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"The eyes of others our prisons; the thoughts of others our cages." -- V. Woolf 

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Degrees Held

PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley;
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley;
AB, History, Washington University

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Professional Affiliation

• American Sociological Association
• Modern Language Association

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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

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Research Interests

Cultural theory, critical theory, knowledge, aesthetics, Bourdieu

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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.

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Current Courses

Critique as Form

Critique as Form (Spring 2019)

Heterodox Identities

Ind Senior Project

Ind Senior Project (Spring 2019)

Independent Senior Project

Independent Senior Project (Spring 2019)

Independent Study

Independent Study (Spring 2019)

Symbolic Struggles

The Literary Object

The Literary Object (Spring 2019)