The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, and Philip Smith
Author Information
Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University.
Ronald Jacobs is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University at Albany, SUNY.
Philip Smith is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University.
Contributors:
Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, works in the areas of theory, culture and politics, developing a meaning-centered approach to the tensions and possibilities of modern social life. He is a Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology, also at Yale.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is associate professor of sociology and international studies at Brown University.
Mabel Berezin, Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, is a comparative historical sociologist whose work explores the intersection of political and cultural institutions with an emphasis on modern and contemporary Europe.
Richard Biernacki teaches sociology and history at the University of California, San Diego.
Pang Ching Bobby Chen is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
Simon Cottle is Professor of Media and Communications and Deputy Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.
James Joseph Dean is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University.
Nina Eliasoph is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
Ron Eyerman is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
Arthur Frank is professor of sociology at the University of Calgary.
Roger Friedland is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Rui Gao is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and a junior fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
Bernhard Giesen holds the chair for macro-sociology in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and is a member of the executive board of the Center of Excellence 16 "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration" at the University of Konstanz.
Ronald Jacobs is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His research focuses on culture, media, and the public sphere.
Paul Lichterman is Professor of Sociology and Religion at the University of Southern California.
Jade Lo is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jason L. Mast is a postdoctoral fellow with the Karl Mannheim Chair of Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University in Germany.
Lisa McCormick is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Haverford College.
Chet Meeks was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University.
John Mohr is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also serves as Director of the Social Sciences Survey Research Center.
Francesca Polletta is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
Craig Rawlings is an Institute for Education Science (IES) Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Institute for Research in Education Policy and Practice (IREPP).
Isaac Ariail Reed is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also the Director of the Sociology Honors Program.
Barry Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Georgia, is author of numerous articles and seven books, including Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, which traces popular views of Lincoln from 1865 to the 1920s.
Giuseppe Sciortino teaches sociology at the Università di Trento, Italy.
Steven Seidman is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany.
Philip Smith is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.
Lyn Spillman's received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and teaches in the Sociology Department, University of Notre Dame.
Kenneth Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK, and has also taught at Yale, UCLA, Rutgers, Smith College and Bergen University (Norway).
Carlo Tognato is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Social Studies at the National University of Colombia, Bogota.
Eleanor Townsley is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College.
Mats Trondman is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Linnaeus University in Sweden.
Robin Wagner-Pacifici is the Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College.
Ian Woodward is Senior Lecturer in cultural sociology in the School of Humanities and Deputy Director, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Alford A. Young, Jr. is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
