Curriculum Vitae

FRANCESCA POLLETTA

CURRICULUM VITAE

January 2021

Department of Sociology

University of California, Irvine

3151 Social Science Plaza

Irvine, CA 92697

EDUCATION

1994                Yale University, Ph.D. Sociology, with Distinction

1988                Yale University, M. Phil. Sociology

1984                Brown University, B.A., Sociology of Law, with Honors

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2008-               University of California, Irvine, Professor of Sociology

2005-2008       University of California, Irvine, Associate Professor of Sociology

1995-2005       Columbia University, Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology

1994-1995       Williams College, Assistant Professor of Sociology

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND MAJOR GRANTS

2018-2019       Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation.

2015-2019       Senior Fellow, Successful Societies Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

2015                Open Society Foundations grant for “Storytelling in Advocacy.”

2013-2015       Social Sciences International Fellowship, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam).

2013                Elected member of the Sociological Research Association

2011                National Science Foundation Grant for “Improving Online Deliberation with Computational Supports for Frame Reflection,” with Geraldine Gay (3 years).

2008                American Sociological Association, Sociology of Culture Section, Honorable Mention for Distinguished Book Award for It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

2007                American Sociological Association, Collective Behavior/Social Movements Section, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

2007                American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section, Honorable Mention for Distinguished Scholarship Award for It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

2007                Association for Humanist Sociology, Honorable Mention for Book Prize for It Was like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

2006                Boston College Distinguished Visiting Scholar

2004-2005       Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation

2003                American Sociological Association, Collective Behavior/Social Movements Section, 2003 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements

2003                American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section, 2003 Honorable Mention for Distinguished Book Award for Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

2003                Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2003 C. Wright Mills Award, finalist: Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

2003                Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title, Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

2003                National Science Foundation, Digital Governance Program, for a study of decisionmaking in the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan, with David Stark and Monique Girard (2 years)

2000-2001      Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) Fellow

1999-2000      Evelyn Green Davis Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard       University

 

BOOKS

2020                Inventing the Ties that Bind: Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life. University of Chicago Press.

2006                It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics. University of Chicago Press (Reissued as an e-book, January 2009).

2002                Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements. University of Chicago Press (Reissued as an e-book, June 2012)

2001                Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta, eds., Passionate Politics: Emotions in Social Movements. University of Chicago Press (Reissued as an e-book, January 2009; Korean version published by Hanul Publishing Group, 2012).

 

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Forthcoming   Francesca Polletta and Alex Maresca, “Claiming Dr. King for the Right,” Memory Studies.

Forthcoming   Francesca Polletta, Tania DoCarmo, Kelly Marie Ward, and Jessica Callahan,  “Personal Storytelling in Professionalized Movements.” Mobilization.

2020                Francesca Polletta and Nathan Redman, “When Do Stories Change Our Minds? Narrative Persuasion about Social Problems.” Sociology Compass 14 (4).

2019                Jane Jenson, Francesca Polletta, and Paige Raibmon, “The Difficulty of Combating Inequality in Time.” Daedalus 148 (3): 136–163.

2019                Edwin Amenta and Francesca Polletta, “The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 45: 279-299.

2018                Francesca Polletta. “The Multiple Meanings of Familialism.” Law & Social Inquiry 43 (1): 230-237.

2017                Francesca Polletta and Jessica Callahan, “Deep Stories, Nostalgia Narratives, and Fake News: Storytelling and the Election of Donald Trump.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 5 (3): 392-408.

Reprinted in: Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Jason Mast. Palgrave (2019), pp. 55-73.

2017                Eric Baumer, Francesca Polletta, Nicole Pierski, and Geri K. Gay, “A Simple Intervention to Reduce Framing Effects in Perceptions of Global Climate Change,” Environmental Communication 11(3): 289-310.*

2016                Francesca Polletta, “Social Movements in an Age of Participation.” Mobilization 21(4): 485-497

2016                Francesca Polletta, “Participatory Enthusiasms: A Recent History of Citizen Engagement Initiatives.” Journal of Civil Society 12(3): 231-246.*

2016                Francesca Polletta and Zaibu Tufail, “Helping Without Caring: Role Definition and the Gender-Stratified Effects of Emotional Labor in Debt Settlement Firms.” Work and Occupations 43(4) 401–433.

2016                Francesca Polletta and Katt Hoban, “Why Consensus? Prefiguration in Three Activist Eras,” Journal of Social and Political Psychology 4(1): 286-301.  

2015                Zaibu Tufail and Francesca Polletta, “The Gendering of Emotional Flexibility: Why Angry Women are Praised and Devalued in Debt Settlement Firms.” Gender and Society 29 (4): 484-508.

2015                Francesca Polletta, “Characters in Political Storytelling.” Storytelling, Self, Society 11(1): 34-55.

2015                Jacomijne Prins, Francesca Polletta, Jacqueline Stecklenberg, and Bert Klandermans, “Exploring Variation in the Moroccan Dutch Collective Narrative: An Intersectional Approach,” Political Psychology 36(2): 165-180.

2014                Francesca Polletta, “Participatory Democracy’s Moment,” Journal of International Affairs 68(1): 79-92

2014                Francesca Polletta, “Is Participation without Power Good Enough?” Sociological Quarterly 55 (3): 453-466.*

2014                Francesca Polletta and Christine Tomlinson, “Date Rape after the Afterschool Special: Narrative Trends in the Televised Depiction of Social Problems.” Sociological Forum 29(3): 527-548.*

2014                Francesca Polletta and Zaibu Tufail, “The Moral Obligations of Some Debts.” Sociological Forum 29 (1): 1-28 *

2013                Francesca Polletta and Pang Ching Bobby Chen, “Gender and Public Talk: Accounting for Women’s Variable Participation in the Public Sphere.” Sociological Theory 31(4): 291-317.*

2013                Francesca Polletta, Monica Trigoso, Britni Adams, and Amanda Ebner. “The Limits of Plot.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 1(3): 289-320.*

2013                Francesca Polletta, “Participatory Democracy in the New Millennium.” Contemporary Sociology 42(1): 40-50.

2013                Jacomijne Prins, Jacqueline Stecklenberg, Bert Klandermans, and Francesca Polletta. “Telling The Collective Story? Moroccan-Dutch Young Adults’ Negotiation of a Collective Identity Through Storytelling.” Qualitative Sociology 36 (1): 81-99.

2011                Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gardner, and Alice Motes. “The Sociology of Storytelling.” Annual Review of Sociology 37:109-130.

Reprinted in Narrative Sociology, edited by Leslie J. Irvine, Jennifer L. Pierce and Robert L. Zussman, Vanderbilt Univ. Press (2019), 9-13.

2009                Francesca Polletta, “How To Tell a New Story About Battering.” Violence Against Women 15: 1490-1508

2008                Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Chen, and Christopher Anderson, “Is Information Good for Democracy? Link-Posting in an Online Forum.” Journal of Public Deliberation 5(1) article 2.

2008                Francesca Polletta, “Storytelling in Politics.” Contexts 7(4): 20-25.

2008                Francesca Polletta, “Culture and Movements.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 619: 78-96.  2008                Francesca Polletta, “Just Talk: Public Deliberation after 9/11.” Journal of Public Deliberation 4 (1), article 2.

2006                Francesca Polletta, “Awkward Movements.” Introduction to special section edited by Polletta in Mobilization 11(4): 475-8.

2006                Francesca Polletta and John Lee, “Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy? Rhetoric in Public Deliberation after 9/11.” American Sociological Review 71 (5): 699-723.*

2005                Francesca Polletta. “How Participatory Democracy Became White: Culture and Organizational Choice.” Mobilization 10 (2): 271-288.

2004                Francesca Polletta, “Culture In and Outside Institutions.” In Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change 25: 161-183.

2001                Francesca Polletta and James Jasper, “Collective Identity in Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 27: 283-305.

2001                Francesca Polletta, “The Laws of Passion.” Law and Society Review 35 (2).

2001                Francesca Polletta, “’This is What Democracy Looks Like’: Decisionmaking in the Direct Action Network.”  Social Policy 31: 25-30

2000                Francesca Polletta, “The Structural Context of Novel Rights Claims: Rights Innovation in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1966.” Law and Society Review 34: 367-406.

Reprinted in Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law, edited by Martha R. Mahoney, John O. Calmore, and Stephanie M. Wildman. West Publishing, 2003.

Reprinted in Law and Social Movements, edited by Michael McCann. Ashgate Publishing, 2006.

2000                Jeff Goodwin, James Jasper and Francesca Polletta, “The Return of the Repressed: Several Generations of Scholarship on Emotions in Social Movements.” Mobilization 5: 65-84.

1999                Francesca Polletta, “Free Spaces in Collective Action.” Theory and Society 28: 1-38.*

1999                Francesca Polletta, “Snarls, Quacks, and Quarrels: Culture and Structure in Political Process Theory.” Sociological Forum 14: 67-74.

1998                Francesca Polletta, “Legacies and Liabilities of an Insurgent Past: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr., on the House and Senate Floor.” Social Science History 22: 479-512.

Reprinted in States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection, edited by Jeffrey K. Olick. Duke University Press, 2003.

1998                Francesca Polletta, “Contending Stories: Narrative in Social Movements.” Qualitative Sociology 21: 419-446.

Reprinted in Social and Political Movements, edited by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh. Sage Publications, 2010.

1998                Francesca Polletta, “‘It Was Like a Fever…’: Narrative and Identity in                                            Social Protest.” Social Problems 45 (2): 137-159.*

Reprinted in Narrative Sociology, edited by Leslie J. Irvine, Jennifer L. Pierce and Robert L. Zussman, Vanderbilt Univ. Press (2019), 301-316.

1997                Francesca Polletta, “Culture and Its Discontents: Recent Theorizing on Culture and Protest.” Sociological Inquiry 67: 431-450.

1994                Francesca Polletta, “Strategy and Identity in 1960s Black Protest.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 17 (1994): 85-114.

1993                Francesca Polletta, “Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement.” Social Text 33: 82-101.

* lead article

BOOK CHAPTERS

Forthcoming   Francesca Polletta and Alex Maresca, “Movements as Actors: Winning Dr. King for the Right.” The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism edited by Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (Routledge).

2019                Francesca Polletta, “Stories In (and Instead of) Process,” in Institutions and Organizations: A Process View, edited by Trish Reay, Tammar B. Zilber, Ann Langley, and Haridimos Tsoukas (Oxford University Press, 2019), 61-78.

2018                Francesca Polletta, “Movement Cultures” in the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2^nd edition, edited by Laura Grindstaff, John Hall, and Ming-Cheng Lo. Routledge, pp. 603-11.

2018                James M. Jasper and Francesca Polletta, “The Cultural Contexts of Social Movements,” in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi. Blackwell Publishers, pp. 63-78

2017                Francesca Polletta and Beth Gharrity Gardner, “The Forms of Deliberative Communication,” in The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, edited by André Bächtiger, John Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren. Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 70-85.

2016                Francesca Polletta and Beth Gharrity Gardner, “Narrative and Social Movements,” in The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, edited by Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani. Oxford Univ. Press

2015                Francesca Polletta and Beth Gharrity Gardner, “Culture and Social Movements,” in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn. Wiley.

2015                Francesca Polletta, “Public Deliberation and Political Contention,” in Democratizing Inequalities, edited by Caroline Lee, Michael McQuarrie, and Edward Walker.  New York University Press.

2015                Francesca Polletta and Kelsy Kretschmer, “Movement Factions,” in Players and Arenas, edited by James Jasper and Jan Willem Duyvendak. Amsterdam University Press.

2013                Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gardner, and Alice Motes. “Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest?” in The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, edited by Jacquelien Van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans. University of Minnesota Press.

2012                Francesca Polletta, “Analyzing Popular Beliefs About Storytelling.” In Varieties of Narrative Analysis, edited by James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium, Sage Publications.

2012                Francesca Polletta, “The Civil Rights Movement.” In Contention in Context: Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Stanford University Press, pp. 133-152.

2012                Francesca Polletta and Pang Ching Bobby Chen, “Narrative and Social Movements.” In The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Jacobs, and Philip Smith. Oxford Univ. Press.

2012                Francesca Polletta, “Three Mechanisms by Which Culture Shapes Movement Strategy: Repertoires, Institutional Norms, and Metonymy.” In Strategies for Social Change, edited by Gregory Maney, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana Rohlinger, and Jeff Goodwin. University of Minnesota Press.

2010                Francesca Polletta, “Social Movement Cultures.” In The Sociology of Culture: A Handbook, edited by Laura Grindstaff, John Hall, and Ming-Cheng Lo. Routledge.

2008                Francesca Polletta, “Storytelling in Social Movements.” In Social Movements and Culture, edited by Hank Johnston. Routledge.

2007                Francesca Polletta, “Participatory Democracy in Social Movements,” Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell.

2006                Francesca Polletta and M. Kai Ho, “Frames and Their Consequences.” In The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Studies, edited by Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly. Oxford Univ. Press.

2005                Francesca Polletta and Lesley Wood, “Public Deliberation after 9/11.” In Wounded City: The Social Effects of the World Trade Center Attack on New York City, edited by Nancy Foner. Russell Sage, pp. 321-348.

2004                Francesca Polletta, “Can You Celebrate Dissent? Holidays and Social Protest.” In The Ways We Celebrate, edited by Amitai Etzioni. New York University Press.

2004                Jeff Goodwin, James Jasper, and Francesca Polletta, “The Emotional Dimensions of Social Movements.” In The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi. Blackwell Publishers.

2003                Francesca Polletta, “Culture is Not Just in Your Head.” In Rethinking Social Movements, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Rowman and Littlefield.

2003                Francesca Polletta, “Strategy and Democracy in the New Left.” In The New Left Revisited, edited by Paul Buhle and John McMillian. Temple University Press

2001                Francesca Polletta, “Plotting Protest: Storytelling in the 1960 Student Sit-In Movement.” In Stories of Change: Narratives in Social Movements, edited by Joseph Davis, State University of New York Press.

2001                Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper and Francesca Polletta, “Why Emotions Matter.” In Passionate Politics, edited by Goodwin, Jasper, and Polletta. Univ. Chicago.

2001                Francesca Polletta and Edwin Amenta. “Conclusion: Second that Emotion? Lessons from Once-Novel Concepts in the Sociology of Social Movements.” In Passionate Politics.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Changing the Narrative: Accounting for Movements’ Cultural Impacts (with Edwin Amenta)

The Trouble with Stories: Narrative Persuasion and Its Limits

“Storytelling and Social Movements,” invited chapter for the Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory, Dawson and Mäkelä, eds. (Routledge)

“Morality and Imagined Relationships,” invited chapter for the Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, vol. 2, ed. Dromi, Hitlin, and Luft (Springer).

“Movements Against and For Inequality,” invited chapter for Social Stratification, Fifth Edition, ed. Dahir, Daviss, and Grusky (Routledge).

“Good Stories as the Tip of the Iceberg,” invited chapter for Good Stories, ed. Fleetwood, Presser, and Sandberg

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, BOOK REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, INTERVIEWS, AND OCCASIONAL ESSAYS

Forthcoming    Francesca Polletta, “Consensual Decision-Making,” “Narratives,” and “Participatory Democracy,” revised and updated entries, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements,edited by David Snow, Donatella della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam (Blackwell).

2021                Francesca Polletta, interviewed on The Carlos Watson Show: Live: America United? Biden-Harris Inauguration Aftershow, YouTube and Ozymedia, 21 January.

2021                Francesca Polletta, interviewed on BBC podcast, When Katty Met Carlos, 16 January.

2020                Francesca Polletta interviewed by Sophie van Nest for the Collectif de Recherche Action Politique et Démocratie, University of Montreal, 10 November.

2020                Francesca Polletta, interviewed on The Sunday Magazine, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, 8 November.

2020                Francesca Polletta, “Bridging America’s Divides Requires a Willingness to Work Together Without Becoming Friends First,” The Conversation, September 9, reprinted in multiple outlets.

2020                Francesca Polletta, “What a Good Idea: Mobilization and Culture,” Mobilizing Ideas, 3 February, https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/what-a-good-idea-mobilization-and-culture/

2020                Francesca Polletta, Review Essay, “Trump Voters and the Boundaries of the ‘I’,” Contemporary Sociology.

2019                Francesca Polletta interviewed for Activate World podcast on her work on storytelling and social movements, 23 August.

2018                Francesca Polletta, Review of Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea: Defiant Institutionalization by Sun-Chul Kim, Mobilization 23 (3): 389-90.

2018                Francesca Polletta, “Commentary: How Oscar Winners Can Turn #MeToo into Mass Movement,” Fortune Magazine, 2 March.

2018                Francesca Polletta interviewed on Wharton Business Radio’s In the Workplace, about article “Helping Without Caring.” 25 January.

2017                Chapter on analyzing deliberation based on an interview with Polletta in Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson, Give Methods a Chance. W.W. Norton.

2017                Francesca Polletta, Review of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Rightby Arlie Russell Hochschild, American Journal of Sociology 123 (2): 606 – 608

2016                Francesca Polletta, “Fighting Words.” Review essay of Sidney Tarrow, The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688-2012. Contemporary Sociology 45(2): 132-135.

2016                Francesca Polletta, Review of Frederick W. Mayer, Narrative Politics: Stories and Collective Action(Oxford). Mobilization 21 (1): 255-257.

2015                Francesca Polletta, Review of David Gibson, Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision During the Cuban Missile Crisis (Princeton). Contemporary Sociology. March 44 (2): 202-204.

2015                Baumer, Eric, Elisha Elovic, Ying Qin, Francesca Polletta, and Geri Gay. “Testing and Comparing Computational Approaches for Identifying the Language of Framing in Political News.” In Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics.

2015                Francesca Polletta, “Can an Angry Woman Get Ahead?” Gender and Society Blog, 29 July.

2014                Francesca Polletta, “When Does Anger Lead to Protest?” Essay for Mobilizing Ideas, Forum on the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/

2014                Francesca Polletta, “Activism in the Age of Deliberation.” Essay for Participation and its DiscontentsBlog, 21 July. http://participationanditsdiscontents.tumblr.com

2014                Francesca Polletta, “Critique of American Memories: Atrocities and the Law,” Sociology of Culture Newsletter 26 (1).

2013                Eric Baumer, Francesca Polletta, Nicole Pierski, Christopher Celaya, Karen Rosenblatt, and Geraldine Gay. “Developing Computational Supports for Frame Reflection.” In Proceedings of the iConference (Fort Worth, TX).

2013                Francesca Polletta, “Participatory Democracy,” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, edited by David Snow, Donatella della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam.  Blackwell.

2013                Francesca Polletta, “Narrative” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.

2013                Francesca Polletta, “The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.

2013                Francesca Polletta, “Consensual Decision Making,” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.

2013                Francesca Polletta and Kelsy Kretschmer, “Free Spaces,” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.

2012                Francesca Polletta, Roundtable: The Revolution Will Not be Globalized? The Society Pages, 25 April.

2012                Francesca Polletta, Review of Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport. Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age (MIT Press). Mobilization 17 (3).

2012                Francesca Polletta, Culture Newsletter, “Letter from the Chair: Democracy” (Spring).

2012                Francesca Polletta, Culture Newsletter, “Letter from the Chair: What’s Wrong with a Good Story?” (Winter).

2011                Francesca Polletta, “Maybe You’re Better Off Not Holding Hands and Singing We Shall Overcome.” Dialogue on Digital Media in Activism. Mobilizing Ideas, November,  http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/maybe-youre-better-off-not-holding-hands-and-singing-we-shall-overcome/

2010                Francesca Polletta, Review of Katherine C. Chen, Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event (Univ. Chicago Press), American Journal of Sociology.

2007                Francesca Polletta, Review of Marian Mollin, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest (Penn State Univ. Press), American Historical Review 112(4): 1222-3.

2007                Francesca Polletta, Review of Andrew Perrin, Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life (Univ. Chicago Press), Social Forces 85(3): 1457-9.

2006                Francesca Polletta, “Designing the New World Trade Center: Personal Storytelling in Public Deliberation.” The Storyteller and the Listener Online, December

2006                Francesca Polletta, Review of Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre (Stanford Univ. Press), Social Forces 84(4): 2353-2354

2005                Francesca Polletta, “Culture, Structure, and False Oppositions.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 51 (49): B12-13.

2003                Francesca Polletta, “Letting the People Decide?” The Responsive Community 14 (Winter):  9-14.

2003                Francesca Polletta, “This is (Sort of) What Democracy Looks Like,” City Limits Magazine, December: 33-35.

Reprinted in Building Collaborative Communities, 4 (1), Spring 2004.

2003                Francesca Polletta, Review of Taeku Lee, Mobilizing Public Opinion (Univ. Chicago Press, 2002), Social Forces 81: 1056-8.

2002                Francesca Polletta, “What is Civil Society (And Is it Really a Good Thing)? Review of Civil Society and Government edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum and Robert C. Post (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002),” The Responsive Community 13.

2002                Francesca Polletta, Review of Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention(Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001), Contemporary Sociology 31: 580-2.

2001                Francesca Polletta, Review of Claire Jean Kim, Bitter Fruit: Black-Korean Conflict in New York (Yale Univ. Press, 2000), American Journal of Sociology 106: 1811-1813

2000                Francesca Polletta, “Freedom’s Price.” The Radcliffe Quarterly 85.

1999                Francesca Polletta, Review of Belinda Robnett, How Long? How Long? (Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), Mobilization 4: 113-115.

1999                Francesca Polletta, Review of Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell Univ. Press 1998), Contemporary Sociology 28: 96-97.

1997                Francesca Polletta, Review of Alberto Melucci, Challenging Codes and The Playing Self (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), Featured Essay, Contemporary Sociology 26: 681-683.

1997                Francesca Polletta, Review of James Tracy, Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven (Univ. Chicago Press, 1996), Mobilization 2: 247-248.

1996                Francesca Polletta, Review of Marcy Darnovsky, Barbara Epstein, and Richard Flacks, eds., Cultural Politics and Social Movements (Temple Univ. Press, 1995) and Hank Johnston and Bert Klandermans, eds., Culture and Social Movements (Univ. Minnesota Press, 1995), Contemporary Sociology 25: 483-485.

1996                Francesca Polletta, Review of Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers(Carlson Press, 1990), Gender, Place and Culture 3: 227-229.

INVITED LECTURES

2021                Global Peace and Conflict Studies Colloquium, “Does Bridging Our Political Divides Require that We Become Friends First?” University of California, Irvine, January 28.

2020                Columbia Journalism School Summer Reading Group on It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics, June 27.

2020                California State University, San Bernardino, Series on Race and Police: Activism. July 8.

2019                Russell Sage Foundation Seminar, “The Trouble with Stories,” May 22.

2019                New York University Culture Workshop, “Can Intimacies Build Equality?” April 25.

2019                Rutgers University Sociology Colloquium, “The Trouble with Stories,” New Brunswick, April 10.

2019                Ruth & John Useem Plenary Address, North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “The Trouble with Stories,” Cincinnati, March 29.

2018                Graduate Center, City University of New York, Colloquium, “The Trouble with Stories,” New York, November 9.

2018                Center for Critical Korean Studies, UCI, Recent Books in Korean Studies, “Remarks on Sun Chul Kim’s Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea,” Irvine, May 11.

2017                Keynote Address, International Process Symposium, “Stories of (and Instead of) Process,” Kos, Greece, June 26.

2017                Academy of Sciences, Consensus Conference on Alcohol-Impaired Driving, “The Prospects for a New Social Movement against Alcohol-Impaired Driving,” March 22.

2016                UCLA, Social Movements and Organizations Workshop, “Authenticity and Victimhood in Contemporary Storytelling,” November 14.

2015                Harvard University, Culture Workshop, “The Trouble with Stories.” October 22.

2015                University of California, San Diego, Field Launch, “Participatory Art and Culture Today,” May 1.

2015                University of Pennsylvania Sociology Colloquium, “Dilemmas of Democratic Participation,” March 4

2015                University of California, San Diego, Sociology Colloquium, “The Trouble with Stories,” Feb. 12

2015                USAID, Symposium on Social Movements, “Causes and Consequences: Factors that Spark, Solidify, and Sustain Social Movements,” Feb. 6

2014                Yale Center for Cultural Sociology Colloquium, “Democracy Now,” February 7.

2014                Harvard Law School Workshop on Law and Social Change, “Rights Talk,” February 5.

2013                Institute of Medicine, Keynote Speaker, “So You Want to Start a Social Movement?” December 5.

2013                University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Sociology Colloquium. “Whose Public Talk?” September 17.

2012                University of California, Berkeley, Sociology Colloquium. “The Trouble with Victim Stories.”

2012                “Storying Rape: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation at the Top of City Hall,” Panel discussion with Los Angeles Police Chief and experts on rape, City Hall, Los Angeles. January 22.

2011                University of California, Los Angeles. Author Meets Critics panelist for Bill Roy’s Red, White and Blues, May 11.

2011                Bronowski Arts and Sciences Forum, University of California, San Diego, with Grant Kester, “Are Two Heads Better than One? Collaboration in Art and Politics.” April 21.

2010                University of Southern California, Sociology Colloquium. “The Problem with Victim Stories.” November 5.

2010                Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciale de Paris (HEC). “When Institutions Do Not Innovate.” June 25.

2009                Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Successful Societies Program. “Do Stories Strengthen Societies?” May 31.

2009                California State University, LA, Sociology Colloquium. “Is the Public Sphere Becoming Feminized—and at What Cost?”

2009                University of Arizona, Sociology Colloquium. “Is the Public Sphere Becoming Feminized?” April 24.

2008                Free University, Amsterdam, Sociology Colloquium. “Is the Public Sphere Becoming Feminized? October 13.

2008                University of Pittsburgh, Sociology Colloquium/Social Movements Forum. “Victim Stories.” February 28.

2007                University of Texas, Austin, Sociology Colloquium. “Just Stories? Culture, Power, and Powerlessness.” December 14

2007                University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Colloquium. “Why Sociologists Should Be More Like Literary Critics—and Less Like Them.” April 25.

2006                University of California, Santa Cruz, Sociology Colloquium. “Storytelling in Protest and Politics.” October 23.

2006                Boston College Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series. “Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?” and “Meaning in Movements.” April 25 and 26.

2006                Vanderbilt University Sociology Colloquium. “Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?” March 28.

2005                New York Law School, Law and Society Colloquium. “Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?” April 15.

2005                SUNY, Stony Brook Sociology Colloquium. “Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?” April 6.

2004                Yale University, Center for Cultural Sociology. “Storytelling in Protest and Politics.” October 29.

2004                Yale University Sociology Colloquium.“Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?” October 28.

2003                Northwestern University Sociology Colloquium. “Dilemmas of Radical Democracy.” May 8.

2003                University of Washington Sociology Colloquium. “Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements.” April 17.

2003                University of Pennsylvania Sociology Colloquium. “Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements.” April 2.

2003                Indiana University Sociology Colloquium, “Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements.” February 13.

2003               Open Society Institute, Breakfast Forum. “Democracy in Organizations.” February 12.

2002                Sociological Perspectives on Narrative Conference, Harvard University and MIT, Keynote Address. “A Social Epistemology of Storytelling.” October 4.

2002                Russell Sage Foundation. “Public Deliberation After 9/11.” September 12.

2002                “Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements,” University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology Colloquium, April 5.

2002                University of California, Irvine Sociology Colloquium. “Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements.” January 14.

2001                New York University Sociology Colloquium, “Cold Political Decisions in the Beloved Community: Race and Democracy in the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” December 12.

2000                Open Society Institute. “Free Speech in Social Movements.” July 13.

2000                Rutgers University Sociology Colloquium. “Cold, Political Decisions in the Beloved Community: Participatory Democracy and Racial Politics in the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” March 22.

2000                Bunting Institute Colloquium, Harvard University. “Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Sustaining Democracy While Making Change.” February 2.

2000                Hauser Center Colloquium, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. “Cold, Political Decisions in the Beloved Community: Race, Rationality, and the Demise of Radical Democracy.” January 28.

1997                City University of New York Graduate Center Sociology Colloquium. “The Narrative Necessity of Compelling Protest.” October 17.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2020                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Imagined Relationships in Moral Decision-Making,” August 8, and “Everyone Tells Victim Stories: Democratic and Republican Storytelling in the Congressional Record, 1987-2015,” with Jessica Callahan, Michelangelo Zavala, and Shela Duong, August 9.

2018                Echo Chambers, Fake News & Populism Consultation, European Union Consultation, Jan.

2017                Russell Sage Foundation Workshop, “Linking Institutions and Associational Life,” New York City, December 1.

2017                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sociology of Culture Section, “Deep Stories, Nostalgia Narratives, and Fake News: Storytelling and the Election of Donald Trump,” Montreal, August 13.

2017                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Authenticity and Victimhood in Advocacy Storytelling,” with Tania Eileen DoCarmo, Kelly Marie Ward, and Jessica Callahan. Montreal, August 12.

2016                Open Society Foundations, Storytelling in Advocacy Conference. “Narrative Impact,” New York, October 25.

2016                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Who Can Be a Hero? Genre and Stereotype in Narrative Persuasion,” with Kelly Marie Ward, Seattle, August 22.

2015                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Author Meets Critics Session for Sandra Levitsky’s, Caring for Our Own: Why There is No Political Demand for New American Welfare Rights(Oxford, 2014), Chicago, August 22.

2015                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Helping Without Caring: Role Definition and the Gender-Stratified Effects of Emotional Labor in Debt Settlement Firms,” with Zaibu Tufail, Chicago, August 24.

2015                E.P.S Baumer, E. Elovic, Y. Qin, F. Polletta & G.K. Gay. “Testing and Comparing Computational Approaches for Identifying the Language of Framing in Political News. In Proceedings of Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2015) (pp. 1472-1482).

2015                “Participatory Enthusiasms: A Recent History of Participatory Decision Making,” presented at Thirty Years Later: The Participatory Turn’s Mirages and Realities Conference, University of Montreal, February 19-21.

2014                “How to Be a Victim,” with Jacomijne Prins, Workshop on Narrative, Vreije Universitat, Amsterdam, December 18.

2014                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Toward a Peopled Strategy of Frame Reflection,” with Eric Baumer, Nicole Pierski, Christopher Celaya, and Geraldine Gay, San Francisco, August 17.

2014                The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World Conference, “Social Movements in an Age of Participation,” Tokyo University, July 20.

2014                “Democracy Now,” International Sociological Association, Yokohama, July 17.

2013                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Author Meets Critic Session for Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan D. King’s American Memories: Atrocities and the Law (Russell Sage), New York, August 11.

2013                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Why Stories Fail,” New York, August 13.

2012                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “The Moral Obligations of Some Debt,” with Zaibu Tufail, Denver, August 17.

2012                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Date Rape after the After  School Special,” with Christine Tomlinson, Denver, August 17.

2011                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Discussant for Thematic Session: New Technologies of Protest and Political Mobilization, Las Vegas, August 23.

2011                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Discussant for Culture Section Session: Privacy in the Digital Age. Las Vegas, August 23.

2010                Democratizing Inequalities Conference, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, “Contention and Deliberation.” New York, October 16.

2010                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “The Costs of Citizen Engagement.” Plenary Session on Citizenship. Atlanta, August 15.

2010                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “The Limits of Plot in Accounting for How Women Interpret Rape Stories,” with Amanda Ebner. Atlanta, August 15.

2009                Pacific Sociological Association, Author Meets Critics Session for It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

2009                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Is the Public Sphere Becoming Feminized—and At What Cost?” with Pang Ching Bobby Chen, San Francisco, August 11.

2009              American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Thematic Session, “Is the Web Creating New Reasons to Protest?” with Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gardner, and Alice Motes, San Francisco, August 11.

2008                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Toward a Commonsense of Storytelling,” Boston, August 3.

2007                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Victim Stories,” New York, August 13.

2007                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Is Information Good for Deliberation? Link Sharing in an Online Deliberative Forum,” with Christopher Anderson and Pang Ching Bobby Chen, New York, August 14.

2007                ASA Collective Behavior/Social Movements Workshop, Plenary Session. “Culture in Strategy.”

2006                University of California, San Diego. Culture Conference. “Culture in Social Movements.” May 5.

2005                National Science Foundation, National Conference on Digital Government Research. “Policy Made Public.” May 17.

2005                American Sociological Association, Author Meets Critics Session for Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements. August 16.

2004                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?” (with John Lee). August 16.

2003                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Thematic Panel on Culture. “How Participatory Democracy Became White.” August 18.

2003                George Washington University, The Ways We Celebrate Conference. “Rituals, Holidays, and Political Contention” Washington, DC, April 11-12.

2003                Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Author Meets Critics Session on Freedom Is an Endless Meeting. February 28.

2003                Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Discussant, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative.” February 28.

2002                Sociological Perspectives on Narrative Workshop, sponsored by the Hauser Center at Harvard University. Discussant. March.

2002                Miniconference on Authority in Contention sponsored by the Social Movements Section of the ASA. Plenary panel, “Authority in Movements,” Notre Dame University, August 17.

2002                Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Discussant, “Toward a Sociology of Movement Storytelling.” March.

2001                Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, “Who Decides? Strategic Choice in Social Movements,” Chicago, November 15-18.

2001              American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Discussant for Social Movements Section Panel: Social Movement Talk, Anaheim, August 19.

2001                American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Discussant for Social Movements Section Panel: Contending Stories: Narrative in Social Movements, Anaheim, August 18.

2000                Columbia University, Discussant, “The ‘60s Talk to the ‘00s—and the ‘00s Talk Back.” New York, November 14

2000                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Friendship and Democracy.” Washington, DC, August 14.

1999                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “The Return of the Repressed: Several Generations of Scholarship on Emotions in Social Movements,” with Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper. Chicago, August 6.

1999                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.“Outsiders in Social Protest.” Chicago, August 6.

1999                Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. “The Structural Context of Novel Rights Claims: Rights Innovation in the Southern Civil Rights Movement.”  May 27-31

1999                Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Discussant, “Fight the Power? Contemporary Legal Mobilization and the Limits of the Law.” May 27-31.

1999                Emotions and Social Protest Conference, New York University. Discussant. February 19-21

1998                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Race, Rights, and Radicalism: Southern Civil Rights Organizing, 1961-1967,” San Francisco, August 23.

1997                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.“Metaphors of Mobilization: Free Spaces in Recent Social Movement Theorizing,” Toronto, August 10.

1997                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Discussant for Sociology of Sex and Gender Section Panel: Gender and Politics. Toronto, August 12.

1996                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Sociology of Culture Session, “Grand Ambitions: Cultural Theory and Popular Protest,” New York, August 18.

1995                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “’A Cold Political Decision’: Moral Arguments For and Against White Participation in the Civil Rights Movement,” Washington, DC., August 21.

1995                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Strategy and Ideology: Decisionmaking in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1964-1965.” Washington, DC., August 23.

1994                American Sociological Association “’Freedom Is an Endless Meeting’: Participatory Democracy in SNCC and SDS,” Los Angeles, August 6.

1993                American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. “Strategy and Identity in 1960s Black Protest,” Miami Beach, August 13.

 

SMALL GRANTS

2007-2020       Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine, seed grants for studies of movements in media, the cultural consequences of movements, narrative persuasion, computational supports for frame reflection, and gender in deliberation, and a course on deliberation, and Center for Organizational Research, University of California, Irvine, seed grant for a study of prefigurative politics among activists, ranging from $1,500 to $2,000.

2002                Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, seed grant for a study of the role of digital technologies in decision making around the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan, with David Stark. $12,500

2002                Russell Sage Foundation, Grant for a study of public deliberation in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. $10,000.

2002                Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), Publication Grant. $10,000.

2002                American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, grant for a conference on sociological approaches to narrative, with Marshall Ganz. $5,200.

2001                Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, Seed Grant. $8,000.

2000                Columbia University Council Grant for Research in the Social Sciences. $7,500.

1999                National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship. $5,000.

1998                ASA/NSF, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, for a conference on emotions and social protest, with James Jasper and Jeff Goodwin. $7,000.

1997                Columbia University Council Grant for Research in the Social Sciences. $7,500.

COURSES TAUGHT

 Introduction to Sociology

Social Problems

Social Theory

Interviewing Methods

Designing Social Research

Sociology of Culture

Law and Inequality

Sociology of Race

Social and Political Movements

The Cultural Consequences of Social Movements

The Sociology of Talk

Sociology of Narrative

Participatory Democracy and Collaborative Governance

Deviance and Social Control

                       

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE

American Sociological Association: Annual Meeting Program Committee (2014-5); Committee on Nominations (2013-2015); Committee on Committees (2008-2010)

ASA, Culture Section: Chair (2011-2012); Council (2004 2007); Distinguished Book Award Committee (2006)

ASA, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section: Chair (2004-5); Distinguished Book Award Committee (2002 and 2005); Publication Award (2006); Council (1999-2003) Membership Committee (1996-1999)

Eastern Sociological Society: Executive Committee (2004-5)

Editorial Boards: Rose Monograph Series (2003-2006 and 2020 to present); American Journal of Cultural Sociology(2015 to present); Sociological Theory (2013 to present); Field (2012 to present); Mobilization (2007 to present),Contexts (2006-2009),  Journal of Public Deliberation (2004-2015); Social Movement Studies (2001-present).

Advisory Editor: Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Citizen Engagement (Oxford Univ. Press) (2008-2012); Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (Wiley Blackwell) (2008-2013)

Conference and Workshop Organizer:  Storytelling in Advocacy Conference (with Brett Davidson, Thaler Pekar, and Murray Nossel), Open Society Foundations, New York, October 25, 2016; Workshop on Narrative (with Jacomijne Prins), Vreije Universitat, Amsterdam, December 18, 2014; The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World Conference (with Edwin Amenta, Patrick Heller, and Takeshi Wada), Tokyo University, Tokyo and Kyoto, July 18-24, 2018; Sociological Perspectives on Narrative Workshops, I and II (with Marshall Ganz), Harvard and MIT, September 2002; Conference on Emotions in Social Protest (with Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper), New York University, 1999; Law and Society Seminar Series, Columbia University, 1998-1999.

Panel Organizer: ASA 2017 Thematic Panel, We’re All Telling Our Stories But Is Anyone Listening? Capturing Narrative Impact (with Kelly Nielsen); ASA 2016 Thematic Panels (as member of the ASA Program Committee): When Changing the Conversation Matters: Lessons from Southern Europe; Rethinking Civil Rights Movement Outcomes; Rethinking Black Power Movement Outcomes; Social Movements and the News Media; Race and Social Movements: Which Way Forward; Reconceptualizing the Civil Sphere; The New Politics of Participation; Digital Natives and Online Politics; Changing Our Minds:  Public Opinion in the 21^st Century; The Broken Spring: The Arab Uprisings and Their Aftermaths; Riots, Protest, and Social Movements;  ASA 2011 Culture Section Panels: Privacy in the Digital Age: (with John Sutton and Steve Valocchi) and How Culture Constrains (with Lynn Spillman); ASA 2005 Author Meets Critics Panel: The Minority Rights Revolution by John D. Skrentny; ASA 2003 Sociology of Culture Section Panel: Politics, Culture, and Strategy; Eastern Sociological Society 2002 Panel: Toward a Sociology of Movement Storytelling (2002); Columbia University Panel: The ‘60s Talk to the ‘00s—and the ‘00s Talk Back, New York University (2000);  Law and Society Association 1999 Panel, “Fight the Power? Contemporary Legal Mobilization and the Limits of the Law.”

Manuscript Reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Sociological Forum, Annual Review of Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Quarterly, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Compass, Law and Society Review, Mobilization, Theory and Society, Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change, Sociological Perspectives, Social Movement Studies, Symbolic Interaction, Social Psychology Quarterly, PLOS ONE, Administrative Science Quarterly, Work and Occupations, Public Management Review, International Public Management Journal, Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Participatizone e Conflitto, Studies in Political Economy, Gender and Society, Violence Against Women, Contexts, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Political Communication, Western Communication Review, Organization Studies, Irish Journal of Sociology, Swiss Political Science Review, Princeton University Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Harvard University Press, Sage Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, and the University of Manchester Press.

Grant reviewer: National Science Foundation, Sociology Advisory Panel (2003-5). Reviewed grant proposals for the NSF, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin.

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

University of California, Irvine

2020                University Senate, Committee on Committees, Substitute

2017-2018       International Studies Assistant Professorship Search

2016-present   Law and Society Emphasis Advisor

2016-2017       Anthropology Department Chair Search Committee

2016-2017       International Studies Directorship Search Committee

2015–2018      University Senate, Committee on Committees

2015-2018       Governing Board Member, International Studies

2014-2016       Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Search Committee, Department of Sociology

2013                Graduate Dissertation Fellowship Committee

2012                Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Search Committee, Department of Sociology

2008-2011       Co-Graduate Director, Department of Sociology.

2007-2010       Advisory Board, Center in Law, Society, and Culture

2006-2009       University Senate, Committee on Research, Computing, and Libraries.

2006-2008       Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology

2005-2006       Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology

2005-present   Faculty Affiliate, Center for Ethnography

2005-present   Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Democracy

2005-present   Faculty Affiliate, Center for Organizational Research

Columbia University

2003                Director of Undergraduate Studies, Sociology Department

2003                Sociology Graduate Admissions Committee

2003                Barnard College Sociology Junior Faculty Search Committee

2003                Columbia University Dean’s Day Speaker, Atlanta

2002-2003      Truman Fellowship Review Committee

2002                 Columbia Contentious Politics Workshop, Co-coordinator

2001-2003       Sociology Awards Committee

2001-2002       Sociology Faculty Search Committee

1999                 Columbia University Dean’s Day Speaker

1999                Faculty Minority Advisory Committee

1998-1999       Sociology Committee on the Graduate Program

1998                African-American Studies/Sociology Faculty Search Committee

1996-1999       Departmental Representative (Director of Undergraduate Studies)

1997-1999       Whitney Young Task Force on Race

1996-1997       University Senate

1996-1997       Senate Committee on External Relations

1996-1997       University Commission on the Status of Women

1996                African-American Studies/Sociology Faculty Search Committee