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Professor Silver's research interests include urban poverty, racial and gender inequality, urban and neighborhood change, homelessness, unemployment, and social policies in Western Europe. She is finishing a book on grassroots initiatives to combat social exclusion and unemployment in France and Germany. In 2006, she received her third Fulbright fellowship to these countries, her second DAAD grant, as well as a grant from the R.I. Council for the Humanities related to her study of South Providence.
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Since receiving a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, Professor Silver's research interests have included social exclusion, urban poverty and inequality, urban economic development, neighborhood change, and housing, welfare, and other social policies. She is currently writing a book on social exclusion while a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Based on her research and teaching in South Providence, her first film, "Southside: The Fall and Rise of an Inner-City Neighborhood," aired on RI Public Television last year. Professor Silver is an Affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University where she co-chairs a study group on "Social Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe." She is a Book Review Editor of the ASA's urban sociology journal, City & Community. She has held visiting appointments at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Université de Lille, University of Sussex, New York University, and Columbia University. She has received three Fulbright fellowships, fellowships from the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Bremen, Germany, the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique, INSEE, and INED in Paris, and School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She will be a Visitor at Nuffield College, Oxford in Fall 2008. Other grants she received are from the National Science Foundation, DAAD, International Labour Office, Institute for Research on Poverty, Brookings Institution, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
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