People
Deborah B. Gould, PhD
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, 2000
Title: Assistant Professor
Campus Address: 2613 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7587
E-mail: dgould@pitt.edu
Curriculum Vitae
(last updated, May 2008)
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2004 – present.
Assistant Professor (Secondary Appointment), Women’s Studies Program, University of
Pittsburgh, 2005 – present.
PREVIOUS POSITION
Harper/Schmidt Fellow in the Social Sciences, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, University
of Chicago, 2000-04.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Chicago, Political Science, December 2000.
Dissertation: “Sex, Death, and the Politics of Anger: Emotions and Reason in ACT UP’s
Fight Against AIDS.” Committee members: Professors Leora Auslander, George
Chauncey, Michael Dawson, William H. Sewell, Jr. (Chair).
M.A., University of Chicago, Political Science, 1989.
B.A., Wesleyan University (CT), Government, 1986.
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS/HONORS
• Support for book publication from the Richard D. and Mary Jane Edwards Endowed
Publication Fund, University of Pittsburgh, 2008.
• Junior Faculty Research Leave, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Fall 2007.
• Honorary member, Golden Key International Honour Society, 2006.
• University of Pittsburgh School of Arts & Sciences Faculty Research and Scholarship
Program grant (for Pittsburgh Social Movements Forum), 2006-07.
• Type I Third Term Research Stipend, University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
• American Political Science Association’s E. E. Schattschneider Award for best dissertation
in American Politics, 2002.
• Harper/Schmidt Fellowship in the Social Sciences, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts,
University of Chicago, 2000-04.
• Delta Gamma Teacher-of-the-Month, University of Chicago, February 2003.
• James C. Hormel Dissertation Fellowship, Lesbian and Gay Studies Project of the Center for
Gender Studies, University of Chicago, 1998-99.
• Grodzin Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago, 1998-99.
• Lesbian and Gay Studies Project Dissertation Research Grant, U of Chicago, 1998.
• Graduate Student Fellow, Mellon/CASBS Seminar on Contentious Politics, Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1997-98.
• Mellon “First Year” Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1997.
• University Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1996-97.
• Jacob Javits Fellowship, 1988-90.
• Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1987-88.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
2009. Moving Politics: Emotion and Shifting Political Horizons in the Fight Against AIDS,
University of Chicago Press.
2008 (December). “ACT UP.” In Jodi O’Brien and Eve Shapiro, eds., Encyclopedia of Gender
and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference.
2008 (September). “The Shame of Gay Pride in Early AIDS Activism.” In Valerie Traub and
David Halperin, eds., Gay Shame. University of Chicago Press.
PUBLICATIONS
2006. “Solidarity and Its Fracturing in ACT UP.” AREA Chicago: Art, Research, Education,
Activism. Issue #3 (Summer/Fall):10-13.
2004. “AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP).” In Marc Stein, ed., Encyclopedia of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, pp. 34-39. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons.
2004. “Passionate Political Processes: Bringing Emotions Back Into the Study of Social
Movements.” In Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, eds., Rethinking Social Movements: Structure,
Meaning, and Emotion, pp. 155-175. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
2002. “Life During Wartime: Emotions and the Development of ACT UP.” Mobilization: An
International Journal 7(2): 177-200.
2001. “Rock the Boat, Don’t Rock the Boat, Baby: Ambivalence and the Emergence of Militant
AIDS Activism.” In Jeff Goodwin, James Jasper, and Francesca Polletta, eds., Passionate
Politics: Emotions and Social Movements, pp. 135-57. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2000. “Demonstrations and Actions.” In Bonnie Zimmerman, ed., Encyclopedia of Lesbian
Histories and Cultures, pp. 230-32. New York: Garland Publishing Co.
BOOK REVIEWS
2007. “Fighting For Our Lives: New York’s AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease.”
Mobilization, vol. 12, no. 2, (June): 209-210.
2006. “When AIDS Began: San Francisco and the Making of an Epidemic.” American Journal of
Sociology, vol. 111, no. 6 (May): 1973-1976.
1997. “Here, There, and Everywhere: A Review of Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian,
Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories.” The Lesbian Review of Books, Winter 1997-98.
1997. “To Be or Not To Be [Queer]: A Review of Vera Whisman’s Queer By Choice.” The
Lesbian Review of Books, Summer 1997.
1996. “Virtually Straight: A Review of Andrew Sullivan’s Virtually Normal.” Gay Community
News, Winter/Spring 1996.
INVITED TALKS/CONFERENCE PAPERS/PANELS
Invited Talks/Keynote Addresses
“Affect and the Study of Protest: What’s at Stake in a Concept of the Nonrational?”
Conference on “Political Emotions: Affect and the Public Sphere,” University of Texas at Austin,
October 2008.
“Affecting the Political: An Assessment of the ‘Emotional Turn’ in the Study of Social
Movements”
Sociology Department Colloquium, Brandeis University, Fall 2008.
“Why Emotion?”
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, September
2007.
“On Feeling Bad and Acting Up: Despair in Activism”
Seminar on Emotions and Politics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, June 2007.
Pathogeographies (or, Other People’s Baggage)
With my research collaborative group, Feel Tank Chicago, at The Public Square at the Illinois
Humanities Council, Chicago, June 2007.
“Feel Tank Chicago: Pathogeographies (or, Other People’s Baggage)”
Artist’s lecture by Feel Tank Chicago, Gallery 400 Voices Lecture Series, University of Illinois,
Chicago, March 2007.
“Teaching Students, Teachers Learning: Critical Thought in the Classroom”
Induction Ceremony and Reception, Golden Key International Honour Society, University of
Pittsburgh, December 2006. (Keynote address)
“10 Years After ACT UP: Reflections on the AIDS Activist Movement”
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Student Alliance, Northeastern Illinois University, April 2004.
“Feeling Activism: Emotions and Reason in ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS”
National Elections Study Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 2003.
“Gay Pride and Its Sisters in Early AIDS Activism”
“Gay Shame” Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 2003.
“Reflections on AIDS Activism: The Emotions of Power and Resistance”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (connected to G. Bordowitz’s show: Drive), 2002.
“Rock the Boat, Don’t Rock the Boat, Baby: Ambivalence and AIDS Activism”
Queer Studies Workshop, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1999.
Conference and Workshop Papers
“Moving Politics: Shifting Political Horizons in the Fight against AIDS”
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Boston, September 2008.
“Social Theory and Social Transformation: A Conference in Honor of William H. Sewell, Jr.,”
University of Chicago, May 2008.
“Affecting the Political: An Assessment of the ‘Emotional Turn’ in the Study of Social
Movements”
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Boston, August 2008.
Workshop on Power, Resistance, and Social Change, University of Pittsburgh, March 2008.
“Solidarity and Its Fracturing in ACT UP”
“Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope: A Conference on Political Feeling,” University of Chicago,
October 2007.
Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Glasgow, Scotland, September 2007.
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York City, August 2007.
“Affective Dimensions of ‘Strategic’ Conflicts”
Conference of the ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, August 2007.
“Negative Affect and Political (De)mobilization”
Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference,
London, August 2007.
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Montréal, August 2006.
Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Conference, Toronto, June 2006.
“Of Movements and Moralism: The Emotional Undercurrents of ACT UP’s Decline”
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, August 2005.
“When Your Data Make You Cry: Emotions In Research”
First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May
2005.
Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, November 2004.
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, September 2004.
“Practicing Critique, Practicing Solutions”
Conference, “Cityspace: The Past of Urban Renewal and the Future of Community Development,”
University of Chicago, 2004.
“The Shame of Gay Pride in Early AIDS Activism”
14th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 2004.
Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, 2004.
“From Participant To Observer: Unraveling My Common Sense”
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, 2003.
“A Look at the Non-Rational in Political Activism: The Shame of Gay Pride in the Early AIDS
Movement”
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2003.
“Life During Wartime: Emotions and the Development of ACT UP”
Workshop on Organizations and State Building, University of Chicago, 2002.
“Passionate Political Processes: Bringing Emotions Back Into the Study of Social Movements”
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, 2001.
Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 2001.
“Fear, Shame, Pride, and Anger: Lesbian/Gay Political Responses to AIDS, 1981-86”
Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, 2000.
“Future of the Queer Past” Conference, University of Chicago, 2000.
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 2000.
“Ambivalence, Emotions, and the Emergence of Militant AIDS Activism”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1999.
“Alternative Futures and Popular Protest,” Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 1999.
“Emotions and Social Movements Mini-Conference,” New York University, 1999.
“Emotions and ACT UP”
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1998.
Gender and Society Workshop (1998), Lesbian and Gay Studies Workshop (1998), Social Theory
Workshop (1998), University of Chicago.
Panels
“Feminism In Practice: Graduate School, Careers, and Community Activism”
Women’s Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, February 2006.
“Build Your Own Future: Roundtable on Graduate Study, Internships, and Activism”
Women’s Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, March 2005.
Roundtable on Studying State Repression
The Pittsburgh Social Movement Forum Mini-Symposium on “Contention and Repression,”
University of Pittsburgh, December 2004.
“Publics and Feelings”
Feel Tank Chicago Presentation, Cultural Studies Association, Boston, May 2004.
“Cultural Interference”
Feel Tank Chicago Presentation, Version ’04, Chicago, April 2004.
“Forum on Public Feelings”
University of Texas, Austin, 2003.
“The Future of LGBT Politics in Chicago”
Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, 2003.
“Experience/Emotions/Politics”
Center for Gender Studies Symposium, University of Chicago, 2002.
“Roundtable on Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender Political Science”
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2002.
“Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender Movements: Past, Present, Future”
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, 2001.
Chair/Discussant/Organizer
Affect and ACT UP
Organizer and moderator, University of Chicago, March 2007.
Political Outcomes of Social Movements
Chair and discussant, American Sociological Association Conference, Montréal, 2006.
Social Movements
Moderator, North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 2005.
The Uses of Suffering
Chair/discussant, Social Sciences History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 2004.
Panel of the Caucus of LGBT Sociologists
Co-organizer, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, 2001.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Pittsburgh, 2004 – present.
• Contemporary Sociological Theory (graduate)
• Feminist Theory (graduate)
• Social Theory (regular and writing-intensive versions)
• Social Aspects of Sexuality
• Sociology of Everyday Life
University of Chicago, 1999 – 2004.
• Power, Identity, Resistance I – The Rise of Market Society
• Power, Identity, Resistance II – Liberalism and Its Critics
• Power, Identity, Resistance III, version 1 – The Question of Equality
• Power, Identity, Resistance III, version 2 – Revolution, Reform, Resistance in the 20th C.
• Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Social Movements
• Queer Studies (independent study) Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1998.
• AIDS: Science/Culture/Power
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social movements and contentious politics; political emotion; social and political theory; sociology of
sexualities; feminist and queer theory; lesbian/gay studies; sociology of emotions.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
• University of Pittsburgh
Department of Sociology
Co-Founder and Coordinator, Department of Sociology’s Workshop on Power, Resistance, and Social
Change, 2005-present.
Coordinator, Department of Sociology’s Pittsburgh Social Movement Forum, 2006-07.
Research Ethics in the Classroom Committee, 2005-06.
Dissertation Committees: Kai Heidemann, Sambriddhi Kharel
Comprehensive Exam Committees: Kathleen Gray (Passed with Distinction, Spring 2006)
Masters Thesis Committees: Melissa Brusoski (Public health, defended Spring 2007), Edison I. Cárate
T., Amy McDowell
Teacher Mentoring: Jane Walsh (for the course Social Problems)
BA Thesis adviser: Amira Rahim
Independent study student: Molly Clever (Spring 2007)
Internship supervisor: Lisa Brünner (Fall 2006)
School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
A&S Faculty Grants Committee, 2008-2010.
Honors College Advisory Board, 2008-2010.
The Senate of the University of Pittsburgh
Bylaws & Procedures Committee, 2007-2010.
Women’s Studies Program
Women’s Studies Steering Committee, 2004-present.
Women’s Studies Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2006-08.
Chair, Women’s Studies Student Research Fund Committee, 2005-06
Women’s Studies Curriculum Development Fund Committee, 2004-05.
Cultural Studies Program
Cultural Studies Executive Committee, 2006-07.
Cultural Studies Liaison Committee, 2005-06.
Cultural Studies Fellowship Committee, 2005-06.
Other
Faculty Adviser, Student Global AIDS Project, 2005-2008.
• University of Chicago
Chair, Social Science Core Curriculum sequence “Power, Identity, and Resistance,” 2003-04.
Society of Fellows, Harper/Schmidt Search Committee, 2001, 2003, 2004.
Faculty Board Member, Center for the Study of Politics, History, and Culture, 2000-04.
Social Sciences Collegiate Division Governing Committee, 2003-04.
Curriculum Committee, Social Science Core, “Power, Identity, Resistance,” 2001-03.
Co-organizer, Society of Fellows’ Conference, “Depression: What Is It Good For?” 2004.
Steering Committee Co-Chair, Society of Fellows, 2001-02.
Co-organizer of the Society of Fellows’ Conference, “Agency,” 2001.
MA thesis supervisor for student in Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, Amy Laurel Herrick,
“New Masculinities: A Study of Non-Traditional Gender Roles,” 2000-01.
Co-organizer, Lesbian and Gay Studies Project, Center for Gender Studies Conference, “The Politics of
Respectability,” 1999.
• Professional Organizations
Chair, Nominations Committee, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American
Sociological Association, 2004-07.
Nominations Committee, Sexualities Section, American Sociological Association, 2006-07.
American Political Science Association’s Helen Dwight Reid Award Committee, 2003-04.
• Journals, Publishers, Granting agencies
Manuscript referee for University of Minnesota Press, American Journal of Sociology, Mobilization,
Qualitative Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, Theory &
Society.
External reviewer for National Science Foundation, Sociology Program.
Book Review Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology, 2002-04.
• Other Professional Service
Expert Witness, National Center for Lesbian Rights, 2005.