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I am Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. My teaching and research focuses on contemporary work and relationships, particularly the intertwining of culture, emotions, intimacy and economic life. I also write and speak to a wider audience; see here for a selection of pieces in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Aeon, The Harvard Business Review, and elsewhere.
For the 2019-2020 year, I am serving as a USC Berggruen Fellow in Los Angeles, writing a book about my latest research on the standardization of humane work. I started that project in 2016-17, when I was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and an American Council of Learned Societies fellow. See UVa's coverage of this research here. In May 2018, I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about shame, vulnerability and automated health care. In 2015 I published The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity (Oxford) 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 2016. My first book, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (University of California Press, 2009), analyzes how children and parents manage the commercialization of childhood. It won multiple awards and was widely reviewed. I also write about methods, in particular what is worthwhile about in-depth interviewing. I served as the Marie Jahoda Visiting Professor for International Gender Studies at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Sociological Association, and the Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities. 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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