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education (back)
Ph.D., Sociology
2010: New School for Social Research, New York, New York
M.A., Sociology
2004: University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
B.A., Education
1999: University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
university teaching positions (back)
2011- Current Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Missouri at St. Louis
Courses: Urban Sociology (3202); Sociology of Conflict (3268); Current Issues in Anthropology (3291); Power, Ideology, and Social Movements (4316); Qualitative Methods in Social Research (4331); Problems in Urban Community (4344); Ethnic and Minority Relations (4360); Sociological Writing (4365); Masculinities (4600); Special Topics In Women's and Gender Studies (5450); Independent Studies (4350)
2010-2011 Adjunct Professor
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Courses: Introductory Sociology (1000), Sociology of Deviance (1010)
2009-2010 Adjunct Professor
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Courses: Sociology of the Family (1040)
research interests (back)
Urban sociology, urban ethnography, race and ethnicity, community-based studies and action research, sociology of religion, Latino immigration, youth and resistant subcultures, deviance and cultural criminology.
publications (back)
books
2013. Getting the Holy Ghost: Urban Ethnography in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Tongue-Speaking Church (Published – February 1, 2013: Lexington Books)
Refereed journals
2012 “Stemming Urban Decline in the Second Most Urbanized State in the United States: Latino Immigration and Urban Revitalization in New Jersey.” Academic article with David Gladstone (Submitted to Journal of Urbanism)
2012 “Understanding the Causes of Youth Violence in a Segregated Public School.” Academic article in progress and funded with university grant.
2012 “God Hunting Towards Conversion: Laying to Rest the Concept of Crisis.” Academic article in progress
2012 “Tongues: Acquiring 'Holy Ghost Capital' in a Pentecostal Church.” Academic article with linguist Alena Horn in progress
2012 “Music Scenes in a Tongue-Speaking Church.” Academic article in progress
2008 “Cultural Meaning and Hip-hop Fashion in the African-American Male Youth Subculture of New Orleans.” Academic article with Vern Baxter (Published in Journal of Youth Studies, 11:2, 93-113)
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INVITED PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & COMMUNITY SERVICE:
2012. “Getting the Holy Ghost: Experiences in an African American Tongue-Speaking Church.” The Academy of Science - St. Louis and OASIS Institute Annual Fund “On Science” Speakers Program in St. Louis, MO
Academic Conferences:
2013 (Upcoming Presentation) “Ritualized Construction of the Pentecostal Scene: Religious Practices in Late Modernity.” The Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society. St. Louis, Missouri on April 4-6, 2013.
2013 (Upcoming Presentation) “Getting the Holy Ghost: An Ethnography of God Hunting and Conversion Experiences in a Pentecostal Tongue-speaking Church.” Midwest Sociological Society Conference. Chicago, Illinois on March 27th-30th.
2013 (Upcoming Presentation) “Youth Violence and Hegemonic Gender Identity.” Midwest Sociological Society Conference. Chicago, Illinois on March 27th-30th.
2012 "Religious Experiences and Social Constructions of the Sacred." Academic paper presentation at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction conference in Denver.
2012 “Racial Segregation and School Violence: A Critical Approach.” Academic paper presentation at the Midwest Sociological Society conference in Minnesota.
2011 “Understanding the Causes of Youth Violence in a Segregated Public School.” Academic paper presentation at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology annual conference in NewOrleans.
2011 “Getting the Holy Ghost: God Hunting and Tongue-Speaking Experiences in a Pentecostal Church.” Academic paper presentation at the Annual Association for the Sociology of Religion conference in Las Vegas.
2008 “Transgressive Performances: Music and Culture in Late Modernity.” Facilitator for the annual Transgressions Conference “On the Edge: Transgression and the Dangerous Other” in New York City
2007 “Cultural Meaning and Hip Hop Fashion in the African American Male Youth Subculture in New Orleans.” Academic paper presented at the American Sociological Association meeting, New York, NY (Summer 2007) Regular Session. Cultural Studies II.
Invited Speaker:
2011 “Peeling the Onion: Three Ways of Thinking and Doing Qualitative Research.” Guest Lecture in social research methods class at the University of Missouri at St. Louis
2010 “Ethnographic Methods in Cultural Criminology” at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
2009 “Youth and Resistance” at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
2008 “Ethnographic Methods” at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
2004 “Urban Education in Slum New Orleans Neighborhoods” at University of New Orleans
departmental & professional associations/service (back)
Departmental
2011 Current: Member, Anthropology, Sociology and Languages Alumni and Majors event
2011 Current: Member, Anthropology, Sociology, and Languages Student Recruitment and Retention Committee.
2011 Current: Member, Freshman University Experience.
2011-2012: Contributor, Five-Year Review
2011 Current Member, Master of Arts Program Development Committee.
2011 Current Member, Anthropology, Sociology, and Languages Student Recruitment and Retention Committee
2011 Current Member, Freshman University Experience.
Disciplinary
2012 Book Proposal Reviewer, Oxford University Press
2011 Current Editorial Associate, Theory and Society (Academic Journal)
2011 Current Reviewer, Sociological Inquiry (Academic Journal)
2011 Current Member, Association for the Sociology of Religion
2009 Current Member, American Sociological Association
2008 Current Member, The Study of Social Problems
grants (back)
2012 $12,000 College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Research Award for “Understanding the Process of Becoming Violent: Youth Violence in Public Schools
2011 $1000 Departmental Travel Grant: Academic Conference Presentation in New Orleans
2011 $500 Departmental Grant: In support of research on “Understanding the Process of Becoming Violent: Youth Violence and Identification with Gendered Identities.”
2005 – 2010 Full Tuition Scholarship. New School for Social Research
research (back)
INDEPENDENT STUDY PROJECTS DIRECTED
Spring 2012 Amanda L Kowalski. “`Coming Out` as Sex-Positive: Sexual Performativity and Spatial Negotiations of St. Louis` Sex-Positive Community.” Paper presented at the 2012 Midwest Sociological Society.
Spring 2012 Jennifer Pierce. “Sex, Dance and Blues: The Expression of Sex and Sexuality in the St. Louis Blues Music Scene.” Paper presented at the 2012 Midwest Sociological Society.
Dissertation
Title: Becoming Pentecostal: Conversion Careers in a Holy Ghost Church
Committee: Terry Williams (chair), David Brotherton, and Vera Zolberg.
M.A. Thesis
Title: Cultural Meaning and Hip Hop Fashion in the African-American Male Youth Subculture in New Orleans
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Book Manuscript:
Black and Blue: Police Cultures and Practices in the New Orleans Police Department (Grant opportunities are being investigated at this time; Considering various contract offers from academic and commercial-academic presses).
I recently received rare permission from the superintendent of the NOPD to conduct a 3-year ethnographic study that focuses on the relationship between police culture and practices in New Orleans.
Article Manuscripts:
Youth School and Community Violence in St. Louis: Understanding the Process of Becoming Violent (with Nancy Shields) (Grant Received: University of Missouri -St. Louis College of Arts and Sciences Research Award: $12,000 possible renewal every year)
This community based research in St. Louis is a four-year longitudinal study that follows freshman students in an African-American high school to their senior year using both qualitative and quantitative methods (a methodological “dance” throughout the research process). This research creates a theoretical model explaining youth violence that takes into account the role of gendered identities and the narrative accounts of youths concerning their own involvement in violence.
Expected peer-review articles:
Latino Immigration and Urban Revitalization in New Jersey (with David Gladstone).
I am working with a colleague on a project dealing with Latino immigration and settlement patterns in the New York metropolitan area, one part of a larger project we plan to undertake in the coming years on immigration and settlement patterns in US urban areas, including a submitted article titled Stemming Urban Decline in the Second Most State in the United States: Latino Immigration and Urban Revitalization in New Jersey.
future projects (back)
Please visit my Research Page more information on these projects as it becomes available.
Becoming an Outsider: Process Analysis to Explain Ten Types of Deviants
Operation Pedro Pan: Understanding Child Migration
Spontaneous Urban Tribes: The Case of New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina
Becoming Gutter-Punk: An Ethnography on Middle Class Slum Life
secondary school teaching experience (back)
2009–2010 Crossroads Juvenile Correctional Facility, Brooklyn, NY
Courses: English Literature, Global History
2005–2009 High School for the Humanities, New York, NY
Courses: Social Studies, Advanced American History, Economics
2000–2004 John F. Kennedy High School, New Orleans, LA
Courses: Social Studies, Math
1999–2000 Saint John the Baptist De La Salle HS, New Orleans, LA
Courses: Civics, American History, Sociology, Psychology
honors & awards (back)
Dean’s List, University of New Orleans, 1995-1999; Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society; Golden Key National Honor Society; Who’s Who Among American Teachers
certifications (back)
Tenured Teacher – New York State and New York City:
Social Studies, Secondary School (2009)
Tenured Teacher – Louisiana State:
Social Studies, Secondary School (2004)
references (back)
David Brotherton
Chair Sociology Department
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
899 Tenth Avenue, Room 520.34T
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.237.8666
dbroth8948@aol.com
Barry Spunt
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
899 Tenth Avenue, Room 520.20T
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.237.8677
bspunt@jjay.cuny.edu
Terry Williams
Full Professor, Sociology Department
The New School for Social Research
6 East 16th Street, Room 1014
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212.229.5737 ext.3132
willit01@newschool.edu
David Gladstone
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies
University of New Orleans
2000 Lake Shore Drive
New Orleans, LA 70148
Phone: 504.453.4707
dgladstone@uno.edu
Jock Young
Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice
The Graduate Center,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
899 10th Avenue, Room 520.16 T
New York, NY10019
Phone: 212.237.8999
jyoung@jjay.cuny.edu
Nancy Shields
Associate Professor
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Director, Department of Sociology
314.614.6866
nancy_shields@umsl.edu
Robert O. Keel
Teaching Professor of Sociology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
314.225.7285
rok@umsl.edu