Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Quantitative Initiative in Policy and Social Research (QIPSR) at theUniversity of Kentucky. He has taught work and occupations, political sociology, and comparative/historical methods at his current institution, and at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University. Darina Lepadatu is Associate Professor of Sociology and teaches in the PhD program in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has cooauthored, with Thomas Janoski, Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity at a Japanese Auto Transplant.