Orville Lee
Associate Professor of Culture and Media
Email
leeo@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - 65 West 11th Street
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"The eyes of others our prisons; the thoughts of others our cages." -- V. Woolf
Degrees Held
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley;
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley;
AB, History, Washington University
Professional Affiliation
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American Sociological Association
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Modern Language Association
Recent Publications
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Desire for Race (Cambridge University Press, November 2008)
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“Race After the Cultural Turn” in Mark Jacobs and Nancy Hanrahan eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, 2004
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Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society,” Law & Social Inquiry 26, 2001
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“Classifying Acts: State Speech, Race, and Democracy,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory8, 2001
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“The Constitution of Meaning: On the Practical Conditions of Social Understanding,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 20, 2000
Research Interests
Cultural theory, critical theory, knowledge, aesthetics, Bourdieu
Awards And Honors
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Distinguished University Teaching Award. The New School. 2004
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Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article. 1999. Awarded by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association for “Culture and Democratic Theory: Toward a Theory of Symbolic Democracy,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 5, 4 (December 1998): 433-455.
Portfolio
Courses @ Lang and NSSR
Current Courses
Ind Senior Project
LSOC 4990, Spring 2024
Independent Senior Project
LCST 4990, Spring 2024
Independent Study
LCST 3950, Spring 2024
Independent Study
LSOC 3950, Spring 2024
Future Courses
Heterodox Identities
LCST 3047, Fall 2024
Ind Senior Project
LSOC 4990, Fall 2024
Independent Senior Project
LCST 4990, Fall 2024
Independent Study
LCST 3950, Fall 2024
Independent Study
LSOC 3950, Fall 2024
Symbolic Struggles
LCST 4070, Fall 2024
Past Courses
Ind Senior Project
LSOC 4990, Fall 2023
Independent Senior Project
LCST 4990, Fall 2023
Independent Study
LSOC 3950, Fall 2023
Independent Study
LCST 3950, Fall 2023