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JENNIFER L. PIERCE Curriculum Vitae

Academic Department American Studies 104 Scott Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Office: (612) 624-0852; FAX (612) 624-3858 Email: pierc012@umn.edu Academic History Degrees: 1991 Ph.D. Sociology University of California, Berkeley 1984 M.A. Sociology University of California, Berkeley 1980 B.A. Sociology University of California, Berkeley (Honors with Great Distinction) Areas of Specialization: Ethnographic Research Methods, Feminist Theory and Feminist Methodology, Gender Studies, Personal Narrative Analysis, Race and Ethnicity, Sexualities, Social Theory, Sociology of Emotions, and Work and Organizations. Academic Employment 2010- Full Professor, American Studies, University of Minnesota 1998-2010 Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Minnesota 1997 –1998 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota 1993 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota 1991 - 1993 Assistant Professor, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Utah Affiliations: Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, the Law School, and the Department of Sociology Awards and Honors 2014-2018 Paul W. Frenzel Endowed Chair in Liberal Arts, College of Liberal Arts, University

of Minnesota 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award in Graduate, Professional and Post Baccalaureate

Education, University of Minnesota 1998 Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, U.C., Berkeley 1995 Faculty Mentor Award, Sociology Department, University of Minnesota 1991 American Sociological Association Dissertation Award, awarded by the Sex and Gender

Section 1991 Herbert Blumer Prize for the best paper in the symbolic interactionist tradition written by

a graduate student, Department of Sociology, U.C., Berkeley 1990 American Sociological Association Graduate Student Paper Prize, Sociology of Emotions

Section. 1987 Gertrude Jaeger Prize for most outstanding essay by a women graduate student,

Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. 1986 Outstanding Student Instructor Award, Sociology Department, U. C., Berkeley

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1980 Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, 1980. Grants and Fellowships 2018 Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota, “Queer Homes in the

Filipino Diaspora,” applied with Mary Marchan, ($4,800) 2014 Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota, “Queering Disability

Studies,” applied with Angela Carter, ($4,000) 2013 Grant-in-Aid for Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, "Working

in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women’s Movement, and the New Economy, " ($30,037)

2012 Sabbatical Supplement, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, “Working in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women’s Movement and the New Economy”

2012 Imagine Fund, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, “Working in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women’s Movement and the New Economy” ($5,000)

2010 Single Semester Leave, University of Minnesota, “Apprehending Silences about Race Through Ethnography and Fiction.”

2008 Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota, “The Prison Industrial Complex,” applied with Steve Dillon ($5,000).

2006 Schochet GLBT Research Award, “Queering Oral History: The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project,” ($6,060)

2006 Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residential Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy, April - May. 2005 Sabbatical Supplement, College of Liberal Arts, “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness,

American Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action” 2004 President’s Multicultural Research Award, "Public Narratives, Race, and the Backlash

Against Affirmative Action” ($4,500) 2004 Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota, “Re-enacting the Past:

Emotional Labor in Living History Museums,” applied with Amy Tyson ($5,000). 2003 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, University of Minnesota. “Feminist

Generations,” Spring semester leave. 2003 Grant-in-Aid for Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, "Racing

for Innocence: Whiteness, American Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” ($18,000)

2003 Graduate School Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Creative Activities Grant ($5,000), Institute for Global Studies Grant ($5,000), Humanities Institute Grant ($9,744), Lippincott Fund Grant, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota ($5,000), “Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Summer 2003 Institute on Gender, Migration, and Global Change”

2004 Law School Admissions Council Grant, “Racial Climates in Law Schools,” faculty sponsor for Wendy Leo Moore ($23,000).

2003 Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota. “Popular Culture and Constructions of Race in Post-Civil Rights America,” applied with Wendy Leo Moore ($5,629)

2002 Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota. “Engendering Service Work,” applied with Karla Erickson ($7,325)

2002 Grant-in-Aid for Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, "Feminist Generations," ($16,037)

1998 Bush Diversity Teaching Grant, University of Minnesota. "Dealing with Diversity in the Classroom and the Curriculum," ($4,000)

1997 McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota. "Communities on the Margins" ($5,000)

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1997 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota. "Communities on the Margins," ($5,000) 1997.

1996 Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small Grant Program. "Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences,” ($2,500) applied with M.J. Maynes and Barbara Laslett

1995 Grant-in-Aid for Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, "Creating Identity on the Margins" ($13,827)

1994 McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota, "Outsiders in the Land of Zion," ($4,500)

1994 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota. "Outsiders in the Land of Zion," ($4,500)

1992 Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Utah. "Improving the `Chilly' Climate for Women in Large Law Firms," ($2,500)

1990 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.

1989 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley

1988 Sagan Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley 1987 Regents Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley 1985 Thomasin and Abigal Bellah Memorial Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of

California, Berkeley. PUBLICATIONS Books: Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, American Studies, Contemporary Sociology, Gender & Society, Journal of American Ethnic History, Law and Politics Book Review, and Work and Occupations,

Queer Twin Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project is a collective including myself, Michael Franklin, Larry Knopp, Kevin Murphy, Ryan Murphy, Jason Ruiz, and Alex Urquhart.

Selected for “Author Meets Critic Session” at the American Geographical Association Meetings in Seattle, Washington, April 2011 Reviewed in Social and Cultural Geography.

Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and in History, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Co-authored with M.J. Maynes; Barbara Laslett is third author.

Selected for “Author Meets Critic Session” at the Social Science History Association Meetings in Long Beach, California, 2009 Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology, American Historical Review

Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995 (second printing 1998).

Selected for “Author Meets Critics Session” at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings in San Francisco, California, 1998 Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Gender & Society, Law and Politics Book Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Social and Legal Studies, Symbolic Interaction, UCLA Women’s Law Journal, Qualitative Sociology

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Edited Volumes and Journals: Narrative Sociology. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. Co-edited with Leslie Irvine and Robert Zussman. Feminist Legal Studies: Special Issue on Personal Narratives, Social Justice, and the Law, 21, 3 (2013). Co-edited with Samia Bano (University of London). Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Co-edited with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson.

Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology, Contemporary Women’s Writing, American Studies, Discourse and Society, Feminist Review

Qualitative Sociology: Special issue on Personal Narratives, 26, 3 (Fall 2003). Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies including Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, and Naomi Schemen. Explorations in Ethnic Studies: Special Issue on Race, Class, and Gender 17, 1 (January 1994) Co-edited with Alberto Pulido Refereed Articles: “What Makes Queer Oral History Different?” Oral History Review, co-authored with Kevin Murphy and Jason Ruiz, winter 43:1 (2016), pp. 1-24. “The History of Affirmative Action in the United States: A Teaching and Learning Guide,” Sociology Compass, 8, 1 (2014), pp. 89-98. “Introduction to Special issue on Personal Narratives, Social Justice, and the Law” Feminist Legal Studies 21, 3 (2013) pp. 1-15 (Co-authored with Samia Bano). “White Racism, Social Class, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Sociology Compass 7, 11 (2013), pp. 914-26. “Still Killing Mockingbirds: Race and Innocence in Hollywood’s Depiction of the White Messiah Lawyer,” Qualitative Sociology Review, III, 2 (August 2007): 171-187. (Co-authored with Wendy Leo Moore.) “Farewell to the Organization Man: The Feminization of Loyalty in High-End and Low-End Service Work.” Ethnography (September 2005): 283-313 (Co-authored with Karla Erickson). "Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology and Back: One Woman’s Tale of Tenure and the Politics of Backlash." Qualitative Sociology 26, 3 (Fall 2003): 369-396. "'Racing for Innocence': Whiteness, Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action." Qualitative Sociology 26, 1 (Spring 2003): 53-70. "The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success Among Latinas and Latinos in College." Gender & Society vol. 15, no. 6 (December 2001): 859-878. (Co-authored with Heidi Barajas).

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"From Scholarship Girls to Scholarship Women: Surviving the Contradictions of Class and Race in the Academy," Explorations in Ethnic Studies 17, 1 (January 1994): 21-24. (Co-authored with Gloria Cuadraz). "Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, 1 (Autumn 1993): 62-91. (Co-authored with Denise Segura). "Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in Nuclear and Extended Families," American Sociological Review 56, 3 (June 1991): 321-330. (Shavit, first author; Pierce, second author). "Emotion Work and Hysteria: A Feminist Reinterpretation of Freud's Studies on Hysteria," Women's Studies 16, 3 and 4 (1989): 255-270. "The Implications of Functionalism for Chicano Family Research," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 29 (1984): 93-117. Book Chapters and Invited Essays: “Sexuality and the Cities: Interdisciplinarity and the Politics of Queer Public History,” Oxford Handbook on Public History (with Kevin Murphy and Alex Urquhart), Oxford University Press, 2017. “Saying and Doing White Racism,” in Richard Garcia, ed., On Race and Medicine, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. “Teaching about Affirmative Action: Challenges from a Freshman Seminar,” in Kristin Haltinner, ed., Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America, New York, Springer Verlag, 2014. “Introduction: Queer Twin Cities,” in Queer Twin Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010, pages xi-xxvii. “Introduction: Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations” in Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pages 1-45. (Co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson.) “Introduction: Special Issue on Personal Narratives.” Qualitative Sociology 26, 3 (Fall 2003): 307-311. "'Not Committed?' or 'Not Qualified?': A Raced and Gendered Organizational Logic in Contemporary Law Firms," pages 155-171 in Reza Banakar and Max Travers, editors, An Introduction to Law and Social Theory. London: Hart Publishing, 2002. "Lawyers, Lethal Weapons and Ethnographic Authority," pages 146-162 in Susan Moch and Marie Gates, eds. Qualitative Research and the Researcher Experience. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000. “Introduction,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 1-4. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, and Naomi Schemen).

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“Theory Binds: The Perils of Retrofit,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 5-7. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Naomi Schemen). “Storytelling: Sites of Empowerment, Sites of Exploitation,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 131-136. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Naomi Schemen). “Starting Here, Starting Now: Challenges to Academic Practices,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 261-265. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Naomi Schemen). "Emotional Labor Among Paralegals." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. (special issue on "Emotional Labor in the Service Economy"). Vol. 561 (January 1999): 127-142. (Excerpted and revised from Gender Trials.) "Reproducing Gender Relations in Large Law Firms," Pages 184-219 in Cameron MacDonald and Carmen Sirianni, eds., Working in the Service Society: Critical Paradigms. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1996. (excerpted and revised from Gender Trials.) "Reflections on Fieldwork in a Complex Organization," pages 94-110 in Rosanna Hertz and Jonathan Imber, eds., Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995. "New Scholarship on Race, Class and Gender: Other Voices Challenging the Mainstream." Explorations in Ethnic Studies 17, 1 (January 1994): 1-9. (Co-authored with Alberto Pulido). Reprinted Articles: “A Feminist’s Work is Never Done: An Interview with sociologist Joan Acker,” reprinted in Jodi O’Brien and Arlene Stein, Gender, Sexuality and Intimacy: A Contexts Reader, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2017. "Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology and Back: One Woman’s Tale of Tenure and the Politics of Backlash, reprinted in Hokulani Aikau, Karla Erickson, and Jennifer L. Pierce, editors, Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pages 109-139. “Farewell to the Organization Man: The Feminization of Loyalty in High-End and Low-End Service Work,” reprinted in Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson, editors, The Gendered Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (Co-authored with Karla Erickson). "The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success Among Latinas and Latinos in College," reprinted in Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret Anderson, eds. Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2007, second edition. (Co-authored with Heidi Barajas.)

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“Les Emotions du Travail: Le Cas Des Assistantes Legal” Travailler (Spring 2004): 51-72. (This article is a French translation of my 1999 "Emotional Labor Among Paralegals" article that appeared in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.) "Rambo Litigators," reprinted in Nancy Sacks and Catherine Marrone, eds., Gender and Work in Today’s World: A Reader. Westview, 2004. (Excerpted from Gender Trials.) "'Racing for Innocence': Whiteness, Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action," reprinted in Woody Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, editors, White-Out. New York: Routledge, 2003. "Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited," (Co-authored with Denise Segura). Reprinted in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Sex and Gender. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002 "Rambo Litigators," in John Bonsignore, et al., editors, Before the Law: An Introduction to the Legal Process. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. "Rambo Litigators," in Michael Kimmel and Michael Messner, editors, Men's Lives. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. "Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited," reprinted in Karen Hansen and Anita Garey, eds. Family Values, Kinship, and Sexual Politics in the U.S.: Critical Feminist Perspectives. Temple University Press, 1998. (Co-authored with Denise Segura). "Rambo Litigators," in Amy Wharton, editor, Work in America: Continuity, Conflict and Change. Mayfield Publishing, 1997. "Emotional Labor in a Male Dominated Occupation," in Cliff Cheng, ed. Masculinities in Organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. Review Essays, Encyclopedia Entries, and other Publications/Productions: “Feminism, First, Second, and Third Waves,” International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson, 2018, pp. 1-9. “Sexuality and the Cities: Interdisciplinarity and the Politics of Queer Public History,” Oxford Handbook on Public History (with Kevin Murphy and Alex Urquhart), Oxford University Press, 2017. “On Seeing and Not Seeing Racism: A Review Essay,” American Quarterly (December 2014). “American Workplaces Since the Civil Rights Act: The Changing Parameters of Race and Sex Segregation in Private Employment: A Review Essay of Kevin Stainback and Donald Tomaskcovic-Devey’s Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act, Contemporary Sociology (May 2014) 43, 3, pp. 331-335. “Why Teaching about Race as a Social Construct Still Matters: A Review Essay on Ann Morning’s The Nature of Race,” Sociological Forum 29, 1 (March 2014).

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“Racing for Innocence?” Viewpoints on the U.S. Supreme Court Fischer Case, Contexts, Fall 2013, pp. 20-22. “The Organization Man,” in Vicki Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Work, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013. “What’s on Your Bookshelf: Amy Wilkins’ Goths, Wannabes and Christians,” American Sociological Association Sociology of Emotions Newsletter, Fall 2012, p. 4. “A Feminist’s Work is Never Done: An Interview with sociologist Joan Acker,” Contexts, Spring 2012, pp. 8-10. “Race, Sex, Marriage, and the State: A Review Essay on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally,” Contemporary Sociology 41, 3 (May 2012), pp. 279-283. “The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project,” Social and Cultural Geography 13, 8 (2012) (with Kevin Murphy and Ryan Murphy). “Feminist Questions for Ethnographies of Work: A Review Essay on Miliann Kang’s The Managed Hand and Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt’s Stretched Thin, Contemporary Sociology 40, 4 (July 2011): 413-417. “From “Intellectual Sexism’ to ‘Inequality Regimes’: A Forum on the Scholarship of Joan Acker,” American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Newsletter, June 2010, page 2. "Paralegals." Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 2000. Burawoy's Manufacturing Consent. Contemporary Sociology, 30, 5 (September 2001): 435-441. "Selected Readings on Race, Class and Gender: A Bibliography," Explorations in Ethnic Studies 17, 1 (January 1994): 113-122. (Co-authored with Alberto Pulido) "Race, Class and Gender Syllabi." Chicano and Latino Studies in Sociology. American Sociological Association Publication, 1994 "Unheard Voices: Race, Class and Gender in Salt Lake City," (Spring 1993) Video Production for KUED TV, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Co-produced with Alberto Pulido and Kim Koch) "Is Sisterhood Global? A Review Essay," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 30 (1985): 151-161. (Co-authored with Karla Hackstaff). "Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Ambivalence and the Psychology of Good and Evil," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 33 (1988): 181-190 (Co-authored with Karla Hackstaff). Book Reviews: Mikael Holmqvist. Leader Communities: The Consecration of Elites in Djursholm. American Journal of Sociology 125, 2 (September 2019). Jamie Mullaney and Janet Shope. Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Sales, Gender & Society (August 2013). Anthony Chen. The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972. Contemporary Sociology, vol. 39, no. 3 (May 2010).

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Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn. The Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution. Contemporary Sociology, vol 33, no. 1 (January 2004). Rachel Buff. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992. Cultural Critique (Winter 2003). Ruth Milkman, editor. Organizing Immigrants and Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong. Voices from the Front Lines: Organizing Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles. Ethnography, 2, 2 (June 2001). Jacki Krasas Rogers. Temps: The Many Faces of Employment. Qualitative Sociology, 24, 4 (Winter 2001). Joyce Fletcher. Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice. American Journal of Sociology, (September 2000). Herbert Kritzer. Legal Advocacy: Lawyers and Non-Lawyers at Work. Contemporary Sociology, 29, 3 (May 2000). Melissa Herbert. Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military. Contemporary Sociology 29. 2 (March 2000). Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, editors. Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities. Contemporary Sociology, 28, 2 (March 1999). Chilla Bulbeck. Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diversity in a Postcolonial World. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 40, 2 (March 1999). Thomas Scheff. Emotions, the Social Bond and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis. Symbolic Interaction, 22,1 (January 1999). Jerry Van Hoy. Franchise Law Firms and the Transformation of Personal Legal Services. Contemporary Sociology, 27, 5 (September 1998). Martha McMahon. Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-Transformation in Women's Lives. Contemporary Sociology 26, 1 (January 1997). Helena Znaniecka Lopata. Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women. Social Forces 74 (December 1995). Anthony Elliott. Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: From Freud to Kristeva. Contemporary Sociology 23, 5 (September 1994). Gregory Matoesian. Reproducing Rape: Domination Through Talk in the Courtroom. The Law and Politics Book Review 4, 2 (February 1994). Michael Lerner. Surplus Powerlessness: The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life and Social Transformation. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 33 (1988). Carol Gilligan. In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 28 (1983). Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 27 (1982). Manuscripts Under Contract, Under Review, or in Progress: Book Review of Donileen Loseke’s Narrative Productions of Meanings: Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life in Contemporary Sociology (forthcoming) “Affirmative Action,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism edited by John Solomos (forthcoming) Working in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women’s Movement, and the New Economy (book length project in progress)

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PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Refereed Presentations: October 2015. “Anti-Racism in a Clerical Union,” Misery at Work: Racism and Other Inequities, American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada (accepted). August 2015. “Debt and Theft: Financialization and Precarious Employment for University Staff,” The Changing World of Work in the 21st Century, American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois (accepted). November 2014. “Theory as a Common Language,” Panel on The Core of the Field, American Studies Association, Los Angeles, California. October 2014, “Clerical Workers and Labor Struggles for Gender and Racial Equity, 1968-1980” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan. August 2014. “Working in the Ivory Basement: Precarious Employment for Staff Under Neoliberal Reform,” Panel on Gender and Economic Inequality, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. February 2014. “Working in the Ivory Basement: Labor Struggles for Gender and Racial Equality in a Public University, 1967 – 1978, Panel on Integration in the Workplace, Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland. November 2013. “Working in the Ivory Basement: Precarious Employment for Non-Academic Staff in an Era of Neoliberal Reform,” Indebted to Difference Panel, American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. August 2013. “Working in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women’s Movement, and the New Economy,” Panel on Expanding the Boundaries of the US Labor Movement, American Sociological Association, New York City, New York. April 2012. “Racing for Innocence: White Male Lawyers’ Narratives of Disavowal and Racial Exclusion,” Panel on Neoliberalism in American Workplaces, American Ethnological Association, New York City, New York. February 2012. “Untold Stories: Silence in a Study of Elite White Racism,” Panel on Untold Stories: Silences and Other Dilemmas in Personal Narrative Research, Eastern Sociology Society Meeting, New York City, New York. November 2011. “Apprehending Silences about Gendered Racism Through Ethnography and Fiction,” Panel on Truth Telling and Stories Not Told, National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia. October 2011. “Narratives of White Male Innocence and Injury: The Politics of Cultural Memory in the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Panel on Transforming the Racial Order, American Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland. August 2011, “Narratives of White Male Innocence and Injury: The Politics of Cultural Memory,” Panel on Culture and Narrative, American Sociological Association, Las Vegas Nevada.

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August 2010. “Your Maria’s a real hot tamale:” Racialization, Sexualization, and Desexualization of Women Legal Workers,” Panel on Race, Class, and Gender, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia. November 2009. “Creating Solutions at Minnesota,” Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time, American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. August 2008. “Feminist Questions for the Sociology of Work,” Panel on the History of Industrial Sociology, American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts. November 2006. "Rethinking Feminist Waves: Life Histories of a Movement, 1964-2000," Panel on Second Wave Feminism, Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota (co-authored with Karla Erickson and Hokulani Aikau) August 2006. “Feminist Waves: Reflections on the Uneven Diffusion of Feminist Thought in the Academy,” Feminism and Academic Cultures, American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada (co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson) August 2005. “Making Trouble for the Binary between Second and Third Wave Feminism: Re-conceptualizing ‘Waves’ and ‘Generations,’” Panel on Feminist Theory: American Sociology Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson) August 2005. “Making Positionality Visible in Feminist Research: Some Methodological Lessons from Personal Narrative Analysis.” Panel on Feminist Methods. American Sociology Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (co-authored with M.J. Maynes) April 2005. “Making Trouble for the Binary between Second and Third Wave Feminism,” Panel on Disciplining Feminism and American Studies. Mid-America American Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota (co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson) August 2004. “Still Killing Mockingbirds: Popular Cultural Constructions of Race in Post Civil Rights America.” Panel on Race, Gender, and Black Popular Culture Since Brown vs. the Board of Education. American Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, California (co-authored with Wendy Leo Moore). August 2003. “Pink Collars and Dirty Aprons: The Feminization of Loyalty in the Service Sector.” Gender and Racial Inequalities at Work Panel. American Sociological Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (co-authored with Karla Erickson). June 2003. “Farewell to the Organization Man: Examining Worker Loyalty in Contemporary Service Work.” Gender, Work, and Organization Conference, University of Keele, England (co-authored with Karla Erickson). March 2003. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action.” Rethinking Geographies of Work Panel. American Association of Geography. New Orleans, Louisiana. June 2002. “Agency in Context: Personal Narratives and the Social Sciences.” Panel on Personal Narratives. Midwestern Qualitative Research Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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November 2001. "Agency, Personal Narratives, and Social Science History." Panel on Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences. Social Science History Association. Chicago, Illinois. (Co-authored with M.J. Maynes and Barbara Laslett.) November 2001. "Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action: The Continuing Significance of Race and Gender in a Professional Workplace." Panel on Engendering Counterpublics. American Studies Association. Washington, D.C. August 2001. "'Not Committed?' or 'Not Qualified?': A Raced and Gendered Organizational Logic." Panel on Affirmative Action. American Sociological Association. Anaheim, California. June 2001. "How Race and Gender Shape Employers Attitudes Toward Women and Men at Work." Conference on Rethinking Gender in Organizations. University of Keele, Keele, England. April 2001. "How Race Complicates a Gendered Organizational Perspective." Gender and Work Panel in Honor of the Work of Patricia Yancey Martin. Southern Sociology Society Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia. October 2000. "Race, Corporate Culture, and Affirmative Action." Personal Narratives on Affirmative Action. American Studies Association Meetings, Detroit, Michigan. August 2000. "Whiteness, Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action," Panel on White Privilege, American Sociological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. January 2000. "Racing for Innocence," Panel on Race and Racism, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction's Annual Stone Symposium, St. Petersburg, Florida. August 1998. "Freud's Psychology(ies) of Women: From Social Constructionism to Biological Determinism," Feminist Theory Panel, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. March 1998. "Collaborating Across Three Feminist Generations: The Personal Narratives Project," The Problems and Pitfalls of Collaboration, Eastern Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 1998. "Are You My Paralegal, or Are You My Mother? Gender and Emotional Labor in Large Law Firms," Emotional Labor Panel, Eastern Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 1997. "Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives: Closing the Macro-Micro Divide," Feminist Theory and the Uses of Narrative, American Sociological Association, Toronto, Ontario. (Co-authored with Barbara Laslett and M.J. Maynes). June 1997. "An Ethnographer Inside Law Firms: Insider, Outsider, Outsider Within," Multiple Roles in Research, Qualitative Research Conference, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. April 1997. "Women Legal Workers: Relational or Strategically Friendly Actors?" Women and Work, Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California.

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August 1996. "Large Law Firms as Gendered Organizations," Gendered Organizations, American Sociological Association, New York, New York. April 1996. "Gender and Emotions in the Labor Process," Women and Work, Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington. August 1995. "Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms," Gender and Emotions, American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 1995. November 1994. "Women in Law: Still Outsiders Within," Marginality in American Institutions, Canadian American Studies Meeting, Ottawa, Canada. April 1994. "Reflections on Fieldwork in a Complex Organization," Sociology of Emotions, Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. August 1994. "Emotional Labor in a Male-Dominated Profession: Gamesmanship and Trial Lawyers," Gender and Emotions, American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California. April 1994. "Reproducing Gender Relations in Law Firms: Paralegals and Emotional Labor," Status in Occupations and Professions, Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California. March 1994. "Reconsidering Kanter's Tokenism Thesis: The Experiences of Male and Female Paralegals," Gender and the Professions, Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland. August 1993. "The Dilemma of Ethnographic Authority and the Role of the Sociologist," Qualitative Methods Panel, American Sociological Association, Miami Beach, Florida. April 1993. "From Scholarship Girls to Scholarship Women: Race, Class and Gender in Graduate Education," Working-Class Voices, National Association of Ethnic Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1993. (Co-presented with Gloria Cuadraz). August 1992. "A New Look at the Insider/Outsider Debate," Qualitative Methods Panel, American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. January 1990. "Gender, Paralegals and the `Tyranny of Niceness:' The Double Bind Emotional Labor Poses for Women Workers," Panel on Gender and Emotion, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Stone Symposium, St. Petersburg, Florida. Invited Presentations: September 2014. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Department of American Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. September 2014. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Sociology Department Seminar Series, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. May 2014. “Myths and Realities About Affirmative Action,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Southdale Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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April 2014. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Race and Ethnic Studies Institute Colloquia Series, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. February 2014. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Keynote Address, Mid-America American Studies Association, Lincoln, Nebraska. September 2013. “Myths and Realities about Affirmative Action,” Office of Public Engagement, Constitution Day Event, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 2012. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Politics, Sexuality Gender Colloquia Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. November 2012. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Gender and Women’s Studies Colloquia Series, Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa. September 2012. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Sociology Department Workshop Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 2011. “Apprehending Silences about “White Male Innocence” through Ethnography and Fiction,” Gender and History Across Epistemologies Workshop, University of Minnesota. April 2011. Respondent. Author Meets Critic Session for Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project Collective, Queer Twin Cities, American Geographical Association Meetings in Seattle, Washington. March 2011. Panelist, “Queer Twin Cities: Methodological Issues.” Department of Gender Women and Sexuality Studies Workshop, University of Minnesota. November 2009. Respondent. Author Meets Critics Session for M.J. Maynes, Jennifer Pierce, and Barbara Laslett’s Telling Stories: The Uses of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History, Social Science History Association, Long Beach, California. October 2006. “Women, Affirmative Action, and the Rhetoric of the Glass Ceiling.” Frontiers in Qualitative Sociology Conference, Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California. May 2006. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, American Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy. September 2003. “Working in the Ivory Basement: The Invisibility of Clerical Workers at the University,” Strike Support Committee Teach-In, West Bank Auditorium, University of Minnesota. August 2003. Panelist. Teaching Gender and Work: A Pedagogical Workshop. American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

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August 2003. Panelist. Author Meets Critics Session for Evelyn Nakano Glenn’s Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Have Shaped American Citizenship. American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia. May 2003. Panelist. “Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations,” Humanities Institute Fellows Speaker Series, University of Minnesota. April 2003. “Feminist Methodologies in the Social Sciences,” Workshop on Socio-Legal Methodology, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain. April 2003. Panelist. “Affirmative Action: Questions and Answers,” Sponsored by the Black Undergraduate Association, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 2003. Panelist. “Who Really Stole Feminism? Neoconservatives and the Appropriation of Feminism,” Women’s Law Student Association Speaker Series, Law School, University of Minnesota. November 2002. Panelist. “Affirmative Action and Faculty Searches.” Faculty of Color Initiative Speaker Series. University of Minnesota. December 2002. Panelist. “Affirmative Action and Graduate Student Admissions.” Faculty of Color Initiative Speaker Series. University of Minnesota. September 2002. “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action.” Sociology Department Colloquia Series, University of California at Berkeley. February 2000. "Whiteness, Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action." Grinnell College, Wilson Lecture Series, Grinnell, Iowa. August 2000. "Re-Examining Michael Burawoy's Manufacturing Consent." Labor Studies Panel. Society for the Study of Social Problems Meetings, Washington, D.C. October 1999. "Is There Still a Glass Ceiling for Women in Law?" Law School, University of Minnesota. December 1999. "'Racing for Innocence': Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action." Brown Bag Series, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota December 1998. "Feminist Theory and Sociology: The Missing Feminist Revolution?" Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California. November. 1998. "Ethnographic Authority, Feminist Methods and Fieldwork," Department of Sociology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. April 1998. Panelist. Author Meets Critics for Arlene Stein's Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation, Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. April 1998. Panelist. Author Meets Critics Session for Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms, Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.

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April 1998. "Gender Trials in Law Firms, or `Are you my Mother (or my paralegal)?'" Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Department of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. March 1998. Panelist. “The Illegitimacy of Teaching Law as Color-Blind.” National Lawyers' Guild Panel, University of Minnesota Law School. February 1998. "Are You My Paralegal, or Are You My Mother?" Center for Research on Social Organizations, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. January 1998. "Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms," Intellectual Life Colloquia Series, California State University, San Bernadino, California. January 1997. "Feminist Ethnographies," Feminist Research Methods Workshop Series, sponsored by Center on Women and Public Policy and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota. November 1996. "Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms," Law School Women in the Profession Colloquia Series, University of Minnesota. October 1995. "Communities on the Margins: `Gentiles' in the Land of Zion," McKnight Summer Fellows Colloquia Series, University of Minnesota. September 1995. "Gender and Emotions in the Labor Process," Department of Sociology Colloquia Series, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California. August 1994. Panelist. “Surviving as an Assistant Professor,” Sociologists for Women in Society, Los Angeles, California. April 1994. "Reflections on Fieldwork in Law Firms," Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota. Other Conference Participation: October 2018. Chair and Comment, Teaching Ethnography in American Studies, American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia. October 2015. Organizer, Misery and Resistance and the Great Recession, American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada. October 2015. Organizer, Misery at Work: Racism and Other Inequities, American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada. October 2015, Organizer, Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory, a documentary by Orlando DeGuzman, American Studies Association, Toronto Canada. October 214. Panelist, Author Meets Critics Session on Kathi Week’s The Problem of Work, North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan. June 2014. Discussant, Family Law Workshop, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, England.

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August 2012. Organizer and Discussant, Panel on Narrative, Culture, and Biography, American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado. February 2012. Organizer, Panel on Untold Stories: Silences and Other Dilemmas in Personal Narrative Research, Eastern Sociology Society Meeting, New York City. October 2011. Organizer, Transforming the Racial Order, American Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland. August 2011. Organizer. From “Intellectual Sexism” to “Inequality Regimes”: A Forum on the Scholarship of Joan Acker, American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, panel accepted. August 2008. Organizer. Managed Hearts and Second Shifts: The Contributions of Arlie Hochschild’s Scholarship to the Many Worlds of Work, American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts. August 2007. Organizer. Feminist Thought. American Sociological Association, New York City, New York. August 2007. Organizer. The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Academy. American Sociological Association, New York City, New York. March 2007. Chair. Complicating the Culture Wars: Struggles over Children, Families, Religion, and Pornography in the Twin Cities in the Late Twentieth Century, Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, Minnesota. August 2006. Chair. The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in the Academy. American Sociological Association, Montreal Canada. June 2005. Chair. Work, Motherhood and “Opting Out.” The Berkshires Women’s History Conference, Claremont, California. April 2005. Chair. Panel on Representations in American Studies. Mid-America American Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota. August 2004. Organizer. Author Meets Critics Session for Elizabeth Higginbotham’s Too Much To Ask: Black Women in an Era of Integration. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. April 2004. Discussant. Gender in an International Context. MacArthur Gender Network Consortium Workshop, University of Minnesota. May 2003. Organizer. Gender, Migration and Global Change: Feminist Perspectives on the Political and Cultural Economy of Immigration, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Summer Institute, McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota. April 2003. Organizer. Center for Advanced Feminist Studies 20th Anniversary: Feminist Generations at the University of Minnesota. McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota.

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April 2003. Discussant. Gender and Identities. MacArthur Gender Network Consortium Workshop, University of Minnesota. June 2002. Organizer. Engendering Service Work in Local and Global Contexts. SASE Conference on Work and Labor in the Global Economy, Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 2002. Organizer. Gender and Service Work in Local and Global Contexts. Berkshires Women's History Conference. Storrs, Connecticut. August 2000. Organizer. Author Meets Critics Session for Barbara Laslett and Barrie Thorne's Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Social Movement. American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. August 2000. Organizer. Gender and Emotional Labor Panel. Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Meetings, Washington, D.C. February 1999. Discussant. Gender, Globalization and Identities. MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program for Peace and International Cooperation, Gender Network Consortium, University of Minnesota. August 1999. Discussant. Sociology of Emotions. American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois. August 1999. Discussant. Feminist Theory. American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois. August 1998. Discussant, Emotion Management. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. August 1998. Organizer, Emotions in Local and Global Contexts. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. November 1997. Discussant, Gender, Globalization and Identities. MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program for Peace and International Cooperation, Gender Network Consortium, University of Minnesota. August 1998. Organizer, Sociology of Emotions Panel, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. August 1997. Organizer, Gender and Work Panel, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, Ontario. November 1997. Discussant, Identities and Social Power. MacArthur Consortium Gender in an International Context Mini-Conference, University of Minnesota. August 1997. Discussant, Gender and Work. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, Ontario. August 1997. Chair. The Social Construction of Gender. American Sociological Association, Toronto, Ontario.

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May 1997. Discussant. Gender, Globalization and Culture. MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program for Peace and International Cooperation, Gender Network Consortium, University of Minnesota. April 1997. Discussant. Diversity in Contemporary Families, Conference on Mothering: Diverse Families, Diverse Theories. Women's Studies Program, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. April 1996. Organizer, two panels on Gender and Work, Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington. August 1995. Discussant, Conversational Analysis. American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. October 1994. Discussant. Challenging Conceptions of Gender and National Security, Culture and the Production of Security and Insecurity in the International System, Social Science Research Council - MacArthur Workshop, University of Minnesota. April 1994. Discussant. Feminist Pedagogy and Multiculturalism. Teaching, Writing, Thinking Social Justice, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Conference, University of Minnesota. April 1993. Conference Co-Chair and Organizer. National Association of Ethnic Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1992-1993. August 1992. Discussant. Job Inequality at Work. American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. June 1992. Discussant. Feminist Theory in Transition. National Women's Studies Association, Austin, Texas. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate: American Race Relations America in International Perspective American Studies Senior Proseminar I & II Chasing the American Dream Feminist Theory Gender In Pursuit of Fairness: The History of Affirmative Action in 20th Century America Race, Class and Gender Sociology of Gender Sociology Senior Thesis Honors Proseminar Sociological Theory Workers and Consumers in the Global Economy Graduate: American Studies Research Practicum: Ethnographic Methods American Studies Teaching Practicum Contemporary Sociological Theory Feminist Theory and Method Sociology of Gender Personal Narratives in Interdisciplinary Research

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Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Sociological Research Practicum: Field Research Methods Theoretical Foundations in American Studies Working in the Global Economy SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Memberships: American Sociological Association American Studies Association International Socio-Legal Studies National Women’s Studies Association Social Science History Association Sociologists for Women in Society Elected Offices and Other Positions: Committee Chair, American Studies Program Committee, 2014-2015 Chair, American Sociological Association, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Selection Committee, 2012-2013 Member, American Sociological Association, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Selection Committee, 2011-2012 Member, Recent Contribution Award Committee, American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section, 2010-2011 Member, Minnesota History Award Committee, Minnesota Historical Society, 2010 Chair, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association, 2006-2007 Chair-Elect, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association, 2005-2006 Chair, Lora Romero Distinguished Book Award, American Studies Association, 2005-2006 Chair, Distinguished Book Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, Organization, Occupations and Work Section, 2004 Member, Distinguished Book Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section, 2003 Member, Distinguished Lectureship Selection Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2001-2003 Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section, 2001-2002 Chair, Distinguished Article Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section, 2001 Council, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section, 1998-2001 Secretary/Treasurer, American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section, 1997 - 1999 Member, Outstanding Book Award Selection Committee, Sociology of Emotions Section, American Sociological Association, 2000 Member, Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Sociology of Emotions Section, American Sociological Association, 1996. Chair, Sallie Hacker Dissertation Award Committee, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association, 1995-1997. Member, Teaching Committee, Sociology of Emotions Section, American Sociological Association, 1994-95. Council, Pacific Sociological Association, 1999-2001 Member, Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1992-1993.

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Editorial Experience: Editorial Board Member: American Studies: Eurasian Perspectives 2014 – present; Contemporary Sociology 2000-2004; 2009-2011; Gender & Society 2001-2004; Equal Employment Opportunity International 2006-2009; Qualitative Sociology 1998-present; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1993-1995. Faculty consultant: Feminist Studies, 2000-present. Special Issue Editor: Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Special Issue on Race, Class and Gender, January 1994; Feminist Legal Studies, Special Issue on Personal Narratives, Social Justice and the Law, December 2013; Qualitative Sociology, Special Issue on Personal Narratives, Fall 2003. External Reviewer for University of California Press, Duke University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Temple University Press, University of Washington Press, and Westview Occasional Referee for American Sociological Review, Contemporary Journal of Ethnography, Cultural Critique, Equal Employment Opportunity International, Feminist Studies, Gender & Society, Gender, Work and Organizations, Journal of Women’s History, Oral History Review, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science History Review, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives, Symbolic Interaction, Qualitative Sociology, Symbolic Interaction, Women’s Studies International Forum, University of Toronto Law Journal, and Work and Occupations. University Service Presidential Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, 2015-2018 University Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, 2013-2014 Committee on the Press, University of Minnesota Press: Faculty Chair, 2003-2005; Fall 2006- 2007 Committee on the Press, University of Minnesota Press: Editorial Board Member, 1999 - 2003 Language, Literature, and Arts Policy and Review Council: Member 2000-2002 University of Minnesota Student Fees Committee: Member 1999-2000 College of Liberal Arts CLA Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Review Committee, 2019 Critical Disability Studies Collaborative, 2017-2019 Talle Faculty Research Awards Committee, 2017-2018 Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2014-2015 Course Approval Committee: Member 2006-2009 Community of Scholars Program Summer Mentor, 2002 GLBT Oral History Project, Advisory Board, 2005-present Honors Representative for American Studies, 2006-2010, 2017-2018 Individualized Degree Programs Committee, 2009-2010 MacArthur Interdisciplinary Center for Global Studies, Associate Faculty, 1995 - 2006 MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program for Peace and International Cooperation: Member of MacArthur Scholar Selection Committee, 1996-1997 MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program for Peace and International Cooperation: Chair, Fieldwork Pre-Dissertation Grant Selection Committee, 1996-1997 MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program for Peace and International Cooperation: Member, Gender Network Consortium, 1995-2004 MacArthur Summer Pipeline Program Mentor for Students of Color, 1997, 1999, 2001 Responsible Conduct of Research Committee: Member 2002-2003 Student Academic Affairs Committee, 2006-2009

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American Studies Department Chair, Faculty Search Committee (U.S. Popular Culture), 2013-2014 Graduate Awards Committee, 2006-present Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2006-2010, 2017-2018 Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2006 - 2010 Chair, Faculty Search Committee (Asian American Studies/American Indian Studies), 2004-2005 Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2003-2004; 2007-2008; 2010-2011; 2015-2016 Member, Grievance Committee, 2003-2004 Chair, Faculty Search Committee (Critical Race Theory), 1999-2000 Director of Graduate Studies, Spring 1999-2002; 2014-2015; 2016-2017; 2018-2020 Chair, Awards Committee, Spring 1999-2002 Chair, Graduate Studies, Spring 2000-2002 Member, Awards Committee, 2002-2003 Executive Committee, 1997-1998; 2016-2018 Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Director, 2002- 2004 Steering Committee, 1993-1995; 2000-2004 Director Search Committee, 2000-2001 Chicano Studies Department Faculty Search Committee, 2000-2001 History Department Faculty Search Committee (19th and 20th Century US History), 2001-2002 Schochet Center for the Study of Sexuality Advisory Board, 2000-2002 Department of Sociology Awards Committee, 1996-1997 Faculty Search Committee, 1995-1996; 1994-1995 Undergraduate Committee, 1995-1997; 1993-1994; 1997-1998 Graduate Qualifying Review Committee, 1995; 1997-1998 Graduate Affairs Committee, 1997-1998 Sociology Research Institute Committee, 1993-1994 Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department Ph.D. Program Proposal Committee, 1996-1997 Personnel Committee, 1994-1995 Faculty Search Committee, 1997-1998 Languages: French (reading fluency)

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