FABIO ROJAS Curriculum Vita
January 15, 2021
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Chicago, 2003. M.A. Sociology, University of Chicago, 1999. Graduate Studies. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1993–1997. B.A. Major in Mathematics, Minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. University of California, Berkeley, 1993.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Co-editor of Contexts: Sociology for the Public, magazine of the American Sociological Association. 2017-2022.
Virginial L Roberts Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2020-2025.
Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2016-present.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2010-16.
Adjunct Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, 2013-present.
Director of Undergraduate Studies. Department of Sociology, Indiana University. 2010-2013.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 2008-2010.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington. 2003-2010. (On leave 2008-2010).
BOOKS
Fabio Rojas. 2017. Theory for the Working Sociologist. Columbia University Press. • Reviewed in Choice, Contemporary Sociology and Teaching Sociology.
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Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas. 2015. Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. Cambridge University Press. Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics.
• Awards: 2016 - Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the American Political Science Association for Best Book on Political Organizations and Parties, Choice “Top 25 Books for 2015” & Outstanding Academic Title. • Symposia and review essays in academic journals: Contemporary Sociology; PS – Perspectives on Politics. • Author meets critics session: April 2015 - Midwestern Political Science Association; August 2015 - General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research; October 2015 – Social Science History Association. • Academic journal review: Mobilization; Political Science Quarterly; American Journal of Sociology; Interest Groups and Advocacy; Revue Française de Science Politique; Choice; Journal of Politics. • Popular media reviews: The Washington Post’s political science blog, “The Monkey Cage;” Reason; Washington’s Blog; Econlog; Overcoming Bias. • Book readings: March 2015 - Seminary Coop Bookstore, Chicago; Books and Culture, New York; Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC; Boxcar Books, Bloomington, Indiana.
Fabio Rojas. 2007. From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Reviews: Teachers College Record (November 2007), Il Manifesto (Italian political newspaper, February 2008), Mobilization: An International Journal (March 2008), Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures (Spring 2008), Left History (Spring 2008), The Western Journal of Black Studies (Summer 2008), The Journal of Black Studies (September 2008), Contemporary Sociology (September 2008), Administrative Science Quarterly (September 2008), The American Journal of Sociology (May 2009), The Journal of American History (June 2009), Higher Education Review (UK journal, Spring 2009), History of Education (Summer 2009), Ricerche Di Storia Politica (Italian political science journal, 2009), Social Forces (June 2010), Inside Higher Education (June 2012).
• Panel Sessions: National Council for Black Studies. March 20, 2008, questions for the author on March 22, 2008; 40th Anniversary Celebration of African Studies at Cornell University. October 30, 2009; Author Meets Students - Center for African American Studies: the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. November 11, 2009; Book Forum – Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. April 6 & 7, 2010.
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PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AND EDITED VOLUME CHAPTERS BY TOPIC
Black Power, Student Activism, and American Higher Education
Rojas, Fabio. 2020. “Moving Beyond the Rhetoric: A Comment on Szetela’s Critique of the Black Lives Matter Movement.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43:8, 1407-1413
Ince, Jelani, Brandon Finlay, and Fabio Rojas. 2018. “College campus activism: Distinguishing between Liberal Reformers and Conservative Crusaders.” Sociology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12603
Ince, Jelani, Fabio Rojas, and Clayton A. Davis. 2017. “The Social Media Response to Black Lives Matter: How Twitter Users Interact with Black Lives Matter through Hashtag use.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40: 1814-1830.
• One of the top downloaded articles in 2017 for Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Rojas, Fabio. 2015.“The Curriculum as a Site of Political and Cultural Conflict.” Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Wiley Publications. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0069
Rojas, Fabio and Carson Byrd. 2014. “The Four Histories of Black Power: The Black Nationalist Sector and its Impact on American Society.” Black Diaspora Review 4(1): 113-56.
Rojas, Fabio. 2014. “Activism and the Academy: Lessons from the Evolution of Ethnic Studies.” Pp. 243-66. Professors and Their Politics edited by Neil Gross and Solon J. Simmons. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rojas, Fabio. 2013. “Multiculturalism and Social Movements.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Poli tical Movements. Eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Ports, Bert Klandersmans, and Doug McAdam. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm138
Rojas, Fabio and W. Carson Byrd. 2012. “Intellectual Change in Africana Studies: Evidence from a Cohort Analysis.” The Journal of African American Studies 16(3): 550-573.
Rojas, Fabio. 2012. “Social Movements and Universities.” Pp. 256-77 in Organizing Higher Education. Edited volume by Michael Bastedo. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rojas, Fabio. 2011. “Institutions and Disciplinary Beliefs about Africana Studies.” Western Journal of Black Studies 35(2): 92-103.
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Rojas, Fabio. 2010. “Power Through Institutional Work: Building Academic Authority in the 1968 Third World Strike.” Academy of Management Journal 53:1263-80.
Rojas, Fabio. 2009. "The Survey of Issues in Africana Studies: A First Report." The Journal of American Studies in Turkey 29: 137-25.
Rojas, Fabio and Donald Shaffer. 2009. “What Have We Learned from the Black Studies Experience?” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 10(4): 442-7.
Rojas, Fabio. 2008. “One Field, Two Tracks: Publication Patterns of Professors in Doctoral Africana Studies Programs.” The Journal of Black Studies 39: 57-68.
Rojas, Fabio. 2007. “Faculty Development Problems in a Department of African- American Studies.” Pp. 81-89 in Unleashing Suppressed Voices on Colleges Campuses: Diversity Issues in Higher Education and Student Affairs edited by Mary Howard- Hamilton and O. Gilbert Brown. Peter Lang Publishers: New York.
Rojas, Fabio. 2006. “Social Movement Tactics, Organizational Change and the Spread of African-American Studies.” Social Forces 84 (4): 2139-2158.
The Movement Against the War in Iraq
Heaney, Michael T. and Fabio Rojas. 2014. “Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multi-Movement Environment.” American Journal of Sociology 119(4): 1047-1103.
Heaney, Michael T. and Fabio Rojas. 2011. “The Partisan Dynamics of Contention: Demobilization of the Antiwar Movement in the United States, 2007-2009.” Mobilization: An International Journal 16(1): 41-54.
• Discussed in The National Journal, The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan), The Atlantic, Business Insider, National Review Online, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets (see below).
Rojas, Fabio. 2009. “Technology, Structure, and Heterogeneity among American Antiwar Organizations.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 26: 221-247.
Heaney, Michael T. and Fabio Rojas. 2008. “Coalition Dissolution in the U.S. Antiwar Movement.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change 28: 39-82.
Heaney, Michael T. and Fabio Rojas. 2007. “Partisanship, Non-Partisanship and the American Anti-War Movement.” American Politics Research 35: 431-464. Lead article.
• Republished in The Practice of Research, edited by Dana Fischer and Shamus Khan. Forthcoming. Oxford University Press.
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• Figure 2 reprinted in Doug McAdam & Sidney Tarrow. 2010. “Ballots and Barricades: On the Reciprocal Relationship between Elections and Social Movements.” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June): 529-542.
Heaney, Michael T. and Fabio Rojas. 2006. “The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests Near Fort Bragg.” Qualitative Sociology 29(4): 485-505.
• Republished in Readings in the Rhetoric of Social Protest, edited by Charles E. Morris III and Stephen Brown. Third Edition. Strata Publications.
Computational Social Science and Digital Sociology
Groggel, Anne, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia & Fabio Rojas. 2019. “Race and the beauty premium: Mechanical Turk workers’ evaluations of Twitter accounts,” Information, Communication & Society 22(5): 709-71.
Nilizadeh, Shirin, Anne Groggel, Peter Lista, Srijita Das, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, and Fabio Rojas. 2016. "Twitter's Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility," Proceedings of The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '16), Cologne, Germany. Pages 289-98.
McKelvey, Karissa, Joe DiGrazia, and Fabio Rojas. 2014. “Twitter Publics: How Online Political Communities Signal Electoral Outcomes in the 2010 U.S. House Election.” Information, Communication, and Society 17(4): 436-50.
DiGrazia, Joe, Karissa McKelvey, Fabio Rojas, and Johan Bollen. 2013. “More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior.” PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079449
• Discussed in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, C-SPAN, The Daily Rundown, National Public Radio, The Times of India, and other sources (see below).
Rojas, Fabio and Amia Foston. 2010. “Using Graph Theory to Visualize Social Sequence Data.” The Journal of Social Structure. http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/issues/2010jossviz/4_Rojas_Foston.htm
Infections, Infection Control, and Healthcare
Fabio Rojas, Clayton D Thomas, Shibashis Mukherjee, Emily Meanwell, and Lauren Apgar. 2019. “Complementary work in the hospital: How infection preventionists perceive opportunities for cooperation with higher status physicians” Journal of Professions and Organization 6(2): 196–212. • One of five nominated for best JPO paper in the 2018-2019 year.
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Thomas, Clay, Lydia DiSabatino, & Fabio Rojas. 2019. “The effects of education and clinical specialization on nurses’ status affirmation by physicians: A quantitative analysis,” Journal of Interprofessional Care 33(2): 252-263.
Rojas, Fabio, W. Carson Byrd, and Sanjay Saint. 2015. “The Institutional Origins of Infection Control Knowledge: Results of a Systematic Bibliographical Analysis from 1960 to 2009.” American Journal of Infection Control 43: 121-6.
Kirby D. Schroeder and Fabio Rojas. 2002. “A Game Theoretic Model of Sexually Transmitted Disease Epidemics.” Rationality and Society 14(3): 353-383.
• Winner – Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award. ASA Mathematical Sociology Section. 2003.
Essays in Organizational Theory and Institutional Analysis
Rojas, Fabio. 2019, "Race and Organization Theory: Reflections and Open Questions", Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 60: 15-23.
Rojas, Fabio and Brayden G King. 2018. “Movements and Institutions.” Pp. 203-2019 in The Blackwell Handbook of Social Movements, edited by Sarah Soule, David Snow, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Holly J. McCammon.
Lista, Peter and Fabio Rojas. 2017. “Politics and Institutions.” Pp. 312-29 in The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by William Outhwaite and Steven Turner. SAGE publications.
Rojas, Fabio. 2017. “Race and Institutionalism.” Pp. 786-807 in The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, 2nd edition edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Tom Lawrence, and Renate E. Meyer.
Rojas, Fabio. 2013. “Institutions.” Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Jeff Manza, editor-in-chief. Oxford University Press. See http://oxfordbibliographies.com
Rojas, Fabio. 2010. “Organization Theory.” The Encyclopedia of Political Theory, edited by Mark Bevir. Pp. 991-7. Sage Publications.
Rojas, Fabio. 2006. “Sociological Imperialism in Three Theories of the Market.” Journal of Institutional Economics 2 (3): 339-363.
Rowland, Nicholas and Fabio Rojas. 2006. “Bringing Technology Back in: A Critique of the Institutionalist Analysis of Museums.” Museum and Society 4(2): 84-95.
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Rojas, Fabio. 2006. “The Cybernetic Institutionalist,” pages 61-78 in Wilson Carey McWilliams (ed.) The Active Society Reconsidered, edited by Wilson Carey McWilliams. Rowman and Littlefield: New York.
TEACHING SOCIOLOGY
Rojas, Fabio. 2019. “Economic Sociology” and “Political Sociology.” A Sociology Experiment, edited by Patrick Sharkey Shamus Khan and Gwen Sharp. Online budget textbook: https://www.sociologyexperiment.com/
INVITED COMMENTARIES, BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS, REPORTS, ETC.
Rojas, Fabio. 2020. “Why activists for police, immigration reform need to focus on policies, not presidents.” USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/06/activists- police-immigration-reform-must-look-beyond-partisanship-column/6171924002/
Rojas, Fabio. 2020. “Simplifying Immigration Should be a Top Biden Priority.” The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/525749-simplifying-immigration-should-be-top- biden-priority
Rojas, Fabio. 2020. “Why Violence Does Not Work For Social Movements.” The Urban Violence Network. https://urbanviolence.org/why-violence-does-not-work-for-social- movements/
Rojas, Fabio. 2020. “Intersectionality: Friend or Foe of Classical Liberalism?” Cato Unbound: A Journal of Debate. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2020/05/28/fabio- rojas/intersectionality-friend-or-foe-classical-liberalism
Rojas, Fabio. 2020. Review of The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement edited by David S. Meyer and Sidney Tarrow. American Journal of Sociology 2020 125:6, 1706-1708.
Rojas, Fabio. 2020. Review of You can’t stop the revolution: community disorder and social ties in post-Ferguson America by Andrea S. Boyles, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1707254
Rojas, Fabio. 2019. Review of Scholarly Crimes and Misdemeanors: Violations of Fairness and Trust in the Academic World by Mark S. Davis and Bonnie Barry. Contemporary Sociology 48(6): 650-651
Heaney, Michael T. & Fabio Rojas. 2017. Critical Dialogue with Daniel Schlozman about the books: When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History and Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. Perspectives on Politics 15(1): 182-185
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Rojas, Fabio. 2016. Review of Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness by Nathaniel Tkacz. Contemporary Sociology 45(2): 251-252.
Rojas, Fabio. 2015. Review of The Black Power Movement and American Social Work by Joyce Bell. Contemporary Sociology. 44: 774-776.
Rojas, Fabio. 2014. Review of Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups by Betsy Leondar-Wright. Administrative Science Quarterly. Published online - doi: 10.1177/0001839214565769
Rojas, Fabio. 2014. Review of Black Against Empire: A Political History of the Black Panthers by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin. American Historical Review 119 (2): 563-564.
Rojas, Fabio. 2014. Review of Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Karen Ferguson. Reviews in History.
Rojas, Fabio. 2014. “Social Media and Political Sociology: Origins and New Directions.” Newsletter of the ASA Section on Political Sociology.
Rojas, Fabio. 2013. “As the Tweets Go, So Go the Votes: How Social Media Can Help Predict an Election.” August 12, 2013. Page A13, The Washington Post.
Rojas, Fabio. 2013. Review of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy by Joshua W. Busby. Perspectives on Politics 11:2 - 664-665.
Rojas, Fabio. October 2012. Review of “Did the Antiwar Movement End the Vietnam War?” H- Diplo. Review of Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement by Simon Hall. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36758
Rojas, Fabio. September 2012." Raise your voice – Protest at college." Go Teach: The Official Magazine of the Future Educators Association, pp. 12-13.
• Topic of the 2013 middle school/high school essay contest of the Future Educators of America. http://futureeducators.org/conference/competitions/competitions-2013/2013- FEA-Essay-Competition.pdf
Rojas, Fabio. June 2012. Review of Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery by Kate Kellogg. Mobilizing Ideas: http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/challenging-operations-medical- reform-and-resistance-in-surgery/
Rojas, Fabio. June 29, 2012. "Who Gets an Academic Discipline Anyway? A Commentary on the Naomi Schaefer Riley/Black Studies Controversy." The Teachers College Record.
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Rojas, Fabio. December 7, 2011. "Getting it Done." Inside Higher Ed. Reprinted orgtheory.net column. http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2011/12/07/essay-keys-finishing- dissertation.
Rojas, Fabio. December 2, 2011. "A guide to self-publishing for academics and researchers: live chat." Organized by Eliza Anyangwe for the Guardian's Higher Education Network. http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/nov/29/academic-self- publishing.
Rojas, Fabio. October 10, 2011. "Dealing with Your Committee." Inside Higher Ed. Reprinted orgtheory.net column. htttp://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2011/10/10/essay_on_dealing_with_a_dissertatio n_committee
Rojas, Fabio. September 29, 2010. “Am I Done Yet?” Inside Higher Ed. Reprinted orgtheory.net column. http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2010/09/29/rojas
Rojas, Fabio. August 16, 2010. Invited opinion on higher education and tenure. “Room for Debate.” The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/8/15/aging- professors-who-wont-retire/dont-blame-older-professors-for-the-tough-job-market
Rojas, Fabio. 2010. Book review of Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth by Milbrey W. McLaughlin, W. Richard Scott, Sarah N. Deschenes, Kathryn C. Hopkins, and Anne R. Newman. Administrative Science Quarterly June 2010: 337-8.
Rojas, Fabio. 2009. Book review of Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations by Hayagreeva Rao. Contemporary Sociology 38(6): 597-8.
Rojas, Fabio. 2009. “The Library as (Art)ifact.” Contexts 8(3): 68-70.
Rojas, Fabio. 2009. “Blogroll.” Accounts: ASA Economic Sociology Newsletter 8 (2): 12-14.
Rojas, Fabio. 2007. “On the Archaeology of the Black Studies Movement.” 29(2): 8-15. Invited Essay for Perspectives: The Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section.
Rojas, Fabio. 2004. “Identity and Politics in School Reform Research.” Economics Journal Watch 1(3): 427-436. Http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/TableofContentsDecember2004.pdf
Rojas, Fabio. 2005. Social Dynamics: Interaction, Reflexivity and Emergence. Edited by Charles Macal and David Sallach. The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. Transcribed Panel Commentary.
Rojas, Fabio. 2003. Social Agents: Ecology, Exchange, and Evolution Pp.338-339. Edited by Charles Macal and David Sallach. The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. Transcribed Panel Commentary.
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HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Racial Justice Research Fund. 2020. The Impact of Black Lives Matter on American Society. Indiana University. $12,800 for studying the effect of BLM activism on social and political practices.
Senior Fellow. 2020. The Institute for Humane Studies. Fellowship for the Study of Liberalism and a Free Society.
Emergency Grant-in-Aid from the Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. $700 for conducting interviews on new project about the art world. 2018.
Leon J. Epstein outstanding book award from the APSA Section on Political Organizations. 2016. Cited above.
Choice Magazine “Top 25 Academic Book of the Year.” 2016 Cited above.
Graduate Mentor Award. 2016. Indiana Sociology Graduate Student Association Award.
Telluride Association Sophomore Seminar. Summer program for gifted and talented students. Topic: The Black Struggle for Freedom, An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Summer 2016.
College Arts & Humanities Institute. Travel Grant. $5,000. 2016-17.
Faculty Research Support Program. Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Bloomington for research on social media and politics. 2014. $44,486.
Social Science Research Commons grant in aid of research. Research on hospital acquired infections. $1500.
Conference Grant. $3300. Indiana University Themester Committee. 2013.
Course development grant. $2500. Indiana University Themester Committee. 2012-13.
Active learning award for course development. $1500. 2012
Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching. Given to the top 6% of instructors each year at Indiana University. College of Arts and Sciences. 2012.
Faculty Research Support Program. Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Bloomington for research on the field of healthcare associated infection research and its impact on the nursing profession. $65,980. 2011
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Grant-in-aid from the Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Bloomington for research on activists and the Democratic party. $2,300. 2011
Emergency Grant-in-Aid from the Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. $500 for coding survey responses from “Measuring Political Grievance at Protest Events” project. 2010
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research Fellowship. Total funding for salary and research: $184,000. 2008-2010. Cited above.
Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching. Given to the top 6% of instructors each year at Indiana University. College of Arts and Sciences. 2008.
Grant-in-Aid from the Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. $2,460 for conducting study of the American Antiwar Movement. 2007
Campus Summer Writing Program Grant. $1200. Workshop to promote the teaching of writing. Summer 2006.
Emergency Grant-in-Aid from the Office of the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. $500 for coding survey responses from “Measuring Political Grievance at Protest Events” project. 2005
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in Mathematical Sociology. Cited above. 2003.
Moody Foundation. Research Grant. $1750 for researching the history of the 1968 Third World Strike at San Francisco State College at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. 2003.
Robert E. Park Teaching Fellowship. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 2003.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship. 2001–02.
Honors Pass for Special Field Examination in Organizational Theory and Educational Institutions. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 2000.
Institute for Humane Studies. Claude R. Lambe Fellowship. 1998–2000.
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in Mathematics. 1993–97.
Chancellor’s Undergraduate Scholarship. University of California, Berkeley, 1989–93.
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE OF RESEARCH AND PUBLIC COMMENTARY
Other samples available upon request
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Brown, Caleb. June 2, 2020. “Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Protest Movements That Get Things Done.” Cato Institute Daily Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFXQl30JRxE
Navarro, Luis. June 7, 2020. “¿Qué ha facilitado los abusos de la policía en Estados Unidos?” Telemundo Indy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6gGyN_j69k
Lawrence, Jones. Nov 27, 2019. Episode on Open Borders. Keeping up With Jones on Fox Nation. https://www.foxnews.com/media/immigration-open-borders-lawrence- jones.amp?__twitter_impression=true
Laerty, Jamiles. April 13, 2016. Racism at Harvard. The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/13/racism-harvard-law-school- slaveholder-seal
Brown, Heath. January 7, 2105. Podcast on Party in the Street. New Books in Political Science. http://newbooksinpoliticalscience.com/2015/01/07/michael-heaney-and-fabio-rojas- party-in-the-street-the-antiwar-movement-and-the-democratic-party-after-911- cambridge-up-2014/
Weisenthal, Joe. September 1, 2013. “In One Chart, Here's Why The Anti-War Movement Collapsed.” Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-deserted-the- anti-war-movement-collapsed-2013-9
• Reblogged at Slate.com. “Viral story of the week.” http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/09/02/democrats_deserted_the_anti_w ar_movement.html
Plumer, Brad. August 29, 2013. “How Obama Demobilized the Antiwar Movement.” The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/29/where-did-the-antiwar- movement-go/
Salam, Reihan. August 28, 2013. “Syria and the Partisan Dynamics of Contention.” National Review Online. http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/357042/syria-and-partisan- dynamics-contention-reihan-salam
Selected international coverage of “More Tweets, More Votes:”
• Ballhaus, Rebecca. “Researchers Find Tweets and Votes Line Up.” August 12, 2013. Wall Street Journal. URL: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/12/researchers-find- tweets-and-votes-line-up/ • Roarty, Alex. “Tweets Can Foretell Votes, Study Finds.” August 12, 2013. National Journal. http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/tweets-can-foretell-votes-study-finds- 20130812
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• “'More tweets mean more votes for political candidates.” Times of India. August 12, 2013. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-12/social- media/41331896_1_tweets-democratic-candidates-more-votes • “Big Buzz on Twitter Means Better Chances on Election Day.” National Public Radio. August 12, 2013. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=211434274 • “Can tweets predict political races?” The Daily Rundown. NBC news. August 16, 2013 http://video.msnbc.msn.com/daily-rundown/52772371#52772371 • “Social Media and US. House Elections.” August 18, 2013. Washington Journal. C- SPAN. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Roj
McLemee, Scott. May 9, 2012. "The Trouble with Black Studies." Inside Higher Education. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/05/09/putting-black-studies-debate- perspective-essay. Cited above.
Hanrahan, John. October 3, 2011. "Is protest in America at a turning point?" Nieman Watchdog: Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid =00580
Stossel, John. April 25, 2011. “Where Did all the Antiwar Protesters Go?” Fox Business. http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2011/04/25/where-did-all-anti-war- protestors-go
McArdle, Megan. April 20, 2011. “Under Protest.” The Atlantic Magazine Website. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/under-protest/237605/
McLemee, Scott. April 6, 2011. “Antiwar No More?” Inside Higher Education. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee_antiwar_no_more
Contexts Magazine – Official Publication of the American Sociological Association. Winter 2011. Research highlighted on cover.
Treftz, Dean. March 25, 2008. “Reflecting on Iraq: Becoming an Adult in a Time of War.” UWIRE. URL: http://www.uwire.com/2008/03/25/reflecting-on-iraq-becoming-an-adult- at-a-time-of-war/
McLemee, Scott. September 19, 2007. “Mess O’ Mobilizations.” Inside Higher Education. URL: http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/19/mclemee
WFIU. July 2007. “Democrats and the Antiwar Movement.” WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington.
Doester, Adam. June 2007. “Dancing into the Majority.” In These Times.
McLemee, Scott. March 21, 2007. “Party in the Streets.” Inside Higher Education. URL: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/03/21/mclemee
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Bouza, Teresa. March 19, 2007. “US Opposition to the War in Iraq Works in the Light and Shadow.” EFE News Service (The Leading News Service of the Spanish Speaking World). Syndicated samples:
Overby, Peter. March 15, 2007. “Antiwar Groups Seek Breakthrough Moment.” All Things Considered. National Public Radio. Http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8939260
Carrothers, Chad. November 7, 2006. Election Night Report and the Impact of the Antiwar Movement. WFHB, Bloomington Community Radio.
INVITED LECTURES, PANELS, AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
Policy West Conference. 2020. Debate on the merits of open borders. Pacific Council on International Policy, The University of Southern California.
Stanford University Panel on Black Studies. 2020. Discussion of Departmentalization Efforts. The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
ASA Panel on Sociology and Open Borders. 2020. Convener and Panelist.
ASA Panels on Abeyance Theory and Public Sociology. 2019 Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Junior Theorists Symposium. 2019. Panel on the challenges of teaching sociological theory.
Heteredox Academy 2019. Panel discussion on civility in the academy.
Keynote Address. 2019. Sociology Research Institute. Department of Sociology, the University of Minnesota.
Panel on Civility and Higher Education. 2019. Tufts University.
ASA Panel on Communicating with the Public. 2018. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Public sociology talk. 2018. The Department of Sociology. University of California, San Diego.
Plenary session. Pre-conference on historical comparative sociology. 2016.
Panel on Black Power Scholarship. 2016. American Sociological Association. 2016.
Author Meets Critic Panel for Black Power and American Social Work by Joyce Bell. American Sociological Association. 2016.
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Panel on tenure in higher education. Department of Philosophy, the University of Colorado. 2015.
Author Meets Critic Panel for In Defense of Disciplines by Jerry Jacobs. Southern Sociological Association. 2015.
Black History Month Lecture. University of Arkansas. 2015.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Lecture. Bates College. 2015.
The Emory S. Bogardus Research Colloquium Series. Department of Sociology, University of Southern California. 2014.
Loftin Lecture. Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University. 2014.
Author meets critic panel for A Theory of Fields by Doug McAdam and Neil Fligstein. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association 2014.
Blogging and Public Sociology. Department of Sociology, the University of Chicago. 2014
40 Years of Africana Studies at the University of Louisville. 2014.
The Indiana University Mini-University for Alumni. 2011-13.
“The Democratic Party and the Antiwar Movement after 9/11.” 2013. Millsaps College.
Panel participant for discussion of The Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Brian K. Gran. 2013. The Midwestern Sociological Association Meeting.
"Hybridity in organizational fields." 2012. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie- Mellon University.
"Studying the Careers of American Activists." 2012. Department of Sociology. Southern Illinois University.
"Authority Erosion and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement." With Brayden King 2010-11. Presented at:
• the 2011 Workshop on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 2011 ASA Meetings • Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy • Stanford University, School of Education • Conference on Institutional Work. Simon Fraser University. • University of Alberta, School of Business
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"The Affect of the Antiwar Movement on American Progressives." 2011. Department of Sociology. Purdue University.
"The Distinctive Paths of Antiwar Activism." 2011. Workshop on Political Theory at Indiana University.
"Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multi-Movement Environment." 2011. Politics and Culture Workshop. Department of Sociology, the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Graduate Student Brown Bag Presentation. 2011. SUNY-Albany, Department of Sociology.
Book Forum. 2011. Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. (Cited above).
Panelist for “Book Meets Critic: Michel Lamont’s How Professors Think.” 2010. Social Science History Association.
“The New Black Studies Historiography.” 2010. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Panelist.
“How to Use Graph Theory to Analyze Social Science Sequence Data?” Department of Sociology, the University of Iowa. 2009.
“Author Meets Students: Afro 500 – Core Problems in African American Studies.” African American Studies Center, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (cited above). 2009.
“What Have We Learned from the Black Studies Experience?” Cornell University Center for Africana Research and Studies (cited above). 2009.
“Repression and Leadership in Crisis: The Case of the Third World Strike.” Interdisciplinary Committee on Organization Studies, the University of Michigan. 2009.
“Graph Theory and Sequence Analysis.” The University of Michigan Economic Sociology Workshop. 2009.
“Hybrid Politics: Networks, Identity and Recruitment in the Antiwar Movement.” Department of Sociology, the University of Michigan. 2009.
“Graph Theory and Health Trajectory Data.” Annual Conference of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Health Policy Scholars Program 2009.
“Spillover, Identities and Inter-organizational Networks in the Antiwar Movement.” Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. 2007.
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“Schism in the American Antiwar Movement.” Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. 2007.
“Spillover in the American Antiwar Movement.” Department of Sociology, Political Sociology Workshop. UCLA. 2007
“The Black Studies Movement.” The Division of Applied Social Sciences. The University of Missouri. 2007.
“From Black Power to Black Studies.” The Department of Sociology, University of Cincinnati. 2007.
“Social Movements and Academic Disciplines: Evidence from the History of Black Studies.” The George Mason University. Department of Economics. 2006.
“The History of Black Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.” Black History Month Symposia. The Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 2003
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Black Protesters in a White Social Movement.” 2019. American Sociological Association Annual Meetings.
“Work and Infection Control.” 2016. American Sociological Association Annual Meetings.
“The Sociology of Knowledge as Disciplinary Compass.” 2014. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
“More Tweets, More Votes.” 2013. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
"Non-profits and social change." 2012. Association for Research on Nonprofit Association and Voluntary Action annual meeting.
"Activist Careers and the Antiwar Movement." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. 2012.
"Hybrid Activism." 2011. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, September 1-4, 2011.
“Graph theory Visualization of Sequence Data.” 2010. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. 2010.
“Hybridity in the Antiwar Movement.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. 2009.
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“Movement Repression and Organizational Change.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. 2009.
“Black Nationalism and Higher Education.” Social Science History Association. October 2007.
“Movement Recruitment in a Multi-movement Environment.” Harvard Conference on Political Science and Networks. June 2007.
“Party in the Street.” Southern Political Science Association. January 2007.
“Profile of the Black Studies Profession.” 1st Biannual African American National Conference. “The Black Scholar and the State of Black America.” Michigan State University. April 2006.
“The Institutionalization of Black Studies.” Race, Roots and Resistance Conference. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 2006.
“The Place of Framing: The Politics of Protesting the Iraq War near Fort Bragg,” with Michael T. Heaney. Second Annual International Conference on Social Science Research. 2006.
“Protesting the Republican National Convention: Political Organizations and the Expression of Policy-Specific Grievances.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2005.
“Embedding Social Movement Outcomes in Organizations – The Life and Death of Black Studies Programs in Two Research Universities.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2005.
“Party in the Street: Social Movements and Protest during the Republican National Convention.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2005.
“The Spread of Black Studies Programs.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2004.
“Social Influence Network Models.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2004.
“Structure Matters: Consensus Formation in Social Network Influence Models.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Network for the Study of Social Networks. Portoroz, Slovenia. May 2004
“Consensus in Social Networks.” Paper Presented at the SWARM 2003 meeting, University of Notre Dame, 2003.
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“A Comparison of Population Ecology Theory and the Economic Theory of Industrial Organization.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2002.
“Virtues of Randomness: A Garbage Can Approach to the Legislative Oversight Problem,” with John J. Brehm. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association, 2002.
“Public, Counterpublic and the Ford Foundation’s Mission in Black Studies.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2001.
“A Game Theoretic Model of Sexually Transmitted Disease Epidemics,” with Kirby D. Schroeder. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2001.
“A Post-Institutional Analysis of the Ford Foundation’s Program in Black Studies.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, 2001.
“The Emergence of Multiculturalism: The Case of Black Studies.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2000.
“A Game Theoretic Model of HIV Transmission: Signaling and Coordination in a Game of Limited Information.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2000.
“Analyzing American Welfare Reform from a Connectionist Perspective,” with Michael Reinhardt. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2000.
TEACHING AND MENTORING
Courses taught at Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington: • Introduction to Sociology (survey course; freshman level) • Social Problems (survey course; freshman level. Topics: Sociology of the Internet and Money, Sex, Health, and Happiness) • Public Sociology for the ASURE program (freshman level) • Public Sociology (senior level) • Economy, Organizations and Work (survey course; sophomore level) • Social Theory for Undergraduates (junior & senior level survey course) • Digital Sociology (junior & senior level survey course) • Social Network Analysis (senior level) • Social Movements (senior level) • Theories of Social Organization (doctoral level) • Sociological Research Practicum (doctoral level) • Sociological Theory (doctoral level) • Seminar in qualitative methods: archival materials (doctoral level)
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Courses taught Department of Sociology, the University of Chicago: • Sociology of Science (senior level) • Research Methods (senior level) • Social Science and Democracy (freshman level) – teaching assistant • Data Analysis (freshman level) – teaching assistant
Courses taught at Los Medanos College: • Algebra I (community college level) • Self-directed Basic Math (community college level)
Summer workshop taught for the Telluride Association seminar at Indiana University • The Struggle for Black Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Approach (co-taught with Abegunde Maria Hamilton in summer 2016).
Individualized Major Adviser: Josh Bruce, Decision Sciences. 2010-11.
Seminar Leader on Graduate Education. “Life as a Faculty Member.” TRACCS program in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science. Summer 2007.
Senior Thesis Reader: Sara Downey. 2007, “The Bloomington Punk Scene.” Sean Buuck. 2010. "Using PISA Data to Study International Differences in Schooling." Taylor Campi. 2011, "Friendships in an Indiana High School." Lauren Smith. 2011/2012, "Anonymous Online Activism." Emily J. Winters. 2012. “Food and Lifestyle in Bloomington, Indiana.”
Participated in Pilot for Academic Training Program. Tutorial program designed as extension of S210 course. Spring 2004.
Master’s Thesis: Tabitha White (Chair), Joe DiGrazia (2nd Reader), Peter Lista (2nd Reader). Anne Groggle (2nd Reader), Pamela Hong (2nd Reader).
Master’s Thesis (as chair for 2013 SRP cohort): Orla Stapleton, Hui Chen, Adam Nicholson, Roshan Pandian, Cara Davies, Colleen Johnston, Brandon Finlay, Clay Thomas.
First Year Mentor: • Jessica Hernandez-Wideroff – Fall 2003 • Amia Foston 2005-2006 • Matt Gougherty 2006-2007 • Eric Sevell 2011-12. • Elizabeth Ferrufino 2012-13. • Roshan Pandian. 2013-14. • Sidney Alcaraz. 2017-18. • Chavonte Wright. 2018-19.
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• Pamela Hong. 2019-20.
Guest lecture in Graduate Proseminar –2003, 2008, 2010-12, 2019, 2021.
Qualifying Exam Committee: • Danielle L. Fettes – Spring 2004 • Nicholas Rowland – Fall 2004 • Jose Mata – Fall 2005 • Paul Kim – Spring 2006 • Violet Yebie – Fall 2007 • Greg Jeffers – Spring 2008 • Ann McCrannie – Summer 2008 • Amia Foston (chair) – Fall 2010 • Tom van Huevelen – 2012 • Hui Guo Liu (chair) – 2013 • Jason Blind – 2014 • Orla Stapleton – 2015 • Jelani Ince (chair) – 2017 • Amelia Hawbaker - 2018
Reading Group in Social Movements: Jennifer Janney, Nicole Hotchkiss, Steve Viscelli (Spring 2004).
Readings in Organizational Theory: Stephanie Moulton (Spring 2008).
Readings in Political Sociology: Ryon Cobb (Summer 2008).
Graduate Minor Concentration Advisor: • Karen Jackson – doctoral student in Educational Leadership, IUB School of Education. • Stephanie Moulton – doctoral student in the IUB School of Public and Environmental Affairs. • Karissa McKelvey – doctoral student in the IUB School of Informatics.
Advisor for the Indiana Sociology Club. 2012-14.
Supervised independent study in the Sociology of Sports (Leonard Bryant, 2005).
Supervised independent study in organizations and crime (Lauren Levine, 2013).
Executive seminar leader for higher education administrators. American Council for Education. Held at the University of Michigan. 2014.
Robert E. Park Lecturer. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 2002–03.
Teaching Assistant. The Undergraduate College, University of Chicago, 2000–01.
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Instructor. Department of Mathematics, Los Medanos College (Pittsburg, California), 1995–96.
Reader and Tutor. Department of Mathematics and College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1993–96. Tutor for Doctoral Preliminary Exams. Reader for Honors Real Analysis, Algebraic Topology, Differential Geometry, Classical Geometry, Calculus, and Linear Algebra.
Volunteer mathematics tutor for immigrant students in Oakland, California public schools, and private tutor in mathematics and statistics for high school through graduate students. OASES (Oakland Asian Students Educational Services) program. 1992-1993.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES CHAIRED – CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
Joe DiGrazia. Chair. (PhD – 2014). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First Job: Post-doctoral fellow Neukom Institute, Dartmouth College. Amia Foston. Chair. (PhD – 2015). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Butler University, Associate Director for Institutional Research. HuiGuo Liu (PhD – 2016). Chair. Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: KMPG. Jonathan Coats. (PhD – 2017). Co-chair. Department of Criminal Justice. Indiana University. First job: Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Alabama A&M, Normal. Nik Summers. (PhD – 2018). Chair. Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University. Scott Setchfield. (PhD – 2019). Co-chair. Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Assistant Professor, Hanover College. Hui Chen. Chair. (PhD – 2020). Joint doctoral student in Information Science and Sociology. First job: Intuit. Sean Vina. Chair. (PhD -2020). Department of Sociology. First job: Lecturer. Texas A&M, San Antonio. Eric Wright. Chair. (PhD – 2020). Department of Sociology. First job: Lecturer, Indiana University. Jacob Miller. Chair. (PhD – 2020). Department of Sociology. First job: Assistant Professor, Winona State University. Zac Dunivin. Chair. In progress. Joint program in Information Science and Sociology. Peter Lista. Chair. In progress. Department of Sociology. Sam Regas. Chair. In progress. Department of Sociology. Orla Stapleton. Co-chair. In progress. Department of Sociology.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES NOT CHAIRED
Karen Jackson (PhD – 2006). Educational Leadership, IU School of Education. First job: Assistant Professor, BYU School of Education. First job: Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, the University of Utah.
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Nicholas Rowland (PhD – 2007). Department of Sociology. Indiana University. First job: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. Stephanie Moulton (PhD – 2008). School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. First Job: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Ohio State University. David Blouin (PhD- 2008). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Indiana University – South Bend. Assistant Professor of Sociology. Violet Nyaanu Yebei (PhD – 2009). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First Job: Moi University, Kenya. Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine. Jamie Kucinskas. (PhD – 2014). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Assistant Professor of Sociology. Hamilton College. Casey Oberlin. (PhD – 2014). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Assistant Professor of Sociology. Grinnell College. Kerry Greer. (PhD – 2014). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Instructor. The University of British Columbia. Michael Vasseur. (PhD – 2015). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Junior policy analyst, Rand Corporation. Ann McCrannie. (PhD – 2016). Department of Sociology. First job: Indiana University Network Science Institute. Will McConnell. 2018. (PhD – 2018). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First Job: Assistant Professor of Sociology. Florida Atlantic University. Kristina Simacek. (PhD – 2018). Department of Sociology, Indiana University. First job: Patients Like Me (for profit firm focusing on rare disease patients). Anne Groggel. (PhD – 2019). Department of Sociology. First job: Assistant Professor of Sociology. North Central College. Clay Thomas. (PhD – 2021). Department of Sociology. First job: Assistant Professor of Business Administration. Iowa State University. Jelani Ince. In progress. Department of Sociology. Brian Bergman. In progress. Kelley School of Business. Department of Entrepreneurship.
DEPARTMENT & UNIVERSITY SERVICE COMMITTEES
Department Colloquium Co-Organizer. 2020. Karl Schuessler Award Committee. 2020. Politics, Economy, and Culture Workshop convener. 2020. College Ad Hoc College of Arts and Science Committee on computational issues. 2018-19. College Task Force on Graduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 2013. Politics, Economy, and Culture Workshop organized. 2018-19. Director of Undergraduate Studies. 2010-13. Social Action Award Committee. 2007-2008, 2018-20. Executive Committee. 2004-2006. Graduate affairs committee. 2003-2006. Graduate recruitment and evaluation committee. 2006-2007, 2011-12, 2017-19. Recruitment committee in medical sociology. Fall 2006, 2014. Recruitment committee for critical race center director. Fall 2012. Tenure and promotion review committees, various years.
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Classroom observation, various years. University Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship Committee. 2012. Faculty Research Support Program Grant Application Review Committee. 2012.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Consultant on computational social science models. 2003. Decision Sciences Division. Argonne National Laboratory. Batavia, Illinois.
Research Assistant. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. Supervisor: Ross M. Stolzenberg, 1997–2002.
Data Analysis Consultant. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. Transnationalism Project. Supervisor: Saskia Sassen, 2000.
Research Assistant. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Supervisor: Thomas Marschak, 1996–97.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Chair Elect of the ASA Section on Political Sociology. 2020.
Co-editor of Contexts. Cited above.
Panel organizer for “Open Borders from a Sociological Perspective” at the annual ASA meeting. 2020.
Reviewer for Ford Foundation pre-doctoral and post-doctoral programs. 2019. Ford Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences.
Panel organizer for “Challenging Racial Hierarchies in a Diverse Society” at the annual ASA meeting. 2018.
Participant in the joint Historical and Comparative Studies/Transnational and Global Studies mentoring session at ASA 2018.
Participants in multiple panels at ASA 2018 on public sociology and professional writing.
External department review committee. 2018.
Program Chair. 2014. SocInfo 2014 – conference on social informatics.
Conference Organizer. 2014. “The New Computational Sociology.” Co-organized with Dan McFarland.
Conference Organizer. 2013. Fall Social Networks Workshop. Indiana University.
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Panel Organizer. Collective Action. 2010. American Sociological Association.
Program Committee. First and Second World Conference for Social Simulation, Kyoto, Japan. 2005-2009.
Grant Reviewer: • Ford Foundation Graduate and Post-doctoral fellowship program. 2019. • National Science Foundation. 2004, 2010. • The Netherlands Science Organization, 2010. • Earhart Foundation. 2011. • Institute for Humane Studies. 2009-2011, 2019-2021. • Mellon Foundation. 2021.
Editorial Board. Contemporary Sociology, 2014-2017. American Journal of Sociology, Student editor 2002–03. Computational Management and Organization Theory, 2003-2004.
Occasional Reviewer for:
• Administrative Science Quarterly • Organization Studies • African American Review • PLoS One • American Journal of Sociology • The Sixties: A Journal of History, • American Sociological Review Politics, and Culture • American Political Science Review • Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority • Sociological Focus Education • Social Forces • Academy of Management Journal • Social Problems • Social Movement Studies • Sociology of Education • The Journal of Health Economics • Qualitative Sociology • Policy Studies Journal • Rationality and Society • Journal of Health Economics • Journal of Institutional Economics • Journal of Theoretical Biology • Sociological Methodology • Global Environmental Politics • Journal of Mathematical Sociology • Social Psychology Quarterly • Educational Evaluation and Policy • Sociological Quarterly Analysis • Network Science • Organization Science • DuBois Review
Book Manuscript Referee:
• Duke University Press, 2003. • Polity Press, 2012. • Sage Publications, 2006. • Stanford University Press, 2012. • University of Florida Press, 2010. • Routledge, 2013. • Oxford University Press, 2011, 2013, • SUNY Press, 2013, 2018. 2014, 2015, 2017. • Columbia University Press, 2018, • Princeton University Press, 2012. 2019, 2021.
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• Cambridge University Press, 2019 • Zed Books , 2012. • Temple University Press, 2020. • Third World Press. 2020.
Manuscript Review Board. American Journal of Sociology, 2000–01. Managing Editor. Sociological Methodology, 2000–02.
Mentoring Committee of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association. 2011-12.
LANGUAGES
Spanish—native fluency; French—basic scientific reading ability. Computer languages—FORTRAN, SAS, SPSS, STATA, MATLAB
RECREATIONAL WRITING
Occasional contributor to cultural publications – essays, reviews and letters to the editor. Musicworks, Perfect Sound Forever, Filipinas, The James G. Martin Center, Marginal Revolution (guest blogger), Markets, Power, and Culture blog & orgtheory.net blog. Samples provided upon request.
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