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Orville Lee

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

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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Current Courses

Future Courses

  • Heterodox Identities
    LCST 3047 - Spring 2027
  • Psychoanalysis
    LCST 3519 - Spring 2027
  • The Literary Object
    LCST 3715 - Spring 2027
  • Independent Study
    LCST 3950 - Spring 2027
  • Independent Senior Project
    LCST 4990 - Spring 2027
  • Independent Study
    LSOC 3950 - Spring 2027
  • Ind Senior Project
    LSOC 4990 - Spring 2027

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