Faculty Publications

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Dr. Farshad Araghi and Philip McMichael. 2017. "What Was Postmodernity? Capitalism and Historical Crises of Modernity in Global Context: A World-Historical Analysis." Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations (Volume 36, No. 2)

rural poverty cover Dr. Mark Harvey published a chapter in the edited volume, Rural poverty in the USA, (J. Sherman, A. Tickamyer and J. Warlick, eds, Columbia University Press) in 2017 entitled 鈥淩acial inequalities and poverty in Rural America,鈥 which addresses the ongoing role of racism in the perpetuation of poverty among rural minorities.

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Dr. Phillip Hough co-edited a special issue Journal of Agrarian Change, with Jennifer Bair and Kevan Harris, called 鈥淐apitalist Development in Hostile Environments and Hostile Times鈥 that will be published in Spring 2019. Dr. Hough has two publications in this special issue. The first in the introductory essay (coauthored with Bair and Harris), 鈥淗ostile Environments and Hostile Times: Economic Growth, Social Welfare, and Trajectories of Development.鈥 The second is a solo-authored article, 鈥淭he Winding Paths of Peripheral Proletarianization: Local Labor, World Hegemonies, and Crisis in Rural Colombia.鈥

weighty problems cover Dr. Laura Backstrom published her first book entitled Weighty Problems: Embodied Inequality at a Children鈥檚 Weight Loss Camp (Rutgers University Press, 2019).听Many parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children.听Weighty Problems听details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.

city and community cover Dr. Carter Koppelman published 鈥溾楩or Now, We Are in Waiting鈥: Negotiating Time in Chile鈥檚 Social Housing System.鈥 City & Community 17(2) in 2018

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Dr. Philip Lewin published 鈥溾楥oal is not just a Job; It鈥檚 a Way of Life鈥: The Cultural Politics of Coal Production in Central Appalachia鈥 in Social Problems in 2017.

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Dr. Lotus Seeley published two articles recently. 鈥溾楢 Give Grief Kind of Guy鈥: Help-Seeking, Status, and the Experience of Helpers at a University IT Help Desk鈥 was published in听Symbolic Interaction in February 2019. This research examines how help-seeking for IT support services is a mundane process through which organizational status is reproduced. A second article, 鈥溾楽how Us Your Frilly Pink Underbelly鈥: Male Administrative Assistants Performing Masculinities and Femininity鈥 in Gender, Work, and Organizations was published in Summer 2018. This research examines how men administrative assistants do different forms of masculinity in order to deal with being in a 鈥渨omen鈥檚鈥 occupation, some that reproduce gender inequality but some that don鈥檛.

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Dr. Will McConnell鈥檚 latest article with co-author Emma Cohen, 鈥淔ear of Fraudulence: Graduate School 啵啵直播秀 Environments and the Impostor Phenomenon.鈥 will soon appear in The Sociological Quarterly. In 2017, he published 鈥淐ultural Guides, Cultural Critics: Distrust of Doctors and Social Support during Mental Health Treatment鈥 in Journal of Health and Social Behavior.听