People
Suzanne Staggenborg , PhD
Title: Professor
Campus Address: 2409 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7582
E-mail: suzstagg@pitt.edu
FORMAL EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, 1985
M.A., Sociology, Washington University, 1979
B.A., Sociology and Psychology, Miami University, 1977
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant, 1999-2003
Elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association, 1997
Scholarly Achievement Award for The Pro-Choice Movement, North Central Sociological Association, 1993
Research Grant, Project on Governance of Nonprofit Organizations, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University, 1991-92
Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, 1988
National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant (SES-8315574), 1984-85
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1984-85
University Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1980-81
University Scholarship, Washington University, 1977-78
Phi Beta Kappa, Miami University, 1977
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2008-
Chair, Department of Sociology, McGill University, 2005-2008 (Acting Chair, 2003-2004)
Associate to Full Professor of Sociology, McGill University, 1993-2008
Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, 1986-1993
Faculty Associate and Project Director, Alcohol and Crime Study, Northwestern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 1985-86
Research Fellow, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1981-84
Instructor, Department of Sociology, Summer School, Northwestern University, 1982-83
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Fall, 1981
Instructor, Department of Sociology, University College of Washington University, Spring-Summer, 1979
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Washington University, 1978-1979
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Boards: Social Problems, 1990-93; Qualitative Sociology, 1992-99; Mobilization: An International Journal, 1995-; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2000-2009; Contemporary Sociology, 2003-2006; Contexts, 2007-2010; Sociological Compass, 2007-; Social Movement Studies, 2009-
Reviewer for Administrative Science Quarterly; American Behavioral Scientist, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, American Sociologist, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Gender & Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Women's History, Qualitative Sociology, Mobilization, Research in Political Sociology,Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Signs, Social Forces, Social Movement Studies, Social Problems, Social Science History, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Focus, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Spectrum, Women & Politics, Women’s Studies International Forum, National Science Foundation, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Co-editor of Cambridge Series on Contentious Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2008-2012
Guest editor, Qualitative Sociology, special issue on Qualitative Methods and Social Movement Research, vol. 21, no. 4, 1998
Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements of American Sociological Association: Chair, 1999-2000
Member of Distinguished Scholarship Award Committee, 2000
Chair of Student Paper Award Committee, 1999
Chair of Distinguished Scholarship Award Committee, 1996
Council member, 1993-1996
Nominations Committee, 1989
Co-organizer of thematic workshop on “Transnational Linkages and Movement Cultures” for Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop on “Social Movement Strategies,” Hofstra University, August, 2007
Member of Local Arrangements Committee and organizer of session on “Canadian Social Movements in Comparative Perspective” for 2006 meetings of the American Sociological Association
Organizer of Social Movements and Collective Behavior Section session on “Coalitions in Social Movements” for 2005 meetings of the American Sociological Association
Organizer of Social Movements and Collective Behavior Section Sessions for 2000 meetings of the American Sociological Association
Organizer of Social Movements and Collective Behavior Roundtables for 1999 meetings of the American Sociological Association
Organizer of Regular Sessions on Social Movements for 1997 meetings of the American Sociological Association
Organizer of Regular Sessions on Collective Behavior and Social Movements for 1991 meetings of the American Sociological Association
AREAS OF INTEREST
Social Movements/Collective Action
Political Sociology
Social Problems
Sociology of Gender and Family
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Social Movements. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Methods of Social Movement Research, co-edited with Bert Klandermans. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Gender, Family, and Social Movements. Pine Forge Press, 1998.
The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Articles
“Conclusion: Research on Social Movement Coalitions.” Forthcoming in Strategic Alliances: New Studies of Social Movement Coalitions, edited by Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon, University of Minnesota Press.
“Thinking about Strategy” (with David S. Meyer). Forthcoming in Making
History: Movements, Strategy, and Social Change, edited by Jeff Goodwin, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Gregory Maney, and Deana Rohlinger.
“Social Movement Campaigns: Mobilization and Outcomes in the Montreal Women’s Movement" (with Josée Lecomte). Mobilization,vol 14(2), pp. 405-422, 2009.
“Seeing Mechanisms in Action.” Qualitative Sociology, vol. 31, pp. 341-344, 2008.
“Opposing Movement Strategies in U.S. Abortion Politics” (with David S. Meyer). Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, vol. 28, pp. 207-238, 2008.
“Culture and Ritual in the Montreal Women’s Movement” (with Amy Lang). Social Movement Studies, vol. 6(2), pp. 177-194, 2007.
“Patterns of Mobilization in Local Movement Organizations: Leadership and Strategy in Four Chapters of the National Organization for Women"(with Jo Reger). Sociological Perspectives 49(3), pp. 297-323, 2006.
"Grassroots Organizing in a Federated Structure: NOW Chapters in Four Local Fields" (with Jo Reger). Pp. 95-114 in U.S. Women’s Movements in a Dynamic and Global Perspective, edited by Lee Ann Banaszak, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
“Whatever Happened to the Women’s Movement?” (with Verta Taylor). Mobilization: An International Journal,vol.10(1), pp. 37-52, 2005.
“Social Movement Theory.” Pp. 753-759 in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, vol. 2, ed. by George Ritzer, Sage, 2005.
“Leadership in Social Movements” (with Aldon Morris). Pp. 171-196 in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David Snow, Sarah Soule, and Hans-Peter Kriesi. Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
“Introduction” (with Bert Klandermans). Pp. ix-xx in Methods of Social Movements Research, edited by Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
“Conclusion: Blending Methods and Building Theories in Social Movement Research” (with Bert Klandermans and Sidney Tarrow). Pp. 314-349 in Methods of Social Movements Research, edited by Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
"The 'Meso' in Social Movement Research." Pp. 124-139 in Social Movements, Identity, Culture, and the State, edited by David S. Meyer, Belinda Robnett, and Nancy Whittier, Oxford University Press, 2002.
"Reproductive rights, in affluent countries." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, 2001.
“Beyond Culture versus Politics: A Case Study of a Local Women’s Movement.” Gender & Society, vol 15(4), pp. 505-528, 2001.
"Movement Communities in New Social Movements: The Montreal Women’s Movement”(with Josée Lecomte). Translated to German by Silke Roth for special issue of Forschungsjournal Nueu Soziale Bewegungen on "gender and social movements" edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Silke Roth, vol 2, pp. 44-53, 2001.
"Introduction" to special issue of Qualitative Sociology on "Qualitative Methods and Social Movement Research," vol. 21(4), pp. 353-355, 1998.
"Social Movement Communities and Cycles of Protest: The Emergence and Maintenance of a Local Women's Movement." Social Problems, vol. 45(2), pp. 180-204, 1998.
"Countermovement Dynamics in Federal Systems: A Comparison of Abortion Movements in Canada and the United States" (with David S. Meyer). Research in Political Sociology, vol. 8, pp. 209-240, 1998.
"The Survival of the Women's Movement: Turnover and Continuity in Bloomington, Indiana." Mobilization: An International Journal, vol. 1(2), pp. 143-158, 1996.
"Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity." (with David S. Meyer) American Journal of Sociology, vol. 101(6), pp. 1628-1660, 1996.
"The Survival of the Pro-Choice Movement." Journal of Policy History, vol. 7(1), pp. 160-176, 1995.
Reprinted in The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective, ed. by Donald T. Critchlow, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
"Can Feminist Organizations Be Effective?" Pp. 339-355 in Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement, edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin, Temple University Press, 1995.
Reprinted in Power: A Critical Reader, edited by Daniel Egan and Levon Chorbajian, Prentice Hall, 2005.
"The National Women's Music Festival: Collective Identity and Diversity in a Lesbian-Feminist Community." (with Donna Eder and Lori Sudderth) Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, vol. 23(4), pp. 485-515, 1995.
"Women's Culture and Social Change: Evidence from the National Women's Music Festival." (with Donna Eder and Lori Sudderth). Berkeley Journal of Sociology, vol. 38, pp. 31-56, 1993-1994.
"Abortion as a Social Problem." In Introduction to Social Problems, ed. by Craig Calhoun and George Ritzer, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
"Critical Events and the Mobilization of the Pro-Choice Movement." Research in Political Sociology, vol. 6, pp. 319-345, 1993.
"Organizational and Environmental Influences on the Development of the Pro-Choice Movement." Social Forces, vol. 68(1), pp. 204-240, 1989.
"Stability and Innovation in the Women's Movement: A Comparison of Two Movement Organizations." Social Problems, vol. 36(1), pp. 75-92, 1989.
"'Hired Hand Research' Revisited." The American Sociologist, vol. 1(3), pp. 260-269, 1988.
"The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro- Choice Movement." American Sociological Review, vol. 53(4), pp. 585-605, 1988.
Reprinted in: Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties ed. by Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics ed. by Doug McAdam and David A. Snow, Roxbury Publishing Co., 1997.
Collective Behavior and Social Movements ed. by Russell L. Curtis, Jr. and Benigo E. Aguirre, Allyn and Bacon, 1993.
"Local Communities and Organized Action." (with Albert Hunter) Pp. 243-276 in Carl Milofsky, ed., Community Organizations: Studies in Resource Mobilization and Exchange. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
"Life-Style Preferences and Social Movement Recruitment: Illustrations from the Abortion Conflict." Social Science Quarterly, vol. 68(4), pp. 779-797, 1987.
"Coalition Work in the Pro-Choice Movement: Organizational and Environmental Opportunities and Obstacles." Social Problems, vol. 33(5), pp. 374-390, 1986.
"Communities Do Act: Communal Characteristics, Resource Mobilization and Political Action by Local Community Organizations." (with Albert Hunter) The Social Science Journal, vol. 23(2), pp. 169-180, 1986.
Book Reviews
Review of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism by Anne Enke. Mobilization, vol. 13(3), pp. 342-343, 2008.
Review of Maryann Barakso, Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women. Gender & Society, vol. 19(6), pp. 864-866, 2005.
Review of Myra Marx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht, Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States. American Journal of Sociology, vol. 110(3), pp. 818-820, 2004.
Review of Silke Roth, Building Movement Bridges: The Coalition of Labor Union Women. Contemporary Sociology, vol. 33(4), pp. 479-480, 2004.
Review of Amy J. Binder, Contentious Curricula, Mobilization, vol 8(2), pp. 233-234, 2003.
Review of Jeffrey Ayres, Defying Conventional Wisdom: Political Movements and Popular Contention against North American Free Trade. Contemporary Sociology, vol 30(6), pp. 613-614, 2001.
Review of Miriam Smith, Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995. Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, March 2000.
Review of Stephen Dale, McLuhan's Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media, Mobilization, vol 3(1), pp. 133-135, 1998.
Review essay: Carole Joffe, Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade; Laura Kaplan, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service; and Wendy Simonds, Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic, Signs, vol. 23(2), pp. 528-531, 1998.
Review of Craig Calhoun, Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China, Mobilization, vol. 1(2), pp. 219-221, 1996.
Review of Charles F. Andrain and David E. Apter, Political Protest and Social Change: Analyzing Politics, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 25(5), pp. 634-635, 1996.
Review of Dallas A. Blanchard, The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Rise of the Religious Right: From Polite to Fiery Protest, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 24(2), pp. 204-205, 1995.
Review of F.L. Morton, Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life: Abortion and the Courts in Canada, Journal of American History, vol. 80(4), p. 1547, 1994.
Review of Aldon D. Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller, eds., Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 22(4), pp. 553-555, 1993.
Review of Steven M. Buechler, Women's Movements in the United States, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 97(1), pp. 214-216, 1991.
Review of Edward J. Walsh, Democracy in the Shadows, Social Forces, vol. 68(3), pp. 979-980, 1990.
Review of Judith Adler Hellman, Journeys Among Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 95(3), pp. 795-797, 1989.
"The Politics and Practice of Abortion." Review essay: Nanette J. Davis, From Crime to Choice: The Transformation of Abortion in America; and Barbara Katz Rothman, The Tentative Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood. Contemporary Sociology, vol. 16(3), pp. 405-408, 1987.
Review of Gary Delgado, Organizing the Movement: The Roots and Growth of ACORN, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 92(5), pp. 1244-1246, 1987.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“Oral History in the Study of Feminist Organizations and Events.” Paper presented at the meetings of the Oral History Association, Pittsburgh, October, 2008.
“Thinking about Strategy” (with David S. Meyer). Paper presented at the Workshop on “Movement Cultures, Strategies, and Outcomes” sponsored by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association, Hofstra University, August 9-10, 2007 and at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, August, 2008.
“What’s Happened to the Canadian Women’s Movement?” (with Judith Taylor). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August, 2006.
“Feminism in the University.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August, 2005.
“Social Movement Campaigns: Mobilization and Outcomes in the Montreal Women’s Movement" (with Josée Lecomte). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August, 2004.
“Culture and Ritual in the Montreal Women’s Movement” (with Amy Lang). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August, 2003.
“Cycles of Activism in Local Movement Organizations: Organizational Strategies in Four Chapters of the National Organization for Women"(with Jo Reger). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August, 2003.
Social Movement Communities and Campaigns: The Montreal Women’s Movement" (with Josée Lecomte) Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, Halifax, N.S., June 2003.
"Grassroots Organizing in a Federated Structure: NOW Chapters in Four Local Fields" (with Jo Reger). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August, 2002.
"Mobilizing the Montreal Women's Movement Community" (with Josée Lecomte). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, August, 2000.
"Countermovement Strategy in American Abortion Politics" (with David S. Meyer). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August, 1999.
"Connecting Micro and Macro in Social Movement Theory." Paper presented at workshop on "Social Movements and Society" sponsored by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association, Davis, California, August 19-21, 1998.
"Countermovement Interaction and Tactical Innovation in American Abortion Politics" (with David S. Meyer). Paper presented at the Conference on Protest Event Analysis, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, July 9-11, 1998.
"Forms of Social Movement Community." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August, 1997.
"The Women's Movement and Public Policy." Invited presentation at thematic session on "Gender and Politics," American Sociological Association, New York, 1996.
"Countermovement Dynamics in Federal Systems: A Comparison of Abortion Movements in Canada and the United States" (with David S. Meyer). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, 1996.
"The Survival and Growth of a Local Midwestern Women's Movement." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, August, 1995.
"Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity." (with David S. Meyer) Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1994.
"Current Developments in the Abortion Conflict." Presentation to North Central Sociological Association, April, 1993.
Discussion at conference on European/American Perspectives on the Dynamics of Social Movements, Washington, DC, August, 1992.
"Can feminist organizations be effective?" Paper presented at the conference on "Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement" sponsored by the American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation, February 14-16, 1992.
"The National Women's Music Festival: A Community that Works?" Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, August, 1991. (with Donna Eder and Lori Sudderth)
"Professional Organization and the Mobilization of Grassroots Activism." Invited presentation at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Cincinnati, August, 1991.
Discussion for session on Social Movements, Southern Sociological Society, 1990.
"Making Multi-Issue Demands in a Single-Issue Movement: Reproductive Rights and the Pro-Choice Movement." Roundtable presentation at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August, 1989.
"Critical Events and the Mobilization of the Pro-Choice Movement." Paper presented at the Workshop on Frontiers in Social Movement Theory sponsored by the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements of the American Sociological Association, University of Michigan, June 8-11, 1988.
"Organizational and Environmental Influences on the Development of the Pro-Choice Movement." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August, 1987.
"Coalition Work in the Pro-Choice Movement: Organizational and Environmental Opportunities and Obstacles." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1985.
"Life-Style Preferences and Social Movement Recruitment: Illustrations from the Abortion Conflict." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April, 1984.
Work's in Progress
“Feminism in the University” (under review)
“Transnational Linkages” (with Anna-Liisa Aunio). Accepted for presention at Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, 2009; conditional acceptance, Sociological Compass.
“The American and Canadian Women’s Movements” (with Judith Taylor)
Social Movements (American edition for Oxford University Press, NY)
Review of Christopher Rootes, ed., Acting Locally: Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns, for Social Movement Studies.