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Curriculum Vita Name: Anne Warfield Rawls Office Address: University of Siegen SFB “Media of Cooperation” Herrengarten 3, AH-A 213 D-57072 Siegen Office Address: Department of Sociology 149H Morison Bentley University Waltham, MA 02452-4705 [email protected] Telephone Number: (617) 901-5956 (Sociology) FAX (781) 891-3418 ___________________________________________________________ Date When Vitae Was Updated: January 27, 2019 ____________________________________________________________ Education: Baccalaureate: Boston University 1976 Honors: Summa cum Laude Undergraduate "Groundwork for the Discovery of Moral Notions Honors Thesis: in the Social Sciences" Graduate: MA Boston University, Philosophy 1979 PhD Boston University, Sociology 1983 Dissertation Title: "Constitutive Justice: an Interactionist Contribution to the Understanding of Social Order and Human Value" Postgraduate: University of Wisconsin-Madison, NIMH 1986-7 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry ______________________________________________________________________ Current Positions: Full Professor, Department of Sociology, Bentley University, 2001-Present. Senior Professor, School of Information, University of Siegen, Germany, 2016-Present Senior Research Fellow, Yale University Center for Urban Ethnography, 2015-Present Director, Garfinkel Archive, June 2008-Present International Advisor, Center for Fundamental Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, June 2010-Present Associates Researcher, le Centre d’Etude des Mouvements Sociaux (CMS), Ecole Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris, 2010-Present _______________________________________________________________________ 1 Honors and Awards: 2018 Article of the Year Award, North Central Sociological Association, “‘Fractured Reflections’ of High Status Black Male Presentations of Self: Non-Recognition of Identity as a Tacit form of Institutional Racism” (2017, co-authored with Waverly Duck). 2010 Charles Horton Cooley Award, Michigan Sociological Association. 2010 Senior Research Laureate. Marie de Paris, Marcel Mauss Institute at EHESS Paris. _____________________________________________________________________ I. Publications A. Scholarly Books/Monographs: Forthcoming. First Author with Waverly Duck. A Nation Divided: Interaction Orders of Race in Everyday Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2019 Toward a Sociological Theory of Justice: Durkheim’s Forgotten Introduction to The Division of Social Labor. Published in French. Translated by Francesco Callegaro and Philip Chanial. Paris: Le bord de l’ eau. 2004 (2009) Epistemology and Practice: Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Reprinted 2009) B. Editorships of Books/Proceedings: 2019 Co-Editor with Jason Turowetz, Parsons’ Primer, by Harold Garfinkel, a manuscript written in 1962, edited with an introduction (100 pages) by myself and Jason Turowetz. Stuttgart: Springer. 2008 Editor, Toward a Sociological Theory of Information. By Harold Garfinkel, a manuscript written in 1952, edited and with an introduction (100 pages) by myself. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder Colorado. 2006 Editor, Seeing Sociologically, by Harold Garfinkel, a manuscript written in 1948 edited and with an introduction (100 pages) by myself and a foreword by Charles Lemert. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder Colorado. 2002 Editor, Ethnomethodology’s Program: Working out Durkheim’s Aphorism, by Harold Garfinkel, edited and with an introduction by myself. Rowman and Littlefield Press: Boulder Colorado. 1989 Co-Editor, with D. Helm, T. Anderson and A. Meehan, Interactional Order: New Directions in the Study of Social Order. New York: Irvington Press. 2 Reviews of my Books: 2006 Maroules, Nick and Neil Smelser. Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action. Review for Contemporary Sociology 35(5). 2005 Ogien, Albert. “L’ambition retrouvee de la sociologie” Critique. May. Pp. 404-417. Review of Epistemology and Practice. 2003 “Ethnomethodology’s Program: Working Out Durkheim’s Aphorism.” George Psathas. The American Journal of Sociology. 109(3)753. 2003 Peter K. Manning. “Ethno’s Threads.” Review of Ethnomethodology’s Program for Contemporary Sociology. 2003 “Ethnomethodology’s Program: Working Out Durkheim’s Aphorism.” David Calvey. The Sociological Review. Pp. 428-430. C. Journal Articles Published: 2019 “Introduction to Garfinkel’s ‘Notes on Language Games’: Language events as Cultural Events in ‘Systems of Interaction’”. The European Journal of Social Theory. May. 2018 First author with Waverly Duck and Jason Turowetz. “Problems Establishing Identity/Residency in a City Neighborhood during a Black/White Police/Citizen Encounter: Revisiting Du Bois’ Conception of ‘The Submissive Man’”. City and Community. December. 2018 “The Wartime Narrative in US Sociology 1940-1947: Stigmatizing Qualitative Sociology in the Name of “Science”. The European Journal of Sociology, 59(1). 2017 “An Essay on the Intrinsic Relationship between Social Facts and Moral Questions”. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 54(4): 392–404. 2017 Second author with Gary David. "Playing the Interrogation Game: Rapport, Coercion, and Confessions in Police Interrogations". Symbolic Interaction. 2017 First author with Waverly Duck. “’Fractured Reflections’ of High Status Black Male Presentations of Self: Non-Recognition of Identity as a Tacit form of Institutional Racism”, Sociological Focus, 50(1): 36-51. 2016 First author with Dave Mann and Adam Jeffrey. “Locating the Modern Sacred”. The Journal of Classical Sociology. Vol. 16(1)53-68. 3 2015 “Getting Information Systems to Interact: The Social Fact Character of ‘Object’ Clarity as a Factor in Designing Information Systems”. The Information Society. 31(2):175-192. 2013 “The Early Years 1939-1953: Garfinkel at North Carolina, Harvard and Princeton”. The Journal of Classical Sociology, 13(2): 303-312. 2012 “Introduction to ‘The Red’ by Harold Garfinkel. Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa 2012(1): 7-18. 2012 “Durkheim’s Epistemology: Continuities between The Elementary Forms and The Division”. Ethnografia et Ricerca Qualitativa: Special Issue on Durkheim’s Elementary Forms. Volume 5(3). 2012 “Durkheim’s Theory of Modernity: Self-Regulating Practices as Constitutive Orders of Social & Moral Facts,” JCS 12(3) 479-512. 2012 (Second author with Jo Ann Brooks) “Steps Toward a Socio-Technical Categorization Scheme for Communication and Information Standards”. On line publication. iConference '12, February 07 - 10 2012, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 Second author with Waverly Duck. "Interaction Orders of Drug Dealing Spaces: Local Orders of Sensemaking in a Poor Black American Place". Crime, Law and Social Change. 2012 “Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology and the Defining Questions of Pragmatism”. Qualitative Sociology (Symposium Issue on Pragmatism and Ethnomethodology). 2011 “Wittgenstein, Durkheim, Garfinkel and Winch: Constitutive Orders of Sensemaking” Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, December 2011. 2009 “Two Conceptions of Social Order: Constitutive Orders of Action, Objects, and Identities versus Aggregate Orders of Individual Action.” Special Issue of the Journal of Classical Sociology, Volume 9(4): 500-520. 2009 Third author with Gary David, Angela Garcia and Donald Chand. “Listening to What is Said – Transcribing What is Heard: The Impact of Speech Recognition Technology (SRT) on the Practice of Medical transcription (MT). Sociology of Health and Illness. 2009 First author with Dave Mann, Angela Cora Garcia, Gary David and Matt Burton. “Simple Enumerations: Ethnomethodology and MITRE Information Assurance Data Standards” (Italian title: “Semplici enumerazioni. L’etnometodologia e gli Information Assurance Data Standards del MITRE”). Ethnografia et Ricerca Qualitativa. Volume 2(1): 79-108. 4 2008 “Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology and Workplace Studies.” Organization Studies. Special Symposium Issue. (29) 5:701-732. 2007 “Reciprocity and Practice: Trust in a context of Globalization.” Enquete. This is published in addition to the translation of my AJS article that is also in this issue and is also listed under translations. 2006 First author with Gary David. “Accountably Other: Trust, Reciprocity and Exclusion in a Context of Situated Practice.” Human Studies. 28(4):469-497. 2006 Second author with Bonnie Wright. “The Dialectics of Beliefs and Practice: Religious Process as Praxis. Critical Sociology. 31(1-2). 2005 “Garfinkel’s Conception of Time.” Time and Society, 14(2-3): 163-190. 2004 “Situated Practice and Modernity: Practice vs Concepts.” (French title “Le Falace de l’abstraction Mal Place” Not published in English). The Mauss Review number 24. Listed also under translations. 2003 “Conflict as a Foundation for Consensus: Contradictions of Capitalism in Durkheim’s Division of Labor in Society.” Critical Sociology. 2003 “GEODE Essay: Answers to Questions.” GEODE (Groupe d’etude et d’observation de la democratie). Pp. 311-324. 2001 “Durkheim’s Treatment of Practice: Concrete Practice vs Representations as the Foundation for Reason.” The Journal of Classical Sociology. Vol 1(1). 2000 “Race as an Interaction Order Phenomena: W.E.B. Du Bois’s ‘Double Consciousness’ Thesis Revisited.” Sociological Theory. 18(2):239-272. 1999 "Troubles in Interracial Talk about Discipline: Discipline Narratives of African American Seniors." Second author with Lynetta Mosby, Edward Mays, Catherine J. Pettinari, and Albert J. Meehan. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Volume 30(3):489-521. 1998 "Durkheim's Challenge
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