CURRICULUM VITAE January 2017
LYNETTE SPILLMAN Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame 810 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame IN 46556, United States [email protected] 1-574-6318067 http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/faculty-by-alpha/lynette-spillman/
ACADEMIC POSITIONS______
Assistant Professor to Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 1991- Present
EDUCATION______
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, 1991
M.A. in Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, 1986
B.A. (Hons), Australian National University, 1982 Double first class honours, sociology & philosophy.
AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTEREST______
Cultural Sociology; Economic Sociology; Social Theory; Qualitative Methods; Political Sociology
SCHOLARSHIP______
BOOKS
Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology, 2013
Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology, 2013
Cultural Sociology, Editor (Malden MA and London: Blackwell, 2002).
Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
(Reviewed: American Historical Review 103(1998): 1307-1308; American Journal of Sociology 103(1998): 1728-30; American Politics Review 37(1998); Australian Journal of Political Science 33(1998): 146-47; Contemporary Sociology 27(1998): 192-93; International Affairs 74(1998): 935; Journal of American History 85(1998): 295-96; Journal of Australian Studies 1999: 233; Journal of Historical Geography 25(1999): 128-29; Journal of Intercultural Studies 19(1998): 122-23; Journal of Sociology 34(1998): 87-89; Nations and Nationalism 4(1998): 121-24; Pacific Affairs 72(1999): 140-41; Social Forces 76(1998): 1556-58; Sociology 31(1997): 837-38).
Chapter 5, “Making Nations Meaningful in the United States and Australia,” reprinted in Steven Grosby and Athena Leoussi, eds. Nationality and Nationalism (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003)
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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Meta-Organization Matters,” in Thomas Lawton, Tazeeb Rajwani and Amy Minto, “Dialog: Why Trade Associations Matter: Exploring Function, Meaning and Influence.” Journal of Management Inquiry, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1177/1056492616688856
“Culture” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer, 2nd edition. Blackwell Reference Online. 29 November 2016. DOI 10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.00003.x
“Business Associations.” Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society, edited by Frederick F. Wherry and Juliet B. Schor (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 2015). DOI: 10.4135/9781452206905.n114
“Economic Culture in the Public Sphere,” (with Nina Bandelj and Frederick Wherry), European Journal of Sociology 56(1) April 2015: 1-10. DOI: 10.1017/S000397561500016
“Mixed Methods and the Logic of Qualitative Inference.” Qualitative Sociology 37(1) March 2014: 189- 205. DOI 10.1007/s11133-014-9273-0
“Interest-Oriented Action.” With Michael Strand. Annual Review of Sociology 39 (2013): 1-20.
“Culture and Economic Life” Pp. 157-189 in Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith, and Ron Jacobs, eds. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
“Political Centers, Progressive Narratives, and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937-1979” (with Xiaohong Xu). Pp. 101-28 in NorthEast Asia’s Difficult Past: Essay in Collective Memory. Mikyoung Kim and Barry Schwartz, eds. (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). Translated in Northeast Asia’s History and Memory (Tohoku Ajia’no Rekishi’to Kioku (Tokyo: Keisoshobo, 2014). Best Book Award 2016, Republic of Korea Ministry of Education.
”A Special Camaraderie with Colleagues: Business Associations and Cultural Production for Economic Action” Pp. 17-43 in Isaac Reed and Jeffrey Alexander, eds. Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology. Yale Series in Cultural Sociology (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).
”Texts, Bodies, and the Memory of Bloody Sunday” (with Brian Conway) Symbolic Interaction 30(1) 2007: 79-103
”Culture” Pp. 922-28 in George Ritzer, ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. 2 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007).
“Cultural Sociology at the Crossroads of the Discipline” (with Mark Jacobs) Poetics 33(1) 2005: 1-14
”Nations” (with Russell Faeges) Pp. 409-37 in Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff, eds. The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology (Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005).
”Causal Reasoning, Historical Logic, and Sociological Explanation” Pp. 216-34 in Jeff Alexander, Gary Marx, and Christine Williams, eds. Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in the Sociological Thought of Neil J. Smelser (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).
“Enriching Exchange: Cultural Dimensions of Markets” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58 (1999): 1041-1071.
"When Do Collective Memories Last? Founding Moments in the United States and Australia" Social Science History 22 (1998): 445-77. Reprinted pp. 161-92 in Jeffry K. Olick, ed., States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003).
"How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Social Structure" Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Special Issue, "Recent Advances in Theory and Research in Social Structure," 22 (1996): 31-45. Reprinted pp. 63-83 in Sing C. Chew and J. David Knottnerus, eds. Structure, Culture, and History Recent Issues in Social Theory (Boulder CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
"'Neither the Same Nation Nor Different Nations': Constitutional Conventions in the United States and Australia" Comparative Studies in Society and History 38 (1996): 149-81.
"Culture, Social Structure, and Discursive Fields" Current Perspectives in Social Theory 15 (1995):129-54.
"Imagining Community and Hoping For Recognition: Bicentennial Celebrations in 1976 and 1988." Qualitative Sociology 17 (1994): 3-28.
PUBLIC USE DATA SET
“National Business Associations, United States, 2003.” Dataset, Codebook, and Project Description. Principal Investigator. Special Collaborators: Rui Gao, Xiahong Xu, Brian Miller, and Georgian Schiopu. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan. No. 4333. Supported by ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline No. 6846 and Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame. 2005.
EDITED SPECIAL ISSUE
“Economic Culture in the Public Sphere” (with Nina Bandelj and Frederick Wherry) Special issue of European Journal of Sociology 56(1) April 2015.
“Cultural Sociology and Sociological Publics.” (With Mark Jacobs). Poetics 33(1) Spring 2005
COMMENTS AND REVIEWS
“Public Engagement, Normative Control, and Modern Solidarity,” Review essay, Caroline W. Lee, Do-It- Yourself Democracy: The Rise of the Public Engagement Industry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) Trajectories 28(1) 2016: 20-23.
“Pedigree, Consolation, Diversity: Best Books in Cultural Sociology,” Culture, 28(3) Fall 2016: 4.
“Culture’s Coherence: How the Trees Compose the Woods,” The American Sociologist 47(4) 2016: 416- 429. DOI 10.1007/s12108-016-9311-3
“Ghosts of Straw Men: A Reply to Lee and Martin,” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 3(2015): 365- 79. DOI: 10.1057/ajcs.2015.5
“Cultural Forms of Resource Mobilization and Their Consequences.” Symposium on Dan Lainer-Vos’ Sinews of the Nation (Polity,2013) Trajectories 26(2) Spring 2015: 45-48
Symbols of Nations and Nationalism: Celebrating Nationhood, by Gabriella Elgenius. Contemporary Sociology 43(1) January 2014: 83-85.
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“Jobs, Work, and Wages: The Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2013.” Accounts: Newsletter of the ASA Economic Sociology Section,12(3) July 2013: 18-19.
“Re-interpretation of Social Knowledge.” Trajectories: Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Section 24(2) Summer 2013: 6-9.
The Culture of Markets, by Frederick F. Wherry. Sociologica 3(2012): 1-3.
The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power by Jeffrey Alexander. American Journal of Sociology 117(6) May 2012: 1828-1830.
“Rationality, Uncertainty, and Macro-economic Change” Review essay, symposium on From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe, by Nina Bandelj. Socio-economic Review (2009): 1-15.
“Thick Description in Causal Claims,” Message from the Chair, Culture .22(3) 2008: 1-3, 5
“Cultural Sociology and its Others,” Message from the Chair, Culture 22(2) 2008: 1-4
“‘As we look ahead to the new year...:’ Culture and Interests,” Message from the Chair, Culture 22(1) 2007: 1-5.
“Is the Strong Program Strong Enough?” Culture 19(2) 2005: 1, 4-6.
Culture and Societies in a Changing World (2nd ed.) by Wendy Griswold. Teaching Sociology 33(1) 2005: 111-112
Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, by Barry Schwartz American Journal of Sociology 107 (2001): 843.
"Australian Nationalism," in Alexander Motyl, ed. Encyclopedia of Nationalism, vol. 2 (San Diego: Academic Press, 2001).
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, by K.S. Inglis. Australian Journal of Political Science 35 (2000): 152-53.
Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States, by Sarah M. Corse. Contemporary Sociology 27 (1998): 279-280.
Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation, by Karen A. Cerulo. Contemporary Sociology 26 (1997): 244-45.
The Construction of Social Reality, by John R. Searle Contemporary Sociology 25 (1996): 57-58.
“Can Cultural Sociology Explain Structure?" Culture 9(3) 1995:1-3
Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States, and International Migration Gary P. Freeman and James Jupp, eds. Contemporary Sociology 23 (1994): 270-71.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Professions or Professionalism? Culture and Organization in Theories of Professions,” With Sorcha Brophy. Invited submission, Journal of Professions and Organization
What is Cultural Sociology? Under contract with Polity Press.
“Symbolic Violence, Trigger Warnings, and Cultural Power” With Robert Mowry.
“Cultural Sociology.” Invited chapter, Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory.
“A Cultural Theory of Interests.” Book project, anticipated completion 2019-20.
HONORS AND AWARDS______
“Author Meets Critics” Panel, Solidarity in Strategy, Presidential Panel, Social Science History Meeing, Chicago, November 2013.
“Author Meets Critics” Panel, Solidarity in Strategy. ASA Annual Meeting, New York, August 2013.
Mary Douglas Award for Best Book in Cultural Sociology, 2013
Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology, 2013
ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, 2003
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2001
“Author Meets Critics” Panel, Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia. Social Science History Association Meetings, November 1998.
Visiting Fellowship, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1996
Visiting Scholar, University of Queensland, Australia, 1994
Faculty Research Program Award, University of Notre Dame, 1993.
Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellow, 1993-1994
Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1990
Eli Sagan Prize, Sociology Department, University of California at Berkeley, 1990
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, 1987
Regents' Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1983
Fulbright Award, Australian-American Education Foundation, 1983
Quentin Gibson Prize in Philosophy, Australian National University, 1979
INVITED ACADEMIC POSITIONS ______
Visiting Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University (Spring 2012)
International Fellow, Cultural Sociology Group, Australian Sociological Association, (2006- )
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Faculty Fellow, Higgins Labor Research Center, Notre Dame (2006- )
Visiting Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University (Spring 2006)
Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, (2004- )
Visiting Professor, Sociology Department, University of Arizona (Spring 2002)
Visiting Professor, Sociology Department, Northwestern University (Fall 2001)
Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame (1996- )
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (Spring 1998)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Queensland (Spring 1994)
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS______
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
“’Two Cultures’ or ‘A Unified Framework’? Old Debates and New Ideas in Cultures of Historical Inquiry,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2016.
“Trade Associations and Business Collective Action,” Symposium on Collective Action, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim CA, August 2016.
“American Business Associations as Cultural Producers,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim CA, August 2016.
“Industry Associations and Transnational Governance,” Joint meeting of the International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society for International Law, Rutgers Law School Center for Corporate Law and Governance, and Rutgers Institute of Professional Education. Rutgers Law School, June 2016.
“Cultural Explanation, Mixed Methods, and the Ghosts of Straw Men.” Joint meeting of the Mixed Methods and Cultural Sociology Workshops, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, March 2015.
“Freedom, Progress and Diversity in American Identity Narratives,” Symposium on “Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum,” New York, May 2014.
“Large Numbers and Cultural Explanation,” Invited plenary speaker, “Advancing Cultural Sociology” Tenth Anniversary Conference, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, April 2014.
“Solidarity in Strategy: American Trade Associations and the Meaning of Business,” Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, April 2014.
“Mixed Methods and the Logic of Cultural Argument,” Invited Session on “Methods, Materials, and Meanings: Designing Cultural Analysis,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 2013.
“American Trade Associations and the Meaning of Business” Department of Sociology, Cornell University, May 2013.
“Solidarity and Disinterest in Business Culture.” Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, March 2013.
“Totems and Alibis: Towards a Cultural Theory of Interests,” with Michael Strand “Possibility and Imagination: Journeys in Cultural Sociology.” Annual Conference of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, April 2012.
“Business Culture, Neo-institutionalism, and Occupational Community” Center for Cultural Sociology Workshop, Yale University, April 2012.
“Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations.” Culture and Society Workshop, Northwestern University, April 2010.
“Culture, Nations, and Economic Life” Invited Speaker, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, September 2009.
“Propositions on the Persistence of National Myth,” Keynote Speaker “Whither National Myths? Reflections on the Present and Future of National Myths” Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, May 2009
“Boundaries, Identities, Norms, and Camaraderie in Business Associations” Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, February 2008.
“The Power of Business,” International Research Conference on Culture and Power, Oslo, Norway, December 2007.
“Interests as Implicit Analytic Model” 20th Anniversary Miniconference on Modeling, ASA Culture Section, New York, August 2007
“‘A Tense and Permeable Boundary:’ Economic Interests and Public Good,” “Meaning, Identity and Interaction,” Yale Center for Cultural Sociology Annual Conference, New Haven, April 2007.
“Global Transactions, Global Representations, and Global Orientations” Plenary Address, “Changing Cultures: European Perspectives,” European Sociological Association Culture Network, Gent, Belgium, November 2006.
“Business Associations, Public Discourse, and Civic Engagement,” Emory Bogardus Colloquium Series, Civic Engagement Initiative, University of Southern California, March 2006.
“Emerging Theoretical Issues in Cultural Sociology,” Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, February 2006.
“What Do Business Associations Do?” Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, Yale University, February 2006.
“Memory, Politics, and Identity: Directions for Future Research.” Conference on “The State of Social Memory Studies” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, October 2005.
“Durkheim and Concrete Repair” Inaugural Conference, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, May 2005.
“Texts, Bodies, and the Memory of Bloody Sunday” With Brian Conway, Conference on Collective Memory and Interaction, Northwestern University, June 2004
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“Nations as a Problem in Cultural Analysis” Plenary session, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003
”Cause, Culture, and Comparative-Historical Methodology” Sociology Department Colloquium Series, University of Arizona, April 2001.
“Cultural Sociology on National Identity” Sociology Department, University of Chicago, April 1999.
“Freedom, the Continent, and International Regard: National Identities in the United States and Australia.” Annual Meeting of the Australian Studies Association of North America, Austin, February 1999.
"Explaining National Identities: the United States and Australia Compared." Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 1998.
"National Identity in Settler Societies" Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics, June 1998
"Immigrants and New Nations: Australia." Conference on "National Identity and New Nations," Rabin Center, Tel Aviv University, March 1998.
"Explaining National Identities in the United States and Australia" Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, February 1998
"Explaining National Identities: The United States and Australia Compared." Sociology Department Colloquium Series, Northwestern University, October 1997
"Founding Moments and National Inclusion" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 1996
"Cultural Sociology and the Structure/Culture Problem" Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, 1996
"Interethnic Politics of Difference: Theoretical Perspectives." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, 1996
"Global Presuppositions and National Identities" Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 1995.
REFEREED PAPERS AND PANEL PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Cultural Power and the Politics of Trigger Warnings” (with Robert Mowry), Regular Session on Political Culture, Annual Meeting of the ASA, Chicago, August 2015.
“Symbolic Violence and the Limits of Domination” XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama Japan, July 2014.
“Towards a Cultural Theory of Interests” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, February 2012; ISA- RC16 Midterm Conference, “Cultures and Civilizations in the Contemporary World,” Trento, Italy, June 2012.
“Professional Languages in Business and Theories of Professions,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011.
“Rethinking Professions: Jurisdictional Control and Abstract Knowledge Production in Business Associations,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 2010
“’Professional Commitments and ‘Feelings of Family’: Vocabularies of Motive in American Business Associations,” XVII World Congress of Sociology, RC02, Gothenburg Sweden, July 2010.
‘”Improving Our Industry:’ Interest and Disinterest in Business Culture,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2009.
“Culture, Economic Governance, and American Business Associations,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Paris, July 2009.
“Boundaries, Identities, Norms and Camaraderie in Business Associations,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, March 2009.
“Bringing Durkheim Back In: The Political and Cultural History of American Business Associations.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Miami, October 2008.
“An Opportunity to Give Something Back to the Industry:” Business Associations as Occupational Communities,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008.
“A Special Camaraderie with Colleagues: Business Associations and Cultural Production for Economic Action,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 2005.
“Texts, Bodies, and the Memory of Bloody Sunday” International Institute of Sociology, 37th World Congress, Stockholm, July 2005 and Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 2005
“What Do Business Associations Do?” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004
”Cultural Sociology and Causal Reasoning,” XV World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Brisbane, July 2002
”Culture and Democracy: Acting Locally, Nationally, Globally,” (with Viviana Bompadre). Conference on “Culture at the Millennium,” George Mason University, August 2000.
“Enriching Exchange: Cultural Dimensions of Markets” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1999
"Social Conflict and Symbolic Range in Collective Memory" Social Science History Association Meetings, Washington D.C, November 1997
"The Martin Luther King Glee Club and July Fourth: 'Diversity' and the Politics of National Inclusion." Social Science History Association Meetings, New Orleans, November 1996.
"Symbolic Boundaries and Imagined Community," Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society Meetings, Philadelphia, March 1995.
"Recapturing Social Structure in Recent Theories of Culture" "Practicing Theory" Conference, University of California, San Diego, August 1994.
"Celebrating the Nation in Australia and the United States" Visiting Speakers Series Department of
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Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, June 1994.
"Culture, Social Structure, and Discursive Fields" Visiting Speakers Series, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, May 1994
"The Martin Luther King Glee Club and July Fourth: 'Diversity' and the Politics of National Inclusion." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami, August 1993.
"Social Structure and Cultural Claims: The Discursive Field of National Identity.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992.
"Centennial Celebrations in Australia and the United States: Imagining Integration and Enacting Dependence." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992; Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington D.C. December 1992
"Imagining Community and Hoping for Recognition: Bicentennial Celebrations in 1976 and 1988." Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, August 1991.
“The Question of a Common Culture and the American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC August 1990.
“Founding Moments and National Identity: Constitutional Conventions in the United States and Australia,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco August 1989
“Political Identity in American Postwar Editorial Cartoons,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta GA August 1988.
INVITED DISCUSSANT AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Author Meets Critics Session, Caroline W. Lee, Do-It-Yourself Democracy: The Rise of the Public Engagement Industry (Oxford University Press, 2015). Social Science History Association Meetings, Baltimore November 2015.
“Theorizing Events.” Invited session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, August 2014.
Invited participant, “The Strains of Commitment: The Sources of Social Solidarity in Diverse Societies,” “Program on Successful Societies, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Montreal May 2014.
Author Meets Critics Session, Elizabeth Popp Berman, Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine (Princeton University Press, 2012). Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 2013.
“Cultural Repertoires,” Mini-Conference on Comparative Cultural Sociology, Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 2013.
“Narrative and Identity,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, February 2012.
“Horses and Taxes: James Scott, Nomadism and State Building on the Eurasian Steppe,” Cherie Woodworth, Center for Comparative Research, Yale University, January 2012.
“Memory and Nation,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Boston MA, November 2011.
“How Culture Constrains,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas NV, August 2011.
“Culture and the Politics of Identity,” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA, February 2011.
“Amateurs, Experts, and the Production of Knowledge,” Social Science History Meetings, Long Beach CA, November 2009.
“Rights,” “Comparing Past and Present,” Mini-conference sponsored by the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the ASA, Berkeley, August 2009.
“The Politics of Regret: Collective Memory in East Asia,” Sponsored by the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Washington DC, March 2007.
“The Civic Life of American Religion: Citizens and Believers in a Diverse Society.” Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, May 2005.
“Is the “Strong Program” Strong Enough?” Author Meets Critics Session, Jeffrey Alexander, The Meanings of Social Life (Oxford University Press, 2003). Society for the Advancement of Socio- economics, Washington D.C., July 2004
“Habermas’ Public Sphere: Theory and Applications,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Baltimore, November 2003.
“Expert Values: The Reception of Scientific and Social Scientific Authority in Twentieth Century America,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Baltimore, November 2003.
“Theory and Measurement,” Culture Section Miniconference, Atlanta, August 2003.
“Cultural Globalization,” Annual Meeting of the A.S.A., Atlanta, August 2003.
“Local and National Perspectives,” Conference on “The Year of the Euro,” Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, October 2002.
“Transnationalism, or Communities across Borders” Social Science History Association Meetings, St. Louis, November 2002.
”Collective Memory and Public Dispute,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 2001.
“The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology,” Research Workshops, Northwestern University, March; Chicago, November 2001.
Author Meets Critics Session, John Torpey, The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Social Science History Association Meetings, Pittsburgh, November 2000.
”National Identity: Formation and Re-formation,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Pittsburgh, November 2000.
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"Post-materialism." Social Science History Association Meetings, Washington D.C, November 1997.
"Culture, Power, and Public Policy," Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1997.
“Rethinking Social Differentiation,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 1996.
"Culture and National Difference," Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C, August 1995.
“Global Presuppositions and National Identities,” Author Meets Critics Session, “Problematizing Charles Ragin’s What is a Case? In Practice,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 1995.
"Political Culture: Public and Private Sources of Political Identity." Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994.
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH SUPPORT______
*ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, 2003 *John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2001 *Research Materials Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Notre Dame, 2003. *International Travel Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Notre Dame, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 *Research Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Notre Dame, 1999. *Visiting Fellowship, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1996 *Research Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Notre Dame, 1995. *Visiting Fellowship, University of Queensland, Australia, 1994 *Research Travel Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, 1994. *Faculty Research Program Award, University of Notre Dame, 1993.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE______
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND SERVICE
Editor in Chief, Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology, 2016-2019.
Co-Editor, Review of Social Economics, 2016-2019
Chair, Award Committee, Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology, ASA Secion on Sociology of Culture, 2016
Award Committee, Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology, ASA Section on Economic Sociology, 2015
Advisory Editor, Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology, 2015-2016
Editorial Board, “Culture and Economic Life” Book Series, Stanford University Press, 2014-2017
Elected board member, Research Committee on Social Theory, RC-16, International Sociological Association, 2014-2018.
Editorial Board, Sociological Methodology, 2014-2017.
Elected member, ASA Nominations Committee, 2014-2015
Chair, ASA Theory Section Book Prize Committee, 2013-2014
Chair, Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award 2012-2013, ASA Section on Economic Sociology
Social Science History Association, Tilly Prize Committee, 2012.
Editorial Board, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2012-
Editorial Board, Routledge Handbook on Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia, Mikyoung Kim, ed (Routledge, 2016)
ASA Section on Comparative Historical Sociology, Barrington Moore Prize Committee, 2010-11
Chair, Nominations Committee, Social Science History Association, 2010
Chair, Judging Panel, Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence in Cultural Sociology, 2009-2010
ASA Section on Comparative Historical Sociology, Best Article Award Committee, 2008-2009.
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 2008-2011
Executive Committee, Social Science History Association, 2008-2011
Editorial Board, ASA Rose Monograph Series, 2007-2010 . Chair, Culture Section, A.S.A., 2007-2008. Responsible for newsletter comments, filling editorial positions, revitalizing section networks, composing prize committees, organizing 20th Anniversary Symposium (eight panels, 180 registered, Harvard July 2008).
Chair-Elect, Culture Section, A.S.A. 2006-2007. Responsible for planning seven Section panels for 2007 A.S.A. meetings.
Editorial Board, Cultural Sociology, 2005-
Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 2005-2007.
Council Member, ASA Theory Section, 2005-2008.
A.S.A. Culture Section Book Prize Committee, 2005
A.S.A. Theory Section Prize Committee, 2003
Program Committee, ASA Culture Section, 2001-2002.
Council Member, ASA Culture Section, 2000-2003.
Outside Examiner, Ph.D., University of New South Wales, Australia, 2001.
Secretary/Treasurer, ASA Culture Section, 1996-1999.
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Co-Organizer, Culture and Theory Network, ASA Culture Section, 1994-1996
PEER REVIEW (SELECTED)
Book Manuscripts: Cambridge University Press (multiple reviews), University of Chicago Press (multiple reviews), University of California Press (multiple reviews), Stanford University Press (multiple reviews), Yale University Press, Routledge, Palgrave-MacMillan, Polity, Harvard University Press, Ashgate, New York University Press.
Article Manuscripts: American Journal of Sociology, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, American Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, Theory and Society, Cultural Sociology, Poetics, Nations and Nationalism, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Socio-Economic Review, Social Psychology Quarterly, Mobilization, Sociological Forum.
Reviews for Promotion: Brandeis University, Colgate University, Cornell University, Illinois Institute of Technology, New York University, University of California--Santa Barbara, University of Colorado—Boulder, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,
SESSIONS ORGANIZED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Censuses, Societies, States,” Author Meets Critics panel, Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2016. Rebecca Emigh, Dylan Riley and Patricia Ahmed, How Societies and States Count. Vol. 1: Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States, and Vol. 2: Changes in Censuses from Imperial to Welfare States (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016).
Invited Organizer, “Non-Profit and Voluntary Associations,” ASA Program Committee, (three panels), Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, 2016.
“Economic Culture in the Public Sphere,” Mini-Conference (with Frederick Wherry and Nina Bandelj) Responsible for four panels. Mini-conference competitively selected for inclusion in the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Milan, June 2013.
“Economic Culture in the Public Sphere” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, November 2012.
“How Culture Matters in Economic Life.” Invited Panel Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, August 2012.
“Economic Culture in the Public Sphere,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, August 2012.
“How Culture Constrains,” (with Francesca Polletta) Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011.
“On the Craft of Theorizing,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2010
“Agency in Culture” Social Science History Association Meetings, Long Beach CA, November 2009.
Author Meets Critics Panel, Neil Smelser The Odyssey Experience (University of California Press, 2008). Social Science History Association Meetings, Long Beach CA, November 2009.
“Cultural Sociology and its Others” (Two plenaries and six panels) 20th Anniversary Symposium, A.S.A. Culture Section, Harvard University, July 2008.
“Collective Memory in East Asia,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 2007.
Regular Sessions Organizer, Sociology of Culture, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, 2006. Responsible for organization of five cultural sociology panels
“Culture and Social Movements,” Collective Behavior and Social Movements Mini-conference, University of Notre Dame, August 2002.
Co-organizer and Discussant (with Mark Jacobs) “Diffusing Cultural Sociology: Intellectual Fields and Institutional Boundaries” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002.
Culture Network Coordinator, Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 2001 Responsible for organization of five Culture Network panels
“Prospects for the Diffusion of Cultural Sociology,” Discussion Roundtable, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim CA, August 2001.
"Territory and Meaning: Region, Nation, Globe," Organizer and discussant, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1998
"Rethinking Social Differentiation," Co-organizer and discussant, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 1996
OTHER PROFESSIONAL MEETING SERVICE
“Professional Expertise and its Discontents,” Organizer and Discussant, ASA Annual Meetings, Seattle, August 2016.
“Creativity in Economic Life,” Presider and discussant, Regular Session on Economic Sociology, Annual Meeting of the ASA, Chicago August 2015
“How Do Economic Ideas Matter?” Organizer, chair, and discussant. Mini-conference on Economic Culture in the Public Sphere, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, Milan, June 2013.
“How Culture Matters in Economic Life.” Organizer, Invited Panel. Cosponsored by Economic and Cultural Sociology, Annual Meeting of the ASA, Denver, August 2012.
“The Performance of Politics” Presider, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2010.
Junior Theorists Symposium, Theory Section of the ASA, August 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013.
“Clifford Geertz and the Human Sciences,” Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, October 2007
“States and Cultural Power,” Discussant, Annual Meeting of the A.S.A., Montreal, August 2006.
“Institutions, Conflict and Change,” Research Workshop, Kellogg School of Management,
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Northwestern University, October 2003.
“The Culture Wars in Methodology,” Plenary Session Presider, Annual Meeting of the A.S.A., Atlanta, August 2003.
“Institutions and Institutionalizing” Mini-conference University of California, Santa Barbara., February 2003.
“The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology,” Invited participant, Northwestern University, March 2001 and Chicago, November 2001
“The Cultural Turn” Miniconference, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 1999; February 1997.
“Meaning and Measurement/Symbolic Boundaries” Miniconference, George Mason University, August 1995.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association (Section memberships in Culture, Theory, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Organizations, Altruism, and Comparative Historical Sociology.) Social Science History Association Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics International Sociological Association Eastern Sociological Society Academy of Management Association of Social Economics
TEACHING AND ADVISING______
COURSE REPERTOIRE
Cultural Sociology, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Research Design, Research and Thesis seminars, Classical Social Theory, Interdisciplinary “Core” seminars, Contemporary Social Theory, Political Sociology, Culture and Power, Nationalism and National Identity.
OTHER TEACHING AND ADVISING ACTIVITIES (SELECTED)
*Member and advisor, 70 Masters’ and Dissertation Committees, 1992- present *Faculty Mentor, Kellogg International Scholar , 2014-2016 *Invited Member, Ph.D Committee, College of Business, Indiana Tech *Invited member, PhD Evaluation Committee, Department of Cultural and Social Studies, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, 2014 *Faculty Mentor, Erskine Peters Fellow, Department of Africana Studies, 2009-2010. *Qualifying examination committees, Cultural Sociology (Chair), Political Sociology, Theory, 1992- *“Cultural Sociology,” Instructional videotape, Allyn and Bacon, 2004 *Advisor, senior theses (Gender Studies, Sociology)
SELECTED DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (1998-Present) ______
*Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology Department, 2016-2019 *Elected Member, Arts and Letters College Council, 2016-2019. *Visiting Fellows Selection Committee, Kellogg Institute, 2016-2017
*Graduate Studies Committee, Sociology Department, 2015-2016 *Large Grants Committee, ISLA, College of Arts and letters, 2015 *Faculty Committee, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, 2013-2015. *Elected Member, Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Sociology, 2013. *Reviewer, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies, 2013. *Graduate Admissions Committee, Sociology, 2012-2013 *Graduate Student Awards, Kellogg Institute, 2012-2013 *University Committee on Libraries, 2012-2013 *Grants Committee, Kellogg Institute of International Studies, 2009-2012 *Graduate Admissions Committee, Sociology, 2009-2011 *Elected Member, Committee on Appointment and Promotions, Sociology, 2007-2009 *Graduate Studies Committee, Sociology, 2007-2008 *Kellogg Institute Fellows Selection Committee, 2005; 2006 *Internal Reviewer, Gender Studies Program, 2004 *Visiting Speakers/ Events Sponsorship, Sociology, 2003--2008 *Undergraduate Studies Committee, College of Arts and Letters, 2002-2004 *Elected member, Arts and Letters College Council, 2003-2004 *Elected member, Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Sociology, 2002-2005 *Arts and Letters Core Course Syllabus Planning Committee, 2001 *Kellogg Institute Fellows Selection Committee, 2000 *College Course Development Proposals Selection Committee, 2000 *Elected member, University of Notre Dame Graduate Council, 1999-2001 *Elected member, Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Sociology, 1997-1999 *Arts and Letters Core Course Syllabus Planning Committee, 1998
REFERENCES: Available on request.
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