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  • Orville Lee

    Chair and Associate Professor, Culture and Media

    Email
    leeo@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    B - 65 West 11th Street

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    Orville Lee

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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

    • 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.

    Portfolio

    Courses @ Lang and NSSR

    Future Courses

    Critique as Form
    LCST 3790, Fall 2025

    Heterodox Identities
    LCST 3047, Spring 2026

    Ind Senior Project
    LSOC 4990, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Independent Senior Project
    LCST 4990, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    LSOC 3950, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    LCST 3950, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Symbolic Struggles
    LCST 4070, Fall 2025

    The Literary Object
    LCST 3715, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Heterodox Identities
    LCST 3047, Spring 2025

    Ind Senior Project
    LSOC 4990, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Independent Senior Project
    LCST 4990, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LSOC 3950, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LCST 3950, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Symbolic Struggles
    LCST 4070, Fall 2024

    The Literary Object
    LCST 3715, Spring 2025

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