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Tamara Mose joined the Brooklyn College faculty in 2008 as a professor of sociology. She was Program Director of the dual major Caribbean studies at Brooklyn College from 2012-13 and the Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship from 2017-2022. From 2020-21, Dr. Mose was Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the American Sociological Association. Her goals are simple—to enrich the education of students by allowing them to connect their research to their everyday lives.

Professor Mose’s research expertise includes: Race and ethnicity, urban communities, qualitative methods, family, Caribbean diaspora.

Education

A.A., College of the Canyons (Psychology), 2001

B.A., California State University, Northridge (Psychology), 2003

M.A., Queens College (CUNY) (Sociology), 2006

Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center (Sociology), 2008

Selected Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Books and Publications

Mose, Tamara (2021). Toward a More Equitable Food System: An Introduction. American Sociological Association Footnotes. 49(1): 1

The Playdate: Parents, Children, and The New Expectations of Play. NYU Press.

Mose Brown, Tamara and Joanna Dreby. Artificial Divide: Family and Work in the Ethnographic Field. Temple Press.

"'West Indianness' as an Ethnographic Presentation of Self in the Field: Black Canadians Across the Border." Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, June, 5.1.

"Who's the Boss? The Political Economy of Unpaid Care Work and Food Sharing." Feminist Economics, Summer.

Mose Brown, Tamara and Erynn Masi de Casanova. "Representing the Language of the Other?: African American Vernacular English in Ethnography." Ethnography.

Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare and Caribbeans Creating Community. New York: New York University.

Mose Brown, Tamara and Erynn Masi de Casanova. "Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations." Women's Studies Quarterly 37.3&4.

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Kurtz Fellowship: Food and Sex: The Commodification of Physical Capital 2017

Mellon Mays Transfer Undergraduate Research Program: sponsors 3 student R.A.s, 2016

PSC CUNY Grant

Diversity Project Development Fund: Caribbean Studies conference, 2013

Dean's Curriculum Initiative: Caribbean Studies course, 2013

Faculty Fellowship Publication Program fellowship. 2009-10.

Leonard and Claire Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship, for research on aging Jamaicans. 2009-10.

PSC CUNY grant. 2009-10.

New Faculty Fund, for "Aging Jamaicans in Kingston."

Research Activities

Researching aging Jamaicans in New York and Kingston, Jamaica, as part of the larger research being conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine.

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Social Science Research Council History Department Chairs Conference/Workshop (AHA) Moderator for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion panel on hiring and promotion

St. Thomas Aquinas College, Department of Sociology, Family Course Book Talk: Raising Brooklyn

Stonybrook University, Book Talk: Raising Brooklyn

University of Connecticut, Caribbean Literature, Symposium Lecture Moderator

Women and Gender Studies, Brooklyn College, Domestic Workers: A Global Perspective, Panel Chairperson

New York City Seminar, Discussant: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York, The Gotham Center for New York City History

The New School, Leaning In/Leaning On/Learning Out, Organized by: Terri Gordon

University of Toronto, Sociology Department, Book Talk: The Playdate

Eastern Sociological Society, Authors Meets Critics: Raising Brooklyn, Critics: Dr. Mary Waters, Dr. Pamela Stone, Dr. Cameron Macdonald

Old Westbury, SUNY, October 25, 2012, Book talk: Raising Brooklyn

Penn State University, Lehigh Valley, Teaching International Speakers and Panels series, Book talk: Raising Brooklyn

University of Kentucky, Symposium, Building a Community of Mothers, Under the Watchful Eye

University of Kentucky, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Nanny Networks: A Discussion about Raising Brooklyn

The Graduate Center, Gotham Center, Domestic Workers in New York City: Yesterday and Today

Rutgers University, Newark, The Women's and Gender Studies Annual Symposium: The City

"Going from Deh to They: Translating West Indians in Ethnography." Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, March 20.

"Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations." The Mother Symposium, Women's Studies Quarterly. New York, Feb. 26.

"Competing Spaces: How West Indian Childcare Providers Negotiate Public and Private Space." Dreamland Pavilion: Brooklyn and Development Conference. Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 3.

Professional Leadership

Centering Voices of Caribbean Immigrant Domestic Workers: Advancing a Narrative of Respect, Dignity, and Hope Co-chair 2023 at Brooklyn College

Rosen Fellowship Program 2011-2013, 2018, 2020, 2023

Social Science Research Council, Advisory Board Member for SSRC Advance/Progress Program

American Sociological Association, Minority Fellowship Program Panel Organizer, Violence, Race, and The Body: The Theorizing Police of Violence, Masculinity, and Pharmaceutical Markets

American Sociological Association, Minority Fellowship Program Panel Organizer, The Social Construction of Identity and Statehood in the U.S. and Dominican Republic

Faculty and Student Disciplinary Panel

Director of Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF)

Black Male Leadership Initiative/ERIS advisory committee member

Presidential Advisory Committee for Diversity and Inclusion

Chairwoman, Paper Awards Committee.

Member, Faculty and Student Disciplinary Committee.

Member, Theory Committee.

Other Professional Activities

Faculty mentor, Sociology Club.

Sociological Undergraduate Research Competition Organizer 2009-2014, 2016, 2023

Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the American Sociological Association

Chapter representative, Alpha Kappa Delta, the honors society for sociology majors.

Curriculum Consultant to SEI Studios for online Sociology course

Anne Helen Petersen: Exhausted Millennial Parents, Book Critic: Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

ASA Webinar host: Walking the Walk: Promoting the Inclusion and Empowerment of Sociologists at HBCUs and HSIs

The Graduate Center, Convocation Address Speaker

Sociological Focus Editorial Board, Member 2014-2016

Organizer, Sociological Undergraduate Research Competition.

Mentor, Presidential Scholar's Program, Brooklyn College, 2009-10.

Community Activities

Faculty Mentor to Midwood High School Research Lab students

Mommycon, Washington DC, The Playdate-book talk

Domestic Workers Working Group, The Graduate Center, Manhattan, Organized by: Sujatha Fernandes

Brooklyn College, Host and Moderator of Flatbush Film Festival

CaribBEING Flatbush Film Festival, Opening Remarks and Moderator

Brooklyn. All in.