Professor
Phone: (914) 633-2596
E-mail: wegelman@iona.edu
His areas of specialization are Race and Ethnic Patterns, Family Issues and Urban Society.

Publications:

Understanding Racial and Ethnic Groups: Critical Thinking and Analysis Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2002

The Melting Pot and Beyond : Italian Americans in the Year 2000 : Proceedings of the XVIII Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association

Understanding Social Issues: Critical Thinking and Analysis, 6th ed. Boston:Allyn and Bacon, 2003(with G. Berlage)

"Italian American Labor Force Participation in New York City, 1990: Emerging Diversity." In Industry, Technology, Labor, and the Italian American communities, edited by Mario Aste, et. al. (Staten Island: American Italian historical Association, 1997), pp. 128-46(with J. Salvo).

Understanding Families: Critical Thinking and Analysis
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2004

The Best Test Preparation for the CLEP College-Level Examination Program in INTRODUCTORY SOCIOLOGY. Piscataway, New Jersey: Research &Education Association, 2003(with Robyn Fuchs, Sherry Larkins, Paul Murray, and Thomas Sullivan).

Recent research: Articles and Presentations

• "Italians, Americans, and Italian Americans: Some Demographic Comparisons." Paper presented at International Journal of Arts & Sciences conference, Oct. 31-Nov.5, 2011, Rome Italy
• "Italian Americans: A Demographic Snapshot." Italian American Conference, Oct. 3, 2011, Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York.
• American Women, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women, edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011; author of three articles in this collection
• Italian Americans in New York City: Population Decline and Cultural Change. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol 3, Number 1 (2008), 125-31
• Hispanic Variations: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans in the United States. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol.2 Number 1 (2007), 15-22
• Is There an Emerging Black Middle Class in the United States? Proceedings: Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 2006 (ISSN #1539-7300)
• Italian Americans in New York City: 1980-2000: A Demographic Summary. The Italian American Review 9 (2) Fall/Winter 2002 (published Spring 2006): 1-21
• Demographic Analysis of National Data on Italian Americans, 1990-2000. Italian Americana 24 (Winter 2006): 9-19 (Winner of Massaro Prize)

Conference Papers:

The Aged Population: The Emergence of Grandparenting. Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 13-16, 2005

Alba and Yee’s Remaking the Mainstream and its Application/Implications for Italian Americans: A Sociological Conversation (with Angela Danzi and Joseph Conforti). American Italian Historical Association, Annapolis, November 4-6, 2004

Italian Americans in New York City: The 2000 Census. American Italian Historical Association. Boca Raton, November 6-8, 2003


Traditional Roles and Modem Work Patterns: Italian American Women in New York City. Work and Family: Today's Realities Tomorrow's Visions, Sponsored by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, et. al., Nov. 1998

Articles:

The Aged Population: The Emergence of Grandparenting, Proceedings: Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 2005 ( (ISSN #1539-7300)

The Italian-American Spouse in Jewish Intermarriage (with William Gratzer and Michael D’Angelo). Italian Americana 23 (Winter 2005): 94-105

The Social Demography of Hawaii, Proceedings: Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 2004 ( (ISSN #1539-7300)

Italian Americans in Suburbia: Italian Americans in Westchester County, New York (with William Gratzer and Michael D’Angelo) in Italian Americans Go West: The Impact of Locale on Ethnicity edited by Janet E. Worrall, Carol Bonomo, and Elvira G. Di Fabio. Cambridge: Italian American Historical Association, 2003

Book Reviews:

The Colors of Excellence: Hiring and Keeping Teachers of Color in Independent Schools NACADA Journal 25 (1) Spring 2005

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