CURRICULUM VITAE
Neil Gross
Department of Sociology University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 90089-2539 (213) 821-2331 (phone) (213) 740-3535 (fax) [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002. M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996. B.A., Legal Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 1992.
POSITIONS HELD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, 2002-
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Williams College, 2001-2002
FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC HONORS
Teaching Award for a Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
University of Wisconsin Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000.
Leo P. Chall Dissertation Fellowship, International Sociological Association, 1999.
Phi Beta Kappa, High Distinction in General Scholarship and Highest Departmental Honors (Legal Studies), University of California-Berkeley, 1992.
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
Neil Gross and Solon Simmons (forthcoming, 2002). “Intimacy as a Double Edged Phenomenon? An Empirical Test of Giddens.” Social Forces.
Neil Gross (forthcoming, 2002). “Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism: A Sociological Account.” Theory and Society.
Charles Camic and Neil Gross (2002). “Alvin Gouldner and the Sociology of Ideas: Lessons From Enter Plato.” The Sociological Quarterly 43:97-110.
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Charles Camic and Neil Gross (2001). “The New Sociology of Ideas.” Pp. 236-49 The Blackwell Companion to Sociology, J. Blau, ed. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Charles Camic and Neil Gross (1998). “Contemporary Developments in Sociological Theory: Current Projects and Conditions of Possibility.” Annual Review of Sociology 24:453-76.
Neil Gross (1997). “Durkheim’s Pragmatism Lectures: A Contextual Interpretation.” Sociological Theory 15:126-49.
Neil Gross (1996). “A Note on the Sociological Eye and the Discovery of a New Durkheim Text.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 32:408-23.
WORKS UNDER CONTRACT
Neil Gross and Robert Alun Jones, co-translators (expected completion date: 2002). Under contract with Cambridge University Press to produce an English translation of Emile Durkheim’s recently discovered 1883-4 lectures on philosophy.
Neil Gross, “Robert E. Park,” entry in the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (Sage), edited by George Ritzer.
BOOK REVIEWS
Neil Gross (forthcoming, 2002). “Review of The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy, by Mitchell Aboulafia.” Contemporary Sociology.
Neil Gross (2001). “Review of Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology, by M. Lamont and L. Thevenot.” European Journal of Social Theory 4:527-535.
Neil Gross (2000). “Review of Randall Collins’s The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change.” Theory and Society 29:854-859.
Neil Gross (1999). “Review of On Durkheim’s Elementary Forms, W.S.F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller, and N. Allen, eds.” Contemporary Sociology 28:242-3.
Neil Gross (1999). “Review of The Creativity of Action, by Hans Joas.” Theory and Society 28:335-42.
Neil Gross (1998). “Review of The Social Theory of Practices, by Stephen Turner.” Theory and Society 27:117-27.
Neil Gross (1996). “Review of Debating Durkheim, W.S.F. Pickering and H. Martins, eds.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 32:475-78.
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Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 2002-
Reviewer, American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Sociological Forum.
PRESENTATIONS
Neil Gross (Discussant, 2002), Panel on “Social Theory: Explicating Concepts of Contemporary Relevance,” American Sociological Association meetings, Chicago.
Neil Gross and Solon Simmons (2001). “Intimacy as a Double-Edged Phenomenon? An Empirical Test of Giddens.” American Sociological Association meetings, Anaheim.
Neil Gross and Charles Camic (2001). “Gouldner’s Enter Plato.” Special panel on Alvin Gouldner at the Midwest Sociological Society meeting, St. Louis.
Neil Gross (1997). “Local Influences on Durkheim’s Moral Philosophy? Sens, France in the 1880s.” Special panel on Durkheim’s Sens lectures at the History of Science Society conference, La Jolla, California.
Neil Gross (1996). “An Historical Introduction to a New Durkheim Text.” American Sociological Association meeting, New York.
Neil Gross (1995). “Les Formes élémentaires and Pragmatisme et sociologie: An Historical Reappraisal.” Paper presented at a conference on Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms, Centre for Durkheimian Studies, Oxford University.
GRANTS
Innovative Teaching Award Grant, University of Southern California, 2002, “Putting Theory Into Context.” Grant to design a CD-ROM of audio/visual material that will help students understand the social contexts in which classical, post-classical, and contemporary sociological theory has been produced. $9,300.
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