen Beaven. The Oregonian, August 8, 2005. I met with two reporters, at different times, regarding how to incorporate sociology into their reporting:
Two letters to the editor (in the “In Portland” section). The Oregonian.
Aided local film maker with his movie called “NorthEast Passage” regarding gentrification in Portland:
Suggested improvements for “School Perceptions Climate Survey,” Bill Foster, September 2002. School Perceptions, Inc. Scholarly Works in Progress Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and Samuel C. Shaw. “Gentrification and the Retail Sector.” Under review at Urban Affairs Review. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and Jonathan Picarsic. “Promoting Racial Diversity in a Gentrifying Neighborhood? The Role of a Neighborhood Association.” Under review at Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Samuel C. Shaw and Daniel Monroe Sullivan. “WhiteNight.” In draft. Sullivan, Daniel Monroe and James Bachmeier. “Perceived Disorder in Three Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Examining the Role of Race, Social Class, and Ownership Status.” In draft. Governance Activities for the University, Department 1. Department Curriculum Committee, 2008-present. 2. University Assessment Resource Network, 2004-2008. Professionally Related Service Reviewer, National Science Foundations – Sociology Section, Social Forces, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Studies, City & Community, and Rural Sociology. Moderator, American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology Roundtable, August 2001. Memberships in Professional Societies American Sociological Association, 1997-present. Community and Urban Sociology section of ASA, 1997-present. |
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