Current Links:
-Symposium: Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media (April 30-May 2, 2009)
-TWC - Call for Papers 'Transformative Works and Cultures'
-Dr. Henry Jenkins interviews Dr. Sarah N. Gatson re: race/ethnicity and the media
Teaching/Research Interests:
Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Culture, Legal Studies, Community, Citizenship, Media & Technology, Qualitative Methods
Professional Group Affiliations:
American
Sociological Association (Sections: Racial and Ethnic
Minorities, Sex & Gender, Sociology of Law, Comparative
Historical Methods, Culture, Community and Urban Sociology, &
Communication and Information Technologies);
Law and Society Association; Sociologists for Women in Society; Association of Black Sociologists;
Southwestern Social Science Association;
TAMU Glasscock Center for Humanities
Research – Ethnography/Theory Working Group,
and the
Humanities Informatics Working Group.
I am most interested in how people organize themselves in terms of
community and citizenship. These two concepts both run
parallel to one another, and are two ends of a continuum.
Because “community” and “citizenship” are broad, contested
processes, there are many ways one can study them. I focused my
analyses initially upon gender and race as they intersect with
these processes. I am also concerned with their significance as
cultural systems, and as ideologies that permeate all our
lives. I have moved back and forth from a focus on policy and
law, and thus the more formal process of citizenship, to a more
generalized focus on the micro- to macro-level processes of
identity, community, and citizenship, and the connections
between these processes.
On this website, you will find links to
information on my research publications and works in progress,
courses I teach, and activities that bridge research and
practice. If you are an interested student or practitioner
(academic or otherwise) in the ongoing and proposed research
projects, please feel free to contact me to discuss them.
Spring 2010 SOCI 315W/WMST489 Writing Center
~"Democracy: Four wolves and a lamb voting on lunch."
Anonymous
~"I plan to grow out of my high school nerd phase by the
time I hit my early 40s." Joss Whedon
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