Orville Lee

Associate Professor of Culture and Media

Email:

leeo@newschool.edu

Office Location:

Eugene Lang Building

Profile:

"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 Affiliations:

• American Sociological Association
• Modern Language Association

Recent Publications:

• Desire for Race (Cambridge University Press, November 2008)

•    “Race After the Cultural Turn” in Mark Jacobs and Nancy Hanrahan eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, 2004

•   Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society,” Law & Social Inquiry 26, 2001

•  “Classifying Acts: State Speech, Race, and Democracy,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory8, 2001
• “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:

• Distinguished University Teaching Award. The New School. 2004
• 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.