People
Rod Nelson , PhD
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Title: Lecturer
Campus Address: 2413 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-624-2003
E-mail: rdn8@pitt.edu
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto 1979-1981
Connaught Fellowship, University of Toronto 1978-1979
Tuition Scholarship, Washington University 1977-1978
Tuition Scholarships, University of Regina 1974, 1976
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lecturer: Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2008 to present
Courses: Social Theory, Honors Workshop
Faculty Lecturer. Department of Sociology, McGill University, 2005 to 2008
Courses Taught: "Sociology of Culture"; "Television in Society"; "Sociology of Popular Culture"; "Sociological Theory"; “Sociology of Literature”; “Sociology of Knowledge”
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill University, 1993 to 2005
Courses: "Sociology of Culture"; "Television in Society"; "Sociology of Popular Culture"; "Sociological Theory"
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 1991 to 1993; Courses: "Social Theory"
Visiting Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 1988 to 1990; Courses: "Introduction to Sociology"
Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Quarterly 1984-1985 (Albert Hunter, Editor)
Researcher, American Bar Foundation, study of "Urban Zoning: The Development of a Regulatory Institution" Eric H. Steele Principal Investigator, 1984
Interviewer, 1983 Alcohol Supplement to the National Health Interview Survey, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Sponsor), C.S.R. (contractor)
Researcher, Local Community Fact Book Chicago Metropolitan Area, 1983-1984 (Albert Hunter, Coordinator)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1978-1981
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University College of Washington University, Spring, 1978; Course: "Class and Power in American Society"
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Regina, 1974-1976
AREAS OF INTEREST
Social Theory
History of Sociology
Sociology of Knowledge and Culture
Sociology of Mass Media
Sociology of Literature
PUBLICATIONS
Review of Neil Gross, Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher. Current Sociology (forthcoming)
“Le bistro montréalais.” Contexts 5 (2): 72-73. (With Valérie Bélair-Gagnon) (Spring 2006)
Review of Joseph Margolis, Reinventing Pragmatism. Contemporary Sociology 33 (2): 250-252. (Spring 2004)
"Pragmatic Validity in Mannhem and Dewey: A Reassessment of the Epistemological Critique of Ideology and Utopia." History of the Human Sciences 8 (3): 25-45, fall 1995.
"The Sociology of Styles of Thought." British Journal of Sociology 43 (1): 25-54, March 1992
Review of Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds.) Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute. Contemporary Sociology 20 (6):927-928, November, 1991
"The Reception and Development of the Sociology of Knowledge in American Sociology, 1936-1960" Ph.D. thesis, 1990
Review of Colin Loader, The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim: Culture, Politics, and Planning. American Journal of Sociology, September, 1986, 92 (2):454-456.
Histories of "Community Areas" in Local Community Fact Book Chicago Metropolitan Area, 1980. 1984 Chicago: Chicago Review Press.