Peter Gottschalk

Datos Biográficos

ID214293
NOMBREPeter Gottschalk
NOMBRESPeter
APELLIDOGottschalk
FIRMAGOTTSCHALK P
AFILIACIONESBoston College
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS49
TOTAL DE CITAS133
TOTAL COMO AUTOR49
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1978
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H7

  • Family Income Dynamics 1970–2018

    Ji‐Liang Shiu, Ji-Liang Shiu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2025

    This paper examines the driving forces of family income dynamics by developing a unified framework to estimate permanent and transitory variation in head earnings, spouse earnings, and transfer income, as well as permanent and transitory correlations between these income sources. A complete decomposition using the PSID 1970–2018 shows that transitory variation in head earnings alone accounts for more than half of the total family income inequalit…

  • Foundations of Comparison

    Peter GottschalkARTICLEFieldwork in Religion2020Referencias: 6

    To teach one’s students by drawing on information from one’s field site is to bring two “homes” into contact with one another: the home of one’s classroom with one’s students and the home of a field site filled with friends and “fictive family”. It means helping two different home communities translate and understand one another, bringing into sharper relief the challenges of translating that teaching—and fieldwork—perpetually entail. Creating an…

  • A Most Modern Subject

    Open AccessPeter GottschalkARTICLEHistory and Theory2020

    This book takes an ethnographic approach to its topic by endeavoring to observe how social and disciplinary subjects shaped by modernity go on to constitute modern worlds. Specifically, it attempts to "explore modernity as a contradictory and checkered historical-cultural entity and category as well as a contingent and contended process and condition" (1). Most of the subjects considered are intellectuals and academic disciplines (specifically hi…

  • Islamophobic and anti-Muslim resistance to postsecularism

    Peter GottschalkARTICLESikh Formations2019Referencias: 2

    Assaults on Sikhs and other South Asian Americans represent not merely cases of ‘mistaken Muslims.’ Their victimization is different—yet not distinct—from anti-Muslim sentiment. They are the casualties of an American racial and secular nationalist project to discipline citizens into a ‘safe’ religious subjectivity. Although a variety of Hollywood films demonstrate a slowly growing sophistication in portrayals of Muslims, Islamic traditions, and S…

  • Textbooks on 'Hinduism

    Peter GottschalkARTICLEReligion2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Relying on a textbook in a course that introduces a religious tradition is similar to the scholarly use of the term ‘Hinduism’: both are highly contested, not easily avoided, and yet have their advantages. So, textbooks devoted to Hindu traditions prove particularly problematic and thought provoking not only about who, what, where, and when they describe but also about the pedagogies used by college and university faculty to teach about Hindu rel…

  • Benjamin Lieberman. Remaking Identities

    Peter GottschalkARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Journal Article Benjamin Lieberman. Remaking Identities: God, Nation, and Race in World History. Get access Benjamin Lieberman. Remaking Identities: God, Nation, and Race in World History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. Pp. ix, 307. Cloth $85.00, e-book $84.99. Peter Gottschalk Peter Gottschalk Wesleyan University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical …

  • Three Tales of Three Houses

    Open AccessPeter GottschalkARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2014Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    The house has stood empty since Partition. Its Muslim family abandoned their Bihari village in India for a new life in West Pakistan, 1,300 kilometers distant. Unlike most other homes left behind by emigrants, this one's doors still open to its owner's keys, since his brothers remained in their homes nearby. One of those brothers follows invitations across north India preaching the Tablighi Islamic revival. In conversation, he demonstrates little…

  • Conclusion

    Peter GottschalkCHAPTERReligion, science, and empire2012

    Just as in the period of British imperialism, today too the social categories used by one group to know others tell us as more about those fashioning the categories than they do those being classified. Now, as then, the characterizations accompanying religious categories have helped justify foreign interventions by Western countries that enjoy asymmetrical political, economic, and military power. Meanwhile, similar dynamics continue to enable and…

  • Religion, science, and empire

    Peter GottschalkBOOKReligion, science, and empire2012

    Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities

  • Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear

    Open AccessPeter Gottschalk, Peter Gottschalk Peter Gottschalk et al.ARTICLEIslamophobia Studies Journal2012

  • Promoting Scientism

    Open AccessPeter GottschalkCHAPTERKnowledge Production, Pedagogy,…2011

    A young girl says two names as she passes particular images in a gallery exhibiting British prints of India: "Chainpur" and "Mundeswari." Given that Chainpur village has been my research site in Bihar and that its residents often refer to Mundeswari temple, I pay attention when, a few minutes later, she returns with her parents in tow. They all stop to examine the images. When asked how they knew Chainpur, the father replies that they live in a n…

  • Engaging South Asian religions

    Matthew N Schmalz, Peter GottschalkBOOKEngaging South Asian religions2011

    Focusing on boundaries, appropriations, and resistances involved in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial period in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It pays particular attention to contemporary controversies surrounding the study of South Asian religions, including several scholars' reflections on the contentious reaction to their own work. Other issues explored include British coloni…

  • Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Nonclassical Measurement Error

    Peter Gottschalk, Minh HuynhARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2010

    Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of measurement error and earnings. While classical measurement error would increase measures of inequality and mobility, there is substantial evidence that measurement error in earnings is not classical. In this paper, we present the analytical links between nonclassical measureme…

  • Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the U.S

    Open AccessRobert Moffitt, Peter GottschalkARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2010Citada por: 7Referencias: 1

  • The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings

    Open AccessPeter Gottschalk, Robert MoffittARTICLEThe Journal of Economic…2009

    The inequality of earnings and of family incomes in the United States has increased since the late 1970s. The large rise in earnings inequality between the 1970s and the 1990s could reflect either a rise in disparity of permanent incomes, a rise in earnings instability, or some portion of both. In this paper, we provide longitudinal measures that separate changes in income inequality into changes that permanently change income to new levels and t…

  • The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn Loury Cambridge

    Open AccessPeter GottschalkARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2006

  • Inequality of Wage Rates, Earnings and Family Income in the United States, 1975-2002

    Open AccessPeter Gottschalk, Sheldon DanzigerARTICLEReview of Income and Wealth2005

  • Downward Nominal-Wage Flexibility

    Peter GottschalkARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2005

    This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an old question: How much downward wage flexibility is there in the United States? We apply standard methods developed by Bai and Perron to identify structural breaks in time series data. Applying these methods to wage histories allows us to identify when each person experiences a change in nominal wages. The length of the period of c…

  • A Mahatma for Mourners and Militants

    Peter GottschalkARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2005Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

  • Inequality in America; Poor kids in a rich country

    Open AccessPeter GottschalkARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2005

  • Can work alter welfare recipients' beliefs

    Open AccessPeter GottschalkARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2005Citada por: 12Referencias: 2

    A common argument in support of work-based welfare reform is that exposure to work will lead welfare recipients to revise their beliefs about how they will be treated in the labor market. This paper explores the analytical and empirical basis for this argument. The difficulty in testing the assumption that work leads to a change in beliefs is that there is an inherent simultaneity between work and beliefs. Welfare recipients who work may have dif…

  • Beyond Hindu and Muslim

    Ann Grodzins Gold, Peter GottschalkARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

    Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India have multiple identities, some of which cut across religious boundaries. The stories narrated by villagers living in the northern state of Bihar depict everyday social interactions that transcend the simple divide of Hindu and Muslim

  • Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings in the United States

    Open AccessRobert Moffitt, Robert A Moffitt et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2002Citada por: 13Referencias: 3

    We decompose the rise in cross-sectional variance of male annual earnings in the United States from 1969 to 1996 into permanent and transitory components. We find that the variance of permanent earnings began rising in the the late 1970s and has continued to rise in the 1980s. The variance of transitory earnings also rose in the 1980s but declined in the 1990s. There are lags in the earnings process which require a structural model to pinpoint th…

  • The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries

    Open AccessPeter Gottschalk, Christian Schluter et al.BOOKDynamics of Child Poverty in…2001

    A child poverty rate of ten percent could mean that every tenth child is always poor, or that all children are in poverty for one month in every ten. Knowing where reality lies between these extremes is vital to understanding the problem facing many countries of poverty among the young. This unique study goes beyond the standard analysis of child poverty based on poverty rates at one point in time and documents how much movement into and out of p…

  • Being an 'Other' Other Than Myself

    Peter GottschalkARTICLEMethod & Theory in the Study of…2001

    This article derives from conference panel entitled Fieldwork: Bridging Anthropology and the History of Religions. Ruminating on just what exactly, or even generally, I would try to add to the panel, I began to think about its tide. What is it, after all, to bridge? And how did my experience as an historian of religions doing ethno graphic research involve or the act of bridging? The American Heritage Dictionary defines bridge first as a structur…