People
Suzanne Staggenborg , PhD
Northwestern University
Title:Professor
Campus Address: 2409 WWPH 
Tel: 412-648-7582
E-mail: suzstagg@pitt.edu
Areas of Interests
Social Movements/Collective Action
Political Sociology
Social Problems
Sociology of Gender and Family
Teaching
I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in social movements and qualitative methods and undergraduate classes in social problems and sociology of the family.
0352 Social Movements, 1324 Social Movements and Moral Crusades, 2339 Theoretical Issues in Social Movements
Selected Publications
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.
“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). Forthcoming in Mobilization, 2009.
“Seeing Mechanisms in Action.” Forthcoming, Qualitative Sociology, 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.
Honors/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
Projects
“Conclusion: Research on Social Movement Coalitions” for Strategic Alliances: New Studies of Social Movement Coalitions edited by Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon.
“Feminism in the University” (under review)
“Transnational Linkages” (with Anna-Liisa Aunio)
“The American and Canadian Women’s Movements” (with Judith Taylor)
“Creating Social Movement Communities” (with Howard Ramos)
“Oral History in the Study of Feminist Organizations and Events.” Paper to be presented at the meetings of the Oral History Association, October, 2008.
Social Movements (American edition for Oxford University Press, NY)