Iddo Tavory - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Director of Graduate Studies

Tavory, Iddo

Iddo Tavory

PhD, 2010, University of California, Los Angeles

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Director of Graduate Studies

Profile:

Iddo is interested in the ways in which interactions are patterned and how such patterns shape the way people experience themselves and the world around them. He is currently transforming an ethnography of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles into a book. He is also conducting research in Malawi, working on AIDS humor in everyday life, as well as the careers of NGO volunteers in comparative perspective. Drawing on observations in these fieldsites, he has also written about the logic of qualitative methods and more theoretical accounts of morality, flirtation, and temporality in interaction.

Recent Publications:

• Forthcoming – "Coordinating Futures: Towards a Theory of Anticipation,”
American Journal of Sociology [with Nina Eliasoph]
• 2012 – "Theory Construction in Qualitative Research: From Grounded Theory
to Abductive Analysis,” Sociological Theory, 30(3): 167-186 [With Stefan
Timmermans]
• 2012 – "Experiential Careers: The Routinization and De-Routinization of Religious
Life." Theory and Society, 41(4): 351-373 [With Daniel Winchester]
• 2012 – "Sex Work and the Construction of Intimacies: Meanings and Work
Pragmatics in Rural Malawi." Theory and Society, 41(3): 211-231 [with Michelle
Poulin]
• 2011 – "The Question of Moral Action: A Formalist Position." Sociological Theory,
29(4): 272-293.
• 2010 – "Of Yarmulkes and Categories: Delegating Boundaries and the
Phenomenology of Interactional Expectation." Theory and Society, 39(1): 49-68.
• 2009 – "Condom Semiotics: Meaning and Condom Use in Rural Malawi." American
Sociological Review, 74(2): 171-189, [with Ann Swidler].
• 2009 – "The Structure of Flirtation: On the Construction of Interactional
Ambiguity." Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 33: 59-74, 2009.

Office Location:

6 East 16th Street, Room 1013

Office Hours:

Academic OH: Tuesday 12-4pm
Director of Graduate Studies OH: Tuesday 12-4pm

Phone Number/Extension:
212-229-5737 x3034

Email:
tavoryi@newschool.edu

Research Interests:

Sociology of Religion, Theory of Method in Ethnography, Temporality, Phenomenology and Interaction

CV (pdf):
Iddo Tavory CV

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