People
Lisa D. Brush, PhD
University of Wisconsin, 1993
Title: Associate Professor
Campus Address: 2425 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7595
E-mail: lbrush@pitt.edu
Web Page: www.pitt.edu/~lbrush/lbrush.html
Curriculum Vitae
Current position & affiliations
1994 to present Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
1994 Assistant Professor
2000 Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
Affiliations with Women's Studies Program, Cultural Studies Program, and University Center for Social and Urban Research
Education
1993 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1987 M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985 B.A. summa cum laude University Scholar in Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Book
2003 Gender and Governance. A book on states and social policies for the Gender Lens Series, AltaMira Press (Rowman and Littlefield). 160 pp.
Articles (since 1997)
peer reviewed
2006
*Lorraine Higgins and Lisa D. Brush. "Personal experience narrative and public debate: Writing the wrongs of welfare." College Composition and Communication. Vol. 57, no.4: 694-729.
2004
"Battering and the poverty trap." Journal of Poverty. Vol. 8, no. 3: 23-43.
2003
"Impacts of welfare reform." Race, Gender and Class. Vol. 10, no. 3: 137-192.
"The effects of work on hitting and hurting." Violence Against Women. Vol. 9, no. 10 (October): 1213-1230.
(with Jody Raphael and Richard Tolman) "Guest Editors' Introduction." Violence Against Women. Vol. 9, no. 10 (October): 1167-1170.
2002
"Work-related abuse: A replication, new items, and persistent questions." Violence and Victims. Vol. 17, no. 6 (December): 743-757.
"Changing the Subject: Gender and welfare regime studies." Social Politics. Vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer): 161-186. This "Forum: Signs, Subjects, and Welfare Regimes" also includes response essays by Tasleem Padamsee and Julia Adams (pp. 187-202) and Shelia Shaver (pp. 203-211).
2001
"Poverty, Battering, Race, and Welfare Reform: Black-White differences in women's welfare-to-work transitions." Journal of Poverty. Vol. 5, no. 1: 67-89.
2000
"Battering, traumatic stress, and welfare-to-work transition." Violence Against Women. Vol. 6, no. 10 (October): 1039-1065.
1999
"Woman battering and welfare reform: The view from a welfare-to-work program." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. Vol. XXVI, no. 3 (September): 49-60.
1997
"Worthy widows, welfare cheats: Gender in expert needs talk about single mothers in the United States, 1900-1988." Gender & Society. Vol. 11, no. 6 (December): 720-747.
"Harm, moralism, and the struggle for the soul of feminism." Violence Against Women. Vol. 3, no. 3 (June): 237-256.
Book chapters
2006
"Safety and self-sufficiency: Rhetoric and reality in the lives of welfare recipients." Pp. 183-192 in Keith Kilty and Elizabeth Segal (eds.), The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the Twenty-First Century (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press).
2003
"'That's why I'm on Prozac': Battered women, traumatic stress, and education in the context of welfare reform." Pp. 215-239 in Vivyan Adair and Sandra Dahlberg (eds.), Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press).
1999
"Gender, work, who cares?! Production, reproduction, deindustrialization, and business as usual." Pp. 161-189 in Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth Hess (eds.), Revisioning Gender (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications). This chapter has been selected for inclusion in the Person Custom Publishing Sociology Intersections Bookbuilding Kit.
Review essays
2005
"Philosophical and political issues in research on women's aggression and violence." Sex Roles. Vol. 52, nos. 11/12: 867-873.
2003
"Gender and the uses of history." Journal of Urban History 29:2 (January):216-225.
1996
"Love, toil, and trouble: Motherhood and feminist politics." Signs: A journal of women in culture and society 21:2(Winter):429-454.
1994
"The curious courtship of feminist state theory and feminist jurisprudence: Smart on the power of law." Law & Social Inquiry 19 (December):1059-1077.
Encyclopedia entries
2004
"The welfare state." In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor for ABC-Clio Press (Vol. 2, pp. 822-826).
"Battered husband syndrome." In Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson for ABC-Clio Press (Vol. 1, pp. 62-64).
Manuscripts under review
"What happens when abuse spills into work." Submitted July 2007 to Social Forces.
"The gender of ‘domestic' violence." Submitted July 2007 to American Sociological Review.
Technical reports & reviews
2007
Peer Technical Reviewer for NIJ solicitation 1705-110A Violence Against Women and Stalking.
Peer Reviewer for NSF proposal.
2006
Peer Technical Reviewer for NIJ solicitation 1703-130 Abuse of the Elderly, Older Women, and Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities.
Peer Reviewer for NSF proposal.
2005
Peer Technical Reviewer for NIJ solicitation 1703-149 Abuse of the Elderly, Older Women, and Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities.
Peer Technical Reviewer for NIJ solicitation 1703-124 Concept Papers.
2004
Peer Technical Review for Final Report for Grant No. DOJ/NIJ/2001-WT-BX-0002.
Peer Technical Review for Final Report for Grant No. DOJ/NIJ/2002-IJ-CX-0011.
2003
(with Lorraine Higgins and the assistance of Courtney Brown, Danielle Ficco, Lisa Huebner, and Jason Seiler) Final Technical Report for Grant No. DOJ/NIJ/00-WT-VX-0009.
Peer Technical Review for Final Report for Grant No. DOJ/NIJ/98-WT-VX-0020.
Categorical Progress Report No. 5 to National Institute of Justice.
Merit Review for National Science Foundation grant proposal # 0318024.
Peer Technical Review of Final Report for Grant No. DOJ/NIJ/98-WT-VX-0009.
Categorical Progress Report No. 4 to National Institute of Justice.
2002
Categorical Progress Report No. 3 to National Institute of Justice.
Peer Technical Review of Final Report for Grant No. DOJ/NIJ/99-WT-VX-0003.
Categorical Progress Report No. 2 to National Institute of Justice.
External Review for Research Challenge Fund (New York University).
2001
(with the assistance of Danielle Ficco) School, Work, Welfare, and Relationships: Retrospective Interviews with Work-First Enrollees.
Preliminary Report no. 3 from the Family Violence and Self-Sufficiency Project.
Categorical Progress Report No. 1 to National Institute of Justice.
External Review for Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women's Health (University of Connecticut).
1998
Family Violence and Control as Obstacles to Self-Sufficiency: Perceptions of Employment Training Providers in Allegheny County.
Final Report no. 1 from the Family Violence and Self-Sufficiency Project.
Family Violence and Control as Obstacles to Self-Sufficiency: Perceptions of Rapid Attachment Participants in Allegheny County.
Final Report no. 2 from the Family Violence and Self-Sufficiency Project.
Research funding, honors, & awards
2006 New Person Award for activist research from the Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh.
1998-present Family Violence and Self-Sufficiency Project. Principal Investigator for research assessing family violence as an obstacle to job training and welfare-to-work transition for women in Allegheny County.
In preparation for submission October 2007: Department of Health and Human Services: Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences ($297,000). "The costs of IPV victimization and perpetration." R21 exploratory grant to test models of victimization and perpetration and sex differences.
Submitted February 2007: Department of Health and Human Services: Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences ($297,000). "Dose-response models of IPV victimization and perpetration." R21 exploratory grant to test dose-response models of victimization and perpetration and sex differences. No award.
Submitted November 2006: Department of Health and Human Services: Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences ($148,500). "Dose-response effects of IPV victimization on women's earnings." R03 small grant to test the dose-response effects of filing a protective order on women's earnings. No award.
Submitted 9/28/05: Department of Health and Human Services: Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences ($148,500). "Counterfactual causal analysis of data on battering, work, and welfare." R03 small grant to analyze longitudinal, observational data on battering, work, and welfare. No award. Revised using summary comments as R03 immediately above.
Steven Manners Faculty Development Award ($6,000). "Battering, Work, and Welfare." Small grant for 2003-2004 toward payment for administrative data from Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. No-cost extension granted June 2004.
(with Lorraine Higgins, English) Small grant from Women's Studies Faculty Research Fund for 2001-2002 ($1,050). "Getting by, looking ahead: A narrative inquiry into battering and waged work."
Research grant from National Institute of Justice ($234,000). September 2000 to August 2002. "Qualitative research on battering and welfare-to-work transition." Lorraine Higgins is collaborator on Community Literacy Project segment. No-cost extension through August 2003.
Small grant from University Research Council Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh ($13,891). July 2000 to June 2002. "Analysis of administrative data on battering, welfare, and work." No-cost extension through June 2003.
Small grant from University Research Council Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh ($12,500). Supported Graduate Student Researcher from September 1998 through April 1999.
Type II research expenses grant from FAS, University of Pittsburgh ($1,000). Summer 1998.
Small grant to cover respondent compensation costs from University Center for Social and Urban Research ($1,200). Summer 1998.
Junior Faculty Research Leave from Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Spring Semester 1998.
1997 Type I summer research stipend from FAS, University of Pittsburgh ($3,500).
1996 Travel and expense fellowship, Pittsburgh-Augsburg Exchange Program, University Center for International Studies. Summer.
1994 Warren Weaver Postdoctoral Fellow, Equal Opportunities Division, Rockefeller Foundation
1992 Family Policy Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992 Sally Hacker Dissertation Paper Award, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association.
1991-1992 Dissertation Fellow, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1986-1989 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.
1985-1986 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Graduate Fellow.
Book reviews (since 2000)
For Choice
Forthcoming. TK Logan et al. Partner stalking: How women respond, cope, and survive. Springer, 2006.
April 2007. Paula K. Lundberg-Love and Shelly L. Marmion (eds.). "Intimate" violence against women: When spouses, partners, or lovers attack. Praeger, 2006.
January 2007. Andrea Parrot and Nina Cummings. Forsaken females: The global brutalization of women. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
April 2005. Christine Alder and Anne Worrall (eds.). Girls' violence: Myths and realities. SUNY Press, 2004.
December 2004. Edward O. Laumann, Stephen Ellingson, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, and Yoosik Youm (eds.). The sexual organization of the city. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
May 2004. Adrien Katherine Wing (ed.). Critical race feminism: A reader. NYU Press, 2003.
July 2003. Amanda Goldrick-Jones. Men who believe in feminism. Praeger, 2002.
April 2003. Judith Ezekiel. Feminism in the heartland. Ohio State University Press, 2002.
September 2002. William M. Epstein. American policy making: Welfare as ritual. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
July 2002. Elisabeth Armstrong. The retreat from organization: U.S. feminism reconceptualized. State University of New York Press, 2002.
February 2002. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. Globalization unmasked: imperialism in the 21st century. Zed Books, 2001.
October 2001. Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, and Raquel Kennedy Bergen (editors). Sourcebook on violence against women. Sage, 2001.
July 2001. Maxine Molyneux. Women's movements in international perspective: Latin America and beyond. Palgrave, 2001.
May 2001. Susan A. Glenn. Female spectacle: The theatrical roots of modern feminism. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Other book reviews
Review of Margaret K. Nelson, The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America and Jane Juffer, Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual for Gender & Society.
Review of Felicia Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America for Journal of American History (2007): forthcoming.
Review of Adele Stein, Shameless: Sexual dissidence in American culture for Sex Roles (2007): 10.1007/s11199-007-9254-9.
Review of Judith Lorber, Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and feminist change for Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 35(3) (2006): 246-247.
Review of Caitlin Kelly, Blown away: American women and guns for Violence Against Women, Vol. 11(9) (September 2005): 1222-1225.
Review of Ann Porter, Gendered states: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the political economy of the welfare state in Canada, 1945-1997 for Social Services Review (December 2004): 683-685.
Review of Janeen Baxter and Mark Western, Reconfigurations of class and gender for Social Forces, Vol. 81(3) (March 2003): 1071-1072.
Review of Rhonda Hammer, Anti-feminism and family terrorism: A critical feminist perspective for American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 107 (September 2002): 512-514.
Review of Julia O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff, and Sheila Shaver, States, families, markets: Gender, liberalism, and social policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States for American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105 Issue 4 (January 2000): 1230-1231.
Professional experience (since 1996)
2007
Editorial Board member, Journal of Poverty (since 2004).
Editorial Board member, Violence Against Women (since 2004).
Editorial Board member, Gender & Society.
Course activities included in ASA Gender Teaching Resources publication.
Consultant, National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation Technical Assistance (since 2002).
2005-2006
Editorial Board member, Journal of Poverty (since 2004).
Editorial Board member, Violence Against Women (since 2004).
Elected member of Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society (co-chair for 2004-2006 segment of term). Chair of subcommittee to search for a new Editor for Gender & Society. Chair of subcommittee to (re)negotiate publication contract for Gender & Society.
Appointed Chair of the C. Wright Mills Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems. Reviewed 34 of 82 books received for award and coordinated selection process.
Consultant, National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation Technical Assistance (since 2002).
2004-2005
Communication Across the Curriculum Seminar Fellow, Spring 2005.
Editorial Board member, Journal of Poverty.
Editorial Board member, Violence Against Women.
Elected member of Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society.
Appointed chair-elect of the C. Wright Mills Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 53 books nominated, 8 finalists.
Consultant, National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation Technical Assistance (since 2002).
2002-2003
External reviewer, The American Academy in Berlin, Berlin Prize Fellows program.
(with Jody Raphael and Richard Tolman) Guest co-editor of special issue on poverty and abuse for Violence Against Women. Vol. 9, no. 10 (October 2003).
Proposal referee, Steve Manners Faculty Development Research Award, University Center for Social and Urban Research.
Elected member of Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society.
Consultant, National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation Technical Assistance. Peer reviewer for Final Technical Reports on research grants.
2001-2002
Editorial Board appointment extended, Gender & Society (since 1998).
2000-2001
External reviewer, University of Connecticut Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women's Health.
Elected Chair, Discrimination Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society.
1999-2000
Member, Award Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society Cheryl Allen Miller Award (for distinguished graduate student research on women and work). Appointed Chair of this committee for 2000.
1998-2002
Editorial Board, Gender & Society. Began three-year term with Volume 12 (1998). Term renewed for two years (2001).
1996
(with Sonya Michel) Co-organizer, Gender and the Welfare State preconference for Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association in New Orleans.
Manuscript reviews
Journals
American Educational Research Journal
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Feminist Studies
Feminist Review
Gender & Society
Journal of American History
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Journal of Poverty
Journal of Women's History
National Women's Studies Association Journal
Psychology of Women Quarterly
Sex Roles
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Social Politics
Social Problems
Social Science Research
Social Services Review
Sociological Forum
Sociological Theory
Theory and Society
Violence Against Women
Women's Health and Urban Life
Book Publishers
Harper/Collins
Pine Forge Press
Kluwer Press
MIT Press
Palgrave/St. Martin's Press
Routledge
Conference activities (since 1997)
Refereed papers
2002
"Work-related Abuse and the Politics of Surveillance." Regular session on Violence: Gender, Domestic Violence, and Post-Traumatic Stress. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August.
"The costs of taking a beating: Research update." Presentation at the annual Research and Evaluation conference of the National Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C., July.
2001
"Traps and Triggers: A longitudinal study of welfare spells and protective orders." Presented on the panel on Violence Against Women at the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management (APPAM), Washington, D.C., November.
"Feminist state theory and welfare regimes." Presented at the session on Feminist Theory, annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, August.
1999
"Woman Battering and Welfare Reform: The view from a welfare-to-work program." Paper presented at the session on welfare reform, annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August.
"Woman Battering and Welfare Reform: The view from a welfare-to-work program." Presented at the Trapped by Poverty, Trapped by Abuse Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, April.
"Battering, Traumatic Stress, and Welfare-to-Work Transition." Presented at the Trapped by Poverty, Trapped by Abuse Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, April.
1997
"Solving Problems in Comparative Research on Gender and the Welfare State." Panel presentation, Workshop on Comparative Research on Welfare States and Gender, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January.
Invited papers, presentations, and workshops
2006
"When abuse spills into work." Research paper presented on panel at SSSP Annual Meetings, Montreal, August.
2005
Panelist, External Funding, Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meetings, Miami, FL, January.
Roundtable participant, Law & Society Association Meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada, June.
2004
Panelist. Career Workshop. Advice on Making the Transition from Associate to Full Professor. ASA annual meeting, San Francisco, August.
2003
"Changing the Subject: Gender and Welfare Regime Studies." Invited lecture at the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in politics, University of Virginia, December.
Presentation on the role of the Director of Graduate Studies, ASA workshop for DGS, Atlanta, August.
Presentation on "Engaged Sociology Action Group – Welfare Reform" panel at SWS Summer Meetings, Atlanta, August.
"Perils and Promise of Interdisciplinary Research" and "'That's why I'm on Prozac': Battered women, traumatic stress, and work in the context of welfare reform." Invited lectures at UConn Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women's Health, Farmington, Connecticut, February.
2002
Presentation on the role of the Director of Graduate Studies, ASA workshop for DGS, Chicago, August.
"Economic Justice 1: Trapped by poverty, trapped by abuse" and "Economic Justice 2: White and Black and Blue all over." Two 90-minute workshops on battering and work in the context of welfare reform for the New Hampshire Domestic Violence Conference, Mt. Washington, NH, May.
"Impacts of welfare reform: A feminist intersectional-institutional assessment." Panelist for the Woodside Conference of the Pro Bono Research Group, Law School, Ohio State University, April.
2001
"Measuring the costs of taking a beating." Presentation on research design and progress, Battering and Welfare Reform Research Cluster grantees' meeting, National Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C., July.
"White and black and blue all over: Race, battering, and welfare in Allegheny County." Presentation on gender, race, and social policy at annual Mosaic conference, Carnegie Mellon University, February.
2000
"'That's Why I'm on Prozac': Battering, Trauma, and Welfare-to-Work Transition." Presentation at the University of Oregon-Eugene, January.
1999
"Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform." Presentation at the Center for Mental Health Services Research Trauma Group Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, November.
"Woman Battering and Welfare Reform: The view from a welfare-to-work program." Presentation at the Center for Mental Health Services Research Trauma Group Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, April.
"Battering as an Obstacle to Welfare-to-Work Transition: How much and what difference does race make?" Presentation at the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Research Initiatives Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, March.
1998
"Gender, Work, Who Cares?" Thematic panel on Revisioning Gender, annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August.
"'Gender' as Social Organization: Notes to Feminist Legal Theorists, with an Application to Family Economics." Feminism and Family Economics, Feminist Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia University, March.
1997
"Feminist Lessons from the History of U.S. Welfare Reform." Panel for Women's History Month, University of Pittsburgh, March.
"Harm, Moralism, and the Future of Feminism." Invited lecture, Kalamazoo College, February.
Sessions organized, discussant, and other conference activities
2005
Organizer for Regular Session in Feminist Theory, American Sociological Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, August.
Commentator. Plenary session on domestic violence in low-income households. Trapped by Poverty, Trapped by Abuse Conference, Austin, TX, October. This conference was cancelled after Hurricane Katrina.
2004
(with Ellen Reese) Co-organizer and facilitator for Welfare Reform workshop at Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meetings, Albuquerque, N.M., February.
2003
(with Jody Raphael and Richard Tolman) Co-organizer for Trapped by Poverty/Trapped by Abuse Conference, University of Texas, October. Moderated panels on teen pregnancy and on services for women on TANF.
Commentator for panel on violence against women, conference on Transnational Feminisms, European Union Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April.
2001
(with Ellen K. Scott) Co-organizer for panel: "Contradictions of 'Self-Sufficiency': Work, welfare, and men." Trapped by Poverty/Trapped by Abuse Conference, Ann Arbor, October. Also presented paper: "Do battered women use welfare more? Do changes in welfare trigger PFA filings?"
Organizer for panel: "The Politics of Surveillance: Screening Measures for Research and Advocacy on Battering and Welfare." Trapped by Poverty/Trapped by Abuse Conference, Ann Arbor, October. Also provided co-commentary (with Andrew London).
1999
Discussant for "Women, Poverty, and the Welfare State: Historical and Global Perspectives." Thematic Session for the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meetings in Chicago, August.
Courses offered
Undergraduate
Introduction to Sociology (lecture enrollment = 80, 150)
Sociology of Gender (lecture enrollment = 100, regular enrollment = 40)
Working Women (regular enrollment = 40)
Classical Sociological Theory (regular enrollment = 40, writing intensive = 22)
Pittsburgh Area Studies (research practicum, enrollment = 40)
Social Change in the U.S. (research practicum, enrollment = 40)
Graduate Required Courses
Proseminar for First Year Sociology Graduate Students
Classical Sociological Theory
Research Design
Graduate Seminars
Cultural Studies Common Seminar: Cultures and (Re)presentations of Trauma
Women in Society: Research on Battered Women, Work, and Welfare
Gender, Race, and Class Seminar I: Classics and Critiques in Class Analysis (offered twice with different syllabi)
Gender, Race, and Class Seminar II: Innovation, Intersection, and Imagination in Feminist Social Studies
Women in Society: Identity and Sexuality
Women in Society: Gender at Work
Gender, Race, and Class Core Module 2
Women in Society: Theory, Methods, and Pedagogy
Gender and Social Policy in Cross-National Perspective
Academic advising, research support & supervision, & mentoring
Undergraduate
Sarah Kraemer Internship sponsor, Pittsburgh American Civil Liberties Union. Fall 1995.
Yuichiro Ogawa Internship sponsor, Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. Fall 1995.
Renee Boylan Advisor (self-designed major) and internship sponsor, Miryam's shelter for homeless women in Pittsburgh. Summer 1995.
Brian Wittlin Internship sponsor, United Jewish Federation. Summer 1995.
Marci Mostoller Internship sponsor, Make A Wish Foundation. Spring 1995.
Justin Geever Independent study sponsor, compilation CD as educational and fundraising tool to benefit organizations supporting battered women. Fall 1998.
Frances Thakuria Independent study sponsor, essay on the "freedom myths" in contemporary American society. Spring 1999.
Sally Shnippert Research Advisor, Seminar and Field Trip sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, project on feminist student social movements. Spring 1999.
Courtney Boyd Research Advisor, Brackenridge application and research project. Policy analysis of service options for welfare recipients in Allegheny County. Spring/Summer 2007.
Graduate
Research Assistant training and supervision
Kayo Fujimoto Supported to assist the FV&SSP, 1998-1999.
Denise Ficco Supported to assist the FV&SSP, 2001-2002.
Lisa Heubner Supported to assist the FV&SSP, 2002-2003.
Sociology dissertation committee memberships
*Chair of committee
Juliana Martinez "Policy environments and selective emulation in the making of health policies: The case of Costa Rica, 1920-1997." Dissertation defended March 1998. Degree awarded May 1998. Dr. Martinez is an independent researcher and consultant.
Frank Wilson "‘Many faces, one voice?' a sociological study of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union." Dissertation defended October 1999. Degree granted December 1999. Dr. Wilson teaches Sociology and Administration of Justice at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg.
Tony Lack "From Self-Identity to Social Justice: The Sociology of Recognition." Dissertation defended and degree awarded August 1999. Dr. Lack teaches at Lee College in Baytown, Texas.
Christopher Wienke Fatherhood programs, policy, and non-profits. Dissertation defended Fall 2002. Dr. Wienke has an appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas.
João Barroso Entrepreneurship in 1980s Brazil. Overview defense passed Fall 2000.
Christine Anthou Class and ethnicity in two Greek-American communities in Pittsburgh. Overview defense passed Spring 2001. Dissertation defense scheduled for April 2007.
Libby Larsen Gender and work in the trotting race subculture. Dissertation defended and degree granted December 2002. Dr. Larsen works as an ethnographer for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Thanita Adams Gender and race in the mountain bike recreational and racing subculture. Overview defense December 2001; revisions accepted January 2002. On leave 2003-2005.
Danielle Ficco Battering as an obstacle to work: Women's perceptions. Overview defense December 2001; accepted and IRB approved Spring 2002. Dissertation defense passed June 2007. Ms. Ficco has secured a position as Visiting Lecturer at Westminster College in the Sociology Program for the 2007-2008 academic year.
R. Spencer Foster Ethical decision-making among members of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists. Overview defense expected December 2007.
Teaching Assistant and Grader supervision
Brian Rieck Sociology of Gender
Flora Calderon-Steck Introduction to Sociology
Keri Rodriguez Introduction to Sociology
Kelly Murphy Introduction to Sociology
Mark Harrison Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of Gender
Christine Anthou Sociology of Gender
Christopher Wienke Sociology of Gender
Thanita Adams Introduction to Sociology
Connie Oxford Sociology of Gender
Barbara Kline Introduction to Sociology
Dana Reinke Introduction to Sociology
Kim Whitaker Sociology of Gender
Kim Creasap Sociology of Gender
Teaching Fellow mentorships
Kathleen Bulger Sociology of Gender
Kai Heidemann Sociology of Gender
Maria Jose Alvarez Classical Sociological Theory
Melissa Swauger Working Women
Catherine Wilson Introduction to Sociology
Dana Reinke Sociology of Marriage
Christopher Wienke Introduction to Sociology
Barbara Kline Wealth and Power; Working Women
Danielle Ficco Sociology of Gender
Thanita Adams Sociology of Gender
Jim Luther Sociology of the Family
Connie Oxford Sociology of Gender
João Barroso Sociology of Gender
Cathleen Schlegel Sociology of Gender
Frank Wilson Sociology of Gender; Working Women
Mary Rojek Sociology of Gender; Working Women
Tony Lack Sociology of Gender
Barbara Wolvowitz Sociology of Gender
External dissertation, examination committee, or other graduate committee memberships
Marguerite Brown Race and gender in employer policies in three Detroit manufacturers during WWII. History. Supervised directed reading Fall 1995; oral comprehensive exam Spring 1996.
Gillian Rodger Gender and sexuality in female cross-dressed performers in the U.S., 1860s-1920s. Ethnomusicology. Dissertation proposal defense Fall 1995. Dissertation defense: April 1998. Degree awarded: August 1998. Dr. Roger was an editor in New York City and currently holds an appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
S. Laurel Weldon States and violence against women. GSPIA. Dissertation overview hearing passed July 1997. Dissertation defense: June 1999. Degree awarded: August 1999. Dr. Weldon was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University in 2006.
Leah Ackner Pre-modern responses to infertility. Comprehensive examination in Religious Studies, approved January 1999.
Filomena Varvaro Self-esteem and self-concept in a sample of sheltered battered women. Primary faculty reader for paper submitted for Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, 2001.
Greg Wood Gender and masculinity in history and sociology. History. Supervised preparation for comprehensive exam Fall 2001; passed Spring 2002. Dissertation overview hearing passed September 2002. Mr. Wood was awarded a Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 2004-2005. Dissertation defended February 2006.
Kathleen Carrick Coordinated community responses to lesbian battering. Primary faculty reader for paper submitted for Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, 2003.
Tara Beichner Issues of race and representation in discourse on battered women. Supervisor for independent study, Summer 2005.
Sociology Master's thesis, empirical paper, comprehensive exam, and independent study supervision
Chair of committee
Chishamiso Rowley Empirical paper on traditional and modern obstetrical practitioners in Zimbabwe. Completed Summer 1995. Dr. Rowley initially held an appointment as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University and is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
David Comings Preliminary work on empirical network analysis of scientific co-authorships. Independent reading. Fall 1995.
Tony Lack Comprehensive exam in gender. Spring 1996.
Mark Harrison Empirical paper on cultural representations of extraterrestrials as "other" in post-war U.S. culture. Spring 1997. Revised and completed Spring 1998. Mr. Harrison is a doctoral candidate in the Communications department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Cathleen Schlegel Directed reading to prepare for comprehensive exam in gender. Spring 1997. Dr. Schlegel works as a research consultant in Pittsburgh.
Flora Calderson-Steck Directed reading to prepare for comprehensive exam in race, class, and gender. Summer 1998.
Thanita Adams Preparation for comprehensive exam in race, class, and gender. Spring 1999.
Christopher Wienke Comprehensive exam in race, class, and gender. Passed March 1999.
Lensa Hailu Thesis on the organizational politics of feminist global mobilization, with a focus on the Beijing Conference. Passed April 1999.
Christine Anthou Comprehensive exam in race, class, and gender. Summer 1999.
Connie Oxford, Danielle Ficco, and Barbara Kline Directed study in classics of feminist social theory. Summer 1999.
Thanita Adams Written comprehensive exam and oral. September 1999.
Kimberly Whitaker MA thesis: "Between politics and pleasure: How women negotiate feminism and heterosexuality."
Dana Rienke MA thesis: "The Women's Support Group: Self-mobilization and the creation of an activist identity." Defense passed July 2001.
Barbara Kline MA thesis on battering and welfare in Allegheny county. Thesis and independent study credits Summer and Fall 2000, and Spring 2001.
Matthew Mahaney Advisor and MA thesis committee. Proposal approved Fall 2001.
Teela Davis Advisor and MA thesis committee. Proposal presented Fall 2001; revisions accepted February 2002. Degree granted Summer 2003.
Margee Kerr MA thesis committee. Overview defended May 2004. Thesis defended December 2004. Comprehensive examination committee Spring 2005.
Patricia Sughrue Advisor and MA thesis committee. Proposal defended Fall 2004. Defense passed Spring 2006.
Maria Jose Alvarez Comprehensive examination committee Spring and Summer 2005. Passed with distinction.
Patricia Sughrue Comprehensive examination committee. Ms. Sughrue withdrew from the program before completing her comprehensive examinations.
Service to the department & university
2007-2008
Associate Chair, Department of Sociology.
Chair, junior search committee.
Member, Department Graduate Committee (admissions, policy).
Member, College Writing Board (since 2005)
Elected member, Faculty Assembly and University Senate.
Organizer of Social Movements Forum Workshop.
Elected President United Faculty (AAUP chapter) (since 2005).
CIDDE department liaison (since 2004).
2006-2007
Associate Chair, Department of Sociology.
Chair, junior search committee.
Drafted preliminary job ad, Senior Search in sociology of Islam.
Served on 2 tenure and promotion review committees for the A&S dean.
Member, College Writing Board (since 2005)
Member, 3rd year review committees for Deborah Gould and Assata Richards. Wrote report with recommendations on Richards case.
Member, Department Graduate Committee (admissions, policy).
Elected member, Faculty Assembly and University Senate (serving unfilled term).
Co-organizer (with Debbie Gould) of Social Movements Forum Workshop.
Elected President United Faculty (AAUP chapter) (since 2005).
CIDDE department liaison (since 2004).
2005-2006
Member, College Writing Board.
Member, 3rd year review committee for Salvatore Babones.
Elected member, Arts and Sciences Graduate Council (since 2004).
Provost's committee on writing across the curriculum (since 2003).
Steering Committee, Women's Studies (since 1994). Chair, Graduate Certificate Revision Committee (since 2004; co-Chair for Fall 2005). Member, By-Laws Committee.
CIDDE department liaison (since 2004).
Observation of teaching for Dr. Cecilia Green.
Co-organizer (with Debbie Gould) of Social Movements Forum Workshop and SMF visits by Drs. Kurzman and Ferree.
Elected President, United Faculty (AAUP chapter).
2004-2005
Observation of teaching committee for Dr. Assata Richards.
Elected member, Faculty Assembly (since 2002).
Elected member, University Senate (since 2003).
Elected member, Arts and Sciences Graduate Council.
Steering Committee, Women's Studies (since 1994). Chair, Graduate Certificate Revision Committee.
Provost's committee on writing across the curriculum (since 2003).
Second-tier tenure review committee, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg campus.
CIDDE department liaison.
2003-2004
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology (since 2001).
Steering Committee, Women's Studies (since 1994).
Faculty research grant selection committee, Women's Studies.
Women and the Workforce Research Initiative planning group.
Curriculum Committee, Women's Studies (since 2002).
Dissertation Award Committee, Women's Studies.
Elected member, Faculty Assembly (since 2002).
Elected faculty member, University Senate.
Provost's committee on writing across the curriculum.
2002-2003
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology (since 2001).
Steering Committee, Women's Studies (since 1994).
Curriculum Committee, Women's Studies.
Chair, Teaching Fellow Selection Committee, Women's Studies.
Elected member, Faculty Assembly.
2001-2002
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology.
Steering Committee, Women's Studies (since 1994).
Executive Committee, Cultural Studies.
Chair, Special Task Force on Same-Sex Benefits Policy, Women's Studies.
Women's Studies Consortium Committee.
Women's Studies mentoring project.
1999-2000
Chair, department junior faculty search committee.
Elected department liaison to Cultural Studies Program.
Departmental graduate admissions committee member.
Departmental representative to social science librarian.
Member, Women's Studies Undergraduate Research Prize Committee, Spring 1995, 1996 (chair), 1997, 1998 (chair), Fall 1999, 2000 (chair).
Member, Women's Studies Director internal search committee.
1997-1998
Contract Renewal Evaluation Committee, Department of Sociology.
1996
Provost's Advisory Committee on Women's Concerns (served first year of three year term). Student Issues subcommittee member.
Active in search for new Director of Women's Studies, 1994-1996.
Member, Fulbright Campus Interview Committee.
1995
Steering Committee, Department of Sociology. Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Subcommittee (Fall).
Professional memberships
American Association of University Professors
American Association of University Women
American Sociological Association
Sex and Gender Section
Historical Sociology Section
Political Sociology Section
Theory Section
Race, Class, Gender Section
Social Science History Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociologists for Women in Society
Community activities (since 2001)
2007
Advisory Council, Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (since 2002). Member, Event Planning Committee.
2005-2006
Faculty mentor for Andrew Thornberg in Baginski Scholars Program at Central Catholic High School.
Vice President for Ritual, Congregation Dor Hadash, Pittsburgh, PA (since 2003).
Advisory Council, Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (since 2002). Member, Grantmaking Committee.
2004-2005
Vice President for Ritual, Congregation Dor Hadash, Pittsburgh, PA (since 2003).
Advisory Council, Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (since 2002). Member, Grantmaking Committee.
2003-2004
Vice President for Ritual, Congregation Dor Hadash, Pittsburgh, PA.
Domestic Violence Task Force (Pittsburgh Jewish community's response to domestic abuse) (since 2002).
Professors for Peace and Justice (since 2002).
Advisory Council, Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (since 2002). Member, Grantmaking Committee.
Presenter at Council of Orthodox Rabbis, Pittsburgh, PA. "Project Ohr and a Jewish Community Response to Domestic Abuse." November 2003.
Presenter at Council of Conservative Rabbis, Pittsburgh, PA. "Project Ohr and a Jewish Community Response to Domestic Abuse." November 2003.
Presenter at Women's Funders Roundtable session, Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania. "Trapped by Poverty and Abuse: Battering, Work and Welfare in Allegheny County." December 2003.
Letter on Campus Climate Survey (co-authored with Carol Stabile) in University Times Feb. 2004.
Facilitator, presentation of "To Save a Life" (video on battering in the Jewish community). Congregation Beth Samuel, Ambridge, PA. March 2004.
2002-2003
Presenter for League of American Bicyclists at Fast-Track employee session for Bike Safety Week, Citizens Bank, downtown Pittsburgh.
Advisory Council, Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Ritual Committee, Congregation Dor Hadash, Pittsburgh, PA. (since 2001).
Domestic Violence Task Force (Pittsburgh Jewish community's response to domestic abuse)
Presentation at Teach-In, Professors for Peace and Justice.
Two-hour call-in appearance with host Chris Moore on KDKA radio.
Live commentary on the politics of pornography for WQED television.
2001-2002
Professors for Peace and Justice
Ritual Committee, Congregation Dor Hadash, Pittsburgh, PA.
Guest lecturer, training sessions, Crisis Center Pittsburgh North.