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I am Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. My teaching and research focuses on the emotional cultures of capitalism, particularly how trends in work and inequality affect intimacy and selfhood. In 2015 I published The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity, a study on the broader impacts of job precariousness. An edited volume on how job insecurity affects intimate life in many different contexts, entitled Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy and the Flexible Self, came out in November 2016. I also write about methods, in particular what is worthwhile about in-depth interviewing.
My first book, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (University of California Press, 2009), is about how children and parents manage the commercialization of childhood. It won the 2010 William J. Goode award for the best book in the Sociology of the Family, and the 2010 Distinguished Contribution from the American Sociological Association's (ASA) section on children and youth. See here an article about how taking children seriously can contribute to mainstream social theory. In 2016-17 I was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, as well as a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. I have taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and served as the Marie Jahoda Visiting Professor for International Gender Studies at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Sociological Association, the Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities and the Bankard Fund for Political Economy. See here and here for media coverage of my work in the New York Times, the Atlantic, The Washington Post, and other outlets. |
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