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ALICE GOFFMAN Agoffman@Wisc.Edu 3456 Sewell ALICE GOFFMAN [email protected] 3456 Sewell Social Science Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison WI 53706-1393 WORK Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2012 - present Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2015-2016 Robert Wood Johnson Scholar, University of Michigan, 2010-2012 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Sociology, Princeton, 2010 Dissertation: On the Run Committee: Mitch Duneier, Viviana Zelizer, Paul DiMaggio, Devah Pager, Cornel West Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in Philadelphia, the dissertation describes young men living as suspects and fugitives in a segregated Black neighborhood torn apart by the war on crime and unprecedented levels of targeted imprisonment. • Winner of the 2011 Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association B.A. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006 AREAS Urban Sociology, Ethnography, Inequality, Social Interaction and Social Psychology, Race and Ethnicity, Punishment BOOK 2014. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. University of Chicago Press • Reviewed in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Harpers, The Atlantic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Times Higher Education UK, and ~50 others • Translations in Dutch, German, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French • Paperback with Picador/Farrar Straus and Giroux, April 2015 • Audio Book with Audible • New York Times Notable Book Of the Year ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “When the Police Knock Your Door In.” Marginality in the Americas, edited by Javier Auyero, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016 “This Fugitive Life,” Op Ed in The New York Times, May 31, 2014 “On The Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto” American Sociological Review 74/2 (2009): 339-357. • Lead article; Winner of the 2010 Jane Addams Award for Best Article, Community and Urban Section of ASA • Reprinted in Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy, eds. The urban ethnography reader. Oxford University Press, 2014. • Reprinted in Jeffrey C Dixon and Royce Singleton, eds. Reading Social Research: Studies in Inequality and Deviance. SAGE Publications, 2013. Review of “Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory” by Randall Collins. Contemporary Sociology 38/3 (2009): 190-192. WORK IN PROGRESS Mapping the Fatefulness of Everyday Life: A Sociology of Small Events (article to be submitted November 2016) TALKS “The Lasting Impact of Fleeting Experience: Towards A Sociology of Small Events” • Williams College, May 2016 • Randall Collins Retirement Conference, University of Pennsylvania, April 2016 • Social Psychology and Microsociology Brownbag, UW-Madison, March 2016 • Theorodology Workshop, Princeton, March 2016 “Hospitals as Safe Havens: Caring for Legally Vulnerable Families in the Era of Mass Incarceration and Police Violence” • Keynote, Hot Topics in Neonatology Conference, Washington DC, December 2015 “External Shocks” 2 • Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, November 2015 “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” • Williams College, Mass., May 2016 • Kansas Federal Public Defenders Annual Conference, May 2016 • Athens State University, Alabama, Livingston Concert Lecture Series, March 2016 • Cal State East Bay, Provost’s Speakers Colloquium, February 2016 • University of Kansas, Hall Center for Humanities Lecture Series, October, 2015 • Edgewood College, September, 2015 • Boston College, September 2015 • Eastern State Penitentiary, May 2015 • Robina Institute, University of Minnesota, April 2015 • Dean’s Lecture, University of Texas, San Antonio, April 2015 • NYU School of Journalism, in conversation with Ted Conover, April 2015 • Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Annual Knisely Lecture, April 2015 • Plenary Talk, British Sociological Association, Glasgow, April 2015 • Warren County Community College, NJ, April 2015 • Furman College, North Carolina, April 2015 • Calvin College, April 2015 • Georgia Southern, March 2015 • TED Talk, Vancouver, March 2015 • Harvard Law School, with commentary by Glenn Loury, March 2015 • University of Indiana, March 2015 • University of Maryland, March 2015 • First Year Experience Conference, Dallas, February 2015 • Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, January 2015 • Urban Studies Annual Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, December 2014 • Department of Sociology, NYU, December 2014 • Department of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin, November 2014 • TEDx Talk, Madison, WI, November 2014 • Author Meets Critics Panel for On the Run, Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 2014 • Shawnee State, October 2014 • Department of Sociology, Cornell University, October 2014 • Department of Sociology, UMass-Amherst, October 2014 • Southern Book Festival, Nashville, October 2014 • University of Pittsburgh, October 2014 • American Bar Foundation, Chicago, October 2014 • St. Joseph’s University, September 2014 • Dean’s Lecture, Rutgers/Newark School of Criminal Justice, September 2014 • Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, September 2014 3 • Presidential Panel, The Police, Surveillance, and Violence, American Sociological Association Meetings, August 2014 • Author Meets Critics Panel for On the Run, American Sociological Association Meetings, August 2014 • Nathan Levin Lecture on Public Policy, Center for New York City Affairs, New School, June 2014 • Robert Wood Johnson New Perspectives Conference, Princeton, June 2014 • The Free Library of Philadelphia, June 2014 • Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiatives Conference, Philadelphia, June 2014 • Kennedy School, Harvard, April 2014 • Keynote, Spring Sociology Conference, NYU, April 2014 • Keynote, Urban Ethnography Conference hosted by Elijah Anderson, Yale, April 2014 • Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, March 2014 • Lemert Distinguished Lecture, Department of Sociology, UC Davis, March 2014 “On the Run: The Social Order of a Fugitive Community” • Thematic Panel, American Sociological Association Meetings, New York, August 2013 • Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, Max Planck-Science Po, Paris, April 2013 • Department of Sociology, Stanford, March 2013 • Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, March 2013 • Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, February 2013 • Department of Sociology, UCLA, February 2013 “Violence in the Era of Mass Incarceration” • Conference on Violence at the Urban Margins, hosted by Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin, April 2013 “The Moral Life of Criminalized Young Adults” • Department of Sociology, Social Psychology and Microsociology Working Group, University of Wisconsin, November 2012 • Conference on Youth hosted by Brian Kelly, Purdue, April 2012 “Hunger in Detroit: Food Scarcity and Strategies for Survival in a Devastated City” • Institute For Research on Poverty Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin, December 2012 • Yale Symposium on Inequality, Sept 2012 • Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Meetings, June 2012 “When the Police are Knocking Your Door In: The Moral Careers of the Intimates of Wanted Men” • Dept. of Sociology, Harvard, Justice and Inequality Reading Group, Nov 2012 4 • Dept. of Sociology, Ethnography Working Group, UCLA, April 2012 • Dept. of Sociology, Urban Ethnography Colloquium, Yale, March 2012 • Urban Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania. “Criminalizing the City: 10th annual Series of Public Conversations on Major Civic Issues Facing Philadelphia”, March 2012 • Dept. of Sociology, University of Georgia, February 2012 • Presidential Panel, Tales from the Dark Side, Eastern Sociological Society, February 2012 • Dept. of Sociology, City College, CUNY, February 2012 “On the Run: A Philadelphia Ghetto in the Era of Surveillance and Imprisonment” • Dept. of Sociology, Northwestern University, January 2012 “Ethnography and the Politics of Representation” • Thematic Session at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, August 2011 • “Leaving the Party: Some Notes on Occasions and their Endings” • Thematic Session on Studying Failure: When Interaction Goes Wrong, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, August 2011 “Health in a Dying City: Preliminary Findings From Detroit” • Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Annual Meetings, June 2011 • “Becoming a Snitch” • Conference on Ethnographies of Destitution in the Americas, UT Austin, hosted by Javier Auyero, April 2011 • Workshop on Method, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 2010 • Panel on Ethnography, Interaction and Culture, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Boston, March 2010 “How the Ghetto Became Black” (with Mitch Duneier) • Urban Ethnography Conference hosted by Elijah Anderson, Yale, November 2010 “On the Run: Wanted Men and the Policing of the Modern Ghetto” • Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2009 • Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Michigan, November 2009 • Dept. of Sociology, McGill, October 2009 • Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, October 2009 • Dept. of Sociology, Duke, September 2009 “Beef: The Micro-Dynamics of Gun Violence in Philadelphia.” • Urban Ethnography Conference hosted by Elijah Anderson, Yale, April 2008 • Mini-Conference on the 40th Anniversary of Tally’s Corner, Eastern Sociological 5 Society Annual Meetings, New York, February 2008 “The Social Situation of Wanted Men.” • Crime, Law, and Deviance Invited Session, American Sociological
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