Elizabeth Bernstein,
Assistant Professor - Milbank 332B; 854-3039
Elizabeth Bernstein’s research and
teaching focus upon the sociology of gender and sexuality; the sociology
of law; and contemporary social theory. She is co-editor of Regulating
Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Routledge 2005), and author
of Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex
(University of Chicago Press 2007). Her current research explores the
convergence of feminist, neoliberal, and evangelical Christian interests
in the shaping of contemporary U.S. policies around the traffic in
women.
Peter Levin, Assistant
Professor - Milbank 331; 854-2868
Professor Levin's research spans
organizations, economic sociology, and gender. His most recent work is
an ethnographic comparison of futures traders in two institutional
contexts: face-to-face or "open outcry" and screen-based electronic
trading. His next project attempts to understand how value is made in
markets, through an investigation of appraisers of fine arts. He is also
affiliated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and
Policy. On leave 2007-2008.
Debra C. Minkoff,
Professor - Milbank 332D; 854-2279
Professor Minkoff's general areas
of interest include social movements, political sociology, and
organizational theory and research. She is most directly concerned with
the relationship between the development of contemporary citizens
organizations and social movement dynamics at the national level in the
U.S. Professor Minkoff teaches courses on social movement, political
sociology, and general methods of social research.
Jacqueline R. Olvera, Term Assistant Professor -
Milbank 332A; 854-3663
Jaqueline Olvera
received her B.A. in Political Science from the
University of Illinois-Chicago, holds an M.S. in Public
Management and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University,
and received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford
University. Her current research explores
inter-ethnic relations between Mexican migrants and
Puerto Ricans in new destination cities. She is
also conducting a study of marriage and cohabitation
among native and foreign born Latinos using dyadic
analytic techniques. Among the awards she has
received are: the Ford Foundation Poverty Research
and Training Postdoctoral Fellowship(2000-2003),
Visiting Scholar Award at the Institute for Research on
Poverty (2004), and a grant to visit the Center for
Spatially Integrated Social Science at the University of
California Santa Barbara (2006). She has taught at
Connecticut College, University of Michigan, and
Stanford University. At Barnard she will be
teaching Introduction to Sociology, Communities and
Social Change, as well as courses on immigration and
poverty and public policy.
Jonathan Rieder, Professor -
Milbank 332C; 854-4359
Jonathan Rieder came to Barnard
from Yale in 1989 and served as chair of the Barnard Sociology
department from 1989 to 2004. His scholarly research spans the areas of
sociology of culture; race, pluralism and ethnicity in the United
States; and politics and language. The author of
Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism
and the editor of The Fractious Nation: Unity and
Division in Contemporary American Life, he is completing a book
on the social organization of moral argument that focuses on Martin
Luther King, Jr. as a crossover artist who defined a new vision of
citizenship as he shifted between performances of "white" and "black"
talk. Between 1995 and 2001, he was the founding Co-Editor of
CommonQuest: The Magazine of Black-Jewish Relations,
which won national acclaim for the fresh way it explored a broad array
of racial, ethnic and religious conflicts in the United States and
beyond. He has been a contributing editor of The New
Republic and is a regular contributor to the
New York Sunday Times Book Review. His teaching interests include
the sociology of culture; race, culture and identity; unity and division
in the United States; culture in contemporary America; politics and
culture; and sociology theory.
Affiliated Faculty (07-08)
Guobin Yang,
Associate Professor,
Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures - 321 Milbank;
854-9538
Professor Yang has a Ph.D.
in English
Literature (with a specialty in Literary Translation)
from Beijing Foreign Studies University (1993) and a
second Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University
(2000). His current research focuses on post-1949
Chinese politics, society, and culture. On leave
2007-2008.
Gregory Smithsimon,
Assistant Professor,
Urban Studies - Lehman; 854 - 9253
Adjunct Faculty (07-08)
Michael Friedson
Adam Messinger
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