October 11, 2017 Nina Eliasoph Professor Department of Sociology

October 11, 2017 Nina Eliasoph Professor Department of Sociology Stanley and Hazel Hall Building 851 Downey Way University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1059 telephone: (323) 333-5899 email: [email protected]

Education UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: M.A., Sociology, l986; Ph. D., 1993 YALE UNIVERSITY: B.A., Political Science, l982

Current Position

PROFESSOR, 2014-present (Associate Professor, 2004-2014; Vice chair, 2013-2014) Department of Sociology. Affiliated Faculty, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. University of Southern California. Teaching courses in classical and contemporary social theory; ethnography; political sociology; participatory democracy, volunteering and non-governmental organizations; emotions and sociolinguistics; and the history of utopian thought

Previous Positions ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 1994-2004 Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Teaching courses in classical and contemporary theory, ethnography, political sociology, sociology of culture

ACTING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, winter-spring 1992 Department of Speech Communication, University of Washington. Teaching courses in ethnography, sociology of culture, and sociolinguistics

Invited Visiting Appointments VISITING PROFESSOR, May 2012. Université de Paris VIII, Filière de science politiques, Paris.

VISITING PROFESSOR, May, 2009, Université de Lyon 2, Filière de sciences politiques, Lyon (France): teaching course on participatory democracy: “Les formes d’engagement citoyen et associatif.”

VISITING PROFESSOR, May 2004, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.

AFFILIATED FACULTY, Sept-June, 2001-2, Center For the Study of Religion, Princeton University. Areas of Specialization Civic and Political Participation, Non-Governmental Organizations and Nonprofit Sector; Political Sociology; Theory; Culture; Organizations; Ethnography; Emotions

Honors, Grants, and Fellowships

2016 Clifford Geertz Prize (for “Civic Action,” co-authored with Paul Lichterman), from Sociology of Culture Section, American Sociological Association, co- winner.

2016 Best Article Award (for “Civic Action,” co-authored with Paul Lichterman), from the Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.

2014 Clifford Geertz Prize (for “Coordinating Futures,” co-authored with Iddo Tavory), from Sociology of Culture Section, American Sociological Association, co-winner.

2009-2010 International grant from the Maison européenne des sciences de l’homme et de la société and the University of Lille, France, “Démocratie participative. Aspects historiques et contemporains.” Research collective member.

2010 National Science Foundation grant #1024478 (Christopher Weare PI, Nina Eliasoph, Paul Lichterman, and Nicole Esparza, co-PI’s), “The Dynamics of Civic Relationships: A Proposal to Apply Methodological Innovation to the Study of Housing as a Civic Issue” ($104,997)

2009: Spencer Foundation, (co-principal investigator with Paul Lichterman), “Paid Civic Engagement: Young Interns in the Age of the Nonprofit” ($39, 525)

2009: John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship (principal investigator) grant # 52-4877-4040. “Connecting Affordable Housing and Green Neighborhoods in Los Angeles: How Organizations Link Issues in the Public Arena.” ($12,000)

2007: National Science Foundation grant, (Christopher Weare, PI; Ann Crigler, Nina Eliasoph, Paul Lichterman, co-PI’s). “The Dynamics of Civic Relationships: A Proposal to Apply Methodological Innovation to the Study of Housing as a Civic Issue.” ($125,000)

2005: Best Article Prize (for “Culture in Interaction”), American Sociological Association Sociology of Culture Section.

2005: University of Southern California Urban Initiative, grant, (co-investigator for “Building a Meaningful Interdisciplinary Agenda for Civic Engagement Research”). ($35,000)

2000: American Sociological Association, Culture Section, “Outstanding Book of 2000” (for Avoiding Politics)

1999: Association for Humanistic Sociology, Best Book Award (for Avoiding Politics)

1999: National Communication Association, Diamond Anniversary Book Award (“most outstanding scholarly book published in 1998-9,” for Avoiding Politics)

1998: Best Article Prize, American Sociological Association Culture Section (for “Making a Fragile Public”)

1994: Annenberg Scholars Program, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Post-doctoral Fellowship.

1990: Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

1990-1: John H. Wheeler and Elliott H. Wheeler Fellowship, University of California

1990: Outstanding Student Paper Award, Pacific Sociological Association

1989: Herbert Blumer Memorial Essay Prize, University of California

1988-1990 Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Dissertation Fellowship, University of California. l987 Regents Fellowship, University of California l984-1986 Newhouse Foundation Grant

Books 2012 The Politics of Volunteering. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. (reviewed in Management4Volunteering, The Sociological Review, ResearchGate, Voluntas, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly)

2011 Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare’s End. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. (reviewed in Administrative Science Quarterly, La vie des idées, Choice, Contemporary Sociology, Critical Social Policy, Italian Journal of Political Sociology: Partecipazione e conflitto, Journal of Social Policy, Les Echoes, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Revue française de science politique, Voluntas, Zócalo)

1998 Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. (reviewed in The Progressive, Tikkun, Journal of Communication, American Journal of Sociology, EspacesTemps, Socialist Review, Qualitative Sociology, Contemporary Sociology)

(2010 French edition, Éviter le politique, Economia, Paris, Camille Hamidi, translator)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2015. Paul Lichterman and Nina Eliasoph. “Civic Action.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 120, #4.

2014. Nina Eliasoph. “Measuring the Grassroots: Puzzles of Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down.” The Sociological Quarterly 55: 467-492.

2013. Iddo Tavory and Nina Eliasoph. “Coordinating Futures: Towards a Theory of Anticipation.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 118; 4: 908-942. 3

2009. Nina Eliasoph “Top-Down Civic Projects Are Not Grassroots Associations: How the Differences Matter in Everyday Life,” Voluntas, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 20: 291–308.

2003. Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman. “Culture in Interaction.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 108, #4: 735-794. (reprinted in 2011 Du civil au politique: Ethnographies du vivre-ensemble. Mathieu Berger, Daniel Cefai, Carole Viaud-Gayet, eds. Peter Lang: Brussels).

2000. Nina Eliasoph. “Where Can Americans Talk Politics? Civil Society, Intimacy, and the Case for Deep Citizenship.” Communication Review, vol. 4 (1): 65-93.

1999. Nina Eliasoph. “‘Everyday Racism’ in a Culture of Political Avoidance: Civil Society, Speech and Taboo.” Social Problems, vol. 46, #4: 479-502.

1999. Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman. “‘We Begin with Our Favorite Theory...’: Reconstructing the Extended Case Method.” Sociological Theory, 17: 2, July: 228-234.

1997. Nina Eliasoph. "Close to Home: The Work of Avoiding Politics." Theory and Society, #26, October: 605-647. reprinted in edited form in 2002 Lynette Spillman, editor, The Sociology of Culture Reader, Blackwell Publishers, NY: 130-140.

1996. Nina Eliasoph. "Making a Fragile Public: A Talk-Centered Study of Citizenship and Power.” Sociological Theory, vol. 14, #3, Nov.: 262-289. Reprinted in 2003. “Faire un public fragile: une ethnographie de la citoyenneté dans la vie associative.” in Les sens du public: publics politiques, publics médiatiques, Daniel Cefaï and Dominique Pasquier, editors, Presses universitaires de France, Amiens: 225- 268 (translated by Daniel Cefai).

1990. Nina Eliasoph. "Political Culture and the Presentation of a Political Self: a study of the public sphere in the spirit of Erving Goffman." Theory and Society, Vol. 19: 465-494.

1988. Nina Eliasoph. "Routines and the Making of Oppositional News." Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Vol. 5, #4: 313-334 reprinted in 1997. Dan Berkowitz, editor, Social Meanings of News: A Text-Reader, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills).

1987. Nina Eliasoph. "Politeness, Power, and Women's Language: Rethinking Study in Language and Gender." Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 32: 79-l04.

1986. Nina Eliasoph. "Drive-In Morality, Child Abuse, and the Media." Socialist Review, #90 (Vol. 16, #6): 7-31; and "Response to Kate Ellis," 1987, Socialist Review, #92 (Vol. 17, #2)

Essays and Chapters 2017. Nina Eliasoph. “Scorn Wars: White Rural People and Us.” Contexts. 16: 1: 58-62. (reprinted in shortened, revised form in OpenDemocracy (https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/nina-eliasoph/scorn-wars-rural-white- people-and-us)

2016. Nina Eliasoph. “The Mantra of Empowerment Talk.” Journal of Civil Society. 12:3, 247- 265 (open access at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2016.1215895). (to be reprinted in The Participatory Turn: Twenty Years Later (forthcoming, Routledge. NY.)

2014. Nina Eliasoph. “Spirals of Perpetual Potential: How Empowerment Projects’ Noble Missions Tangle in Everyday Interaction.” Chapter in Democratizing Inequalities: Pitfalls and Unrealized Promises of the New Public Participation. Edited by Caroline Lee, Michael McQuarrie, and Edward Walker. NYU Press, NY.

2014. Eeva Luhtakallio and Nina Eliasoph. “Ethnography of Politics and Political Communication: Studies in Sociology and Political Science.” Oxford Handbook on Political Communication. Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kathleen Kenski, eds. Oxford University Press, NY.

2013. Nina Eliasoph. “Préface.” Introductory Essay to a book by Marion Carrel, Faire participer les habitants? Les quartiers d’habitat social entre injonction participative et empowerment.

Forthcoming. 2013. Nina Eliasoph. Symposium Review/Essay of On Justification (Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot), American Journal of Sociology.

2012/3. Cefaï Daniel with Marion Carrel, Julien Talpin, Nina Eliasoph, and Paul Lichterman. “Ethnographies de la participation.” Participations #4, p. 7-48.

2012. Nina Eliasoph and Jade Lo. “Broadening Cultural Sociology’s Scope: meaning-making in mundane organizational life,” The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, Philip Smith, Editors, Oxford University Press, NY: 763-787.

2011. Nina Eliasoph. “Civil Society and Civility.” In Oxford Handbook on Civil Society, Michael Edwards, editor, Oxford University Press, NY: 220-231.

2010. Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman “Making Things Political.” Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Ming-cheng Lo, John Hall, and Laura Grindstaff, editors, Routledge, London, UK: 483-493.

2009. Nina Eliasoph. “Rendre publique l’intimité:’ L’enchevêtrement d’horizons moraux dans un programme pour la jeunesse aux Etats-Unis” (“Making intimacy public: tangled moral horizons in a youth civic engagement program in the US,” In Qu'est ce que le 'care' ? Souci des autres, sensibilité, responsabilité. Patricia Paperman and Pascale Molinier, eds., Payot, Paris.

2007. Nina Eliasoph. “Beyond the Politics of Denunciation: cultural sociology as the ‘sociology for the meantime.’” Culture in the World Volume 2: Cultural Sociology and the Democratic Imperative, Jeffrey Alexander and Isaac Reed, editors, Paradigm Publishers, NY.

2008. Nina Eliasoph. “The Destructive Volunteer: how the moral narrative of voluntarism plays out in American hybrid organizations,” translated into Dutch by Paul Dekker (in Civil Society tussen oud en nieuw, edited by Paul Dekker, Marc Hooghe and Govert Buijs).

2008. Nina Eliasoph. “Lo sforzo nella creazione di Comunità, Natura, Intimità: Astrazioni sul Sapere Locale.” (“Trying Hard to Create Community, Nature and Intimacy: Abstractions about Local Knowledge”). In In Nome di Chi? Partecipazione e rappresentanza nelle mobilitazioni 5 locali (In Whose Name? Participation and Representation in Local Collective Action), FrancoAngeli, edited and translated by Tommaso Vitale).

2005. Nina Eliasoph. “Theorizing From the Neck Down: why social research must understand bodies acting in real space and time (and why it's so hard to spell out what we learn from this).” Symposium/review essay, Qualitative Sociology, vol. 28, #2, July: 159-169.

2004. Nina Eliasoph. “Political Institutions Minus the Public?” 2004: Political Communication (symposium/review essay), Vol. 21, #3, 297-305.

2003. Nina Eliasoph. “Cultivating Apathy in Voluntary Associations.” in The Values of Volunteering: Cross-cultural Perspectives, edited by Paul Dekker and Loek Halman, Kluwer/Plenum (in the Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies Series), Dordrecht, The Netherlands: 199-212.

2002. Nina Eliasoph. “Attivismo senza politica.” Sociologia e politiche sociali (translated into Italian by Matteo Bortolini), Vol. 5, #1: 97-111.

2002. Nina Eliasoph. “Individualism as a Political Project: The Perils of Lifepolitics.” The Hedgehog Review, Vol. 4, #1: 74-90.

2001: Nina Eliasoph. “Citoyens du quotidien.” EspacesTemps, (translated into French by Camille Hamidi) #76-77: 110-121.

2001. Nina Eliasoph. “Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America.” Chapter in Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, Self, edited by Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA: 195-223.

2001. Nina Eliasoph. “The Culture of Political Avoidance.” The Responsive Community, Vol. 11, issue 3, summer: 39-47.

2000. Nina Eliasoph. “Immeasurable Pleasure and Meaningful Imperfection: Raising Good Citizens in a Bad State.” Political Communication, vol. 14, #4: 389-394.

1999. Nina Eliasoph. “Power to the Bureaucrats, Right On!” Communication Review, vol. 3 (3): 229-236.

Article Under Review Nina Eliasoph, Jade Lo, and Vern Glaser. “Structured Ambiguity: How Meaning Emerges Through Fault Lines in Institutional Logics.’” Submitted to Academy of Management Review, June 2017. (shows how meaning arises not despite, but through, tensions between the varied elements in any “institutional logic;” makes the concept clearer and easier to use)

Articles in Progress Nina Eliasoph, Elisabeth Clemens, and Caroline Lee. “The Civic Regime: Locating Civic Action.” (an historical and comparative study that does for civic life what David Harvey’s “regime of accumulation” concept did for the economy: show how civic life and civic action

transform, in an architecture that varies from one historical moment to another, and one society to another)

Nina Eliasoph. “Is Small Beautiful? If So, How? Patterned Variations for Imagining Local Political Engagement.” (provides theoretical scaffolding for project in coordination with a group of Russian ethnographers who are studying grassroots action in Russia)

Eeva Luhtakallio, Nina Eliasoph, and Marion Carrel. “Comparative Ethnographies of Global Climate Change Activism.” (develops an ethnographic methodology for a cross-national comparison of bike activists)

Yomna Elsayed and Nina Eliasoph. “Social Enterprises and their Dilemmas in Cairo.”

Nina Eliasoph. “Volunteers in Nonprofits.” (for The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, ed. by Walter Powell and Patricia Bromley)

Selected Book Reviews 2017 (forthcoming). Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City. John Krinsky and Maud Simonet. University of Chicago Press. American Journal of Sociology.

2016. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine Kramer. University of Chicago Press. Political Communication.

2016. Do-It-Yourself Democracy: The Rise of the Public Engagement Industry. By Caroline W. Lee. Oxford. American Journal of Sociology.

2011. Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present. Edited by Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. American Journal of Sociology.

2010. Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967, by Ilana Feldman, in American Journal of Sociology.

2006. New Jersey Dreaming, by Sherry Ortner, Contemporary Sociology, fall.

2004. Stories, Identities, and Political Change, by Charles Tilly, Mobilization, winter.

2003. Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, by Theda Skocpol, The Responsive Community, Nov.

2003. Democracy in Suburbia, by Eric Oliver, American Journal of Sociology, March.

2000. For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today, by Jedediah Purdy, and The Necessity of Politics: Reclaiming American Public Life, by Christopher Beem, Political Science Quarterly, Summer.

1999. Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women, by Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole, American Journal of Sociology, Aug.

1999. Producing Public Television; Producing Public Culture, by Barry Dornfeld, Journal of Communication.

1996. Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics, by Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman and Henry Brady), Contemporary Sociology 25, #6: 763-4.

1989. With Paul Lichterman. Making History: The Radical Tradition in American Life, by Richard Flacks, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1989: 281-284.

1989. News as Hegemonic Reality: American Political Culture and the Framing of News Accounts and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, by Allan Rachlin, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Vol. 33, #4, 1989: 468-470.

Selected Scholarly Presentations 2017. Invited Talk. “Locating Civic Action in the Reconfigured Civic Field.” “Civilizing State and Society in the 21st Century: Rethinking the Dynamics between State, Market and Civil Society. Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen. June.

2017. Invited talk. “Reconfigurations of the ‘Civic Regime.’” University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium. Chicago. June.

2016. “The Civic Regime: Locating Civic Action.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Seattle, WA. Aug.

2016. “Institutional Logics and Organizational Culture.” New York University. NY. Dec.

2016. “Structured Ambiguity: How to Make the ‘Spheres’ Concept Useful for the Study of Everyday Interaction.” Academy of Management annual meeting, Anahaim, CA. Aug.

2015. KEYNOTE speaker, “Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down: Empowerment Projects in Everyday Interaction.” Rencontres Annuelles d'Éthnographie, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Oct.

2015. Invited talk. “Structured Ambiguity: How Institutional Logics Work in Everyday Life.” Pragmatism and Sociology Conference. Chicago, IL. Aug.

2015. Invited talk. “Who Can Say What, Where, When, Why and How: A cultural interactionist approach to analyzing political engagement.” Conference on Social Movements Today in Russia and the World: the Issues of Human Agency and Politization.” St. Petersburg State University/Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2015. KEYNOTE speaker, “Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down: Empowerment Projects in Everyday Interaction.” Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, Université de Lille, Lille, France. June.

2015. “KEYNOTE speaker. Top-down Civic Engagement and Local Knowledge: Designing Contextualized Participatory Practices.” Trente an plus tarde: les mirages du tournant participatif (Thirty years later; views and mirages of the participatory turn).” Université du Montréal. Feb.

2014. Invited talk. “Studying Empowerment Projects: Ethnographic Puzzles.” Sixteenth Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL. March.

2014. “Crafting Consistence from Complexity: Institutional Logics and Everyday Interaction.” Co-authored paper with Jade Yu-Chieh Lo and Vern Glaser. Workshop on “Managing Complexity Within and Across Organizational Boundaries.” Journal of Management Studies/Durham University Business School. Cambridge. UK. March.

2013. Invited talk. “Infra-politics and Empowerment.” Festival Mode d'emploi. Villa Gillet. Lyon, France. November.

2013. KEYNOTE speaker. “Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down.” Kettering Foundation Retreat. Columbus, OH. July.

2013. KEYNOTE speaker. “Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down.” Conference on “Cultural Analysis of Complex Phenomena.” Center for Cultural Sociology. Yale University. New Haven, CT. May.

2013. KEYNOTE speaker. “Making Volunteers. Cultivating the Grassroots.” “Emotional Citizenship in Care and Social Integration” (conference for municipal and state leaders). Rotterdam (Netherlands). May.

2013. KEYNOTE speaker. “Why Can’t Volunteers Do It?” Scientific Council for Government Policy (a Dutch government council). The Hague, (Netherlands). May.

2013. Invited talk. “Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down.” University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Social Scientific Research. Amsterdam (Netherlands). May.

2013. KEYNOTE speaker. “Three Comparative Points on Bicycling, Familiarity, and Politics.” with Eeva Luhtakallio. At “Changing Political Engagements: Populism, Participation and Social Media.” School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Tampere (Finland). May.

2012. “Empowerment Projects: Styles of Interaction in Neoliberal Voluntary Associations.” Invited talk. City University of New York-Baruch College Public Policy School. NY. October.

2012. Invited talk. “Empowerment Projects: Styles of Interaction in Neoliberal Voluntary Associations.” The New School Department of Sociology. NY. October.

2012. Invited talk. “The Dynamics of Civic Engagement.” University of Paris VIII, Department of Sociology. Paris. May.

2012. Invited talk. “Neo-Liberal Volunteers and their Empowerment Projects.” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Department of Sociology. Paris. May.

2012. “Invited talk. Neo-Liberal Volunteering and State Devolution.” University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. May.

2012. Invited talk. “Neo-Liberal Volunteers and their Organizations.” Department of Social Services Administration, University of Chicago. Chicago. March.

2010. Invited talk. “Empowerment Talk in Action: the case of youth volunteer projects.” Democratizing Inequalities Conference, New York University, Institute for Public Knowledge. NY. October.

2010. Invited talk. "Drawing on Inspiration, Promoting Civic Equality, Protecting the Needy, and Creating Intimate Attachments: how some participatory democracy projects try to do it all at once." Spaces of Democracy Workshop, University of Helsinki (Finland), Department of Sociology. June.

2009: Invited talk. “Puzzles of Empowerment Programs: ethnographic and comparative frameworks,” Université de Lille 3, Series: La démocratie participative: Aspects historiques et contemporains,” Lille (France).

2009. Invited talk. "Empowerment Talk: Puzzles of Cultivating "Civic" Participation from the Top Down," Université de Lyon 2, Lyon (France).

2008. “Modes of Beckoning: Towards a shared future in interaction,” co-authored with Iddo Tavory, International Sociological Association, Barcelona (Spain).

2008: Paper co-authored with Jade Yu-Chieh Lo. “Inside Hybrid Organizations: An Ethnographic Investigation.” Academy of Management annual conference, Anaheim, CA.

2007: “Modeling Culture: from ethnography to organizational forms.” In Sociology of Culture section mini-conference, American Sociological Association, NY. August.

2007. Invited talk. “Publicizing Intimacy and Measuring Volunteer Work: crisscrossed moral horizons in a US youth civic engagement project,” Colloque International Politiques du Care, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales/CNRS. Paris. August.

2005. Invited talk. “Ambiguous Moral Worlds: moral dialogue in American youth civic engagement projects.” Council for Advanced Studies, Political Communications Workshop, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. May.

2005. Invited talk. “What Can We Learn When We Study Civil Society Ethnographically?” Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, March.

2005. Invited talk. “Planning and Paying for Spontaneous, Voluntary Participation: The Perplexing Moral Bases of Civil Society in the Current Civic/State/Nonprofit Regime.” Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. February.

2002. Invited talk. “Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Injustice and Morality in Everyday Conversation.” Center for Working Families, University of California-Berkeley, CA. March.

2001. Invited talk. “Ethnography: Getting Started.” Workshop in Ethnography, Department of Speech Communication, organized by Gerry Philipsen, held at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, July.

1999. “Political Conversation and the Soul of Democracy.” International Communications Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, May.

1999 “Emotions and Morality in the Public Sphere.” International Communications Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA. May.

1998 “‘Everyday Racism’ in a Culture of Political Avoidance: The Taboo Against Speech in a Poisoned Moral Environment.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco. August.

1992 "The Gerrymandered Circle of Concern." International Communications Association annual meeting, Miami, FL. May.

Colloquia, Conferences and Working Groups Organized 2006-present. Organizing Politics, Organizations, Ethnography and Theory Seminar (POETs), Department of Sociology, USC (reading each other’s works-in-progress, involving faculty and graduate students from USC, UCLA, and Claremont Colleges, Departments of Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and Communications and Business Schools)

2015. “How to Do Ethnography” (workshop co-leader with Eeva Luhtakallio), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Oct.

2015. “Hearing Echoes of Barely Audible Democratic Possibilities” (workshop leader with Laurent Thévenot), Center for Independent Research, St. Petersburg, Russia. June

2010. Co-organized international workshop on comparative ethnographic research, University of Helsinki (Finland). May.

2007-2009. Political Culture Network organizer, American Sociological Association.

2004, 2005, 2007 and 2009. Conducted workshops on “how to do ethnography,” helping graduate students interpret their own fieldnotes. École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and Université de Lyon II, Lyon (France).

2006 Advised graduate student workshop participants on ethnographic research (helping graduate students who competed to enter the workshop, from a national pool). April. State University of New York—Stony Brook (workshop held in New York City)

2003. Discussant and organizer of panel entitled “Civic Associations and their Borders with State, Nonprofit, Market, and Other,” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago, August.

1998-2004.

Organized Social Theory Reading Group, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin (reading works in social theory with faculty and graduate students)

1994-7. Organized annual meetings of American Sociological Association, Culture Section, Political Culture network.

1994-5. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Co-planner, International Conference on Public Space.

1992 “Investigating Discourse on Social Problems: Treating Discourses as ‘Practices.’” Panel organized for Speech Communication Association annual meeting, Chicago, Oct.; paper presented: "The Cycle of Political Evaporation: The Practice of Apathy."

Selected Media Appearances 2011-present. Media Interviews (print or video) in Libération (France), New York Times, National Public Radio, Yahoo, KNBC-TV, Christian Science Monitor, Arbetaren (Swedish union newspaper), Sydney (Australian) Morning Herald, Agence-France Presse, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pasadena Star-News (California), and elsewhere on participatory democracy, political and civic engagement, and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Radio and television interviews on Avoiding Politics, including: Wisconsin Public Radio, KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA), NBC-TV local (Madison, WI) Nightly News, The Progressive magazine’s radio program, abc.com (ABC on-line), WBAI-FM (NY), WORT (Madison, WI).

Professional Service 2016: Best Article Prize Committee, ASA Political Sociology Award. 2016-present: Editorial Board, Tracés (French journal of social thought). 2014-present. Editorial Board, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. 2014-2016. Editorial Board, American Sociological Review. 2013-present: Editorial Board, book series on Global Ethnographies. Oxford University Press. 2011-present. Editorial Board (“International Scientific Committee”), Participations. Revue de Sciences Sociales sur la Démocratie et la Citoyenneté. 1999-2010. Editorial Board, Communication Review 2006. American Sociological Association. Political Sociology section panels organizer. 2006. Pacific Sociological Association, organized panel on Cultural Sociology. 2005-6. Awards Committee, Sociology of Culture, Best Article Prize. 2004-5. Awards Committee, Political Sociology, Best Book Prize. 2002-2005. Political Sociology Section Council (elected position) American Sociological Association. 1999. Awards Committee, Sociology of Culture, Best Article Prize. 1999-2002. Sociology of Culture Section Council (elected position), American Sociological Association. 1994-5. American Sociological Association, Culture Section, Nominations Committee. 1996-7. American Sociological Association, Culture Section, Book Award Committee 1995-6. American Sociological Association, Culture Section, Best Student Article Prize Committee 12

University Service 2015-present: Undergraduate Committee, Sociology, USC. 2015-present: Member of Civic and Social Media interdisciplinary research group. 2013-1014. Established a new interdisciplinary major, “NGOs and Social Change,” housed in Sociology at USC. 2013-present: Vice Chair, USC Sociology Department. 2011-2012. Search Committee Chair. Organizations and Politics position, Department of Sociology, USC. 2008-2011. Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, USC. 2006-7. Awards Committee, Department of Sociology, USC. 2004-5, 2005-6. Search Committee, Theory and Stratification position, Department of Sociology, USC. 2004-2006. Colloquium Committee, USC, organized colloquium series between Department of Sociology and Civic Engagement Initiative. 1995-6, 1997-2000. University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate. 1997-8. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin. The Update committee (newsletter for alumni, students, faculty and staff)

Book and Article Reviewer Reviewing Book Manuscripts: University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Stanford University Press. Reviewing Journal Articles: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, Mobilization, Sociological Quarterly, Qualitative Sociology, Political Communication, Ethnography, Theory and Society, Contexts, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Social Policy.

Supervision of Visiting Scholars Funded to Learn Ethnography in the United States

Svetlana Yerpyleva—Center for Independent Research, St. Petersburg, Russia, spring 2017 Yuan Li—Jilin University, China Maria Jesús Funes—from the Universidad de Educacion a la Distancia, Spain, fall 2016-spring 2017. Patrica Garcia-Espín—from Consejo national de investigaciones científicas, Córdoba, Spain, fall 2014 Ane Grubb—from Aalberg University, Denmark, spring 2013 Julien Talpin—from Centre national des recherches scientifiques, France, 2012-2013 Eeva Luhtakallio—from Helsinki University, Finland, 2008-2009, and fall 2010 Julien Charles—from Université de Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, 2008-2009 Lesley Hustinx—from Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, summer 2008 Camille Hamidi—from Institut des Sciences Politiques, France, 2001-2002

Masters and Ph.D. Committees; PARTIAL list Kushan Dasgupta in progress. USC Sociology. Demetri Psihopaidas in progress. USC Sociology Sorcha Alexandrina Brophy, 2016. Yale University Sociology Vern Glaeser, 2014. USC Marshall School of Business Nahoko Kameo 2014. UCLA Sociology Edson Rodriguez 2014. USC Sociology 13

Bradly Nabors 2014. USC Sociology Katherine Anderson in progress. USC Annenberg School for Communication Julien Charles 2012. Université de Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium Christina Gray 2011. USC International Relations Matthew Mahler 2011. SUNY-Stony Brook, Sociology, NY C. Brady Potts 2010. USC Sociology Eeva Luhtakallio 2010. Sociology, Helsinki University, Finland Jade Lo 2009. USC Marshall School of Business Don Waisanen 2009. USC Annenberg School for Communication Steven Zafirau. 2007. USC Sociology Zoltan Majdek 2007. USC Annenberg School for Communication Carole Viaud-Gayet 2007. Ecoles des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, France Nathan Manning 2007. Flinders University, Australia Paul Lachelier 2007. University of Wisconsin-Sociology Lyn Macgregor 2005. University of Wisconsin-Sociology Diane Soles 2005. University of Wisconsin Sociology. Sandy Nichols 2003. University of Wisconsin, Journalism and Mass Communications Rebecca Krantz, 2003. University of Wisconsin-Sociology. Susan Munkres 2003. University of Wisconsin-Sociology. Camille Hamidi 2002. Institut d’études politiques de Paris, France. Kelly Besecke, 2002. University of Wisconsin-Sociology. Sharmila Ruddrapa 2000. University of Wisconsin-Sociology. Katherine Daly 2000. University of Wisconsin, Journalism and Mass Communications. 1998. Jen-chieh Ting, University of Wisconsin-Sociology. 1996. Vernon Andrews, University of Wisconsin-Sociology.

Partial Masters and Orals Committees Yue Yang in progress. USC Annenberg School for Communication Yomna Elsayed 2016. USC Annenberg School for Communication Laura Alberti 2014. USC Annenberg School for Communication Kushan Dasgupta 2014. USC—Sociology Richard Lawrence 2010. USC Annenberg School for Communication Diane Winkelman 2010. USC Annenberg School for Communication Bradly Nabors 2009. USC-Sociology Edson Rodriguez 2009. USC—Sociology Kristin Barber 2008. USC-Sociology Evren Savci 2008. USC—Sociology Cenk Ozbay 2008. USC—Sociology Jade Lo 2007. USC—Marshall School of Business Don Waisanen 2007. USC Annenberg School for Communication Steven Robertson 2006. USC—Annenberg School for Communication Sahangsoon Park, 2006. USC—Marshall School of Business C. Brady Potts 2006. USC—Sociology University of Wisconsin: Member of Masters Committee (selected committees): C. Brady Potts 2004; Andy Olds; 2002, Daniel Steward 1999; Steven Hitlin 1999; Blackhawk Hancock, 1998; Clara To, 1998; Rebecca Krantz, 1997; Kelly Besecke, 1996; Neil Gross, 1995. Chair of Masters Committee: Lisa Murdock, 1999; Paul Lachelier, 1998, David Wright, 2004.

Related Work ORGANIZER “HEALTH CARE LESSONS FROM ABROAD” EVENT. gathered, at USC, scholars and researchers for a public panel on single-payer health care; worked with California Nurses Union and the Scholars Strategy Network.

PROGRAMMER, WORT-FM, Madison, WI 1993. helping develop a local news program “In Our Backyard;” reporting, writing editorials.

PROGRAMMER, REPORTER, KPFA-FM, Public Affairs Department and News Department, Berkeley, 1985-1990. news reporting, interviewing, and writing; training new volunteers in news writing and interviewing; producing daily news on Sundays; producing documentaries (including “Looking Good Is Feeling Good Is Making Money: Mary Kay Cashes in on Cosmetic Change” [documentary, l985, Pacifica Radio Archive, Los Angeles])

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, Propaganda Review, San Francisco, 1986-1988. a founding editor of a national journal on media, politics, and culture; soliciting, editing, and writing articles, including "The Missing Children Myth" (reprinted in Alternative Press Annual, Patricia J. Case, editor, l986, Temple University Press, Philadelphia)

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