D A Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 46548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D A Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | D A |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9890-0001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Incorporating Stakeholder Voices into Data Dashboards: A Qualitative Study of the State of Texas Mental Health Dashboard
Women, work, and opportunities: From neoliberal to feminist mentoring
Women‐focused mentoring programs are often cited as an important tool to help address gender inequality at work. Despite their popularity, there remain questions about how useful they are at improving women’s career trajectories or transforming gender demographics at the organizational or industry level. A frequent critique of current women‐focused mentoring efforts is that they reflect and uphold neoliberal feminism and have shifted from collect…
What's better than a biscuit: Gourmetization and the transformation of a Southern food staple
In this article, we applied Wendy Griswold’s concepts of cultural objects and the cultural diamond to examine how a specific food—Southern style biscuits—underwent gourmetization. We provide evidence from observations of seven well-known gourmet biscuit restaurants, as well as a content analysis of their websites, Instagram accounts, and media coverage to understand how some establishments were able to position biscuits as a new gourmet food. We …
Me Too In the Kitchen
In the wake of the #metoo movement, Harris and Giuffre use the restaurant industry as an example to illustrate how viewing sexual harassment as an issue of industry and organizational culture–rather than just the behavior of a few bad actors–can inform our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace
Who Speaks for (and Feeds) the Community? Competing Definitions of “Community” in the Austin, TX, Urban Farm Debate
Alternative food supporters claim that food produced outside the corporate system can improve the wellbeing of communities. A closer look at these claims raises the question: How are members of the alternative food movement defining “community” and who is being included in and excluded from these definitions? We draw from in–depth interviews with (1) urban famers and their supporters and (2) neighborhood members of gentrifying East Austin to exam…
Race, Four Farms, and a City: Color Blindness and the Austin, TX, Urban Farm Debate
Austin, TX, was the site of a three-year debate between urban farmers and their supporters and local community activists about how to rewrite an outdated farm code. There was tremendous animosity between the two groups and, despite efforts at mediation, the two sides were unable to reach compromise. To understand more about how these two groups came into conflict, we interviewed 26 local stakeholders about their views and experiences during the f…
Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution
Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution." Food, Culture & Society, 20(4), pp. 729–730
Just the 'Typical College Diet: How College Students Use Life Stages to Account for Unhealthy Eating
I performed a qualitative content analysis of 136 college students' food diary reflection papers to examine the accounts used when explaining dietary failures. In addition to common justifications (denials of injury, appeals to higher loyalties, and condemning the condemners) and excuses (denials of responsibility and postponement), diarists referred to their status as a college student and the 'typical college student lifestyle' as the major rea…
Everybody Eats: Using Hunger Banquets to Teach about Issues of Global Hunger and Inequality
Experiential and active learning exercises can benefit students in sociology courses, particularly, courses in which issues of inequality are central. In this paper, we describe using hunger banquets—an active learning exercise where participants are randomly stratified into three global classes and receive food based upon their class position—to enhance students’ knowledge of global hunger and inequality. The nonprofit Oxfam America has made hun…
You Just Have to Look at It as a Gift”: Low-Income Single Mothers’ Experiences of the Child Support System
The current child support system emphasizes making parents pay first before the state provides economic assistance. Despite research suggesting that child support can financially benefit low-income households, many custodial mothers do not pursue child support orders. In this study, the author uses in-depth interviews with 25 low-income single mothers to better understand (1) why some women do not file for child support and (2) for those who do e…
Women and the Wild: Gender Socialization in Wilderness Recreation Advertising
The Price You Pay”: How Female Professional Chefs Negotiate Work and Family
Community Resiliency to BRAC Recommendations: A Case Study of Two Mississippi Communities
This paper highlights the importance of community resiliency in understanding how communities will fare after the realignment or closure of a local military facility. Two Mississippi communities, Pascagoula and Meridian, in the early stages of the latest Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC) process, were selected as case studies. A community action model was used to examine how communities respond to realignment and closure of military facilities.…
Forward-Looking Behavior and Time Limits: How Do Rural Tanf Clients Manage Their Welfare Eligibility
Placing time limits on benefits was seen by the proponents of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act as a means to encourage welfare recipients to engage in forward-looking behavior so that they can plan for a life without welfare. Current studies provide mixed findings regarding the effects of time limits on welfare participation and focus primarily on the urban poor. In this study, we examine how Temporary Assi…
Looking for “Mr. Right”: The Viability of Marriage Initiatives for African American Women in Rural Settings
Newly-funded initiatives aim to promote marriage among low-income African American women to reduce poverty and welfare dependency. Research indicates that these women have a strong desire to marry, but lack economically secure marriage partners. This research predominantly focuses on urban populations, and little is known about marriage as a strategy to end poverty and welfare dependency among the rural poor. Two case study counties in rural Miss…
Welfare and Family Economic Security: Toward a Place-Based Poverty Knowledge
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 is viewed by many as a resounding success. Its success, however, is predicated primarily on caseload reduction rather than improvement of family well-being. In addition, provisions in the act ignore the importance of place in shaping one's life chances. Using Alice O'Connor's influential book, Poverty Knowledge, as a framework, we discuss findings from a qualitat…
Adapting Life History Calendars for Qualitative Research on Welfare Transitions
The interest in examining patterns of life course events has resulted in the creation of several techniques to gather accurate retrospective data. One of these techniques, the life history calendar, was developed to record and graphically display the interrelatedness of multiple life events. A main advantage of the life history calendar is that it can be applied not only to quantitative studies but also to qualitative research. In this article, w…
Does the Tanf Work-First Initiative Help Low-Income Families Make Successful Welfare-to-Work Transitions
A general argument is how states implement their TANF policy and the extent to which states build partnerships with local communities might affect the chances for low-income families to make a successful welfare-to-work transition. Using data gathered through a key-informant procedure, we find that many low-income families in Mississippi left the TANF rolls because the state implemented “front and back door” policy aimed at reducing caseloads rat…
Gender Role Ideologies and Marriage Promotion: State Policy Choices and Suggestions for Improvement
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) lists marriage as one of the major strategies for reducing welfare dependency among clients of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program along with work requirements and time limits. President George W. Bush has allocated over $240 million to the individual states to create programs to promote and sustain marriages, with specific attention given t…
DVTS-Based Remote Laboratory Across the Pacific Over the Gigabit Network
The objective of this study is to investigate a remote laboratory on electric motors using high-speed networks between Japan and the United States. The client, situated at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, accessed the remote laboratory system set up in Japan. Through this client, the remotely located user operated the motors and conducted experiments. The remote laboratory was conducted over a high-quality digital video conference system, makin…
Advancing asynchronous distance education using high-speed networks
The Center for Telecommunications at Stanford University, in partnership with the Stanford Center for Professional Development, has designed and deployed an experimental system for delivery of Stanford courses in multimedia format to distance learners using the Internet as well as two experimental, asychronous transfer mode (ATM)-based, high-speed network testbeds. This configuration is designed to prototype the emerging broadband communications …
Women and the Wild: Gender Socialization in Wilderness Recreation Advertising
Adapting Life History Calendars for Qualitative Research on Welfare Transitions
The interest in examining patterns of life course events has resulted in the creation of several techniques to gather accurate retrospective data. One of these techniques, the life history calendar, was developed to record and graphically display the interrelatedness of multiple life events. A main advantage of the life history calendar is that it can be applied not only to quantitative studies but also to qualitative research. In this article, w…
Everybody Eats: Using Hunger Banquets to Teach about Issues of Global Hunger and Inequality
Experiential and active learning exercises can benefit students in sociology courses, particularly, courses in which issues of inequality are central. In this paper, we describe using hunger banquets—an active learning exercise where participants are randomly stratified into three global classes and receive food based upon their class position—to enhance students’ knowledge of global hunger and inequality. The nonprofit Oxfam America has made hun…
The Price You Pay”: How Female Professional Chefs Negotiate Work and Family
Women, work, and opportunities: From neoliberal to feminist mentoring
Women‐focused mentoring programs are often cited as an important tool to help address gender inequality at work. Despite their popularity, there remain questions about how useful they are at improving women’s career trajectories or transforming gender demographics at the organizational or industry level. A frequent critique of current women‐focused mentoring efforts is that they reflect and uphold neoliberal feminism and have shifted from collect…
You Just Have to Look at It as a Gift”: Low-Income Single Mothers’ Experiences of the Child Support System
The current child support system emphasizes making parents pay first before the state provides economic assistance. Despite research suggesting that child support can financially benefit low-income households, many custodial mothers do not pursue child support orders. In this study, the author uses in-depth interviews with 25 low-income single mothers to better understand (1) why some women do not file for child support and (2) for those who do e…
Who Speaks for (and Feeds) the Community? Competing Definitions of “Community” in the Austin, TX, Urban Farm Debate
Alternative food supporters claim that food produced outside the corporate system can improve the wellbeing of communities. A closer look at these claims raises the question: How are members of the alternative food movement defining “community” and who is being included in and excluded from these definitions? We draw from in–depth interviews with (1) urban famers and their supporters and (2) neighborhood members of gentrifying East Austin to exam…
What's better than a biscuit: Gourmetization and the transformation of a Southern food staple
In this article, we applied Wendy Griswold’s concepts of cultural objects and the cultural diamond to examine how a specific food—Southern style biscuits—underwent gourmetization. We provide evidence from observations of seven well-known gourmet biscuit restaurants, as well as a content analysis of their websites, Instagram accounts, and media coverage to understand how some establishments were able to position biscuits as a new gourmet food. We …
Does the Tanf Work-First Initiative Help Low-Income Families Make Successful Welfare-to-Work Transitions
A general argument is how states implement their TANF policy and the extent to which states build partnerships with local communities might affect the chances for low-income families to make a successful welfare-to-work transition. Using data gathered through a key-informant procedure, we find that many low-income families in Mississippi left the TANF rolls because the state implemented “front and back door” policy aimed at reducing caseloads rat…
Gender Role Ideologies and Marriage Promotion: State Policy Choices and Suggestions for Improvement
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) lists marriage as one of the major strategies for reducing welfare dependency among clients of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program along with work requirements and time limits. President George W. Bush has allocated over $240 million to the individual states to create programs to promote and sustain marriages, with specific attention given t…
Just the 'Typical College Diet: How College Students Use Life Stages to Account for Unhealthy Eating
I performed a qualitative content analysis of 136 college students' food diary reflection papers to examine the accounts used when explaining dietary failures. In addition to common justifications (denials of injury, appeals to higher loyalties, and condemning the condemners) and excuses (denials of responsibility and postponement), diarists referred to their status as a college student and the 'typical college student lifestyle' as the major rea…
Forward-Looking Behavior and Time Limits: How Do Rural Tanf Clients Manage Their Welfare Eligibility
Placing time limits on benefits was seen by the proponents of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act as a means to encourage welfare recipients to engage in forward-looking behavior so that they can plan for a life without welfare. Current studies provide mixed findings regarding the effects of time limits on welfare participation and focus primarily on the urban poor. In this study, we examine how Temporary Assi…
Looking for “Mr. Right”: The Viability of Marriage Initiatives for African American Women in Rural Settings
Newly-funded initiatives aim to promote marriage among low-income African American women to reduce poverty and welfare dependency. Research indicates that these women have a strong desire to marry, but lack economically secure marriage partners. This research predominantly focuses on urban populations, and little is known about marriage as a strategy to end poverty and welfare dependency among the rural poor. Two case study counties in rural Miss…
Welfare and Family Economic Security: Toward a Place-Based Poverty Knowledge
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 is viewed by many as a resounding success. Its success, however, is predicated primarily on caseload reduction rather than improvement of family well-being. In addition, provisions in the act ignore the importance of place in shaping one's life chances. Using Alice O'Connor's influential book, Poverty Knowledge, as a framework, we discuss findings from a qualitat…
Advancing asynchronous distance education using high-speed networks
The Center for Telecommunications at Stanford University, in partnership with the Stanford Center for Professional Development, has designed and deployed an experimental system for delivery of Stanford courses in multimedia format to distance learners using the Internet as well as two experimental, asychronous transfer mode (ATM)-based, high-speed network testbeds. This configuration is designed to prototype the emerging broadband communications …
DVTS-Based Remote Laboratory Across the Pacific Over the Gigabit Network
The objective of this study is to investigate a remote laboratory on electric motors using high-speed networks between Japan and the United States. The client, situated at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, accessed the remote laboratory system set up in Japan. Through this client, the remotely located user operated the motors and conducted experiments. The remote laboratory was conducted over a high-quality digital video conference system, makin…
Does the Tanf Work-First Initiative Help Low-Income Families Make Successful Welfare-to-Work Transitions
A general argument is how states implement their TANF policy and the extent to which states build partnerships with local communities might affect the chances for low-income families to make a successful welfare-to-work transition. Using data gathered through a key-informant procedure, we find that many low-income families in Mississippi left the TANF rolls because the state implemented “front and back door” policy aimed at reducing caseloads rat…
Gender Role Ideologies and Marriage Promotion: State Policy Choices and Suggestions for Improvement
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) lists marriage as one of the major strategies for reducing welfare dependency among clients of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program along with work requirements and time limits. President George W. Bush has allocated over $240 million to the individual states to create programs to promote and sustain marriages, with specific attention given t…
Adapting Life History Calendars for Qualitative Research on Welfare Transitions
The interest in examining patterns of life course events has resulted in the creation of several techniques to gather accurate retrospective data. One of these techniques, the life history calendar, was developed to record and graphically display the interrelatedness of multiple life events. A main advantage of the life history calendar is that it can be applied not only to quantitative studies but also to qualitative research. In this article, w…
Community Resiliency to BRAC Recommendations: A Case Study of Two Mississippi Communities
This paper highlights the importance of community resiliency in understanding how communities will fare after the realignment or closure of a local military facility. Two Mississippi communities, Pascagoula and Meridian, in the early stages of the latest Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC) process, were selected as case studies. A community action model was used to examine how communities respond to realignment and closure of military facilities.…
Forward-Looking Behavior and Time Limits: How Do Rural Tanf Clients Manage Their Welfare Eligibility
Placing time limits on benefits was seen by the proponents of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act as a means to encourage welfare recipients to engage in forward-looking behavior so that they can plan for a life without welfare. Current studies provide mixed findings regarding the effects of time limits on welfare participation and focus primarily on the urban poor. In this study, we examine how Temporary Assi…
Looking for “Mr. Right”: The Viability of Marriage Initiatives for African American Women in Rural Settings
Newly-funded initiatives aim to promote marriage among low-income African American women to reduce poverty and welfare dependency. Research indicates that these women have a strong desire to marry, but lack economically secure marriage partners. This research predominantly focuses on urban populations, and little is known about marriage as a strategy to end poverty and welfare dependency among the rural poor. Two case study counties in rural Miss…
Welfare and Family Economic Security: Toward a Place-Based Poverty Knowledge
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 is viewed by many as a resounding success. Its success, however, is predicated primarily on caseload reduction rather than improvement of family well-being. In addition, provisions in the act ignore the importance of place in shaping one's life chances. Using Alice O'Connor's influential book, Poverty Knowledge, as a framework, we discuss findings from a qualitat…
The Price You Pay”: How Female Professional Chefs Negotiate Work and Family
Women and the Wild: Gender Socialization in Wilderness Recreation Advertising
You Just Have to Look at It as a Gift”: Low-Income Single Mothers’ Experiences of the Child Support System
The current child support system emphasizes making parents pay first before the state provides economic assistance. Despite research suggesting that child support can financially benefit low-income households, many custodial mothers do not pursue child support orders. In this study, the author uses in-depth interviews with 25 low-income single mothers to better understand (1) why some women do not file for child support and (2) for those who do e…
Everybody Eats: Using Hunger Banquets to Teach about Issues of Global Hunger and Inequality
Experiential and active learning exercises can benefit students in sociology courses, particularly, courses in which issues of inequality are central. In this paper, we describe using hunger banquets—an active learning exercise where participants are randomly stratified into three global classes and receive food based upon their class position—to enhance students’ knowledge of global hunger and inequality. The nonprofit Oxfam America has made hun…
Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution
Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution." Food, Culture & Society, 20(4), pp. 729–730
Just the 'Typical College Diet: How College Students Use Life Stages to Account for Unhealthy Eating
I performed a qualitative content analysis of 136 college students' food diary reflection papers to examine the accounts used when explaining dietary failures. In addition to common justifications (denials of injury, appeals to higher loyalties, and condemning the condemners) and excuses (denials of responsibility and postponement), diarists referred to their status as a college student and the 'typical college student lifestyle' as the major rea…
Who Speaks for (and Feeds) the Community? Competing Definitions of “Community” in the Austin, TX, Urban Farm Debate
Alternative food supporters claim that food produced outside the corporate system can improve the wellbeing of communities. A closer look at these claims raises the question: How are members of the alternative food movement defining “community” and who is being included in and excluded from these definitions? We draw from in–depth interviews with (1) urban famers and their supporters and (2) neighborhood members of gentrifying East Austin to exam…
Race, Four Farms, and a City: Color Blindness and the Austin, TX, Urban Farm Debate
Austin, TX, was the site of a three-year debate between urban farmers and their supporters and local community activists about how to rewrite an outdated farm code. There was tremendous animosity between the two groups and, despite efforts at mediation, the two sides were unable to reach compromise. To understand more about how these two groups came into conflict, we interviewed 26 local stakeholders about their views and experiences during the f…
Me Too In the Kitchen
In the wake of the #metoo movement, Harris and Giuffre use the restaurant industry as an example to illustrate how viewing sexual harassment as an issue of industry and organizational culture–rather than just the behavior of a few bad actors–can inform our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace
What's better than a biscuit: Gourmetization and the transformation of a Southern food staple
In this article, we applied Wendy Griswold’s concepts of cultural objects and the cultural diamond to examine how a specific food—Southern style biscuits—underwent gourmetization. We provide evidence from observations of seven well-known gourmet biscuit restaurants, as well as a content analysis of their websites, Instagram accounts, and media coverage to understand how some establishments were able to position biscuits as a new gourmet food. We …
Women, work, and opportunities: From neoliberal to feminist mentoring
Women‐focused mentoring programs are often cited as an important tool to help address gender inequality at work. Despite their popularity, there remain questions about how useful they are at improving women’s career trajectories or transforming gender demographics at the organizational or industry level. A frequent critique of current women‐focused mentoring efforts is that they reflect and uphold neoliberal feminism and have shifted from collect…
Incorporating Stakeholder Voices into Data Dashboards: A Qualitative Study of the State of Texas Mental Health Dashboard
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)