February 2009 CURRICULUM VITAE
Viviana A. Zelizer Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology 120 Wallace Hall Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Telephone: (609) 258-4557 (office) (609) 258-4531 (departmental office) FAX: (609) 258-2180 E-mail: [email protected] http://sociology.princeton.edu/Faculty/Zelizer/
Education:
B.A. Rutgers University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1971 M.A. Columbia University, 1974 - Sociology M. Phil. Columbia University, 1974 - Sociology Ph.D. Columbia University, 1977 - Sociology
Academic Honors, Awards, and Visiting Appointments:
Fellow of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Columbia 1971-72).
Honorary President's Fellow (Columbia 1972-74).
John W. Burgess Honorary Fellow (Columbia 1973-74).
Member of the Social History Traineeship Program at Columbia University, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (1972-76).
Institute of Life Insurance grant (New York, 1974).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (Barnard College) (Summers 1979 and 1980).
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1980-81.
Emily Gregory Teaching Award (Barnard College), 1983.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1983.
1985 Elizur Wright Award, American Risk and Insurance Association for Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States.
Academic Honors, Awards, and Visiting Appointments (continued):
1985 C.W. Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children.
Member, Sociological Research Association, 1986-present.
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1987-88.
Tuck Fund Award, Princeton University, July 1990.
Directeur d'Études Associé (Visiting Research Professor), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, June 1991.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1996-97.
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1996-97.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1996-97.
1996 Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association, for The Social Meaning of Money.
Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council grant, 1997-2001
250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Princeton University grant.
Cotsen Faculty Fellow, 1998-2001, Princeton University.
Arthur Leff Fellow, Yale Law School, 1999-2000.
Outstanding advisor award, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 2001.
Professeur invité, Département de Science Sociales, École Normale Supérieure, June 2002.
The Economic Sociology section of the American Sociological Association named its annual book prize the Viviana A. Zelizer Distinguished Book Award, 2003.
Member, PEN American Center, 2006-
Academic Honors, Awards, and Visiting Appointments (continued):
Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2007.
Member, American Philosophical Society, 2007.
Visiting Professor, Université Paris X, Nanterre, June 2007.
Teaching:
Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Summer 1976.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, 1976-1978.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Barnard College and Graduate Faculty of Columbia University, 1978-82. Associate Professor, 1982-85. Professor, 1985-88. Acting Chair, Department of Sociology, Barnard College (1979-1980).
Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 1988-2002. Chair, 1992-96. Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology, 2002-present.
Books:
Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States, New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Paperback edition by Transaction, 1983. Japanese edition, Chikura Shobo, Tokyo, 1994.
Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children, New York: Basic Books, 1985. Paperback edition, Basic Books, 1987. Revised paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 1994. Chinese edition, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, forthcoming.
The Social Meaning of Money, New York: Basic Books, 1994. Paperback editions, Basic Books, 1995, Princeton University Press, 1997. Russian edition, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2004; Chinese-language edition, Cheng Chung Book Co. Ltd, Taiwan, 2004; French edition, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2005. French edition, La Signification Sociale de l’Argent named “book of the month” by Sciences Humaines, February 2006.
The Purchase of Intimacy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Paperback edition, 2007. Paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 2007. Spanish translation, Fondo de Cultura Economica, forthcoming, 2009; Chinese edition, Shanghai People's Publishing House, forthcoming; Korean edition, Eco-Livre, forthcoming.
Vite economiche, Bologna: Il Mulino, forthcoming, 2009.
Articles:
"The Conservative Rabbinate - In Quest of Professionalism." Judaism XXII (Fall, 1973): 490-96 (with Gerald Zelizer). Reprinted in The Rabbinate in America: Reshaping an Ancient Calling, series on Judaism in Cold War America: 1945-1990, edited by Jacob Neusner (Garland Publishing, 1993).
"Life Insurance as a Social Mechanism." The National Underwriter, November 15, 1975.
"The Unmarried Jew: Problems and Prospects." Conservative Judaism XXXII (Fall, 1978): 15-21. Reprinted in: Tefutsot II Israel, XVII, 1979.
"Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th Century America." American Journal of Sociology, 84 (November 1978): 591-610.
"The Price and Value of Children: The Case of Children's Insurance in the United States." American Journal of Sociology 86 (March 1981): 1036-56. German translation, “Preis und Wert von Kindern: Die Kinderversicherung,” pp. 123-48 in Macht der Unschuld: Das Kind als Chiffre (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2005).
"Pricing Life: A Historical and Sociological Perspective." In Per Oftedal and Anton Brogger, editors, Risk and Reason (New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1986).
"From Baby Farms to Baby M." Society 25 (March/April 1988): 23-28.
"Beyond the Polemics on the Market: Establishing a Theoretical and Empirical Agenda." Sociological Forum 3 (Fall 1988): 614-34.
"The Social Meaning of Money: `Special Monies'." American Journal of Sociology 95 (September 1989): 342-77. Portuguese translation, “O Significado Social Do Dinheiro: ‘Dinheiros especiais.” In Rafael Marques and João Peixoto, A Nova Sociologia Económica (Oreiras, Portugal: Celta), pp. 125-65.
"Repenser le Marché." Actes de la Recherche en sciences sociales 94 (September 1992): 3-26.
"Money." In the Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Edgard F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta (N.Y.: MacMillan, 1992), pp. 1304-10, second edition, 2000, pp. 1888-94.
"Making Multiple Monies." In Richard Swedberg, editor, Explorations in Economic Sociology. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993), pp. 193-212.
"The Creation of Domestic Currencies." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 84 (May 1994): 138-42.
Articles (continued):
"Childhood." In A Companion to American Thought, edited by Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg (Blackwell, 1995), pp. 115-16.
“Payments and Social Ties.” Sociological Forum 11 (September 1996): 481-95.
"The Many Enchantments of Money." In Sociological Visions, edited by Kai Erickson (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), pp. 83-93.
“How Do We Know Whether a Monetary Transaction is a Gift, an Entitlement, or a Payment?”. In Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman, editors, Economics, Values, and Organization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 329-33.
“The Proliferation of Social Currencies.” In Michel Callon, editor, The Law of Markets (Blackwell, 1998), pp. 58-68.
“Social Context and Monetary Transfers.” In Carlo Mongardini, editor. Il denaro nella cultura moderna. ( Roma: Bulzoni, 1998), pp. 139-47.
"How People Talk About Money." In Viviana A. Zelizer, editor, special issue on “Changing Forms of Payment.” American Behavioral Scientist 41 (August 1998), pp. 1373-83.
“Multiple Markets, Multiple Cultures.” In Neil Smelser and Jeffrey Alexander, editors, Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 193- 212. German translation,“Die Farben des Geldes, Vielfalt der Märkte, Vielfalt der Kulturen,” Berliner Journal für Soziologie10 (2000): 315-332, special issue on “The Power of Money.”
"Official Standardization vs. Social Differentiation in Americans' Uses of Money." In Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, editors, Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies. (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 82-96.
“From Child Labor to Child Work: Changing Cultural Conceptions of Children’s Economic Roles, 1870s-1930s.” in Stuart Bruchey and Peter Coclanis, editors, Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The U.S. Experience Since 1800 (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), pp. 90-101.
“The Purchase of Intimacy.” Law & Social Inquiry 25 (Summer 2000): 817-48.
“Fine Tuning the Zelizer View.” Economy and Society 29 (August 2000): 383-89.
Articles (continued):
“Monetization and Social Life.” Etnofoor 13 (2000): 5-15. French translation, “Monétisation et vie sociale.” In Jean-Ives Trépos, editor, special issue, “Philosophies de L’Argent.” Le Portique 19 (2007): 43-58.
“Economic Sociology.” In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 6: 4128-31 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001).
“Sociology of Money.” In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 15: 9991-4 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001).
“Enter Culture.” In Mauro F. Guillén, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer, editors, The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), pp. 101-25. French translation, “Place à la Culture,” Interventions économiques 33, April 2006, special issue on economic sociology. http://www.teluq.uquebec.ca/pls/inteco/rie.entree?vno_revue=1
“Intimate Transactions.” In Mauro F. Guillén, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer, editors, The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), pp. 274-300. French translation appeared as “Transactions intimes,” Genèses 42, March 2001: 121-44.
“How Care Counts.” Contemporary Sociology (March 2002) 31: 115-9.
“La construction des circuits de commerce: notes sur l’importance des circuits personnels et impersonnels.” In Jean-Michel Servet and Isabelle Guérin, Exclusion et Liens Financiers: Rapport du Centre Walras. (Paris: Economica, 2002), pp. 425-29.
“Kids and Commerce.” Childhood 4 (November 2002): 375-96.
“Circuits of Commerce.” In Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, and Christine Williams, editors, Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs. Explorations in Sociology, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), pp. 122-44.
“Circuits within Capitalism.” In Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg, editors. The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), pp. 289-322
“Culture and Consumption.” In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, editors. Handbook of Economic Sociology, second edition. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005), pp. 331-54.
Articles (continued):
(With Joan Williams) “To Commodify or not to Commodify: That is not the Question.” In Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture, Martha Ertman and Joan Williams, editors, (N.Y.: NYU Press, 2005), pp. 362-82.
“The Priceless Child Revisited.” In Jens Qvortrup, editor. Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, Agency and Culture. (London: Palgrave, 2005), pp. 184-200.
“Argent, Circuits, Relations Intimes.” Enfances, Familles, Générations, Spring 2005. http://www.erudit.org/revue/efg/2005/v/n2/index.html.
“Intimité et économie.” Terrain 45 (September 2005): 13-28.
“Intimate Truths.” Guardian, September 24, 2005. Reprinted in Ha’aretz, September 29.
“Missing Monies.” Economy & Society 34 ( November 2005): 584-88.
“Do Markets Poison Intimacy?” Contexts 5 (Spring 2006): 33-8.
“Children, “Good Matches,” and Policies for Care.” Research Note, Working Group on Childhood and Migration. http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/index.htm, May 2006.
“Money, Power, and Sex.” Keynote Address. 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 303 (2006).
(With Charles Tilly) “Relations and Categories.” In Arthur Markman and Brian Ross, editors, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation 47. (San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2006): pp. 1-31.
“La Sociología del Dinero.” In Salvador Giner, Emilio Lamo de Espinosa and Cristóbal Torres, editors. Diccionario de Sociología 2d. edition (Alianza Editorial, 2006).
“Why and How to Read Why?” Qualitative Sociology 29 (Winter 2006): 531-4.
“Viviana Zelizer, L’argent social.” [extended interview by Florence Weber]. Genèses 65 (December 2006):126-37.
“Pasts and Futures of Economic Sociology.” In Nicole Woolsey Biggart, editor, special issue “Coming and Going in Economic Sociology.” American Behavioral Scientist 50 (April 2007): 1056-69.
“Ethics in the Economy.” Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics (zfwu) 1, 2007: 8-23
Articles (continued):
“The Purchase of Criticism.” Sociological Forum 22 (December 2007): 612-17.
“The Real Economy.” Qualitative Sociology 31 (June 2008): 189-93.
“Dinero, Circuitos, Relaciones Íntimas.” In Sociedad y Economía 14 (June 2008). Spanish translation of “Argent, Circuits, Relations Intimes.” Enfances, Familles, Générations, Spring 2005. http://www.erudit.org/revue/efg/2005/v/n2/index.html.
"Pagos y lazos sociales" Critica en desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales 2: 43-61 (2008). Spanish translation of “Payments and Social Ties.” Sociological Forum 11 (September 1996): 481-95.
“La rémuneration des services d’aide à la personne.” Retraites et sociétés 53 (January 2008): 14-19.
“L’économie du care.” Revue Francaise de Socio-Économie 2: 13-25 (2008)
“Moralizing Consumption.” Journal of Consumer Culture, forthcoming.
“Risky Exchanges.” In Michele Goodwin, editor, Baby Markets: Money, Morality, and the New Politics of Adoption and ART. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2009.
“Intimacy in Economic Organizations.” In Nina Bandelj, editor, Economic Sociology of Work. Volume 19 in Research in the Sociology of Work. Bingley, UK: Emerald, forthcoming 2009.
“Dangerous Dualities.” Mana: Studies in Social Anthropology, forthcoming, 2009..
“Culture and Uncertainty.” In Craig Calhoun, editor, Robert K. Merton: Sociological Theory and the Sociology of Science. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
“Caring Everywhere.” In Eileen Boris and Rhacel Parreñas, editors, Intimate Labors, Stanford University Press, forthcoming.
Other Professional Publications:
“Next Steps in Economic Sociology,” Editorial, ECONSOC. [email protected]. February 1998.
“Money’s Worth,” Interview by Radio Australia, June 1998. http://www.abc.net.au.
“Alejandro Portes’ Sociological Journey,” Footnotes, September/October 1998: 4.
“A Gendered Division of Labor.” Newsletter of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association, Fall 1999. Revised version in the European Economic Sociology Newsletter 1: June, 2000: 1-16.
“How and Why Do We Care About Circuits?” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Fall 2000 1: 3-5.
Materials for the Study of Childhood, with Nina Bandelj and Ann Morning, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 2001.
“How the World Needs Economic Sociology.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Spring 2002: 1-2.
“Love Hikers Don’t Walk Alone.” Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association 18 (Winter 2004): 1, 3-4.
“The Evolution of Economic Sociology.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Fall 2005: 7-8.
“Circuits in Economic Life.” European Economic Sociology Newsletter 1: November 2006: 30-5. Italian translation: “I circuiti nella vita economica.” In Francesco Paolo Cerase, editor Azione economica e azione sociale. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008), pp. 257-269.
Five essays (“Intimate Debts”, “Micromarkets”, “Women’s and men’s money: what difference does it make?”, “The Independence Myth”, “Personal Ties Matter”) in Credit Slips: A Discussion on Credit and Bankruptcy blog, October 30-November 3, 2006.
“False Taboos,” May 6, 2007; “Pricing a Child’s Life,” September 6, 2007, “Gasoline Gift Cards: How Americans Invent Money,” July 16, 2008, Huffington Post blog.
“Reflections on Intimacy.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Spring 2007: 10-12.
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Other Professional Publications (continued):
“Interview: Viviana Zelizer answers ten questions about economic sociology.” European Economic Sociology Newsletter 8: July 2007: 41-5.
“Charting A New Discipline.” 2007. Review of Caroline Dufy and Florence Weber, L’ethnographie économique. Paris: La Découverte, 2007. European Journal of Sociology XLVIII: 485-6.
“Ethics in the Economy.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Summer 2008: 2-12. Revised version of paper published in Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics (zfwu) 1, 2007: 8-23
Ten to twenty book reviews in professional journals and mass media.
Recent Presentations:
“Intimate Transactions.” Presented at the Workshop on Organizations, Institutions, and Economic Sociology, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, September 2000, at the Center for Working Families, University of California at Berkeley, October 2000, at the conference on Contemporary Developments in the U.S. Economy: Findings from the New Economic Sociology, Princeton University, April 2001, and The Barbara Aronstein Black Lectures on Women and Law. Columbia Law School, January 2002.
“Circuits of Commerce.” Presented at “Sociologie et économie.” Seminar series, Université Paris- Dauphine, May 2001, Department of Sociology, Yale University, September 2001, and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 2002.
“Circuits Within Capitalism.” Prepared for the conference on “The Economic Sociology of Capitalism,” Cornell University, September 2001.
“Circuits Capitalistes.” Presented at symposium on “Economy and Social Sciences,” École Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 2002.
“Recollections and Reflections on Pierre Bourdieu.” Presented at Special Session: In Memory of Pierre Bourdieu.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 2002.
“Another View of Economic Sociology.” Presented at Teaching Workshop in Economic Sociology, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 2002
“Dangerous Dualities.” Keynote Address, Women, Money and Power Conference, Radcliffe Institute, October 2002, and at Women in Leadership Conference. Princeton University, January
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2003. Recent Presentations (continued):
“Love Hikers Don’t Walk Alone.” Comment on Ann Swidler, Talk of Love: How Culture Works (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). Author Meets the Critics session, Eastern Sociological Society, March 2003.
“The Economy of Intimacy.” Ross Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, May, 2003.
“Commercial Circuits and Personal Ties.” Economic Sociology seminar, Sloan School of Management, MIT, May 2003.
“Relationships and Money.” Family Advisory Council, New York, May 2004.
“Intimate Bookmaking.” Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University, 2004.
“Contention Over Intimacy.” Opening remarks, “PA Divorce Code: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow.” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, May 12, 2005.
“The Priceless Child in 2005.” Eastern Sociological Society, Spring 2005.
Comments on Michel Callon and Koray Caliskan, “New Directions in the Anthropology of Markets.” Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop, April 2005.
“Circuits of Care.” Sociology Department Colloquium Series, Harvard University, May 2005.
“Futures of Economic Sociology.” Session on “Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 2005
“L’Emprise de l’intimité.” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, November 2005.
“La Signification Sociale de l’Argent.” École Normale Supérieure, Paris, November 2005.
“Military Drill, Cornucopia, Story Hour.” TIPS/McGraw Center program on “Great Teachers on Teaching Undergraduates.” Department of Sociology, Princeton University, December 2005.
2005 Book presentations for The Purchase of Intimacy at: Law and Public Affairs Program, Princeton University; New York Law and Society Colloquium, NYU Law School; Family Advisory Council, New York City; BBC Radio 4, Marketplace, NPR, Sirius Satellite Radio, Le Raconteur bookstore, Metuchen, New Jersey; Princeton University Bookstore, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
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“Money, Power, and Sex.” Yale Law School, February 2006. Recent Presentations (continued):
“The Purchase of Intimacy.” Author-meets-critics session, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, February 2006.
“Kids and Caring Work.” Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, March 2006.
“The Purchase of Intimacy.” Anthropology Distinguished Visitor lecture, Haverford College, April 2006.
“Circuits in Economic Life.” Economic Sociology Workshop, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, May 2006.
“Caring for Children.” Concluding commentary, Conference on “Children’s Rights and the Nation-State in the US, France and Sweden, 1900-2000.” Columbia University, May 2006.
“Intimacy Contested.” “Law and Money” conference, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, June 2006
“The Seductions of Intimacy.” INSEAD, Paris, June 2006.
“The Economy of Care.” Colloquium on economic sociology of care, Interdisciplinary research center for economic sociology (LISE-CNRS), Paris, June 2006.
“Contests Over Care.” Panel on “Care, Law, and Public Policy.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, July 2006.
“The Purchase of Intimacy.” Author-meets-critics session, American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006.
“Thinking about Emotions.” Comments at session on “Emotions and Rationality in Economic Life.” American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006.
“The Real Economy,” Discussion of Sudhir Venkatesh, Off the Books, Eastern Sociological Society, March 2007.
“Undeafening the Dialogue between Economics and Sociology.” Economics-Sociology Workshop, Princeton University, February 5, 2007.
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“Circuits in Economic Life.” Department of Sociology colloquium, Columbia University, March 2007; Money and Markets Workshop, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, May 2008. Recent Presentations (continued):
“Who’s Got the Ethics?” Department of Sociology colloquium, Boston University, April 2007.
“Intimacy in Economic Organizations.” Presented at the Puck Seminar, Department of Sociology, New York University, April 2007; George Washington University Law School Works-in-Progress series, April 2007; MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar, April 2007; Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, May 2007; Department of Sociology, Yale University, January 2008; Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative Research Seminar, Department of Sociology, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2008; Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, May 2008; session on “Emotion and Law in the Workplace,” The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May 2008.
“L’Economie du Care.” Department of Political Science, Université Paris X, Nanterre, June 2007.
“Circuits and Money.” American Sociological Association meetings, August 2007.
“Culture and Uncertainty.” Robert K. Merton conference, Columbia University, August 2007.
“Caring Everywhere.” Keynote address, conference on Intimate Labors, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2007; Sociological Imagination Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, New School, May 2009.
“Care and Inequality.” Panel on “Diminishing Returns: Income Inequality in the United States,” Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, February 2008.
“Risky Exchanges.” Prepared for session on “Biotechnology, Bioethics, and the Law-Baby Markets: Money, Morality, and the Neopolitics of Choice.” The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May 2008. Presented at the University of North Carolina Law School, April 2008.
“The Gender of Money.” American Sociological Association meetings, August 2008.
“Money in Circuits.” Presented at NSF-DFG Research Conference "Contextualizing Economic Behavior," New York, August 2008.
“Chuck Tilly and Mozart.” Contention, Change, and Explanation: A Conference in Honor of Charles Tilly, October 3-5, 2008, Columbia University, New York
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Selected Professional Activities:
Professional Service:
Member, Publications Committee, and 1985-86 Papers Committee, Eastern Sociological Society. Co-Chair, Publications Committee 1986-87.
Member, Council (1987-89; 2001-5) and Prize Committee (1987), Section on Comparative Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association.
Member, Committee on Nominations, American Sociological Association, 1992-93.
Program Committee, 1993 Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
Member, Spencer Foundation Awards Committee, 1985-86. Teachers College, Columbia University.
Panel Member, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends 1989.
Member, Review Committee for the Origins of the Urban Underclass volume, Social Science Research Council, December 1989.
Member, Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, Princeton University, 1992-95.
Membership Committee, Sociological Research Association, 1993-94; 2006-07.
Nominating Committee, Toynbee Prize Foundation, 1996-99.
Chair, Economic Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2001-2.
Chair, Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award Committee, 2002-03
Participant, planning meeting on the Economics of Families, MacArthur Foundation, September 1996.
Participant, planning meeting, The Feinberg Institute for the Comparative Study of Human Value and Public Life, March 2006.
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Scientific Committee, “Economie Informelle, Travail au Noir: Enjeux economiques et sociaux.” Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, Paris, September 2007.
Professional Service (continued)
Faculty Associate, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2000- ; Executive Committee 2007-; Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, 2005- .
Member, External Review Committees: Department of Sociology, Queens College; Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania (2007); Harvard University (2009).
Member, Advisory Boards: Member, Advisory Board of the Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, 1986-87; Advisory Committee, Yale Sociology Department, 1997-98; Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Economy and Society, Cornell University, 2002- ; Scientific Council, Paris School of Economics, 2006-2008; Advisory Council, School of Social Science, École Normale Supérieure, 2008-; Doctoral Program in Sociology, Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales and Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008-.
Editorial
Editorial and Advisory Boards: Studies in Historical Change, University of Kansas Press, 1988- 91, Contemporary Sociology, 1991-1994, Actes de la Recherche en sciences sociales, 1991- 1994, Theory and Society, 1988 – 2005, Sociological Forum, 1993-1999, American Behavioral Scientist, 1996-present; The Journal of Consumer Culture, 1999- ; Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Life, Westview Press, 1999-; Sociologie et Sociétés 2002- ; Sociological Theory,1989-1991; 2005-2007 ; book series on Children and Youth: Studies in History and Culture (ABC-CLIO), edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell; “Girl’s History & Culture” book series, edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell, Palgrave/St Martins, 2004- ; Cultural Sociology, 2006; Journal of Cultural Economy, 2007-; Economic Sociology series, edited by Bai Gao, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2008-.
Consultant, Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, Paula Fass, editor. New York: Macmillan, 2004; Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Jens Beckert and Milan Zavirovski, editors. London: Routledge, 2005.
Editorial Board, Princeton Series in Cultural Sociology, 1996-.
Other:
Participant, Russell Sage Seminar in Economic Sociology, 1990-1992.
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Script Consultant, Orphan Trains Project, Edward Gray, Films Incorporated, sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Other (continued)
Organized and/or chaired sessions on, among other topics, "Historical Sociology," "Economic Sociology," "Money and Family Life," "The Social Study of Money," "Cultural Sociology of Childhood," "Children," "Unorthodox Markets," "Solutions to Infertility, Historical and Social Dimensions," "Social Capital," “Changing Forms of Payment,” "Cognitive Sociology," “The Moral Side of Economic Processes,” “Culture in Economic Processes,” “Multiple Perspectives on Economic Processes,” at, among others, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Social Science History Association, Eastern Sociological Society, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.
Languages:
Read, speak, and write: English, Spanish, French, Italian.
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