Orville Lee
Associate Professor of Culture and Media
Email
leeo@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - Eugene Lang College Building - 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.