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CURRICULUM VITAE

Richard A. Hilbert

Professor and Chair Phone: (507) 933-7428 Department of Sociology/Anthropology Home Phone: (507) 931-1249 Gustavus Adolphus College Date of Birth: 31 October 1947 St. Peter, MN 56082 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Training, School of Public Health 1981-83 University of California Los Angeles

Ph.D., June 1978 Department of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara

M.A., July 1974 Department of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara (with highest honors)

B.A., June 1969 San Diego State College (with high honors and distinction in sociology)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

General: Sociological Theory, Ethnomethodology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Education.

Current: How People Tell Dreams.

Recent: Classical sociological theory (including Durkheim and Weber) and ethnomethodological research.

Investigation into the social dimensions of chronic physical pain, with implications for classical anomie theory and socio-linguistics. Research methods included taped interviews.

Ethnographic study and historical review of teacher education, with implications for role theory and bureaucratic rationalization.

Prospective: Carl Jung and social theory, Ethnomethodology as applied sociology, sociology of childhood (ongoing) TEACHING INTERESTS

Crime and Delinquency Deviance Ethnomethodology Introductory Sociology Mental Illness Qualitative Research Methods Race and Ethnicity Socialization Social Problems Social Psychology Sociology of Education Sociology of the Family Sociology of Religion Statistics Stratification Theory Welfare

PUBLICATIONS

The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology: Durkheim, Weber, and Garfinkel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (1992) [Foreword by Randall Collins]. (paperback edition, 2001).

"Melvin Pollner and the Passing of an American Sociologist". Forthcoming in The American Sociologist.

"The Anomalous Foundations of Dream Telling: Objective Solipsism and the Problem of Meaning". Forthcoming in Human Studies (2010).

"Ethnomethodology and Social Theory". Pp. 159-178 in Bryan Turner (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Wiley/Blackwell (2008).

"Garfinkel's Recovery of Themes in Classical Sociology". In Michael Lynch and Wes Sharrock (eds.), Harold Garfinkel: Four-Volume Set [reprinted from Human Studies]. Sage Masters of Modern Social Thought Series (2004).

"Ethnomethodology". Pp. 252-257 in George Ritzer (General Editor), Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (2004).

"Comment on Ann Rawls's 'Durkheim's Epistemology'". Enquet (2003) [French translation, Yann Tholoniat].

"The Efficacy of Performance Science". In Philip Auslander (ed.), Performance: Critical Concepts (Volume III.) [reprinted from Social Problems]. Routledge (2003).

"The Efficacy of Performance Science". In Darin Weinberg (ed.), Qualitative Research Methods [reprinted from Social Problems]. Blackwell (2001).

"Covert Participant Observation: On Its Nature and Practice". Pp. 21-34 in J. Mitchell Miller and Richard Tewksbury (eds.), Extreme Methods [reprinted from Urban Life], Allyn & Bacon (2001).

"Garfinkel's Recovery of Themes in Classical Sociology". Human Studies (1995), Vol. 18, Nos. 2-3, Pp. 157-175.

"People Are Animals: Comment on Sanders and Arluke's 'If Lions Could Speak'". Sociological Quarterly (1994), Vol. 35, No. 3, Pp. 533-536. PUBLICATIONS (continued)

"Ethnomethodological Recovery of Durkheim". Sociological Perspectives (1992) Vol. 34, No. 3, Pp. 337-357 (special issue on "metatheory," edited by George Ritzer).

"Norman and Sigmund: Comment on Denzin's 'Harold and Agnes'". Sociological Theory (1991) Vol. 9, Pp. 264-268.

"Ethnomethodology and the Micro-Macro Order". American Sociological Review (1990) Vol. 55, Pp. 794-808.

"The Efficacy of Performance Science: Comment on McCall and Becker". Social Problems (1990) Vol. 37, No. 1, Pp. 133-135.

"Merton's Theory of Role-sets and Status-sets". Pp. 177-186 in Jon Clark, Sohan Modgil, and Celia Modgil (eds.), Robert K. Merton: Consensus and Controversy (Falmer International Master-Minds Challenged: Sociology Series). London: Falmer Press (1990).

"Reply to Coser". Pp. 188-189, ibid.

"Durkheim and Merton on Anomie: An Unexplored Contrast and Its Derivatives". Social Problems (1989) Vol. 36, No. 3, Pp. 242-250.

"Weberian Therapy for Contemporary Western Society" (Essay Review of Scott Lash and Sam Whimster (eds.) Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity). Contemporary Sociology (1989) Vol. 18, No. 3, Pp. 447-449.

"Bureaucracy as Belief, Rationalization as Repair: Max Weber in a Post-Functionalist Age". Sociological Theory (1987) Vol. 5, No. 1, Pp. 70-86.

"Anomie and the Moral Regulation of Reality: The Durkheimian Tradition in Modern Relief". Sociological Theory (1986) Vol. 4, No. 1, Pp. 1-19.

"The Acultural Dimensions of Chronic Pain: Flawed Reality Construction and the Problem of Meaning". Social Problems (1984) Vol. 31, No. 4, Pp. 365-378.

"Competency Based Teacher Education Versus the Real World: Some Natural Limitations to Bureaucratic Reform". Urban Education (1982) Vol. 16, No. 4, Pp. 379-398.

"Some Critical Remarks on Competency Based Education and the ASA Declaration on Teaching". Humanity and Society (1981) Vol. 5, No. 2, Pp. 184-190.

"Toward an Improved Understanding of 'Role'". Theory and Society (1981) Vol. 10, Pp. 207-226. (Nominee and first runner-up for the Theory Prize, American Sociological Association, 1980.)

"Covert Participant Observation: On Its Nature and Practice". Urban Life (1980) Vol. 9, No. 1, Pp. 51-78.

"Approaching Reason's Edge: 'Nonsense' as the Final Solution to the Problem of Meaning". Sociological Inquiry (1977) Vol. 47, No. 1, Pp. 25-31. PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS

"The Metaphorical Society: An Invitation to Social Theory by Daniel Rigney". Contemporary Sociology (2002) Vol. 31, Number 4, Pp. 492-493.

"Sentiments and Acts by Irwin Deutscher, Fred P. Pestello, and H. Frances G. Pestello". Social Forces (1995) Vol. 73, Number 2, Pp. 776-778.

"Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology edited by Graham Watson and Robert M. Seiler". Language in Society (1993) Vol. 22, Number 3, Pp. 424-428.

"Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences edited by Graham Button". Contemporary Sociology (1993) Vol. 22, Number 2, Pp. 265-266.

"Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Paul E. Brodwin, Byron J. Good, and Arthur Kleinman". American Journal of Sociology (1993) Vol. 98, Number 4, Pp. 982-984.

"Social Stigma: The Psychology of Marked Relationships by Edward E. Jones, Amerigo Farina, Albert H. Hastorf, Hazel Markus, Dale T. Miller, and Robert A. Scott". Contemporary Sociology (1985) Vol. 14, Number 3, Pp. 401-402.

"Social Roles: Conformity, Conflict and Creativity by Louis A. Zurcher". Contemporary Sociology (1984) Vol. 13, Number 4, P. 522.

"Successful Schools and Competent Students by James Garbarino and C. Elliot Asp". Contemporary Sociology (1983) Vol. 12, Number 1, Pp. 66-67.

"Criminology in Focus: Past Trends and Future Prospects by A. Keith Bottomley". Contemporary Sociology (1981) Volume 10, Number 1, P. 95.

"Issues in the Classification of Children edited by Nicholas Hobbs". Contemporary Sociology (1977) Volume 6, Number 6, Pp. 741-742.

"Sociology, Equality and Education by Antony Flew". Contemporary Sociology (1977) Volume 6, Number 6, P. 723.

PRESENTED PAPERS

"How People Tell Dreams II: The Foundations of Dream Analysis". Presented at the Meetings of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkeley, June 2005.

"How People Tell Dreams I: Conundrums for Sociology". Presented at the Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2005.

"Sociological Study of Rationality". Presented at the meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1999.

"Teaching Radical Social Constructionism to Undergraduates". Presented at the meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April 1996. PRESENTED PAPERS (continued)

"Garfinkel's Recovery of Classical Sociology". Presented at the conference on "Ethnomethodology: Twenty-five Years Later," sponsored by the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Waltham, Massachusetts, August 1992.

"Society/Morality and Society/Reality: Two Durkheimian Equivalences Suppressed by Parsons and Recovered by Garfinkel". Presented at the meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, April 1991.

"Ethnomethodology and the Micro-Macro Order". Presented at the meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April 1990.

"The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology". Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association (session on Ethnomethodology), San Francisco, August 1989.

"Durkheim and Merton on Anomie: Some Unthematized Contrasts". Presented at the meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1988.

"Bureaucracy as Belief, Rationalization as Repair: Max Weber in a Post-Functionalist Age". Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association (session on Sociological Theory and the Classics), Chicago, August 1987.

"Anomie and the Moral Regulation of Reality: The Durkheimian Tradition in Modern Relief." Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association (session on Theory), Washington, D.C. August 1985.

"Chronic Pain in Culture: Flawed Reality Construction and the Problem of Meaning". Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association (session on Medical Sociology), Detroit, Michigan, August 1983.

"Chronic Pain as a Social Experience". Presented to the Psychiatric Epidemiology Doctoral Roundtable, University of California, Los Angeles, March 1982.

"Competency Based Teacher Education Versus the Real World of Practical Activity". Presented at the meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society (session on Sociology of Education), Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1981.

"'Role': From Functionalism to Symbolic Interactionism to Ethnomethodology". Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association (session on Sociological Theory), New York, August 1980.

"Learning From Agnes: Notes on Covert Participant Observation". Presented at the Conference of the Association for Humanist Sociology, South Bend, Indiana, October 1978.

"On Teachers and Children: The Establishment of Intersubjectivity as Prerequisite to 'Getting Them Through'". Presented at the Conference on the Phenomenological Analysis of Asymmetrical Interpersonal Relations, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, May 1977.

PRESENTED PAPERS (continued) "Approaching Reason's Edge: Limiting Tasks and the Role of 'Nonsense' in their Resolutions". Presented at the Colloquium on Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, August, 1975.

"On the Sensible Character of Nonsense". Presented at the meetings of the Southern Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., April 1975 (with John Weiler).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses taught in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Gustavus Adolphus College (1978-81; 1983-):

Sociological Theory Social Problems Personality and Society American Minorities Sociology of Social Welfare Ethnomethodology Sociology of Education

Courses taught in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara:

Introductory Sociology (Spring 1978)

Teaching Assistantships held in the Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara:

Sociology of Education (Winter 1978) Introduction to Quantitative Sociology (Fall 1977) Race and Society (Spring 1976) Methods of Sociological Research (Quantitative) (Winter 1976) Methods of Sociological Research (Qualitative) (Fall 1975) Small Groups (Spring 1975) Introductory Sociology (Winter 1975) Society and Personal Growth (Fall 1974) Introductory Statistics (Spring 1974)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor, Social Problems, 1987-94; 2002-09.

Advisory Editor, Sociological Quarterly, 1991-09.

Associate Editor, Sociological Theory, 1993-95.

Melvin Pollner Prize Committee (ASA, Ethnomethodology/CA Section), member 2009--

Adjunct Professor (Ph.D. dissertation advisor) Union Institute Graduate School, 1996-2001.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued) Organizer, Roundtable on "Problems in the Study of Animal Consciousness," meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1994.

Participant, Symposium on "Reconsidering Social Constructionism," University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, March 1992.

Discussant, session on Macro/Micro Linkages, meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1988.

Presider and Discussant, session on Doctor-Patient Interaction, meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit, Michigan, August 1983.

Presider, session on Ethnomethodology, meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 1980.

Guest Lecturer, graduate seminar on ethnomethodology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 1980.

Contributor to Perspectives (Theory Section Newsletter, American Sociological Association).

Referee for Sociological Theory, Social Problems, Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Psychological Quarterly, Symbolic Interaction, Urban Life, Sociological Inquiry, Humanity and Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and the ASA Rose Monograph Series.

Minnesota State Membership Organizer, Association for Humanist Sociology, 1979-80.

Book reviewer for Contemporary Sociology, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Language In Society.

SERVICE TO GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE

Sociology/Anthropology Department Chair, 1991-95, 1997-in perpetuity

Committee and Subcommittee Memberships:

--Academic Program and Policy (Curriculum) Committee member, 1985-88; 1989-91.

--January Term Subcommittee, 1984-89; 1990-91 (Assistant Chair, 1986-88, 90-91).

--Academic Operations and Achievements Subcommittee, 1989-91.

--Area E Curriculum Review Committee, 1990-94 ("contact person", 1992-94).

--Surdna Subcommittee on Women's Studies, 1983-87.

--Instructional Resources Subcommittee, 1983-84.

SERVICE TO GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE (continued)

--Affirmative Action Committee, 1979-80 (sole member); 1980-81 (secretary); 1983-85. --Guild of St. Ansgar Selection Committee, 1986.

--Subcommittee on Special Programs, 1988-89.

Contributor, Faculty Notes:

--"The Annotated Customer Prints" (farewell issue)

--"Comment on Professor Morrow's Letter" (46,1)

--"Sexual Harassment in a Society of Saints" (45,1)

--"The True Story of Tweedledee and Tweedledum" (1991/92,5)

--"Comment on The Survey Regarding Freshman Seminars" (40,3)

--"The Girl and the Mirror, by P.D.Q. Comte" (40,3; (tr.))

--"Keenness" (38,2)

--"Answers" (38,2)

--"Sociology and Common Sense" (37,1)

--"My Personal Attack on Ronald Reagan" (36,4)

--"Victoria Sirota Concert" (26,4))

--"Supplement on How We Know: Why Computer Intelligence will Never Come to Pass" (35,3)

--"The Customer Prints" (35,1)

--"On the Use of Strategic Ambiguity" (34,1A)

--"March 30, 1979: 11:00 PM" (28,6)

--"A Sociologist Went Out" (28,2)

"Hilbert Space"--regular contributions to campus faculty electronic discussion (AKA The Rh Factor).

Editor and Disseminator, FACULTY-R, an electronic newsletter of questionable taste, 2001-05.

Invited speaker, student discussions on welfare reform, March 1996.

Contributor to Twinflower (Newsletter of the Friends of the Linnaeus Arboretum), Winter 1992.

SERVICE TO GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE (continued)

Invited Speaker, Tuesday Conversations: Religion and Culture, sponsored by the Department of Religion, February 1993. Program Committee for Nobel Conference, 1987, 1992, 1998.

Campus host and speaker introduction (Robert Gallo), Nobel Conference, 1992, 1998.

Participant, Life-Style Seminars, Freshman Orientation, 1992.

Invited speaker, student discussions on JFK assassination, January 1992.

Questionnaire design, faculty surveys on January Term and General Education, 1991 (with Tom Gover).

Originator and Coordinator of the Victoria Sirota lecture-concert on the work of Fanny Mendelssohn, Bjorling Concert Hall, April 23, 1987.

Participant, Summer Institute on Global Studies, Gettysburg College, June 1985.

Chapel Talks, January and May 1985, December 1986.

Guest Speaker, course on writing as a profession, Department of English, February 1985.

Guest Speaker, course on God on Trial, Department of Religion, Spring 1994, Fall 1995.

Participant in Human Relations course for student teachers, Department of Education, 1979-1984.

Assorted Departmental and Third Year Review Committees.

Freshman Advisor, alternate years, 1978-81; 1983-90.

Junior Day participant, random years.

Department Secretary, 1978-80.

Department Contact for students interested in welfare as a profession.

Classes regularly visited by prospective Gustavus students.

Department Library Liaison, 1978-1981; 1983-.

Senior Thesis Advisor.

Assorted Independent Studies and Cooperative Education Advisor.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Article ("Toward an Improved Understanding of 'Role'") nominee and first runner-up for the American Sociological Association Theory Section's Theory Prize, 1980.

Research Grants, Gustavus Advisory Committee on Research, Scholarship and Creativity, Summer 1981, 1989, 1990.

Dean's Award for Outstanding Faculty Scholarship, 1989.

Teaching Assistantships, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. M.A. with Highest Honors, 1974.

B.A. with High Honors and Distinction in Sociology, 1969.

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Traineeship in Psychiatric Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981-83.

California Elementary and Secondary Teaching Credentials, School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 1977.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Sociological Association

Midwest Sociological Society

Society for the Study of Social Problems

International Association for the Study of Dreams

Discourse Analysis Research Group (D.A.R.G.)

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

"Sexual Harassment in a Society of Saints". Journal of Irreproducible Results (2001).

"Dead People's Experiment". Journal of Irreproducible Results (2000) Volume 45, Number 4, Pp. 29-30.

"Jackpot for Tornado Victims", St. Paul Pioneer Press (April 1998).