Vitae

John W. Mohr

(Last updated 2/7/05)

 

Department of Sociology                                                                                                                   office: 805-893-2013

2834 Ellison Hall                                                                                                                                            fax: 805-893-3324

University of California                                                                                                                        email: mohr@soc.ucsb.edu

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430                                                                                              web page: www.soc.ucsb.edu/ct

 

Education             1992        Ph.D.       Sociology, Yale University
1983        M.A.        Sociology, Yale University
1979        M.A.        Comparative Culture, University of California, Irvine
1978        B.A.          Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

Academic Appointments:

 

2001                                            Visiting Professor, Scuola di Specializzazione Metodi e Tecniche per la Ricerca Sociale, Universit di Roma, Italy.

2000-2004                         Associate Dean, Graduate Division, UC, Santa Barbara.

1997-Present                  Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1997                                            Directeur d'tudes Associ, Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.

1991-1997                         Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1988-1990                         Instructor and Statistical Consultant, Yale Computer Center.

1984-1988                         Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Yale University.

 

Areas of Specialization                Complex Organizations, Educational Policy, Formal Methods, Historical/Comparative Methods, Sociology of Science, Social Policy, Social Stratification, Sociology of Culture, Welfare State.

 

Forthcoming Publications: Books

 

2005        Mohr, John W. Formalizing Cultural Studies: Identities, Dualities and Fields

 

Forthcoming Publications: Articles and Chapters

 

2005        John W. Mohr and Francesca Guerra-Pearson. The Duality of Niche and Form:  The Differentiation of Institutional Space in New York City, 1888-1917. Forthcoming in How Institutions Change, Walter Powell and Dan Jones (eds). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

2005        John W. Mohr. Implicit Terrains: Meaning, Measurement, and Spatial Metaphors in Organizational Theory. Forthcoming in Constructing Industries and Markets, Jospeh Porac and Marc Ventresca (eds). NY: Elsevier.

 

Publications: Books, Articles and Chapters

 

2004        John W. Mohr. The Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform. In the The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, edited by Mark Jacobs and Nancy Hanrahan.  Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers.

 

2004        Roger Friedland and John W. Mohr (editors), Matters of Culture:  Cultural Sociology in Practice. Cambridge University Press.

 

2004        Roger Friedland and John W. Mohr. The Cultural Turn in American Sociology. Matters of Culture:  Cultural Sociology in Practice.  Cambridge University Press.

 

2004.  John Mohr, Michel Bourgeois, and Vincent Duquenne. The Logic of Opportunity: A Formal Analysis of the University of California's Outreach and Diversity Discourse. Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, Research and Occasional Papers Series, 2004, http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/publications/papers/papers.html.

 

2004        Breiger, Ronald L. and John W. Mohr. Institutional Logics from the Aggregation of Organizational Networks:  Operational Procedures for the Analysis of Counted Data. Computational and Mathematical  Organization Theory, 10: 17-43.

 

2004       Breiger, Ronald L. and John W. Mohr. Duality and the Aggregation of Social Categories. Revista hispana para el anlisis de redes sociales (REDES), vol. 5. #4 (January/February, 2004).

 

2003        John W. Mohr The Cultural Turn in American Sociology - A Report from the Field. Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3, Spring.

 

2002        Marc Ventresca and John W. Mohr. Archival Research Methods. Pages 805-828 in The Blackwell Companion to Organizations, edited by Joel A. C. Baum. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers.

 

2000        John W. Mohr and Helene K. Lee. From Affirmative Action to Outreach: Discourse Shifts at the University of California. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts. Special Issue on "Culture  and Cognition" edited by Karen Cerulo Vol. 28/1:47-71.

 

2000        John W. Mohr. Introduction:  Structures, Institutions, and Cultural Analysis. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts:  Special Issue on "Relational Analysis and Institutional Meanings:  Formal Models for the Study of Culture" edited by John W. Mohr. Vol. 27/2-3:57-68.

 

1998        John W. Mohr. "Measuring Meaning Structures." Annual Review of Sociology,  Vol. 24:345-70.

 

1998        John W. Mohr. "Using a Computer to 'Find Meaning' in Historical Texts." Newsletter of the Comparative & Historical Section of the American Sociological Association. Vol. 10, No. 4.:1-6.

 

1998        Vincent Duquenne, John W. Mohr, and Annick Le Pape. "Comparison of Dual Orderings in Time." Social Science Information, Volume 37(2):227-253.

 

1998        John W. Mohr. "The Classificatory Logics of State Welfare Systems:  Towards a Formal Analysis." Pages 207-38 in Public Rights, Public Rules:  Constituting Citizens in the World Polity and National Policy, Connie McNeely (ed.). NY: Garland Publishing, Inc.

 

1997        John W. Mohr and Vincent Duquenne. "The Duality of Culture and Practice:  Poverty Relief in New York City, 1888-1917." Theory and Society, (April/June) Vol. 26/2-3: 305-356.

 

1997        Roberto Franzosi and John W. Mohr. "New Directions in Formalization and Historical Analysis." Theory and Society, (April/June) Vol. 26/2-3: 133-160.

 

1996        John W. Mohr and Francesca Guerra-Pearson. "The Impact of State Intervention in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the New Deal." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Vol. 25, no. 4., p. 525-539.

 

1995        John W. Mohr and Paul DiMaggio. "The Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Capital."  Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 14, p. 169-200.

 

1994        John W. Mohr. "Soldiers, Mothers, Tramps and Others: Discourse Roles in the 1907 New York City Charity Directory."  Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts  22: 327-357.

 

1985        Paul DiMaggio and John W. Mohr. "Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment and Marital Selection." American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 90, no. 6:1231-1261.

 

Publications: Book Reviews

 

1998        Narrating the Organization:  Dramas of Institutional Identity, by Barbara Czarniawska. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 104:277-78.

 

1994        Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, by Theda Skocpol.  American Journal of Sociology Vol. 100: 277-79.

 

1994        The Logic and Method of Macrosociology:  An Input-Output Approach to Organizational Networks, by Krishnan Namboodiri and Ronald G. Corwin. Social Forces, Vol. 23, no. 2: 773-774.

 

1992        The Transformation of Criminal Justice, by Allen Steinberg. Contemporary Sociology Vol. 21, no. 2:  233-234.

 

1984        Mass Media and Adolescent Schooling, by Keith Roe. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 13, no. 5: 601-2.

 

Technical Reports

 

1999        John W. Mohr and Judy Taylor. "University of California College Prep Initiative Pilot Implementation:  Evaluation and Assessment,"  Submitted to the University of California Office of the President.

 

1996        John W. Mohr and Francesca Guerra-Pearson. "The New Deal and the Nonprofit,"  Submitted to the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute.

 

Other Papers (Conference Papers being revised and available upon request)

 

John W. Mohr. "Bourdieu's Relational Method in Theory and Practice."

 

John W. Mohr, Vincent Duquenne and Michael Bourgeois. How to Read an Institution: A Structural Approach.

 

John W. Mohr and Francesca Guerra-Pearson. "The Production of Institutional Space: Towards a History of Organizational Innovations in the Human Services Sector."

 

John W. Mohr and Craig Rawlings. "Reinventing Asylums: Transformations in the Niche Structure of Progressive Era Custodial Institutions."

 

John W. Mohr and Krista Paulsen. "Locating the Origins of America's Two-Channel Welfare State: Evidence from New York City's Relief Organizations, 1888-1917."

 

John W. Mohr. "How to Make a Museum:  Suggestions from Two Cultural Theories."

 

Elin Waring and John W. Mohr. "White Collar Crime Before Sutherland:  Moral Boundaries and Social Change During the Progressive Era."

 

John W. Mohr.  "The Rise of the Specialized Nonprofit Organization in the American Social Welfare Sector."

 

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

 

2005        Niche Width, Discourse Vectors and Institutional Space: Some Measurement Issues.  Invited presentation for the Knowledge Networks Seminar, Stanford University.

 

2004        UC-AGEP:  New Pathways to Participation Invited presentation at the New Mexico AGEP Conference, Las Cruces, NM. 

 

2004        Institutional Transformation and the UC AGEP Program.  Invited presentation at the Enhanced Collaborative Strategies: Community Building Panel of the Joint Annual Meeting (JAM), Division of Human Resource Development, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.

 

2004        Cultural Interpretation and Formal Models:  Systematic Study of Meaning Structures in Textsinvited presentation in the Research Methods and Tools in the Social Sciences Seminar Series, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (ISBER), UCSB, March 5, 2004. 

 

2003       Formalization and Signification: Welfare Discourse in Progressive Era New York,invited presentation at the Social Science History Association, Gender Network mini-conference, Baltimore, MD.

 

2003       Organizational Innovation, Graduate Diversity and the UC-AGEP Project.  Invited presentation at the CIRTL conference on November, 5th, 2003, Madison, WI.

 

2003        Formalizing Institutional Analysis. Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA.

 

2003        Discourses of Welfare and Welfare Reform. Invited presentation at the Comparative and Historical Analysis Seminar, UCLA.

 

2003        The Organizational Context of the Implementation of Outreach Policies at the UC. Invited presentation at the CSHE, University of California of Berkeley, CA.

 

2003        Sociological Theory in the 21st Century. Invited presentation at the Pacific Sociological  Association meetings, Pasadena, CA.

 

2002             Institutional Logics from Dual Aggregation.(Co-authored with Ronald Breiger).  Paper presented at the University of California Irvine Mini-Conference: Mathematical and Statistical Issues in Social Network Analysis. 

 

2002        Cultural Networks and Postmodern Theory. Invited presentation at the University of Arizona, Tucson AZ.

 

2002        How to Read an Institution: A Structural Approach. (Co-authored with Vincent Duquenne and Michael Bourgeois). Paper presented at the meetings of the Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, New Orleans, LA.

 

2001             Relational Meaning Analysis of Texts. Invited presentation for Vereniging voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap (VAL) at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

 

2001            Social Classifications in Organizational Fields: Towards a Measurement Strategy. Invited presentation at the Department of Language and Literature, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

 

2001        Social Classifications in Organizational Fields: Towards a Measurement Strategy. Invited presentation at UCSB Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Seminar.

 

2001        Reading Organizational Archives:  Text and Context in the 'New Archivalism' in Organization Theory. (Co-authored with Marc Ventresca).  Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, CA.

 

2001        Bourdieu's Relational Method in Theory and Practice. Invited presentation at the Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Rome, Italy.

 

2001        Bringing Interpretive Analysis into Macro-Organizational Science. Invited presentation at the Dipartimento Contabilit Nazionale e Analisi dei Processi Sociali, Scuola di Specializzazione Metodi e Tecniche per la Ricerca Sociale, Universit di Roma, Italy.

 

2001        Bourdieu's Relational Method in Theory and Practice. Invited presentation at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

2000        Meaning and Measurement in Organizational Analysis. Invited presentation at the Institutions, Conflict, and Change Research Conference at the Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, Ill.

 

2000        Bourdieu's Relational Method in Theory and Practice. Invited presentation at the American Sociological Association  Meetings, Washington D.C.

 

1999        Niche Narratives:  Telling Stories and Claiming Space. (Co-authored with Helene Lee) Invited presentation at the Rutgers University Culture and Cognition Conference,  New Brunswick, NJ.

 

1999        Perrows Perspective on Power. Invited presentation at the American Sociological Association  Meetings, Chicago, Ill.

 

1999        Measuring Institutional Meanings. Invited presentation at the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

1998        Quantification and the Historical Study of Cultural Meanings. Invited presentation at the Department of Sociology University of California, Davis, CA.

 

1998        "Where do Organizational Innovations Come From? Institutional Creativity Among Nonprofit Social Service Agencies, 1888-1917."  Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

 

1998        "Measuring Meaning and Social Structure Together: Towards a Newer Institutionalism."  Invited presentation at the Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

 

1997        "Towards a Quantitative Ecology of Meaning."  Invited presentation at the Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

 

1997        "Why Organizational Ecology Should (and Can) Become an Interpretive Social Science."  Invited presentation at the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

 

1997        "Mapping Meaning:  A Network Approach."  Invited presentation at the Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.

 

1997        "The Theory and Measurement of Institutional Structure."  Invited presentation at the Divis de Cincies Jurdiques, Econniques i Socials, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

 

1997        "Myth, Kinship and Content Analysis:  The Return of French Structuralism (By Way of California)."  Invited presentation at the Department of Language and Literature, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

 

1997        "Using Network Methods to Formalize the Study of Culture."  Invited presentation at the Reseaux et Regulation Seminaire, LASMAS, Institut de Recherche sur les Socits Contemporaines, Paris, France.

 

1997        "The Duality of Culture and Practice in Time:  A Case Study on Poverty Relief in New York City, 1888-1917," (Co-authored with Vincent Duquenne) Invited presentation at the Sminaire Mathmatiques Discrtes et Sciences Sociales at the Centre d'Analyse et de Mathmatique Sociales, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France.

 

1997        "The Production of Institutional Space:  Towards a History of Organizational Innovations in the Human Services Sector."  (Co-authored with Francesca Guerra-Pearson). Invited presentation at the University of Michigan Conference, "Environmental Uncertainty and the Issue of New Organizational Forms in the Human Services Sector," Ann Arbor, MI.

 

1996        "The Rise and Fall of the Settlement House:  Organizational Competition and the Meaning of Poverty."  (Co-authored with Francesca Guerra-Pearson) Paper presented at the meetings of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, LA.

 

1996        "The Differentiation of Institutional Space: Organizational Forms in the New York Social Welfare Sector, 1888-1907."  (Co-authored with Francesca Guerra-Pearson) Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY.

 

1996        "The Problem of Differentiation in Institutional Analysis."  (Co-authored with Francesca Guerra-Pearson) Invited presentation at the University of Arizona Conference on Frontiers of Institutional Analysis, Tucson, AZ.

 

1995        "The Cultural Construction of Institutional Domains." Invited presentation at the University of Chicago Department of Sociology/Political Science, Chicago, IL.

 

1995        "White Collar Crime Before White Collar Crime." (Co-authored w/ Elin Waring). Presented at the meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, MA.

 

1995        "The Impact of Changing State Committments to Social Welfare: Then and Now" (Co-authored with Francesca Guerra-Pearson). Presented at the meetings of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL.

 

1995        "How To Make a Museum: Suggestions from Two Cultural Theories." Presented at the meetings of the Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Association, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

1995        "The Impact of State Intervention in the Non-profit Sector: The Case of the New Deal" (Co-authored with Francesca Guerra-Pearson). Presented at the meetings of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Cleveland, OH.

 

1995        "Reinventing Asylums: Transformations in the Niche Structure of Progressive Era Custodial Institutions." Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.

 

1995        "Measuring Meaning Structures."  Invited presentation at the American Sociological Association Culture Section Conference on Meaning and Measurement at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

 

1995        "Mapping the Structure of an Organizational Environment: The Case of Asylums During the Progressive Era." Invited presentation at the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA.

 

1995        "Niche Boundaries As Jurisdictional Disputes: Custodial Institutions In The Progressive Era." Paper presented at the Stanford University Center for Organizations Research Conference at Asilomar, CA.

 

1994        "The Many Meanings of Poverty: Linguistics Distinctions Used by Progressive Era Relief Agencies." Paper presented at the meetings of the Social Science History Association, Atlanta, GA.

 

1994        "Network Effects on Progressive Era Social Reform." Paper presented at the meetings of the Social Science History Association, Atlanta, GA.

 

1994        "Organizational Niches as Institutional Constructs:  The Case of Social Service Agencies in the Progressive Era." Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA.

 

1994        "What Methods Should We Use to Study the Social Construction of Markets and Industries?" Invited presentation, University of Illinois College of Commerce and Business Administration Conference on The Social Construction of Markets and Industries, Chicago, IL.

 

1994        "Theorizing the Field: Topological vs. Network Models of Organizational Space." Invited presentation at the University of Illinois College of Commerce and Business Administration Conference on The Social Construction of Markets and Industries, Chicago, IL.

 

1994        "Poverty Ideas and Poverty Solutions: Mapping their Duality." Paper presented at the meetings of the Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, New Orleans, LA.

 

1993        "Tracking Categorization Practices Among Poverty Organizations in New York City, 1888-1917." Paper presented at the meetings of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, MD.

 

1993        "Measuring Meaning Structures in an Institutional Field: Poverty Discourse in New York City, 1888-1917." Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Miami, FL.

 

1992        "People, Categories and Organizations: Making Sense Out of Poverty in New York City, 1888-1917." Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

 

1991        "Patterns of Occupational Inheritance of Cultural Capital." (Co-authored with Paul DiMaggio). Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.

 

1988        "Modeling the Effects of Institutional Factors on the Birth of Health and Human Service Organizations: The Case of Child and Youth Services Organizations, 1800-1930." Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA.

 

1986        "The Coordination of Social Service Delivery Systems:  Some Thoughts on the Applicability of Institutional and Population Ecology Approaches to Empirical Research." Paper presented at the NIMH Conference on Health Services Delivery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

 

1985        "Organizational Context, Cluster Size and the Provision of Psychiatric Services in Public and Private General Hospitals." (Co-authored with Philip Leaf). Paper presented at the NIMH Mental Health Services Conference, Chicago, IL.

 

1983        "Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment and Marital Selection." (Co-authored with Paul DiMaggio). Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Detroit, MI.

 

Fellowships and Awards

 

1997                                Winner of the ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) Annual Award for Outstanding Article in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. Awarded to the article:  "The Impact of State Intervention in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the New Deal," (co-authored with Francesca Guerra-Pearson) Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Vol. 25, no. 4., p. 525-539.

 

1997                                Research Fellowship, Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.

 

1996                                Winner of the American Sociological Association Culture Section Annual Award for "Best Article." Awarded for the article, "Soldiers, Mothers, Tramps and Others: Discourse Roles in the 1907 New York City Charity Directory."  Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts  22: 327-357.

 

1996                                UCSB Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, "Rethinking the Structural Analysis of Culture."

 

1994                                UCSB Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, "African Americans and Poverty Relief: Organizational Discrimination and Community Response in New York City, 1888-1917."

 

1984-1987             NIMH Mental Health Services Training Fellowship

 

1983                                Yale Program on Nonprofit Organizations Rockefeller Fellowship

 

1982                                Yale University Sociology Alumni Fellowship

 

1981                                Yale University Fellowship

 

1979                                University of California Regents Fellowship

 

1978                                UCI School of Humanities Honors Award

 

1978                                UCI Honors Social Theory Award

 

1978                                Phi Beta Kappa

 

Grants and Contracts

 

2004                                The National Science Foundation, The University of California Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences (3 year, 3 campuses).  Co-PI with Gloria Chun (UCB) and Shirley Hune (UCLA) ($900,000).

 

2004                                The National Science Foundation, The UC Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate(5 year, 10 campuses). Co-PI with Ellen Switkes (UCOP) and 9 others.  ($10,000,000).

 

2004                                The Institute for Womens Leadership (Rutgers University).  Re-Affirming Action at UCSB: A Proposal In Support of Change (co-authored with Joe Castro and Sarah Fenstermaker). 

 

2004                                University of California Santa Barbara, ISBER Social Science Research Grants Program "Conceptualizing diversity in a post-affirmative action era".

 

2004                                UCSB Instructional Development Grant, Web-Based Modules for Teaching Content Analysis.

 

2004                                UCSB Instructional Development Grant,  Teaching Undergraduate Survey Research Methods: The Development of Web-Based Toolkits Across Social Science Disciplines (co-authored with Raymond Wong and Garrett Glasgow).

 

2002                                The UC Center for Studies in Higher Education Research Grant, Organizational Context and the Implementation of UC Outreach Policies.

 

2002                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, The Duality of Theory and Method in American Sociology, 1930-1990.

 

2001                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, Mapping the Meaning of Outreach.

 

2000                                UCSB Instructional Development Grant, "Learning by Doing:  A Web-based Project Module Approach to Teaching Introductory Sociological Methods."

 

1999                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, Reaching Out: An Investigation of the University of Californias Post Affirmative Action Outreach Initiative.

 

1999                                University of California Santa Barbara, ISBER Social Science Research Grants Program Jurisdictional Conflicts in the UC Outreach Initiative Project.

 

1999                                University of California Office of the President, College Prep
Initiative Grant An Evaluation of Distance Learning Pilot Project.

 

1998                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research grant, Narratives of Otherness in the National Geographic, 1888-1988.

 

1998                                UCSB College of Letters and Sciences,Gender Dynamics in American Society.

 

1997                                Humanities Research Institute (University of California, Irvine) Conference grant, "The Cultural Turn: Power, Meaning and Social Theory." (Co-authored with Roger Friedland) ($8,000).

 

1997                                UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Conference grant, "The Cultural Turn: Power, Meaning and Social Theory." (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1997                                UCSB Office of Research Conference grant, "The Cultural Turn: Power, Meaning and Social Theory." (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1997                                UCSB School of Social Sciences Conference grant, "The Cultural Turn: Power, Meaning and Social Theory." (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1997                                UCSB School of Humanities Conference grant, "The Cultural Turn: Power, Meaning and Social Theory." (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1997                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research grant, "The Destitute, the Deserving and the Distressed."

 

1997                                UCSB College of Letters and Sciences, "Studying Everyday Conventions of Race, Class and Gender."

 

1997                                UCSB Office of Research Grant, "Culture and Cognition - A Video Conference."  (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1997                                UCSB Office of Instructional Development Grant, "Culture and Cognition - A Video Conference."  (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1996                                American Sociological Association Council Subcommittee on Advancement of the Discipline grant, "Cultural Sociology and Cultural Studies: Towards a Common Ground?" (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1996                                UCSB College of Letters and Sciences Instructional Improvement grant, "Documenting Contemporary Social Problems."

 

1996                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research grant, "Public Spaces-Private Spaces: Towards A Social Ecology Of Auspice Relations."

 

1995                                UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Conference grant, "Cultural Sociology and Cultural Studies: Towards a Common Ground?" (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1995                                UCSB College of Letters and Sciences Conference grant, "Cultural Sociology and Cultural Studies: Towards a Common Ground?" (Co-authored with Roger Friedland).

 

1995                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research grant, "The Rise And Fall of the Settlement House."

 

1994-5                         Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund grant, "The New Deal and the Nonprofit: Assessing the Impact of State Actions on the Niche Structure of Social Welfare Agencies"  ($37,000).

 

1994                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research grant, "Gender, Career and Social Network: Determinants of the Professional Ideologies of Progressive Era Social Reformers."

 

1993                                American Sociological Association Council Subcommittee on Advancement of the Discipline grant, "The Cultural Construction of Organizational Niches:  The Utility of Interpretive Measures in Predicting Success Among Innovative Organizational Forms in Progressive Era Poverty Agencies."

 

1993                                UCSB Instructional Development  grant, "Graphical Approaches to Teaching the Introduction to Sociology."

 

1993                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research grant, "Lattices and Poverty Discourse."

 

1992                                UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research grant, "The New York City Charity Directories Project."

 

Professional Service:

                                   

2002-03                                 Chair, American Sociological Association Culture Section.

2001-02                                 Chair, ASA Culture Section Student Paper Award Committee.

2000                                            Guest editor, special issue Poetics, on the topic of "Relational Analysis and Institutional Meanings:  Formal Models for the Study of Culture."

1997-00                                 Elected Member of Council, American Sociological Association Culture Section.

1997-current                  Member of Editorial Board, Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts.

1997-98                                 Member of Program Committee, Pacific Sociological  Association.

1997                                            Guest Editor (with Roberto Franzosi), special issue Theory and Society, on the topic of "New Directions in Formalization and Historical Analysis."

1996-current                  Member of Editorial Board, Theory and Society.

1996-97                                 "Best Article" Awards Committee for ASA Culture Section.

1994-97                                 Founder and Co-Chair, Research Network on "History and Culture" for American Sociological Association Culture Section.

1995-96                                 Nominations Committee for American Sociological Association Culture Section.

1994-96                                 Co-Chair, Theory and Methods Network of the Social Science History Association.

1994-95                                 Chair, Nominations Committee for American Sociological Association Culture Section.

1992-93                                 American Sociological Association Culture Section Program Committee.

Past Reviewer for:

 

Administrative Science Quarterly

American Journal of Sociology

American Sociological Review

Cambridge University Press

Gender and Society

Greenhaven Press

National Endowment for the Humanities (Summer Stipend Awards Program)

National Science Foundation - Decision, Risk and Management Science Program

National Science Foundation - Sociology Program

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts

Princeton University Press

Social Forces

Social Politics:  International Studies in Gender, State and Society

Social Problems

Social Science Research

Sociological Forum

Sociological Theory

Sociology of Education

Theory and Society

W.W. Norton

 

Organizer, Presider or Commentator

 

2004        Commentator, author meets critics session on Amy Binders book, Contentious Curricula, Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

 

2004        Organizer of 3 (Regular Submissions) panels on Cultural Analysis for American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, CA.

 

2003       Panel facilitator on Graduate Diversity at UCOP Conference on Outreach Initiatives, Oakland, CA.

 

2003        Co-Organizer (with Tim Dowd) of Meaning and Measurement conference held at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (www.soc.ucsb.edu/ct).

 

2003        Co-Organizer (with Roger Friedland) of The Cultural Turn IV: Institutions and Institutionalization conference held at University of California, Santa Barbara (www.soc.ucsb.edu/ct).

 

2003        Organizer of special invited panel on "Relational Methods of Cultural Analysis" for American Sociological Association meetings, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

2002        Organizer of 6 panels on Cultural Analysis for American Sociological Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.

 

2001        Co-Organizer (with Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht) of The Cultural Turn III: The Profane and the Sacred conference held at University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

2000        Discussant, panel entitled Social Structures and Mental Structures at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C.

 

1999        Co-Organizer (with John Hall) of Modernitys Histories conference held at University of California, Santa Barbara, (May 8-9).

 

1999        Presider and commentator panel entitled Ambiguous Cultures of Modernity at the Modernitys Histories conference held at University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

1999        Co-Organizer (with Roger Friedland) of The Cultural Turn II: Power, Meaning and Social Theory conference held at University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

1998        Organizer for panel on "The Sociology of Culture" (with Jon Cruz) for the Pacific Sociological Association meetings.

 

1997        Organizer of panel entitled "Tracing Meanings Through Time: Theoretical and Methodological Dilemmas" for the Social Science History Association Meetings in Washington, D.C.

 

1997        Organizer of panel entitled "Towards a Cultural Theory of States and State Actions" for the Social Science History Association Meetings in Washington, D.C.

 

1997        Organizer of Workshop on "Methods and Theory of Cultural-Historical Analysis" (sponsored by "History and Culture" Research Network of the ASA Culture Section) at the American Sociological Association meetings in Toronto.

 

1997        Organizer of American Sociological Association Culture Section panel entitled "New Directions in Cultural Approaches to Historical Analysis" for the American Sociological Association meetings in Toronto.

 

1997        Co-Organizer (with Roger Friedland) of "The Cultural Turn Conference" held at University of California, Santa Barbara, February 14-16. More than 150 participants from various disciplines attended this conference, including many who traveled from as far away as Europe and East-Asia.

 

1996        Discussant, panel entitled "Before the Welfare State: Public Relief and Private Charity in the 19th century," at the meetings of the Social Science History Association.

 

1996        Organizer for two hour workshop on the "The Role of Culture in Historical Explanation" sponsored by the History and Culture Research Network of the ASA Culture Section held at the 1996 American Sociological Association meetings in New York City.

 

1995        Presider, panel entitled "Political Transitions and the Cultural Sphere" at the meetings of the Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Association.

 

1995        Presider, panel entitled "Perspectives on Resource Dependency Theory" at the meetings of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

 

1995        Presider, discussant, and session organizer for session entitled "The Formation of Institutional Fields" at the meetings of the Social Science History Association.

 

1995        Presider and discussant, panel entitled "Social Networks:  Community and Culture" at the meetings of the American Sociological Association.

 

1995        Panel member for open discussion session entitled "Boundaries in Principles and Practices:  Notes From the Field" held at the Stanford University Center for Organizations Research Conference at Asilomar.

 

1994        Presider and discussant, panel on "Organizational Environments" at the meetings of the American Sociological Association.

 

1994        Organizer of panel entitled "Finding Structures, Measuring Meanings:  New Advances in Quantitative Visualization" for the meetings of the Social Science History Association.

 

1993        Presider, discussant,and session organizer for Culture Section "Open Submissions Panel" at the meetings of the American Sociological Association.

 

1986        Discussant for panel on "Employee Compensation" at the meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

Administrative Service:

                                   

2004-Present                  Chair, (UCSB) Executive Vice-Chancellors Working Group on Graduate Diversity.

2003-2004                         Chair, (UCSB) Executive Vice-Chancellors Working Group on Postdoctoral Appointments.

2002-2004                        Chair, (UCOP) System-wide Steering committee for AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, an NSF sponsored initiative).

2002-2004                         Chair, (UCSB) Graduate Diversity Advisory committee

2002-2004                         Member, (UCOP) System-wide UCLeads Advisory committee.

2002                                            Member, (UCOP) Search committee for Executive Director, UC College Prep Initiative

2001-2002                         Vice-Chair, (UCOP) System-wide Steering committee for AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, an NSF sponsored initiative).

2000-2004                         Associate Dean, (UCSB) Graduate Division

2000-2004                         Member, (UCSB) Chancellor's Outreach Advisory Board (COAB)

2000-2004                         Member, (UCSB) Faculty Outreach Grant selection committee.

2000-2004                         Member, (UCSB) Survey Research Advisory Group

1999-Present                  Member,  (UCOP) College Prep Initiative Advisory committee

1999-2003                         Member, (UBSB) ISBER (Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic research) Advisory committee

1999-2000                         Member (UCSB) ISBER Research Grants Award committee

1998-1999                         Member, (UCSB) Collaborative Outreach Working Group

1998                                            Chair, (UCSB) Academic Senate Outreach Advisory Group

1996-1998                         Member, (UCSB) Executive committee,  Academic Senate

1996-1998                         Elected Representative , (UCSB) Faculty Legislature

 

Community Service:

                                   

2003-Present                  Chair, Site-Council, Roosevelt Elementary School, Santa Barbara.

2004                                            Member, principal search committee, Roosevelt Elementary School, Santa Barbara.

 

References available on request.