Background
Jennifer Parker Talwar was born in the United States.
32 Graham Ave, Cortland, NY 13045, United States
Jennifer got a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York.
425 E 25th St, New York, NY 10010, United States
Jennifer received a Master of Philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy from the City University of New York.
32 Graham Ave, Cortland, NY 13045, United States
Jennifer got a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York.
425 E 25th St, New York, NY 10010, United States
Jennifer received a Master of Philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy from the City University of New York.
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For four years, sociologist Jennifer Parker Talwar went behind the counter herself and listened to immigrant fast-food workers in New York City's ethnic communities. They talked about balancing their low-paying jobs and monotonous daily reality with keeping the faith that these very jobs could be the first step on the path to the American Dream. In this original and compelling work of ethnography, Talwar shows that contrary to those arguing that the fast-food industry only represents an increasing homogenization of the American workforce, fast-food chains in immigrant communities must and do adapt to their surroundings.
https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Track-Immigrants-Business/dp/0813341558
2002
Jennifer Parker Talwar was born in the United States.
Jennifer got a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York. She also received a Master of Philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy from the City University of New York.
During writing her dissertation, Jennifer Parker Talwar took a job in a Brooklyn Burger King and spoke with disadvantaged workers in the New York City area, mostly Latino and Asian immigrants who worked in fast-food franchises for minimal pay. Talwar's research and the study were further expanded and published as Fast Food. Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream.
She has been an associate professor of sociology at Pennsylvania State University since 1998. For the past 18 years, she has been involving the growing diversity of Lehigh Valley's communities in the classroom experience and incorporating it into student research projects. Some of her students have presented at conferences in Montreal, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston. Talwar has had classes interacting with immigrant communities and visiting immigrant-owned establishments and neighborhoods since she started at Penn State Lehigh Valley.
Her students have also been involved in professional research grants involving local immigrant communities. David Livert, professor of psychology at Penn State Lehigh Valley, and Parker had a team of bilingual students working on a project interviewing immigrant entrepreneurs with the Latino Economic Council in 2008 that resulted in a publication with the economic council.
Talwar's classes have worked with the Lehigh County Historical Society on original research on the earliest immigrant populations in the Lehigh Valley. Students in her classes have also worked with organizations that focus on challenging circumstances affecting racial minorities disproportionately, including the Sixth Street Shelter of Allentown and the Third Street Alliance in Easton.
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2002Talwar's sociology courses have included such topics as juvenile delinquency and gangs and subcultures. She has consistently promoted multiculturalism and demonstrated concern for and sensitivity to the needs of multicultural students. She is heavily involved in endeavors that have significantly contributed to the diversity, including the Penn State Lehigh Valley International Food and Entrepreneur Series. The series was started by about 12 faculty and staff at Penn State Lehigh Valley.
