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.
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 (08-09)
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 |
