Center for Cultural Sociology

Peter Beilharz
La Trobe University

Peter Beilharz attended Croydon High School and Rusden College, and after a short experience teaching high school went to Monash University, where he completed a doctorate on Trotskyism in 1984. He taught at Monash, RMIT, and Melbourne before replacing Agnes Heller at La Trobe in 1988, where he progressed from lecturer through to personal chair in 1999. In 1980 he co-founded the international journal of social theory, Thesis Eleven. Since 2002 he has been director to the Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory at La Trobe. In the course of his travels Peter has been a visitor at Manila, Amsterdam, Chapel Hill, Mexico City, Sao Paolo and Tokyo and a visiting fellow at RSSS, ANU. He was Professor of Australian tudies at Harvard 1999-2000, and William Dean Howells Fellow at Harvard Library, 2002. He is a Faculty Associate in the Sociology Department at Yale. Peter has written or edited twenty books, including Labour’s Utopias (1992), Postmodern Socialism (1994), Transforming Labor (1994), Imagining the Antipodes (1997) and Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (2002) and eighty papers. He is working on two ARC research projects, one with Trevor Hogan on the intellectual biography of Jean Martin, founding mother of Australian sociology, and another on Australia and New Zealand entitled “The Pursuit of Harmony and Social Division in the Antipodes Across the Twentieth Century.” Under the latter project, his next book will be a study of Australia called “The Unhappy Country.”

Seyla Benhabib
Yale University

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics. Professor Benhabib is the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2006-07. She is the author of Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (1986); Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992; winner of the National Educational Association’s best book of the year award); together with Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser, Feminism as Critique (1994); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996; reissued in 2002); The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era, (2002) and most recently, The Rights of Others. Aliens, Citizens and Residents (2004), which won the Ralph Bunche award of the American Political Science Association (2005) and the North American Society for Social Philosophy award (2004). A new book, Another Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Sovereignty and Democratic Iterations, with responses by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig and Will Kymlicka is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2006. Her work has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, Swedish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science since 1996 and has held the Gauss Lectures (Princeton, 1998); the Spinoza chair for distinguished visitors (Amsterdam, 2001); the John Seeley Memorial Lectures (Cambridge, 2002), the Tanner Lectures (Berkeley, 2004) and was the Catedra Ferrater Mora Distinguished Professor in Girona, Spain (Summer 2005). She received an Honorary degree from the Humanistic University in Utrecht in 2004.

Andy Bennett
Griffith University

Andy Bennett is Professor in Cultural Sociology at Griffith University. Prior to his appointment at Griffith, he held posts at Brock University in Canada and at the Universities of Surrey, Kent, Glasgow, and Durham (where he also gained his PhD in 1997) in the UK. Prior to working on his PhD he spent two years in Frankfurt, Germany working as a music instructor with the Frankfurt Rockmobil project. Andy specializes in the areas of youth culture and popular music. He has published articles in a number of journals, including The British Journal of Sociology, Sociology, Sociological Review, Media Culture and Society, Popular Music, and Poetics. He is author of Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place (2000, Macmillan), Cultures of Popular Music (2001, Open University Press), Culture and Everyday Life (2005, Sage), editor of Remembering Woodstock (2004, Ashgate) and co-editor of Guitar Cultures (2001, Berg), After Subculture (Palgrave, 2004), Music Scenes (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004) and Music, Space and Place (Ashgate, 2004). Andy is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and a former Chair of the UK and Ireland IASPM branch. He is also a member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and a co-founder of the BSA Youth Study Group. He is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, an Associate of PopuLUs, the Centre for the Study of the World’s Popular Musics at Leeds University, and a member of the Board for the European Sociological Association Network for the Sociology of the Arts. Andy is also a member of the Editorial Boards for the journals Cultural Sociology, Perfect Beat, Leisure Studies and Music and Arts in Action, and serves on the Advisory Boards of the journals Sociology and the Journal of Sociology.

Claudio Benzecry
University of Connecticut

Claudio Benzecry is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph D in 2007 from New York University. His research is designed to develop fine-grained local analyses that provide micro foundations to the sociological study of larger comparative themes such as the emotional attachment to interpretative meanings and complex forms; the relationship between class, status and morality; and the production of cultural and artistic value. His work has appeared in venues such as Theory and Society, Qualitative Sociology, Theory, Culture & Society, Ethnography and the Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Sciences. His research sites include Argentina and the US.
Claudio is currently working on three projects. The first one is the completion of a manuscript, The Opera Fanatic. Ethnography of an Obsession. Based on three years of fieldwork, archival research and 44 in depth interviews, this study serves to make more complex the relationship between engagement with high cultural products and the attainment of social status. Honor in this case is not related to how much recognition fans can gather from peers outside of the opera house or in how much they can convert their lifestyle in other resources but rather with how they craft themselves as honorable people.
The second project, is a stand-alone piece, in direct relation to his previous research. The objective of this particular archival study is to understand how much social closure the elites managed to produce on opera attendance in Buenos Aires during the foundational period of its main house, the Teatro Colón (1908-1931).
The third project, a collaboration with colleague Andrew Deener, will look at the micro level of the political economy of fashion globalization, focusing on trend forecasting agencies and second rate clothing and accessories companies and the ways in which they participate in producing both patterns of innovation and reproduction.

Mabel Berezin
Cornell Univeristy

Berezin’s research asks how shared cultural meanings and practices shape 1) political institutions such as the state; 2) social processes around political movements and ideologies; and 3) agents through the construction of political identities. Her methodology is primarily comparative and historical. Her current work focuses on contemporary sites of social, political and cultural change – places where political arrangements have collapsed and new institutions and identities are in the process of formation. She is currently engaged in three projects: 1) a study of the social and cultural appeal of fringe parties in France and Italy as a response to Europeanization; 2) a comparative historical study of institution building, citizenship and social capital in early 20th century United States and Europe; and 3) the role of emotions in macrosociological systems (i.e., politics, economics).

Richard Biernacki
University of California, San Diego

Rick Biernacki received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1989. In The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Great Britain, 1640-1914 (University of California, 1995), he compares the influence of culture on the execution of factory manufacture. His interests are classical and contemporary theory, comparative method, and culture. His research focuses on the historical invention of key forms of cultural practice in Europe, including the categories of labor as a commodity, ethnic identity, and property in ideas.

Amy Binder
University of California, San Diego

Amy Binder received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1998. Her principal research interests are in the areas of education, social movements, organizations, and cultural sociology. Her book, Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton University Press 2002), explores two marginal challenge efforts to shape curriculum in public school systems. The book received the 2003 Best Book Prize of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, the 2003 Distinguished Scholarship Prize of the Pacific Sociological Association, and the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Her current research is on a transitional housing site in Denver, CO, which is an organization that mediates between the welfare state and individual residents’ lives. There she is studying issues of interpersonal and systems trust, with an emphasis on educational processes. She was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2005-2006).

Mary Blair-Loy
University of California, San Diego

Mary Blair-Loy has a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an M.Div. from Harvard University. She uses multiple methods to study gender, work, and family, with a focus on how human agency is constrained and enabled by social and cultural structures. She studies elite workers in demanding and compelling jobs. Her book, Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives (Harvard University Press), shows how the morally and emotionally salient cultural schemas of work devotion and family devotion help structure the institutions of the capitalist firm and the nuclear family in the U.S. and help shape women’s actions. Competing Devotions won the 2005 William J. Goode Book Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on the Family. Her forthcoming work addresses these issues among male executives. Further, Blair-Loy analyzes the causes and consequences of the institutionalization of contested work-family olicies in a large financial services firm with Amy S. Wharton and studies organizational ideologies with Wharton and Jerry Goodstein.

Georgina Born
University of Cambridge

Georgina Born is Reader in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. She trained in Anthropology at University College London and uses ethnography to study cultural production, particularly music, television, IT and Euro-American knowledge systems and intellectual cultures. Her books are Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (Vintage 2005), a study of the transformation of the BBC and Britain’s public broadcasting system over the past decade; Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (California 1995), a combined critical ethnography and cultural history of post-WW2 musical modernism and of music-science collaborations at IRCAM in Paris; and Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music (California 2000, with D. Hesmondhalgh). Current research analyses the nature of interdisciplinary collaborations between the natural sciences and arts or social sciences. Other current research examines the transformation of public broadcasting with digitization, and the changing modes of creativity attendant on music’s digitization. Articles have appeared in the journals Screen, New Formations, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Journal of Material Culture, Modern Law Review, Cultural Values, Javnost/The Public, and Twentieth-Century Music. She is on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Anthropological Theory and New Media and Society, and is involved in media policy research on the BBC and public broadcasting in Europe, as well as advising public arts organisations in the UK. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, operating in dialogue with musicology, art history and science and technology studies, and combining perspectives from anthropology, sociology and the humanities.

Craig Calhoun
Social Science Research Council and New York University

Craig Calhoun is President of the Social Science Research Council, a leading organization in international, interdisciplinary social science. He is also University Professor of Sociology and History at New York University. Calhoun’s newest book, Cosmopolitanism and Belonging will be published by Routledge in 2006. He has also just edited Sociology in America: the ASA Centennial History (Chicago 2006). Some of his other books include Nationalism (Minnesota, 1997), Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California, 1995), and Critical Social Theory: Culture, History and the Challenge of Difference (Blackwell, 1995). A collection of his essays on 19th century social movements, The Radicalism of Tradition, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year. Since 2002, Calhoun has been collaborating with Richard Sennett to sponsor a seminar and conference series linking graduate students in New York and London. The NYLON conferences focus on cultural analysis in its connections to political sociology, ethnography, social theory, sociology of knowledge, and cities. The first volume of essays from the NYLON conferences, Practicing Culture, will be published by Routledge in 2006. Formerly editor of Sociological Theory, Calhoun was the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences, and co-editor for international and area studies in the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences and co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Sociology. He has also edited (or co-edited) several influential and often agenda-setting volumes of interdisciplinary social theory including Habermas and the Public Sphere (MIT 1992), Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives (Chicago 1993), Social Theory and the Politics of Identity (Blackwell 1994), Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (Minnesota 1997), Understanding September 11th: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (New Press 2002), and Lessons of Empire? (New Press 2005). Several of these reflect his work at the SSRC or as one of the animators of the Center for Transcultural Studies, an international, interdisciplinary network of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

John Carroll
La Trobe University

John Carroll is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He has degrees in mathematics, economics and sociology from the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. His work over two decades has focussed on developing a theory of culture, with special reference to the modern West. The theory is presented in a sequence of books: The Wreck of Western Culture—Humanism Revisited (1993; revised edition 2004), Ego and Soul—the Modern West in Search of Meaning (1998; revised edition 2008), The Western Dreaming (2001), Terror—a Meditation on the Meaning of September 11 (2002), and The Existential Jesus (2007).
He has also edited Intruders in the Bush—the Australian Quest for Identity (1982, 1992). John Carroll is a frequent writer of essays and newspaper articles. He delivered one of the Alfred Deakin Federation Lectures in 2001—an overview of Australian culture titled ‘The Blessed Country’. He chaired a Panel commissioned by the Australian Government to review the National Museum of Australia in 2003.

Elaine Chan
City University of Hong Kong

Elaine Chan was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her undergraduate training in sociology and psychology at the University of San Diego and her graduate training in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She worked as a demonstrator at the Department of Politics and Public Administration before joining the Department in 1994.

Simon Cottle
Cardiff University

Simon Cottle is currently Professor of Media and Communications and Director of the Mediatized Conflict Research Group in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He was formerly Inaugural Chair and Director of the Media and Communication Program at the University of Melbourne (2002-2006). He has written extensively on the changing professional practices, cultural forms and rituals of journalism and the mediatization of diverse conflicts including: riots, demonstrations and protests; the environment and “risk society;” “race,” racism and ethnicity; and war and terror post 9/11. His books include: Mediatized Conflict: New Developments in Media and Conflict Studies (Open University Press 2006), The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence: Media Performance and Public Transformation (Praeger 2004), Media Organization and Production (Editor, Sage 2003), News, Public Relations and Power (Editor, Sage 2003), Ethnic Minorities and the Media: Changing Cultural Boundaries (Editor, Open University Press 2000), Mass Communication Research Methods (Co-author, Palgrave 1998), Television and Ethnic Minorities: Producers’ Perspectives (Avebury 1997) and TV News, Urban Conflict and the Inner City (Leicester University Press 1993). He is currently writing Global Crisis Reporting (2007), and concluding an international research study examining the changing forms and flows of terrestrial and satellite television journalism in the USA, UK, Australia, India, South Africa and Singapore and how television journalism communicates global crises.

Thomas Cushman
Wellesley College

Thomas Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and the founder, former editor in chief, and currently editor-at-large of the Journal of Human Rights. He has written or edited numerous books, including Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia (State University of New York Press, 1995); This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia (New York University Press, 1996); George Orwell: Into the Twenty-first Century (Paradigm, 2004); A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq (University of California Press, 2005). His most recent fortcoming books include: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left (New York University Press, 2008), a compilation of writings of Hitchens and his critics, with an introduction (co-authored by Simon Cottee), which uses the polemical debates between Hitchens and his critics as a case study on sociology of intellectuals and the sociology of factionalism on the left; and The Religious in Response to Mass Atrocity, an interdisciplinary volume which examines the religious narratives, performances, cultural discourses, and institional responses to mass atrocity in history and in the contemporary world (under review, Cambridge University Press, e.d.p. 2008). Cushman is the editor of two book series: “Post-Communist Cultural Studies” and “Essays in Human Rights” - both published by Penn State University Press. He was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow for 2002, a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar Academic Core Session on International Law and Human Rights chaired by Lloyd Cutler and Richard Goldstone, a former visiting scholar at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, Siskind Visiting Professor of Sociology and Internet Studies at Brandeis University, and Visiting Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is currently at work on a manuscript tentatively entitled, “The Social Structure of Suffering” and will be the editor-in-chief of an encyclopedic Handbook of Human Rights, which will be published by Routledge in 2009.

Barbara Czarniawska
Gothenburg Research Institute

Born 2nd December 1948 in Bialystok, Poland, where her family moved from Wilno after the World War II. Swedish citizen since 26 August, 1988. M.A. in Social and Industrial Psychology, Warsaw University, 1970; Ph.D.in Economic Sciences, Warsaw School of Economics, 1976. Czarniawska is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, and the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg. She received Lily and Sven Thuréus Technical-Economic Award for internationally renowned research inorganization theory in 2000 and Wihuri International Prize in recognition of creative work that has specially furthered and developed the cultural and economic progress of mankind, 2003.

Eduardo de la Fuente
Monash University

Eduardo de la Fuente teaches in the Communications program within the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He has an interdisciplinary background in the fields of communication studies, sociology and social theory. He has held positions at the University of Tasmania (1998-2001) and Macquarie University (2002-7) prior to coming to Monash University, and is currently a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology (2005- ). With Brad West of Flinders University, he co-convenes the TASA Cultural Sociology Thematic Group. He has published in journals such as Sociological Theory, Cultural Sociology, Journal of Classical Sociology, Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Thesis Eleven and Distinktion: The Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. He is currently completing a scholarly monograph for Routledge on twentieth century music and the question of cultural modernity. His research interests are in the following areas: sociology of the arts; classical and contemporary social theory; the history of the social sciences; the aesthetics of everyday life; and the cultural dimensions of modernity.

Tia DeNora
University of Exeter

My undergraduate degree was in music (flute) and sociology. I completed my Ph.D. in Sociology in 1989 at the University of California San Diego. From then until 1992, I worked at University of Wales Cardiff (where I was a University of Wales Fellow from 1989-91). I moved to Exeter in 1992. Most of my work has focused on musical topics, but I have also worked in the area of the sociology of science and technology. I was Chair of the European Sociological Association Network on Sociology of the Arts from 1999–2001 and am a member of the Board of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts I was a board member of the ASA Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology from 1994–7. I co-edit the Manchester University Press series, Music and Society and serve on the editorial board of Qualitative Research and, from October 2003–5, American Journal of Sociology. At Exeter I am Head of Sociology. I also serve on the University’s Research Committee and am Deputy Director of the University Group on Equal Opportunities.

Laura Desfor Edles
California State University, Northridge

Laura Desfor Edles teaches at California State University, Northridge, and Vanguard University of Southern California. She has also taught at Soka University, in Aliso Viejo, California; the University of Hawaii, Manoa; Boise State University, in Boise, Idaho, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain. Edles received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of a number of books, including: Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Cultural Sociology in Practice (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), Sociological Theory in the Classical Era (co-authored with Scott Appelrouth, Pine Forge, 2004), and Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era (co-authored with Scott Appelrouth, Pine Forge, 2006). She has also published various articles on culture, theory, race/ethnicity, and social movements. Her current research focuses on Christianity in the public sphere, with an emphasis on progressive Christian interpretive frames. She seeks to explain what happened to the progressive Christian interpretive schemes prominent in the 1960s and 1970s (as evident in Jesus Christ Superstar, and the theology of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.), and how they came to be replaced by dichotomous “culture wars” between secular and religious fundamentalists which equate Christianity with conservatism.

Nina Eliasoph
University of Southern California

Nina Eliasoph’s research has focused on public speech in the U.S., asking how citizens and policy makers talk about politics and morality in the public arena. Her first book, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life (Cambridge University Press, 1998), is an ethnographic account of suburban activists, volunteers, and recreation club members describes how they talked — or did not talk — about politics, both within their groups and in their encounters with government, media and corporate authorities. Avoiding Politics won awards from the American Sociological Association’s Culture Section, the National Communication Association, and the Association for Humanistic Sociology. Eliasoph’s current book manuscript, Ambiguous Moral Worlds: The Case of U.S. Youth Programs, investigates a newly prevalent type of setting: after-school youth programs which are sponsored by a mixture of state agencies and large non-governmental agencies. She is also plannig a comparative ethnographic project with researchers in France, on questions of political and moral dialogue in institutionally ambiguous settings. Professor Eliasoph has served on the Sociology of Culture and the Political Sociology Councils of the American Sociological Association.

J. Nicholas Entrikin
University of California, Los Angeles

Nicholas Entrikin is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written extensively about the concept of place as the vital context of human action, emphasizing its constitutive role in the production of identity, consciousness and meaning. His work engages epistemological and normative debates in geography, highlighting the moral, narrative and political dimensions of the analysis of place.

Roger O. Friedland
University of California, Santa Barbara

Roger Friedland teaches and researches in the areas of cultural analysis, religion and politics, social theory, and institutions.

David W. Garland
New York University

David Garland’s principle areas of research include: the legal institutions of punishment and control; history and sociology of criminological knowledge; social solidarity; and the welfare state.

J. William Gibson
California State University, Long Beach

J. William Gibson attended the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1973) as an undergraduate, went to graduate school in sociology at Yale (Ph.D. 1985) and studied as a visiting graduate student at Brandeis University. Gibson was a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities (1990–91). He is the author of The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (1986 and 2000), and Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America (1994). His articles, editorials, and book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Washington Post. Gibson is currently working on a new manuscript for Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt tentatively entitled Call of the Wild: the Cultural Re-Enchantment of Nature. It is a study in cultural sociology about how the environmental and animal rights movements of the past 35 years have revived and developed a romantic concept of nature, namely that the land and its creatures are in some sense sacred or enchanted. In this culture, landscapes, trees, coral reefs, and all kinds of animals are seen as having intrinsic value and integrity and participate in a larger spirit or mystery of nature. This new culture of enchantment breaks from what classical sociologists saw as fundamental processes of modernization, rationalization and secularization.

Bernhard Giesen
University of Konstanz

Bernhard Giesen is interested in the comparative historical analysis of societies in Europe and of civilizations on a global level. Professor Giesen works within a culturalist framework, employing constructionist and evolutionary heuristics to examine the selective advantages of different cultural codings. This project has focussed on: (1) Comparative historical investigations of public opinion and of “collective identity” at both national and European levels, with reference to different codings of national identity; (2) The sociological analysis of intellectual rituals of discourse: the specific social embeddedness of intellectuals, their generation-specific position and their public self-thematization; and (3) The analysis of national rituals of remembrance and the differentiation and determination of function of different forms of collective memory. In this context the research is focusing on the historical change of remembrance rituals with regard to the conflicts between triumph and trauma.

Andreas Glaeser
University of Chicago

Andreas Glaeser has begun work on a new monograph with the provisional title The Power of Recognition: Making Beliefs in the Secret Police and the Opposition of the former GDR. The central question this book pursues is why particular people believe in the veracity of a particular understanding of the world. The effort of Stasi, the GDR’s secret police, to control the civil rights movement in Berlin during the 1980s, is used here as a fruitful arena to develop new theoretical departures for a sociology of knowledge which focuses on epistemic practices and ideologies within social networks and bureaucratic organizations. He tries to show also that the reality construction frame offers a much better understanding of the peculiar interactions between opposition movements and security agencies in the late GDR which in turn can be used to unravel some of the mysteries about the cultural reasons why socialism has failed. Since this project has made wide use of archival materials to inform intensive interviews focusing on organizational lives, it also provides new methodological impulses for a historical ethnographic practice which employs organizations as ‘elevator’ between various levels of social organizations and as a “burning glasses” for diverse kinds of social processes which begin to interact within the organization. Andreas is also working on the role of emotions in cultural change and continues to pursue his interest in the configuration of architectural spaces as physical anchors of memories, identities and cultural codes.

Ronald Jacobs
State University of New York, Albany

Ron Jacobs is the author of Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King (Cambridge University Press, 2000), in addition to other articles published in such journals as International Sociology, the American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Media, Culture and Society, Voluntas, and Research in Political Sociology. His new project is a study of television, entertainment, and the public sphere. Professor Jacobs was a CCS Visiting Fellow from 2003–2004.

Anne E. Kane
University of Houston – Downtown

Anne Kane received her Ph.D. from UCLA. Her main research interests include social theory, cultural analysis, and political and historical sociology; she has published articles on all these subjects. A recent Fulbright scholar in Ireland, Dr. Kane is currently working on a book about meaning construction, ideology and political alliance during the Irish Land War.

Thomas Kern
Max Weber Center for Advanced Studies, University of Erfurt

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Farhad Khosrokhavar
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) - Cadis

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Agnes Ku
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Agnes Ku is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (1995), and was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1993–2000). She researches in the areas of cultural sociology, civil society and the public sphere, Hong Kong culture and politics, and gender issues. Professor Ku’s current projects include two separate Hong Kong-based studies, one in civil society and citizenship rights in Hong Kong, and the other on rights discourse.

Krishan Kumar
University of Virginia

Krishan Kumar is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He was previously Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Cambridge and his postgraduate education at the London School of Economics. Mr. Kumar has at various times been a Talks Producer at the BBC, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Central European University, Prague, the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Among his publications are Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society, Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times, The Rise of Modern Society, From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society, 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals, and The Making of English National Identity. Mr. Kumar’s current interests focus on nationalism and national identity. Related research involves work on European identity in the context of transnational migration and challeges to the Nation-state. He is also preparing a study of current approaches to historical sociology.

Fuyuki Kurasawa
York University

Fuyuki Kurasawa was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University and a CCS Visiting Fellow at Yale University in 2003–2004. Professor Kurasawa has also been a Commonwealth Fellow and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, and was named a “Young Canadian Leader” by The Globe and Mail in 2000. He is currently writing two books, To Do Onto Others: Theorizing Practices of Global Justice, and Intersections and Interventions: Canadian Essays in Cultural Materialism, as well as acting as a consulting editor for the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory.

Paul Lichterman
University of Southern California

Paul Lichterman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Religion at USC, and Associate Professor of Sociology on leave from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Paul received the Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1992. He studies civic organizations, religious groups, and social movements. He tries to appreciate both the patterned, often story-like quality of cultural forms and the patterned, group practices that make those forms meaningful in particular ways. His first book, The Search for Political Community, shows how Americans sometimes use their individualism to sustain long-term commitments to social change. His second book, Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions compares nine religiously based community service groups in a Midwestern city, as they try hard but often fail to build civic bridges with other community groups, social service agencies, and low-income people. The book shows how and why communication about social ties is crucial to creating them. Paul has published in American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Theory and Society and other journals, won awards for published articles, and enjoyed fellowships at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

Orvar Löfgren
University of Lund

Over the last years my research has centered around the study of national identities and transnational movements in an everyday perspective, as well as on tourism, travel and the cultural analysis of consumption. Earlier research interests have included studies of class and culture building, but also Scandinavian peasant life and family organization, as well as studies of maritime communities.

Sven_Axel Mansson
Malmö University

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Radim Marada
Masaryk University

Radim Marada gained his PhD in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research, in 1995. Currently he chairs the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He also leads a research team “Ethnization, Migration, Identity” in the Masaryk University’s Institute for the Study on Social Reproduction and Integration. He is the editor in chief of the academic journal Social Studies. His major areas of interest are sociological theory and history of social thought, cultural sociology, generations and generational conflict, civil society. Among his recent publications, there are Culture of Protest: Politicization of Everyday Life (2003) and Ethnic Diversity and Civic Unity (2006, editor).

Lisa McCormick
Haverford College

Lisa McCormick is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Haverford College on a tenure-track appointment. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of cultural sociology, sociology of the arts, self and identity, social theory, and qualitative methods. Her article, “Higher, Faster, Louder: Representations of the International Music Competition” is forthcoming in Cultural Sociology. She is also co-editor, with Ron Eyerman, of Myth, Meaning and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts (Paradigm 2006). Prof. McCormick graduated from Rice University with a B.Mus in Cello Performance and a B.A. in Sociology, both summa cum laude. She was a Rhodes Scholar (Alberta & Corpus Christi 1998), earning a Master of Philosophy in “Music: Performance and Interpretation” from Oxford University. She recently completed her graduate work in Sociology at Yale University.
Prof. McCormick currently serves on the editorial board for the interdisciplinary online journal Music & Art in Action.

Kate Nash
Goldsmiths, University of London

Kate Nash is interested in the way in which culture and politics are entangled. Her most recent research focuses on the way the authority to define human rights is culturally constructed in the judiciary, government, social movement organisations and the media in the context of states that are transforming through their extension in networks of global governance. It will be published as The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK (Cambridge University Press 2009). She has published articles on cultural politics in relation to state transformation in Constellations, Citizenship Studies, Theory, Culture and Society, The British Journal of Sociology and elsewhere. She has written on cultural politics in relation to globalization, social movements and citizenship in Contemporary Political Sociology: globalization, politics, and power (Blackwell 2000) and edited Readings in Contemporary Political Sociology (Blackwell 2000). She is also co-editor (with Alan Scott) of The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology (Blackwell 2001) and (with Alan Scott and Anna Marie Smith) of New Critical Readings in Political Sociology (Ashgate 2009). As well as thinking through the consequences of taking culture seriously for political sociology, Kate has also worked on culture and politics in relation to feminist theory: she has published on feminism and the cultural politics of human rights in Economy and Society; and in Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of ‘Women’ (Macmillan 1998) she looked at how feminism as a social movement has used strategies of both ‘sameness’ and ‘difference’ aiming to achieve substantive gender equality across a range of practices.

Sherry B. Ortner
University of California, Los Angeles

The first half of my career was concerned, empirically, with the Sherpa people of Nepal, and produced a number of books, articles, and a film. The most recent of the books is Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Starting in the early ’90s, however, I began shifting my research over to the United States, with special focus on social class in America, but also covering a wide range of other issues. I have just finished my first book from this project, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture and the Class of ’58. I am thinking of doing at least one more American project, probably concerned with “Generation X” and the remaking of American consciousness since the 1970s. I have also had an ongoing interest in social, cultural, and feminist theory. I am currently working on a series of papers about the status of “the subject” (the person, the actor, the agent, the individual, etc. – all different, of course) in social and cultural theory.

Sunwoong Park
Korea National University of Education

Sunwoong Park (Ph.D., Sociology, UCLA) is an associate professor of the Department of Social Studies, the Korea National University of Education in South Korea. He has researched on youth subculture, consumption and class identity, media discourse, and social movements. He has just finished an article on the ritualization of social movements (in Korean) and is now working on the politics of representation on educational crisis, drawing upon Alexander’s model of civil discourses. He translated one of Alexander’s books, The Meanings of Social Life into Korean. Professor Park was a CCS Visiting Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Timothy Phillips
Australian National University

Phillips’ research seeks to contribute to sociological understanding of culture and identity in Australian society, primarily through the use of social survey research methods. His research work to date has been concentrated largely in the areas of national identity and everyday incivility. More recent studies have been concerned with the topics of civilizational identities, religion and spirituality, and the individual web of group affiliations. He is currently the author and co-author of research articles in: The British Journal of Sociology (twice), The Sociological Review (twice), Sociology, International Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Urban Studies, and The British Journal of Criminology. Phillips (and co-author Philip Smith) was the recipient of The Australian Sociological Association prize for the best published research article in the Journal of Sociology during 2001-2. Phillips is presently a fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; and a research associate of the Institute of International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He currently coordinates the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, and is Australian representative on the International Social Survey Programme. Tim Phillips was a CCS Visiting Fellow in 2004.

Isaac Reed
University of Colorado at Boulder

Isaac Reed received his Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University in 2007. He is interested in the social and cultural processes that transform worldviews, discursive formations, institutional regimes, narrative frameworks, etc. His work in epistemology, social theory, and the philosophy of social science is directed towards showing how interpretive sociology can be rigorous and explanatory without being scientistic. His empirical research focuses on the transformation of Early America 1680-1720, with a particular interest in the Salem Witch Trials. More broadly, he is concerned with identifying the cultural shifts that contribute to the onset of “modernity.” He is the author of articles published in Sociological Theory and Cultural Sociology, and the co-editor of Culture, Society, and Democracy: The Interpretive Approach (Paradigm, 2007), and Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology (Paradigm, Forthcoming).

Alexander Riley
Bucknell University

Alexander Riley received his Ph. D from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. He is the author of Godless Intellectuals?: How Durkheimian Sociology and Poststructuralism Reinvented the Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred. He is currently working on two book projects: 1) a collection of chapter-length studies using Durkheimian theory to examine various realms of American popular culture (e.g., video games, sports scandals, and rap music), and 2) a study of the memorialization of the site of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania that explores American cultural narratives on heroism and violent death.

Erik Ringmar
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Erik Ringmar was born and brought up in Sweden, but has during the last 20 years successfully survived as an ex-pat in Japan, the U.S., Italy, Britain and Thailand. He owns a dilapidated house in an ethnically diverse part of north London that he incompetently is DIYing in his copious free time. He is surrounded by beautiful females (one wife, four daughters) and loves to cook curries. Erik has a Ph.D. from Yale University and has published Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost Human (Anthem, 2005); The Mechanics of Modernity: The Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation (Routledge, 2005); Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden’s Intervention in the Thirty Years War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, paperback 2006). He is currently hard at work on a book manuscript entitled The Fury of the Europeans: Liberal Barbarism and the Destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, the Summer Palace of the Emperor of China.

Victor Roudometof
University of California, San Diego

Victor Roudometof is assistant professor of sociology with the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of two monographs and editor of several additional volumes on American popular culture, globalization, nationalism, transnationalism & religion. His main research interests are in the areas of cultural sociology and sociology of religion. His latest article is “Greek Orthodoxy, Territoriality, and Globality: Religious Responses and Institutional Disputes” (Forthcoming in Sociology of Religion). Currently, he is working on a monograph examining the relationship between Greek Orthodoxy and modernity.

Michael Schudson
University of California, San Diego

Michael Schudson is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego where he has taught since l980. Professor Schudson is the author of six books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, and cultural memory. He is the recipient of a number of honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award. Schudson is co-director of the UCSD Civic Collaborative, a project designed to link UCSD faculty and students to the broader San Diego community through their research and teaching. He is active in the affairs of Thurgood Marshall College, one of UCSD’s six undergraduate colleges; he chaired the committee that designed its general education course, “Diversity, Justice, and Imagination,” and he served as acting provost of the College 2001–03. Nationally, he chaired the “Sociology of Culture” section of the American Sociological Association in l998–99; served as a member of the Penn National Commission on Culture, Society, and Community l996–99; and serves on editorial boards in communication, sociology and history. Schudson’s The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (1998) explores how Americans’ practices and ideals about what a “good citizen” should do have changed from colonial days to the present. The American Historical Review judged the book “innovative, perceptive, and — especially on today’s culture — controversial.” The Economist urged all Americans to read it. Schudson’s latest book is The Sociology of News (W.W. Norton, 2003).

Giuseppe Sciortino
University of Trento

Giuseppe Sciortino is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy.

Margaret Somers
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Margaret Somers is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She researches in the areas of Political Sociology, Law, Sociology of Citizenship, Economic Sociology, Comparative History, Social and Political Theory, and the Sociology of Knowledge.

Lyn Spillman
University of Notre Dame

Lyn Spillman’s research is animated by curiosity about the ways meso-level processes of meaning-making interact with macro-level historical processes. Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1997) explores these issues in a comparative historical study of the long-term cultural production of national identities in two similar settler societies. Her current research, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, investigates the cultural construction of economic action in business associations. She has pursued her interest in developing cultural sociology in several articles on culture and social structure, as well as by editing Cultural Sociology (Blackwell, 2002), and co-editing (with Mark Jacobs) the Spring 2005 issue of Poetics on “Cultural Sociology and Sociological Publics.” Other interests are represented in articles on theories of nationalism, on collective memory, and on causal reasoning. Professor Spillman was a CCS Visiting Fellow in Spring 2006.

George Steinmetz
University of Michigan

George Steinmetz is professor of sociology and German studies at the University of Michigan and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany (Princeton University Press, 1993), editor of The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others (Duke University Press, 2005) and State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn (Cornell University Press, 1999), and co-director with Michael Chanan of the film “Detroit; Ruin of a City” (Bristol Docs/Intellect Books, 2006). Together with Julia Adams he edits the book series “Politics, History, and Culture” at Duke University Press. He is currently working on a book on the entanglements of German, French, British, and American sociology with imperialism and a new film with Michael Chanan on the economic crisis of 2008 and the crisis of the economics discipline. He is also a member of the scientific coouncil of the département de sciences sociales at the Ecole normale supérieure and a Corresponding Member of the Centre de Sociologie européenne.

Kenneth A. Thompson
The Open University

Kenneth A. Thompson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Open University. He teaches and researches in the areas of culture, media and identities; cultural governance; ethnicity; and French social theory. Professor Thompson is an associate member of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Open University/Manchester University; and the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. His recent publications include “Sociology and Christianity,” in J. Bowden (ed.), Christianity: A Complete Guide, London and New York, Continuum Books, 2005; the “Introductory Essay” to K. Thompson (ed.), The Early Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, London, Routledge, 8 vols., 2005; and “Durkheimian Cultural Sociology and Cultural Studies,” Thesis Eleven, no. 79, Nov. 2004, 16-24.

Edward A. Tiryakian
Duke University

Edward Tiryakian is Professor of Sociology at Duke University where he has served as departmental Chair and as Director of International Studies (1989–91). He recently served as Distinguished Leader of the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program, 2002–2003. The focus of the program was for a multidisciplinary team of 30 scholars, two-thirds from overseas, to study comparatively severe ethnic conflicts and peace processes. He has served as President of the American Society for the Study of Religion (1981–84) and of the International Association of French-Speaking Sociologists (1988–1992). Tiryakian has also chaired the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association and served as Chair of the ASA History of Sociology section in 2005–06. He has had visiting appointments at Laval University (Quebec), the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris), and the Free University of Berlin. In recent years he has given seminars on European Unity, History of Social Thought, Sociology of Religion, Modern Nationalist Movements and cultural and political aspects of Globalization. As a scholar he has visited France, Italy, Lebanon, Israel, Korea, Australia and China.

Carlo Tognato
National University of Colombia, Bogotá

Carlo Tognato is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and at the Center for Social Studies of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá (Colombia) and Director of Programs on Cultural Agents in Economic Institutions within the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University. He is currently finishing up a book manuscript on the cultural logic of independent central banking and advancing on a second one on the workings of the civil sphere in fragmented societies.

Mats Trondman
Växjö University

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Bryan S. Turner
National University of Singapore

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He researches in the areas of medical sociology (body and society); political sociology (citizenship and human rights); the sociology of religion (Islam); and classical social theory. At NUS Turner directs research on globalisation and religion concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change and religious cosmologies. The general aim of this work is to develop a comprehensive overview of the impact of globalisation on religions, and the consequences of religion on global processes.

Diane Vaughan
Columbia University

Diane Vaughan is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Ohio State University (1979), and taught at Boston College from 1984 to 2005. During this time, she has been awarded fellowships at Yale (1979 82), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford (1986–87), The American Bar Foundation (1988–1989), The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1996–1997), and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2003–04). Her interests are the sociology of organizations, sociology of culture, deviance and social control, field methods, research design, and science, knowledge, and technology. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on these topics; she also teaches in the undergraduate Honors Program. Much of her research has examined the “dark side” of organizations: mistake, misconduct, and disaster. Her books are Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior, Uncoupling, and The Challenger Launch Decision. The latter was awarded the Rachel Carson Prize, the Robert K. Merton Award, Honorable Mention for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship of the American Sociological Association, and was nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. As a result of her analysis of the causes of the Challenger accident, she was asked to testify before the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in 2003, then became part of the Board’s research staff, working with the Board to analyze and write the section of the Report identifying the social causes of the Columbia accident.

Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Swarthmore College

Robin Wagner-Pacifici is interested in the analysis of interstitial moments in social and political contexts (including standoffs and surrenders), with a methodological approach that includes discourse analysis, semiotic analysis of visual material, hermeneutics.

Brad West
Flinders University

Brad West is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Flinders University, Australia. His work engages with new leisure based forms of national ritual, collective memory and debates about the future of the nation-state. Research projects he is currently undertaking include ethnographic studies of reenacting the American Civil War, war tourism in Vietnam, “Aussie” theme pubs in Britain and Australians visiting the WWI Gallipoli battlefields in Western Turkey. Brad West was a CCS Visiting Fellow in Spring 2005.

Frederick Wherry
University of Michigan

Frederick Wherry (PhD Princeton 2004) is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty associate at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests include economic and cultural sociology, race and ethnic relations, qualitative research methods and comparative approaches. His first book Global Markets and Local Crafts: Thailand and Costa Rica Compared (Johns Hopkins University Press 2008) examines how handicraft artisans have succeeded or failed in global markets. He hones in on the interactions between buyers and sellers and how the framing of authenticity by the artisans, the impression management of their nation states, and the flows of people, information, and ideas through the sites of production affect how these artisans and their communities become incorporated into the global economy. His second book The Philadelphia Barrio (in progress) examines the role of cultural symbols and the arts in transforming a Latino neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Robert Witkin
University of Exeter

Robert Witkin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. He graduated from the University of Leeds in Sociology and Psychology, and obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Exeter. He was appointed to a lectureship in Sociology at Exeter in 1967, where he served as Research Director of the School’s Council Curriculum Development Project “Arts and the Adolescent” (1969–1972). Witkin is a former Consultant to Dartington College of Arts and a member of its Board of Governors. He is also a founding member of the Board of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) and a contributor to many of its international conferences. Witkin is also a member of the British Sociological Association, the European Sociological Association and the International Sociological Association.

Ian Woodward
Griffith University

Ian Woodward researches in the areas of the sociology of consumption and material culture, taste and aesthetics, social change, globalisation and identity, and the sociology of economic behaviour. He was a CCS Visiting Fellow in Fall 2006 and Spring 2005.

Eviatar Zerubavel
Rutgers University

Professor Zerubavel’s main areas of interest are cognitive sociology and the sociology of time. His publications include Patterns of Time in Hospital Life: A Sociological Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 1979); Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life (University of Chicago Press, 1981. Paperback, University of California Press, 1985. (Japanese, 1984. Italian, 1985); The Seven-Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week (Free Press, 1985. Paperback, University of Chicago Press, 1989. Korean, forthcoming. Listed among Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books, 1985); The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life (Free Press, 1991. Paperback, University of Chicago Press, 1993); Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America (Rutgers University Press, 1992. Transaction, 2003); Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology (Harvard University Press, 1997. Paperback, 1999. Norwegian, 2000); The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books (Harvard University Press, 1999); Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (University of Chicago Press, 2003. Paperback, 2004. Italian, 2005); and The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, in press). Professor Zerubavel served from 1992 to 2001 as the director of the Rutgers sociology graduate program. In 2000–01 he served as Chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2003 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches graduate courses in cognitive sociology, time and memory, and sociological theory.