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Michael Restivo

M.A. 2004, University of Nevada
Ph.D. expected May 2014
(347) 450-5013
marestivo@ic.sunysb.edu

Michael Restivo's research falls into three broad areas: (1) information & communication technologies, including online organizations and social media; (2) social construction of knowledge, particularly in commons-based peer production; and (3) global inequalities, focusing on disparities in health, science, environmental and technology resources.

Michael has been trained in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including longitudinal regression and social network analysis. Part of Michael's dissertation research includes a field experiment, published in PLoS ONE designed to assess the effectiveness of social recognition and status rewards in motivating sustained contributions to Wikipedia.

Publications:

Restivo, Michael and Arnout van de Rijt. 2012. “Experimental Study of Informal Rewards in Peer Production.” PLoS ONE 7(3): e34358. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034358

Maynard, Gary M., Eric Shircliff, and Michael Restivo. 2012. “IMF Structural Adjustment, Public Health Spending, and Tuberculosis: A Longitudinal Analysis of Prevalence Rates in Developing Nations.” International Journal of Sociology 42(2):527. doi:10.2753/IJS00207659420201

Akin, AfifeIdil, Carlos Encina, Michael Restivo, Michael Schwartz, and Juhi Tyagi (equal authorship). 2012. “Old Wine in a New Cask? Protest Cycles in the Age of the New Social Media.” The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations XII(1):89103.

Shandra, John M., Michael Restivo, Eric Shircliff, and Bruce London. 2011. “Do Commercial Debt-for-Nature Swaps Matter for Forests? A Cross-National Test of World Polity Theory.” Sociological Forum 26(2):381410

Shandra, John M., Thomas K. Rudel, Michael Restivo, and Bruce London. 2010. “Nongovernmental Organizations and Protected Land Area: A CrossNational Analysis.” International Journal of Sociology 40(2):8599

Shandra, John M., Michael Restivo, and Bruce London. 2008. “NonGovernmental
Organizations and Deforestation: Reconsidering the Cross-National Evidence.” International Review of Modern Sociology 34(1):109132

News & Events

	May 2013
	•Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor
	April 2013
	• Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards
	March 2013
	• Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th
	February 2013
	• Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th
	January 2013
	• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant • Michael Restivo wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant • Fernanda Page Poma selected as Top Graduate Student at Stony Brook University • Cheryl Llewellyn wins Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship

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