The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism
Edited by Holly J. McCammon, Verta Taylor, Jo Reger, and Rachel L. Einwohner
Author Information
Holly J. McCammon is Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and American Studies at Vanderbilt University.
Verta Taylor is Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jo Reger is Professor of Sociology and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Oakland University.
Rachel L. Einwohner is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University.
Contributors:
Gretchen Arnold is a faculty member in Women's and Gender Studies at St. Louis University whose research interests include social movements and violence against women.
Pamela Aronson is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she conducts research on young women's identities and attitudes toward feminism, career development, the experiences of nontraditional college students, and the challenges facing college students who graduated during the recession.
Lee Ann Banaszak is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. She has written extensively on women's movements both in the U.S. and in Europe and on public opinion towards feminism; among her other works, she is the author of Why Movements Succeed and Fail and The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State.
Joyce M. Bell is an associate professor and Don A. Martindale endowed chair of sociology at the University of Minnesota and author of The Black Power Movement & American Social Work.
Kathleen Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work focuses on women's activism in extreme right-wing and racial movements.
Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara and is the author of the prize winning books Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States and, with Jennifer Klein, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State, as well as numerous other writings on women, work, and social politics.
Ian Breckenridge-Jackson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.
Nancy Burns is Warren E. Miller Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Department of Political Science, and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan.
Sherry Cable is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Cheryl Cooky is an associate professor in the American Studies program at Purdue University and President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
Anne N. Costain is Professor Emerita of Political Science at University of Colorado at Boulder. She is author of Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the Women's Movement.
W. Douglas Costain is Senior Instructor Emeritus of Political Science at University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include social movements, especially the environmental movement.
Alison Dahl Crossley is the Associate Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and her research and writing focuses on feminism, social movement continuity and student activism.
Rachel L. Einwohner is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in Political Sociology and affiliations with the Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion.
Allison Louise Elias is a visiting professor at the Cornell ILR School, where she is researching gender, work, and feminism for a forthcoming book on women's mobility in corporate America.
Rose Ernst is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seattle University.
Kathleen M. Fallon is a Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University whose interests lie at the intersection of political sociology, international development, and gender studies.
Mary Margaret Fonow is the Norton and Ramsey Professor of Social Transformation at Arizona State University and author of numerous publications on union feminism, feminist methodology and transformational leadership.
Suzanne Franzway is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Melinda Goldner is Professor of Sociology at Union College.
Kristin A. Goss is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and author of The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice.
Brittany N. Hearne is a sociology graduate student at Vanderbilt University and her research interests include race, gender, family, education, and mental health.
Heather McKee Hurwitz is Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College (Columbia University).
Ashley Jardina is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University.
Tiffany Jenson is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the Sociology and Social Work Department at Brigham Young University-Idaho and her research includes the topics of sexual assault, violent victimization, and deviance within institutions.
Marla Kohlman is a Professor of Sociology and African diaspora studies at Kenyon College.
Kelsy Kretschmer is an assistant professor of sociology at Oregon State University, where she researches and teaches in social movements and organizations.
Reid J. Leamaster is a faculty member at Glendale Community College (Arizona) whose research focuses on resistance and compliance to gender traditionalism in religion.
Lisa Leitz is an Assistant Professor of Peace Studies and Sociology at Chapman University and the author of Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement, which won the American Sociological Association Peace, War, & Social Conflict Section's 2014 Outstanding Book Award.
Rachel E. Luft is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work at Seattle University.
Christine Mallinson is Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture and Affiliate Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Jane Mansbridge is the Charles F. Adams Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Why We Lost the ERA, a study of social movement dynamics.
Holly J. McCammon is professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.
Corrine McConnaughy is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.
Julisa McCoy is a graduate student in Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.
David S. Meyer is professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Irvine.
Shae Miller is a lecturer in the department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State Long Beach.
Mary Pardo teaches in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge.
Janelle M. Pham is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara whose research examines how institutional context informs the sexual behavior of individuals.
Benjamin Pratt is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management Program at Purdue University.
Heidi E. Rademacher is a doctoral candidate in the sociology department at Stony Brook University with research interests in transnational women's movements, international human rights campaigns, and globalization.
Ellen Reese is Professor of Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Jo Reger is a professor of sociology and the director of Women and Gender Studies at Oakland University in Michigan and is the author of Everywhere and Nowhere: Contemporary Feminism in the United States.
Deana A. Rohlinger is a Professor of Sociology at Florida State University who researches mass media, political participation, and politics in America.
Benita Roth is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at SUNY Binghamton.
Leila J. Rupp is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and Interim Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Beth E. Schneider is currently Chair of the Department of Sociology and the Director of the McNair Scholars Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ronnee Schreiber is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University.
Marie B. Skoczylas is a Visiting Instructor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Suzanne Staggenborg is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of a number of works on the dynamics of social movements, including the women's movement and abortion politics.
Kayla Stover is a graduate student in Sociology at the University of Tennessee.
Verta Taylor is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Aisha A. Upton is a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota.
Nella Van Dyke is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Merced.
Anne Whitesell is a dual Ph.D. candidate in political science (American politics) and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the Pennsylvania State University whose work focuses on the political representation of welfare recipients.
Nancy Whittier is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology at Smith College and the author of The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse.
Nicole Yadon is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Elizabeth Yates is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.