Dear RSF:

Please join us on Wednesday, November 14, at 11:00 in the library for a seminar presented by Carrie Shandra on “The New Bottom Rung: Internships, Inequality, and the College to Career Transition.” Professor Shandra is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, where she joined the faculty in 2012. Shandra is also Faculty Affiliate in the Program in Public Health. Previously, she was Assistant Professor at Hofstra University.

Shandra’s research is broadly focused on understanding work and life course inequalities in the United States, particularly as they occur during the transition to adulthood and among individuals with disabilities. Shandra focuses on both paid employment and other forms of work—including care work, housework, and volunteering. She is also interested in understanding young adults’ early labor force participation and the factors that promote future employment. Her project this year at RSF utilizes surveys, interviews and a longitudinal dataset of online job and internet postings to examine employers’ perspectives and practices on internships. She expects to develop the results into a monograph to be published by RSF. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 2009.