ILANA REDSTONE AKRESH

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office Phone: 217-***-****

Department of Sociology Email: abot0j@r.postjobfree.com

MC-454 https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/redstone/www/

605 East Springfield, 57 CAB

Champaign, IL 61820

Employment:

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Sociology,

August 2006-present

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Department of Sociology, August 2005-August 2006

Education:

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. Demography and Sociology, August 2005

Dissertation: Three Studies of Immigrant Labor Market Assimilation in the United States

Thesis Committee: Douglas S. Massey (chair), Herbert Smith, Paul Allison

Princeton University, Exchange Scholar Program, September 2003-June 2005

University of Pennsylvania

M.A., Demography, May 2002

University of New Hampshire

B.A., Spanish, May 1994

Areas of Concentration:

Resources 46(3): 614-646.

Akresh, Ilana Redstone. 2011. Immigrants Religious Participation in the United

States . Ethnic and Racial Studies 34(4):643-661.

Akresh, Ilana Redstone and Reanne Frank. 2011. At the Intersection of Self and Other:

English Language Ability and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes . Social Science Research

40: 1362-1370.

Akresh, Ilana Redstone. 2011. Wealth Accumulation among U.S. Immigrants: A Study

of Assimilation and Differentials . Social Science Research 40: 1390-1401.

Frank, Reanne, Ilana Redstone Akresh, and Bo Lu. 2010. Latino Immigrants and the U.S.

Racial Order: How and Where Do They Fit In? American Sociological Review 75(2): 378-

401.

McConnell, Eileen Diaz and Ilana Redstone Akresh. 2010. Housing Cost Burden and

New Lawful Immigrants in the United States . Population Research and Policy Review

29(2): 143-171.

Akresh, Ilana Redstone. 2009. Health Service and Hospital Usage Patterns among

Immigrants to the United States . Population Research and Policy Review 28(6): 795-816.

Intermediate Social Statistics, Fall 2011, Spring 2012

Fellowships:

William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania,

September 2004-May 2005, September 2001-December 2001

NICHD Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, September 2002-August 2003

Research and Professional Experience:

Referee: Feminist Economics, The Sociological Quarterly, International Migration Review,

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, American Sociological Review, Demography,

International Migration, British Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Education, Social

Forces,

Social Science Research, Bulletin of Economic Research, American Journal of Preventive

Medicine, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Population Research and

Policy Review, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives, Ecology of Food and

Nutrition, Social Science and Medicine, Social Problems

Invited Panelist for CAS (Center for Advanced Study) Forum on Critical Issues:

Immigration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2006

Research Assistant, for Professor Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, 2003-2004

Research Assistant, Latin American Migration Project, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

Research Assistant, for Professor Ricardo Godoy, Brandeis University, 2000- 2001

United States Peace Corps, Togo West Africa, Rural Development Specialist, 1997- 1999.

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Languages:

Spanish (proficient), French (proficient), Moba (introductory)

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