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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 1 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”) 2 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) 4 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