CURRICULUM VITAE

 

                                                           Kevin Fox Gotham, Ph.D

                                                               Associate Professor

                                                           Department of Sociology

                                                                 Tulane University

                                                               220 Newcomb Hall

                                                      New Orleans, LA  70118-5698

                                                            Phone: (504) 862-3004

                                                              Fax: (504) 865-5544

                                                         email: kgotham@tulane.edu

 

EDUCATIONAL RECORD

 

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kansas, 1997. 

 

M.A., Sociology, University of Kansas, 1992.

 

B.A., Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 

Position                                    Institution                                                          Dates

 

Program Director                      National Science Foundation                             2006-present

 

Associate Professor                  Department of Sociology                                  2003-present

Tulane University

 

Visiting Professor                      L=Ecole des Hautes Etudes                               2004

  en Sciences Sociales

Paris, France

 

Assistant Professor                   Department of Sociology                                  1997-2003

Tulane University

 

Adjunct Professor                     College of Urban and Public Affairs                  2002-present

University of New Orleans

 

Managing Editor                       Sociological Inquiry                                        1993-1997

Department of Sociology

University of Kansas

 

Graduate Instructor                   Department of Sociology                                  Fall 1992

University of Kansas


Soc. 106. Social Problems

and American Values.

 

Research Assistant                    Department of Sociology                                  Summer 1992

University of Kansas

R.A. to Professor Joane Nagel

 

Teaching Assistant                    Instructor: Professor William Arnold      1991-1992

Department of Sociology

University of Kansas

 

 

AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALTY

 

Urban Sociology

Sociological Theory

Comparative-Historical Sociology

Race and Ethnicity

Political Sociology

Stratification and Inequality

Social Control and Criminology

Economic Sociology

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Book:

 

Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000. Albany, NY: State University of New York (SUNY) Press. 2002.

 

Edited Volume:

 

Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press.  2001.

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

 

AThe Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered:  Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.@ Accepted for publication in the American Journal of Sociology. 

 

AFrom Culture Industry to the Society of the Spectacle: Theoretical Affinities of the Frankfurt School and the Situationist International.@ (Co-authored with Dan Krier).  Forthcoming in Current Perspectives in Social Theory. 


AHOPE VI, Section 8, and the Contradictions of Low-Income Housing Policy.@ Jessica Pardee and Kevin Fox Gotham Journal of Poverty. 9(2): 1-21. 2005.

 

ATourism From Above and Below: Globalization, Localization, and New Orleans=s Mardi Gras.@ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29(2). 309-26. June 2005.

 

ATourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans=s Vieux Carre (French Quarter).@ Urban Studies. 42(7): 1099-1121. June 2005.

 

ATheorizing Urban Spectacles: Festivals, Tourism, and the Transformation of Urban Space.@ City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 9(2):225-46. July 2005.

 

AFraming the Urban: Struggles over HOPE VI and New Urbanism in a Historic City.@ James Elliott, Kevin Fox Gotham, and Melinda Milligan. City and Community. 3(4): 373-99.  December 2004.

 

AHOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: Reply to Melendez and Coats.@ Melinda J. Milligan, Kevin Fox Gotham, and James R. Elliott. City and Community. 3(4): 403-422. December 2004.

 

AToward an Understanding of the Spatiality of Urban Poverty: The Urban Poor as Spatial Actors.@ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 27(3): 723-37. Sept. 2003.

 

AMissed Opportunities, Enduring Legacies: School Segregation and Desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri.@ American Studies. 43 (2): 5-41. Summer 2002.

 

AUsing Space: Agency and Identity in a Public Housing Development@ (with Krista Brumley). City and Community. 1(3): 267-89. Fall 2002.

 

AMarketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Tourism in New Orleans.@ Urban Studies. 39(10): 1735-56. September 2002.

 

ABeyond Invasion and Succession: School Segregation, Real Estate Blockbusting, and the Political Economy of Neighborhood Racial Transition.@ City and Community. 1(1): 83-111. Winter 2002.

 

AUrban Sociology and the Postmodern Challenge.@ Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 26 (1 & 2): 57-79. 2001.

 


AA City Without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri.@ American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 60(1): 285-316. January 2001 (also reprinted in City and Country. Edited by Laurence S. Moss. 2001. Blackwell (pp. 285-316)).

 

AGrowth Machine Up-Links: Urban Renewal and the Rise and Fall of a Pro-Growth Coalition in a U.S. City.@ Critical Sociology. 26(3): 268-300. 2000.

 

AUrban Space, Restrictive Covenants, and the Origin of Racial Residential Segregation in a U.S. City, 1900-1950.@ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 24(3): 616-33. September 2000.

 

ARacialization and the State: The Housing Act of 1934 and the Origins of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).@ Sociological Perspectives. 43(2): 291-316. Summer 2000.

 

ASeparate And Unequal: The Housing Act of 1968 and HUD=s Section 235 Program.@ Sociological Forum. 15(1): 13-37. March 2000.

 

APolitical Opportunity, Community Identity, and the Emergence of a Local Anti-Expressway Movement.@ Social Problems. 46(3): 332-54. August 1999.

 

ASuburbia Under Siege: Low-Income Housing and Racial Conflict in Metropolitan in Kansas City, 1970-1990.@ Sociological Spectrum. 18(4): 449-83. 1998. 

 

ARace, Mortgage Lending, and Loan Rejections in a U.S. City.@ Sociological Focus. 31(4): 391-405. October 1998.

 

            ABlind Faith in the Free Market: Urban Poverty, Residential Segregation, and Federal Housing Retrenchment, 1970-1995.@ Sociological Inquiry. 68(1): 1-31. Winter 1998.

 

ANarrative Analysis and the New Historical Sociology@ (with William G. Staples).  Sociological Quarterly.  37(3): 481-501. Summer 1996.

 

AIronies of Oversight: State Power, Democratic Legitimacy, and the Creation of Congressional Intelligence Committees.@ Berkeley Journal of Sociology. 39: 33-65. 1995.

 

ADomestic Security for the American State: The FBI, Covert Repression, and Democratic Legitimacy.@ Journal of Political and Military Sociology. 24: 203-222. Summer 1994.  (Also reprinted in Troubled Times: Readings in Social Problems. 2000. First Edition. Edited by Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer. Roxbury Publishing Company). 

 

AA Study in American Agitation: J. Edgar Hoover's Symbolic Construction of the Communist Menace.@ Mid-American Review of Sociology. 16(2): 57-70. 1992.

 

 

Chapters in Edited Volumes:


ANeoliberal Revitalization: Prison Building, Casinos, and Tourism in Louisiana@ (with Jeannie Haubert). Forthcoming in Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context. 2006. Edited by Timothy Gibson and Mark Lowes. Rowman and Littlefield. 

 

AEthnic Heritage Tourism and Global-Local Connections in New Orleans.@ Forthcoming in Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City. Edited by Jan Rath. 2005. Routledge.

 

AUrban Redevelopment, Past and Present.@ Pp. 1-31 in Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press. 2001.

 

AUrban Redevelopment For Whom and For What Purpose? A Research Agenda for the Twentieth First Century.@ Pp. 429-52 in Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press.  2001

 

AAbstract Space, Social Space, and the Redevelopment of Public Housing@ (with Jon Shefner and Krista Brumley), Pp. 313-35 in Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press. 2001.

 

AResidential Segregation and Federal Housing Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Section 235 and Section 8@ Pp. 295-308 in Multiculturalism in the United States: Current Issues, Contemporary Voices. Edited by Peter Kivisto and Georganne Rundblad. Pine Forge Press. 2000.

 

AHousing Policy@ (with James D. Wright). Pp. 237-55 in Handbook of Social Policy. Edited by James Midgley, Michelle Livermore, and Martin B. Tracy. 2000. Sage Publications.

 

ARepresentations of Space and Urban Planning in a Post-World War II U.S. City.@ Pp. 155-80 in Constructions of Urban Space. Volume Five of Research in Urban Sociology. Edited by Ray Hutchison. 2000.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums. By Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming in the American Journal of Sociology.

 


ARacialized Uneven Development: Race, Class, and Segregation in the Postwar Era.@ Review Essay for Journal of Urban History. Forthcoming. Books reviewed: Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan, Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003; Setha Low, Behind the Gates: Life Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. New York: Routledge, 2003; Monique M. Taylor, Harlem: Between Heaven and Hell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002; Walther Thabit, How East New York Became a Ghetto. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

 

Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood, by Maria Kefalas. Berkeley: University of California Press,  2003. Pp. Xiv+203.$49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). American Journal of Sociology. March 2004. Vol. 109, No. 5.

 

Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order, by David Ranney. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press., 2003, 262 pp. $69.50 (cloth). Forthcoming in Work and Occupations. Feb. 2004.

 

The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. By Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. American Studies.  43(2). Summer 2002.

 

Come Lovely and Soothing Death: The Right to Die Movement in the United States. By Elaine Fox, Jeffrey J. Kamakahi, and Stella M. Capek (New York: Twayne Publishers).  Contemporary Sociology. November 2001. 30(6): 631-2.

 

The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in Chicago. By Susan J. Popkin, Victoria E. Gwiasda, Lynn M. Olson, Dennis P. Rosenbaum, and Larry Buron (New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2000).  Housing, Theory, and Society. 18(3-4).

 

Empowerment in Chicago: Grassroots Participation in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation. Edited by Cedric Herring, Michael Bennett, Doug Gills, and Noah Temaner Jenkins (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1998).  Contemporary Sociology. November 1999. 28(6): 719-21.

 

Racism and Society. By John Solomos and Les Back (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996). Social Thought and Research. 20(1&2): 204-07.

 

Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. By Jill Quadagno (Oxford University Press, 1994). Sociological Inquiry. 66(2): 221-223. Spring 1996.

 

 

Other Publications

 

AToward a Critical Theory of Tourism.@  From the Left. Newsletter of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association. Summer 2005. 26(1).


AMegalopolis.@ Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2005.

 

AUrban Revolution.@ Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2005.

 

ALewis Mumford.@ Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Edited by Jean Van Delinder and Dan Krier. Thoemmes Press. 2005.

 

AKansas City, Missouri@ Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Edited by David Goldfield. Sage Publications. 2005.

 

ACivil Society.@ Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Edited by George Ritzer. Sage Publications. 2004.

 

AThe State.@ Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Edited by George Ritzer. Sage Publications. 2004.

 

ASpace and Social Theory.@ Perspectives. The ASA Theory Section Newsletter. 25(2). April 2002.

 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Papers:

 

ACasinos and Crime: Explaining the Impact of Gaming on Crime in Louisiana.@ Andrea Wilbon and Kevin Fox Gotham.

 

ACritical Theory and Katrina: Disaster Spectacle, and Immanent Critique.@ Draft Manuscript.

 

A(Re)branding the Big Easy: Authenticity and Tourism Rebuilding in Post-Katrina New Orleans.@

 

AGlobalization and the Restructuring of the U.S. Housing Finance System.@ Draft Manuscript. 

 

 

 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

 

ACritical Theory and Katrina: Disaster as Spectacle.@  Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting.  Omaha, NE.  April 2006.


ACreating Liquidity Out of Spatial Fixity: Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.  Philadelphia, PA. August 2005.

 

ATheorizing Urban Spectacles: Festivals, Tourism, and the Transformation of Urban Space.@  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.  Philadelphia, PA. August 2005.

 

ATheorizing Urban Spectacles: The Contradictions of Commercial Festivals and Tourism in New Orleans.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005.

 

ATourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans=s Vieux Carre (French Quarter).@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005.

 

ATourism From Above and Below: Globalization, Localization, and New Orleans=s Mardi Gras.@ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2004.

 

AFrom the Culture Industry to the Society of the Spectacle: Theoretical Affinities of the Frankfurt School and the Situationist International@ (co-authored with Dan Krier). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2004.

 

AHeritage Tourism in New Orleans.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Kansas City, Missouri. April 2004.

 

AEthnic Heritage Tourism and Global-Local Connections in New Orleans.@ Paper presented at AThe Immigrant Tourist Industry: A European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Workshop on the Commodification of Cultural Resources in Cosmopolitan Cities.@  University of Amsterdam, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; December 7‑9, 2003.

 

ANeoliberal Gentrification: Tourism and the Socio-Spatial Transformation of New Orleans= French Quarter.@ (With Jay Arena).  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 2003.

 

AThe Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered:  Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.@ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 2003.

 

AUrban Visions: HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and Cities as Objects of Collective Action.@ James Elliott, Kevin Fox Gotham, and Melinda Milligan. Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 2003.

 

ATheorizing Carnival: Producing, Regulating, and Consuming Mardi Gras.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 2003.


AGlobalization and the Restructuring of Housing Finance in the United States.@ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. August 2002.

 

ADisinvestment, Reinvestment, and the Changing Structure of Housing Finance.@ Presentation at the Department of Urban Planning and Design. Jackson State University. Jackson, MS. April 19, 2002.

 

AMardi Gras in New Orleans: From the Commercialization of Carnival to the Carnivalization of Commerce.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. April 2002.

 

AMarketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Tourism in New Orleans.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. April 2001.

 

AUsing Space: Agency and Identity in a Public Housing Development@ (with Krista Brumley). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. August 2000.

 

AUrban Space, Restrictive Covenants, and the Origin of Racial Residential Segregation in a U.S. City, 1900-1950.@ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. August 2000; also presented at the College of Urban and Regional Planning. University of New Orleans.  New Orleans, LA. December 8, 1999. Moderated by Mickey Lauria.

 

AGrowth Politics and Urban Renewal in a U.S. City.@ Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.  April 22, 2000.

 

ARepresentations of Space and Urban Planning in a Post-World War II City.@ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 1999.

 

ASeparate And Unequal: The Housing Act of 1968 and HUD=s Section 235 Program.@ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 1998.

 

AResidential Solidarity and the Defended Neighborhood: Kansas City=s South Midtown Freeway (the Bruce R. Watkins Drive) and the Social Construction of Place.@  Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri. April 1998.

 

AThe Racial Construction of American Suburbs: School and Housing Segregation and Desegregation in Metropolitan Kansas City, 1968-present.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 1997.

 


AA City Without Slums: Urban Planning and Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri, 1941-1952.@ American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri. October 1996.

 

ASuburbia Under Siege: Low-Income Housing and Racial Conflict in Metropolitan Kansas City, 1970-1990.@ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 1996.

 

ABuilding the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, 1950-1970.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago IL. April 3-6, 1996; Also presented at the Department of Sociology. University of Missouri-Kansas City. April 19, 1996.

 

ARecent Developments in Socio-historical Inquiry: Social Theory, Narrative, and the Convergence of Social History and Historical Sociology@ (with William G. Staples).  Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 1995.

 

AWhite Backlash: Conservative Resurgence and American Social Policy in the Post-Civil Rights Era.@  Mid-American American Studies Annual Meeting, Lawrence, KS, April 1994.

 

AWelfare State Retrenchment, Crime Control, and Surveillance: Capitalist Restructuring and State Change in the Transition to Post-Fordism, the U.S. Case.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 1994.

 

AState Legitimacy and the Creation of Congressional Intelligence Committees.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 1993.

 

AThe FBI's Domestic Counterintelligence Programs: The Autonomous Formation of United States Internal Security Policy, 1956-1971.@ Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, April 1992.

 

 

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

 

AKatrina is Coming to Your City: Urban Disasters and the Limitations of U.S. Social Policy.@ Presentation at Augustana College. Sioux Falls, SD.  November 17, 2005.

 

AUnintended Consequences?  Did Kansas City=s Housing Policies Create an Urban Ghetto.  Presentation at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.  November 9, 2005. Urban Speakers Series. Sponsored by the Urban Studies Students Consortium and the Center for the Study for the City. 

 

AThe Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered:  Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.@ Presentation at the Social and Political Sciences Cluster of the National Science Foundation. Washington, DC. September 2005. 


AVitae Building for Success: Qualities and Components of an Impressive Vitae.@  Presentation at the Annual Sociology Graduate Student Workshop. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. February 12, 2005.

 

ARace and Urban Policy in the United States.@  Presentation at the L=Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 8, 2004.

 

ARethinking Globalization: Sources of Debate in U.S. Scholarship on Global Social Change.@ Presentation at the L=Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 15, 2004.

 

ATourism from Above and Below: Globalization, Localization, and New Orleans=s Mardi Gras.@  Presentation at the L=Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 19, 2004.

 

AThe Influence of French Marxism in U.S. Urban Sociology.@  Presentation at the L=Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 22, 2004.

 

APolicies and Practices of Whiteness.@ Presentation at Legacies and Unfinished Business of Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka.@ March 14-17, 2004. University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas.

 

ABuilding the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City.@ Presentation before Kansas City Harmony. March 17, 2004.

 

AFrom Abstraction to Clarification: Diverse Uses of Theory in Sociological Writing.@  Presentation at the Annual Sociology Graduate Student Workshop. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. January 24, 2004.

 

AWhy is Troost Avenue Still a Racial Dividing Line?@ Presentation at Johnson County Community College. Johnson County, KS.  October 28, 2003.

 

ARace as a Social Organizing Principle: Racial Residential Segregation in Kansas City.@ Presentation at the annual ADinner and Dialogue@ Program. October 28, 2003. Sponsored by Kansas City Harmony. Embassy Suites Hotel, Country Club Plaza. Kansas City, Missouri.

 

 

SESSION ORGANIZER

 

Organizer. AUrban Sociology: Globalization, Localization, and Gentrification.@ Paper Session at the 2005 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2005, Minneapolis, MN.

 


Organizer. AUrban Sociology: Place, Identity, and Contested Spaces.@ Paper Session at the 2005 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2005, Minneapolis, MN.

 

Organizer. ACarnivalization of the World.@ Paper Session at the 2004 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2004, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Organizer (with Joe Tamura). ALocal Agency and Global Forces.@ Paper Session at the 2004 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2004, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Organizer. Urban Sociology Sessions. 2002 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2002, Milwaukee, WI.

 

Organizer (with Philip Olson), AKansas City Urban Tour.@ 1998 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 1998, Kansas City, MO.

 

Organizer and Presider, ARacial Inequality.@ Session of the 1997 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 1996, Des Moines, IA.          

 

Organizer and Presider (with William J. Swart), ASocial Movements and the State.@ Session of the 1996 Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 1996, Chicago, IL.

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

Soc. 160. Social Problems and American Values (1992). University of Kansas.

 

Soc. 206. Urban Sociology (1997; 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002). Tulane University.

 

Soc. 322. Social Theory (1997; 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003; 2004, 2005). Tulane University.

 

Soc. 630. Urban Policy and Planning (2002, 2003, 2005). Tulane University

 

Soc. 619. Urban Organization (1998, 2000). Tulane University.

 

Soc. 710. Intermediate Social Theory (Fall 2003; Fall 2004). Tulane University.

 

Colq-102-03 / Colq-203-03. Urban Village Colloquium. Spring 2000. Tulane University.

 

 

UNIVERSITY / FACULTY / DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE SERVICE

 

University Committee Service

 


Faculty Member, Tulane University, Committee on Committees of the Liberal Arts and Sciences. 2005-present. 

 

Faculty Participant and Discussion Leader. 2004 Reading Project. James McBride=s Color of Water: A Black Man=s Tribute to His White Mother. Penguin Press, New York.

 

Faculty Member, Tulane University, Committee on Committees of the University Senate, Senate Committee on Research (Summer Grants), 2003-present

 

Faculty Participant, Faculty Fellow Seminar: Service Learning - Classroom Without Walls. Spring 2003. Moderated by Barbara Moely, Psychology. 

 

Faculty Member, Tulane University, Graduate School Curriculum Committee, 2002-present.

 

Faculty Member, Tulane University, Senate Committee on Information Technology, 2002-present.

 

Faculty Member, Tulane University, Senate Committee on Computers. 2001-2002.

 

Faculty Member, Tulane College Honor Board. 2001-2004.

 

Faculty Participant, Urban Village Living-Learning Community. Tulane University. 1999.

 

Faculty Member, Student Academic Judiciary Committee. Tulane University. 1999-2002.

 

            Faculty Adviser to Freshman, Tulane University. Tulane College. 1998-1999.

 

 

Faculty Committee Service:

 

Undergraduate Honors Theses

 

Chase Billingham (2004-05, Director).

 

Therese Diede (2004-05, Director).

 

Kiva Feldman (2002-03, Director).

 

Jacob McLain (2002-03, Director).

 

Anna Conley (1998-99; Director).

 

David McConnell (1998-99; Psychology).


 

Marianne Fischer (1998-99; Psychology).

 

Shannon Fuller (1999-2000; Psychology).

 

Amanda Colley (1999-2000; Anthropology).

 

 

Ph.D. Committee Memberships

 

Farrah Gafford (Chair, in progress).

 

Jessica Pardee (Chair, in progress)

 

Jay Arena (Chair, in progress).

 

Jeannie Haubert (in progress)

 

Krista Brumley (2001-2004).

 

Amy Hite (1998-2002).

 

Carla Hall (1998-2001).

 

 

M.A. Committee Memberships

 

Jennifer Day (Chair, 2005-2006).

 

Andrea Wilbon (Chair, 2004-2005).

 

Tim Haney (2004-2005)

 

XiaoXiao Peng (2004-2005)

 

Faith Jarmon (2004-2005; Latin America Studies)

 

Bryan Maddox (2002-2003).

 

Jennifer Burczyk (1998-1999).

 

 

Ph.D. Area Exam Committees

 


Farrah Gafford (Chair, 2003-2004)

 

Jessica Pardee (Chair, 2002-2003)

 

Carla Hall (1999-2001)

 

 

Independent Studies

 

Jeannie Haubert (2004). Racial Discrimination. 

 

Jessica Pardee (2001). Housing Studies.

 

Jay Arena (2000). Historical Sociology.

 

 

Department Committee Service

 

Member, Graduate Studies Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 2005-present.

 

Chair, Undergraduate Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 2001-2005.

 

Faculty Member, Undergraduate Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 1997-2005.

 

Faculty Member, Salary Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 2004- present.

 

Faculty Director, Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha Chapter of Louisiana. International Sociology Honor Sociology. Tulane University. 1999- 2005.

 

Member, Social Theory Examination Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 1998-present (Chair, Social Theory Examination Committee, 2000-2001, 2005-2006). 

 

 

 

Other Committee Service

 

Member, Program Committee, Midwest Sociological Society. 2002.

 


Member, Nominations Committee. Community and Urban Sociology Section. American Sociological  Association (ASA). 1998.

 

President, Graduate Association of Sociology Students, 1993-1994. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

Treasurer, Graduate Association of Sociology Students, 1991-1994. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

Secretary, Graduate Association of Sociology Students, 1992-1993. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

Graduate Representative, Department of Sociology, Executive Committee, 1992-1993. University of Kansas.

 

Member, Graduate Executive Committee, Graduate Representative Assembly, 1991-1992. University of Kansas.

 

Graduate Representative, Department of Sociology, Undergraduate Committee, 1990-1991.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

 

National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology Program Advisory Panel. 2005. Grant Proposal Reviewer.  

 

National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology Dissertation Panel. 2004. Grant Proposal Reviewer.  

 

Co-Editor. Mid-American Review of Sociology. 1991-1996. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

 

Editor and Reviewer

 

Deputy Editor. Sociological Quarterly, 2004-present.

 

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Poverty, 2004-present.

 

Advisory Editor. Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2004-2005. Blackwell Publishers. 

 

Guest Editor. Research in Urban Sociology. Volume Six. ACritical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment.@  Elsevier Press. 2000-2001.

 


Manuscript reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, City and Community, Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Poverty, Housing Studies, Mid-American Review of Sociology, Social Thought and Research, Sociological Inquiry, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, American Studies, Policy Studies, Urban Studies, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of Urban History, Research in Political Sociology, Journal of Consumer Culture.

 

Book/Textbook Reviewer:

 

Sociological Theory (Fifth Edition, George Ritzer). McGraw-Hill. 2000.

 

The New Urban Sociology. Chapter 6: AThe Rise of Urban Sociology@ (Second Edition, Mark Gottdiener and Ray Hutchison). McGraw-Hill. 2000.

 

Multiculturalism in Global Society (by Peter Kivisto). Blackwell Publishers, 21st Century Sociology Series. 2002.

 

Urban Sociology.  Pine Forge Press. 2002.

 

Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption. (By George Ritzer).  Pine Forge Press. 2003.

 

Sociological Theory by Michele Dillon. Proposal for Social Theory Textbook. Blackwell. 2004.

 

 

Professional Memberships

 

American Sociological Association (ASA), 1992-present.

 

Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 1997-present.

 

Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), 1992-present.

 

Southern Sociological Society (SSS), 1998-present. 

 

American Studies Association, 1996-present.

 

Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), 1996-present.

 

Sociological Theory Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), 1996-present.

 


Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), 1996-present.

 

Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), 2003-present.

 

Class, Poverty and Inequality Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 1997-present.

 

Social Theory Section of Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 1997-present.

 

Kansas Sociological Society, 1992-1997.

 

Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociology Honor Society), 1989-present.

 

President, Beta chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, University of Kansas, 1990-1996.

 

 

Other Memberships

 

Member, Mayor's Task Force on Race Relations; Housing, Neighborhoods, Economic Development Cluster; Kansas City, Missouri, 1996.

 

Member, Greater Kansas City Urban League, 1996-97.

 

Member, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, 1996-present.

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

Grants and Funded Research

 

2003. Principle Investigator. ANative- and Foreign-Born Migration to Southern Metro Areas: Their Connection and Consequences for Changing Residential Segregation and Community Stability.@ Grant submitted to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  $40,000. Co-authored with James Elliott and Timothy Brezina. Not funded.

 

2003. Tulane Senate Committee on Research. Summer Fellowship. $4000.

 

2001-2002. Georges Lurcy Faculty Research Fund. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Center for Scholars. $1000.

 

2001. Tulane University. Service Learning Grant. $400.

 


2000. Tulane University. Service Learning Grant. $400.

 

2000. Smith Richardson Foundation. Domestic Public Policy Program. Junior Faculty Research Grant Program. AThe Redevelopment of Public Housing in New Orleans.@ $60,000. Not Funded.

 

1999. Tulane University. Service Learning Grant. $400.

 

1996. Midwest Sociological Society Research Grant. $600.

 

1996. Summer Fellowship. Graduate School. University of Kansas.

 

1994. Poverty Race and Research Action Council (PRRAC). Research Grant. AConstructing the Segregated City: Socio-spatial Restructuring and Racial Change in Metropolitan Kansas City, 1940-present.@ $10,000.  Not Funded.

 

 

Articles and Paper Competitions

 

Mid-America American Studies Association Stone Suderman Award for Outstanding Article of the Year (2002): AMissed Opportunities, Enduring Legacies: School Segregation and Desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri.@ American Studies. 43 (2): 5-41. Summer 2002.

 

1997 Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Graduate Student Paper Award. First Place. "Suburbia Under Siege: Low-Income Housing and Racial Conflict in Metropolitan in Kansas City, 1970-present."

 

1996 Midwest Sociological Society Graduate Student Paper Award. First Place. "Building the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, 1950-70."

 

 

Scholarships

 

1996 Helen Waddle Roofe Scholarship. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

1995 Helen Waddle Roofe Scholarship. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

1995 E. Jackson Baur Student Award for Research and Study of Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

1995 Morris C. Pratt Scholarship. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 


1994 Carroll D. Clarke Post-M.A. Award. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

1992 Carroll D. Clarke Pre-M.A. Award. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

1992 Helen Waddle Roofe Scholarship. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

 

Departmental Honors (University of Kansas, 1994-1997)

 

Final Comprehensive, Honors, Spring 1997.

 

Oral Comprehensive, Honors, Spring 1995.

 

Comparative-Historical Specialty Examination, Honors, Summer 1994.


REFERENCES

 

Professor William G. Staples                             Professor Joane Nagel

Department of Sociology                                  Department of Sociology

University of Kansas                                         University of Kansas

716 Fraser Hall                                                716 Fraser Hall

Lawrence, KS  66045-2172                            Lawrence, KS  66045-2172

Phone: 913-864-4111                                      Phone: 913-864-4111

email: staples@ukans.edu                                 email: nagel@falcon.cc.ukans.edu

 

Professor Robert Antonio                                 Professor Norman Yetman

Department of Sociology                                  Department of Sociology

University of Kansas                                         University of Kansas

716 Fraser Hall                                                716 Fraser Hall

Lawrence, KS  66045-2172                            Lawrence, KS  66045-2172

Phone: 913-864-4111                                      Phone: 913-864-4111

email: anto:falcon.cc.ukans.edu              email: norm@falcon.cc.ukans.edu