January 2014
AVERY F. GORDON
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
[email protected]
www.averygordon.net
1114 Haley Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805.962.9650
Education
Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, Boston College
M.A. (1981) in Women's Studies, George Washington University
B.S. (1979) in Foreign Service, Georgetown University
History Department (1977-78), Warwick University, England
Publications
In-Press
“Colin (Joan” Dayan//ghostly matters//extraneous persons” in Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism
“Deir Yassin//trauma//Unmade film” in Uriel Orlow, Unmade Film. Zurich Les Complices and edition fink.
The Workhouse: Room 2 / Das Arbeitshaus: Raums 2 (with Ines Schaber). Konig.
“Existence and politics: an interview with A. Sivanandan.” Race & Class. (Edited excerpt translated “L’avatar mimetico del razzismo: intervista ad
Ambalavaner Sivanandan – di Avery Gordon, trans. Anna Curio. il manifesto, 18 Dicembre 2013 and available online at:
http://www.commonware.org/index.php/cartografia/185-avatar-mimetico-razzismo )
“A World Map”/”Un Mappa del Mundo” in Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat, eds. Un Atlas de Cartografias Radicales. Barcelona: dpr-Barcelona.
Published Books:
2011
Notes for the Breitenau Room of The Workhouse—A Project by Ines Schaber and Avery Gordon. Kassel: documenta (13)
and Hatje Cantz Verlag. Reprinted in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chús Martinez, Franco Beradi, eds. The Book of Books.
Kassel: documenta(13) and Hatje Cantz Verlag (2012).
2008
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, 2nd edition. University of Minnesota Press.
2004
Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People. Illustrated by Leon Golub. Boulder:
Paradigm Publishers.
1997
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
1996
Mapping Multiculturalism, edited with Christopher Newfield. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
1994
Body Politics. Disease, Desire and the Family, edited with Michael Ryan. Boulder: Westview Press.
Published Articles, Chapters and Book Reviews:
2014
“’Who’s there?’: some answer to questions about ghostly matters” in Der Standpunkt der Aufnahme—Point of View, ed. Tobias Hering.
Berling: Archive Books with Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art.
2013
“The Utopian Surplus” (in German) “Der utopische Überschuss.” TUMULT, Zeitschrift für Verkehrswissenschaften, Themenheft
"Nach dem Animismus,” eds. Irene Albers and Anselm Franke.
2013
“Casting Memory” (with Clemens von Wedemeyer) in Giulia Ferracci, ed. Material. Roma: Maxxi Museo Nazionale delle arti del xxi
Secolo.
2013
“The Company we Keep: A conversation with Céline Condorelli and Avery F. Gordon” in Melissa Gordon, Marina Vishmidt, Kaisa
Lassinaro, Robert Snowden, eds. Persona. London: Cubbit Artists. “The company we keep: a conversation with Céline Condorelli and
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Avery F. Gordon. Parts 1 and 2.” How to work together: a joint project with Chisenhale Gallery, the Showroom and Studio Voltaire.
Available online at: http://howtoworktogether.org .
2013
“her shape and his hand” in Maria del Pilar Blanco, Esther Peeren, eds. The Spectrality Reader. Bloomsbury Academic.
2012
“Jan’s Spoon” (a text for Natascha Sadr Haghiphian’s documenta (13) Trail). Available online at: http://www.d13trail.de/people/.
2011
“Haunting, Futurity and Freedom Time.” Borderlands 10:2.
2011
“Seize the Time: An Interview with Stephen Jones” Race & Class Vol. 53(2): 14–27.
2011
“Review: Micol Seigel, Uneven Encounters: making race and nation in Brazil and the United States.” Race & Class 53 (1):121-123.
2011
“C” in Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, eds. Alias. Krakow: Foundation for Visual Arts.
2011
“’I’m already in a sort of tomb’: A reply to Philip Scheffner’s The Halfmoon Files.” South Atlantic Quarterly. 110:1
Winter 2011:121-154.
2010
“The Prisoner’s Curse.” Pp. 17-55 in Toward a Sociology of the Trace, eds. Herman Gray and Macarena Gomez-Barris.
University of Minnesota Press.
2010
“Execution of Czolgosz, with Panorama of Auburn Prison (1901)” Animism, Volume 1, ed. Anselm Franke. Sternberg Press
2010
200 word caption for Alighiero e Boetti, Mappa del mondo (1978). Tate Modern, London.
2009
“Susan Shup: Painting Out Loud.” Rabih Hage Gallery.
2009
“Por la otra puerta, es el llanto con su Consuelo dentro” and “The other door, it’s flood of tears with
consolation enclosed,” trans. M. Rosario Martín Ruano and Africa Vidal Claramente. Pp. 10—135
in El Pasado en el Presente y lo proprio en lo ajeno., ed. Ana Botella Diez del Corrall. Gijón: LABoral
Centro de Arte y Creacíon Industrial.
2009
Excerpt from “’I’m already in some sort of tomb.’” Film Programme, Ghost Stories, jed. Tobias Hering.
Siuolaikinio meno centras, Vilnuis, September.
2009
“Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle, Part 1: A Conversation with Avery Gordon” (with Natascha
Sadr Haghighian. E-flux journal #3, February.
2008
“Methodologies of Imprisonment.” PMLA, Vol. 123, No. 3, May.
2008
“Desertion.” The Dictionary of War. Berlin: Merve-Verlag. (German + English)
2008
“The United States Military Prison: The Normalcy of Exceptional Brutality.” The Violence of Incarceration, eds. Phil Scraton
& Jude McCullough, Routledge.
2007
“’something more powerful than skepticism.’” Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, eds. Linda
Holmes and Cheryl Wall. Temple University Press.
2007
“A World Map.” An Atlas of Radical Cartography, eds. Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. Journal of Aesthetics
and Protest Press.
2007
“A New Abolitionist: Honoring Ruth Wilson Gilmore.” Los Angeles: Southern California Library.
2006
“D’où viennent les tortionnaires d’Abou Ghraib?. Le Monde Diplomatique, Novembre.
2006
“Apparicion con vida.” Fresh Théorie 2, eds. Mark Alizart et Christophe Kihm. Paris: Editions Léo Scheer.
2006
“In the Hem” in Anselm Franke, Judith Hopf, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Ines Schaber, No Matter How
Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night. Berlin and Koln: KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Verlag
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der Buchhandlung Walter Konig.
2006
“The Disasters of War” (long version). Fast Capitalism 2.1. www.fastcapitalism.com.
2006
“Night Crossings” (with Anselm Franke, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Tom Holert, Ines Schaber). Grey Room
Summer 2006.
2006
“The Disasters of War.” Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer May 2006.
2006
“Abu Ghraib: Imprisonment and the War on Terror.” Race & Class, Vol. 48, No. 1, July 2006.
2005
“Cedric Robinson’s anthropology of Marxism.” Race & Class, Vol. 42, No, 2, October-December 2005. (Reprint)
2005
“The future of radical scholarship.” Race & Class, Vol. 42. No. 2, October-December 2005.
2005
“Utopia” in Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris, eds. New Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture
and Society. Blackwell.
2004
“Ghostly Matters” in Charles Lemert, ed. Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings, 3rd ed.
HarperCollins. (Excerpt)
2002
"Wish upon a star: Gary Simmons and the Ghost House" in Gary Simmons: Ghost House. SITE Santa Fe.
2001
"Preface." Pp. i-xvi in Cedric J. Robinson, The Anthropology of Marxism. Oxford: Ashgate.
1999
“The Sledgehammer and the Dagger: A Conversation between Avery Gordon and Leon Golub” and
“La maassue et la dague: Une conversation entre Leon Golub et Avery Gordon.” Pp. 14-22 and
Pp. 42-50 in Leon Golub. While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-1999, ed. Stuart
Horodner. Bucknell Art Gallery and Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts.
1999
“Making Pictures of Ghosts: The Art of Gary Simmons.” Social Identities, Vol. 5, No. 1, March.
1998
“Globalism and the prison industrial complex: an interview with Angela Davis.” Race & Class 40, 2/3:145-157.
1997
"White Philosophy" (with Christopher Newfield). Pp. 149-69 in E. Nathaniel Gates, ed. Cultural and Literary
Critiques of the Concepts of "Race." New York: Garland. (Reprint)
1997
"Keeping Good Time." Perspectives 19, 1:5-6.
1996
"Introduction." Pp 1-16 in Mapping Multiculturalism, edited with Christopher Newfield. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press.
1996
"Multiculturalism's Unfinished Business." Pp. 76-115 in Mapping Multiculturalism, edited with Christopher Newfield.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
1996
"Review: David Lyon, Postmodernity." Contemporary Sociology 25,1:18-19.
1995
"White Philosophy" (with Christopher Newfield). Pp. 380-400 in Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis
Gates, Jr., eds., Identities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Reprint)
1995
"The Work of Corporate Culture: Diversity Management," Social Text 44:3-30
1994
"White Philosophy" (with Christopher Newfield). Critical Inquiry 20, (Summer):737-57.
1994
"War Machines and Washing Machines." Pp. 32-38 in Michael Ryan and Avery Gordon, eds., Body Politics.
Disease, Desire and the Family. Boulder: Westview Press.
1994
"Possible Worlds: An Interview with Donna Haraway." Pp. 241-50 in Michael Ryan and Avery Gordon, eds.,
Body Politics. Disease, Desire and the Family. Boulder: Westview Press.
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1993
"On Corporate Culture." Alphabet City 3:41-45.
1993
"Twenty-Two Theses on Social Constructionism: A Feminist Response to Ibarra and Kitsuse's 'Proposal for the
Study of Social Problems'". Pp. 301-26 in James A. Holstein and Gale Miller, eds., Reconsidering Social
Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
1992
"Marketing Differences: Feminism as Cultural Capital." Mediations 16, 2:37-41.
1992
"Review: Andrew Ross, Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism and Michael Ryan, Politics and
Culture." the minnesota review 38:125-32.
1991
“A Ghost Story.” Pp. 28-48 in Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, eds., The Hysterical Male. New Feminist Theory.
New York: St. Martin’s Press.
1990
“Feminism, Writing, and Ghosts.” Social Problems 37, 4:485-500.
1990
“Masquerading in the Postmodern.” Pp. 65-82 in E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker, eds., Cross Currents.
Recent Trends in Humanities Research. New York: Verso.
1989
“Panic Feminism.” Pp. 102-6 in Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker and David Cook, eds., Panic Encyclopedia.
New York: St. Martin’s Press.
1987
“Corporatist Structures and Workplace Politics” (with Andrew Herman and Paul G. Schervish). Pp. 73-97 in Joann
Miller and Michael Lewis, eds., Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 4. Greenwich, Ct: JAI Press.
1987
“Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction” (with Stephen Pfohl). Pp. 224-54 in
Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, eds., Body Invaders. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
1986
“Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction” (with Stephen Pfohl). Social
Problems 33, 6:94-113.
1985
“Private Pensions: Linking Work and Retirement.” Pp. 68-120 in John Williamson, Judith Shindul and
Linda Evans, eds., Aging and Public Policy. Social Control or Social Justice? Springfield, Ill: Charles C.
Thomas.
1984
“Review: Carmen Sirianni, Workers’ Control and Socialist Democracy: The Soviet Experience.”
Contemporary Sociology 13, 3:286.
1983
“Review: Randall Collins, Sociology Since Mid-Century: Essays in Theory Cumulation.” Contemporary
Sociology 12, 1:105-6.
1983
“The Resurrection of Utopian Socialism” (with Andrew Herman). Review of Radical Political Economics XV,
4:104-25.
Teaching
2003—Present, Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006—2010, Professor, Law & Society, University of California, Santa Barbara
1996--2003, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
1990--1996, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
2012—Present, Guest Faculty, Associacao Maumaus—Centro de Contaminacao Visual, Lisbon
2006—2009, Guest Faculty, Centre for Research Architecture, Department Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London
2007-2009, Visiting Faculty, Department International Relations & Comparative Politics, American University of Paris, Paris.
1999--2000, Visiting Associate Professor, Duke University, Departments of African and African-American Studies & English
1989--June 1990, Sophomore Tutor, Women's Studies, Harvard University
1983--June 1989, Instructor, Department of Sociology, Boston College
Artistic Projects
2013
The Company we Keep with Céline Condorelli. How to work together: a joint project with
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2012
2010-2012
2012
2010
2007
2008
2005
2004
2001
Chisenhale Gallery, the Showroom and Studio Voltaire
2081 with Céline Condorelli. 2081 Congress, Berlin
The Workhouse with Ines Schaber
The Workhouse: Room 2. Documenta (13) Kassel (2012)
The Workhouse: Room 3 or the Dreamhouse. Mexico City (2011)
Jan’s Spoon for Natascha Sadr Haghiphian’s Trail. Documenta(13) Kassel.
“Flowers for Natascha.” Only the Morning Bird, Treasures the Garden of Flowers, ed. Mehraneh Atashi.
Tehran: Nazar. (Farsi & English)
A World Map (text) with Ashley Hunt. Atlas Radical Cartography
Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle. Performance with Natascha Sadr Haghighian. New Museum
Participation in film as part of artist Renee Green’s multi-media exhibition, Relay. Multiple venues.
Participation. Utopia Station (Molly Nesbitt and Hans Ulrich Obrist). Frankfurt. Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collaboration. Gary Simmons. The Ghost House, New Mexico.
Presentations
Upcoming 2014:
“Running away and other forms of escape: some stories from the Hawthorne Archive. The David Noble Lecture, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, April
“TBA” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Religious Studies, April
“TBA” University of the Arts London (Symposium: Anxious places: angst, environments and affective contamination)
“TBA” Volt, Bergen Norway
“TBA” SOAS, London
“TBA” American Studies Association
2013
Writing Workshop. SOAS School of Law, London, December.
2013
“Existence and politics: the work of Race & Class and the Institute of Race Relations.” Historical Materialism
Conference. London, November.
2013
“”’La Poule d’Ombredane’ and the colonial personality: a discussion with Vincent Messen.” KIOSK Gallery, Royal
Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, October.
2013
“The remains of a prison: fugitive knowledge on the wings of red arrows.” Invited Lecture. Goldsmiths College,
Department of Art, University of London, October.
2013
“The Company we keep: friendship and the utopian.” Invited Lecture. Chisenhale Gallery, London, September.
2013
“Work: a view from the utopian margins.” 3-day seminar/lectures at Maumaus-Escola de Artes Visuais, Lisbon,
July.
2013
“The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse in California.” The Whole Earth Conference, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
Berlin, June.
2013
“The work of representation.” 5-day writing workshop. Writer in Residence, Birkbeck School of Law, London,
June.
2013
“On Clemens von Wedemeyer’s Muster (Rushes).” Maxxi Fondazione, Rome, May.
2013
“Organizational Futures.” School for Study. PAF (Performing Arts Forum). St. Erme, France, May.
2013
“Runaway Slaves in Minneapolis.” Invited. Walker Art Center. Museum of Non-Participation Exhibit. Minneapolis,
April.
2013
“Looking for the Utopian Margins.” Invited. Thinking Feminism at the Limits. Institute for Research on Women &
Gender. Columbia University, March.
2013
“The Remains of a Prison.” The Robert and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture, March.
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2013
“Ghostly Matters.” Mind, Medicine and Culture Seminar, Anthropology Department, UCLA, January.
2012
“The Remains of a Prison.” Invited Lecture. Department Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, December.
2012
Chair and Comment. A Century of Resistance to US Empire: Puerto Rican Independence, Incarceration, and
Intergenerational Continuity. American Studies Association Annual Meetings. Puerto Rico. November.
2012
“The workhouse: a documenta project.” Invited. Paul Brach Lecture. CalArts. Valencia, CA, September.
2012
Roundtable Panelist for radio drama “To Be Corrected – Abstracts for a Hörspiel” by Lívia Páldi, dOCUMENTA
(13). Kassel, July.
2012
“Castaway.” Poetry Reading. dOCUMENTA (13). Kassel, July.
2012
“Work: a view from the utopian margins.” 3-day seminar/lectures at Maumaus - Escola de Artes Visuais, Lisbon
July.
2012
“The remains of a prison: fugitive knowledge on the wings of red arrows.” CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo)
Madrid. June.
2012
“The Utopian Surplus.” Animism Conference. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March.
2012
The Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture : “Breiteau: The Workhouse Project.” The American Academy in Berlin, March.
2012
2081. Fragment from The Hawthorne Archive. Read by Simone Donecker and Brittani Sonnenberg.
2081 Congress. KW (Kunst-Werke) Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, March.
2012
“The Workhouse, Room 2: Notes on the making of the Breitenau Room.” Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttart
(Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design), 12 February.
2012
“African Odysseys: In Prison My Whole Life. ” British Film Institute, February.
2011
“Radical Prison Studies after Attica: Introduction.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore. 22 October.
2011
“The Workhouse: Room 3 or The Dreamhouse” (with Ines Schaber). Invited. 3-day Seminar. Centro Cultural Universitario Casa del
Lago. Mexico City. 30 September—2 October.
2011
Mexico City, “Running Away.” Not-I Encuentro Sobre Arte y Politica. Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. Mexico City. March
2011
“Becoming in-different, the human strike and other ‘organs for the alternative.’” Invited. The Center in Law, Society and Culture.
University of California Irvine, 21 April.
2011
“Utopian settlers.” Invited. Critical Ethnic Studies Conference. University of California Riverside, 11 March.
2010
“The Torture Chain: Epistemic Murk and the question of Palestine.” American Studies Association. San Antonio. November.
2010
“Haiti’s ‘Unthinkable’ Earthquake and the Nightmare of History: Introduction.” American Studies Association. San Antonio.
November.
2010
“Marx, Engels and the Fur Hat.” Atelier TRANS305. Ivry-sur-Seine. 24 September.
2010
“Commoning, Piracy, Running Away and Other Incidents in the Life of Living Otherwise.” Invited talk. AV Festival,
Newcastle UK, 13 March.
2010
“Representation, Work, Practice.” Invited Talk. Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen, 20-21January.
2010
“Social Death and Doing Time.” Invited. The Laboratory of Return/Regimes of Extraterritoriality. Pericentre Projects
and the Goethe Institute. Cairo Egypt, 8-11 January. Public Talk at CIC (Contemporary Image Collective)
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2009
“Generosity and the Commons.” Two-day seminar organized with Celine Condorelli in conjunction with exhibit
“of a people who are missing.” Extra City, Antwerp, 12-13 December.
2009
“Some thoughts on Haunting & Futurity.” Invited keynote. Haunting & Futurity Conference. University of
Manchester, Manchester UK, June.
2008
“Whole Foods: Sleepwalking in a dialectical picture puzzle.” Night School Public Seminar 9 with Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
New Museum, New York City, October.
2008
Chair. “Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall.” American Studies Association Annual Meetings,
Albuquerque, October.
2008
“The Headline News: A provocation.” Invited. The Press: The Politics of Art and Imprisonment. 24th Street Theater.
Los Angeles, February.
2008
“Ghosts in the Machine.” Invited. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, February.
2008
“Criminalizing the Enemy: From the Prisoner of War to the Enemy Combatant.” Invited. Centre for Law, Gender
and Sexuality, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, January.
2008
“’I’m already in a sort of tomb’: Some thoughts on war, prisoners, and casting shadows.” Invited. Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. January.
2007
“Haunting and the Political Imagination.” Invited series of talks. UnitedNationsPlaza. Berlin, Germany. October.
2007
“Urgency.” Invited. Non-Aligned Summit on Education Culture. Berlin, Germany, May.
2007
“The ‘ostensible subjects.” Invited. Critical Issues in America: Torture in the Arts. UC Santa Barbara, February
2007
“Captivity and Social Death.” Invited. Vanderbilt University, February
2007
“The Prisoner’s Curse.” Invited Keynote. The Collapse of Traditional Knowledge. Duke University, January.
2006
“Art and Research.” Invited. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, November.
2006
“An Indelible Defect: Captivity and Social Death.” Invited. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October.
2006
“Alternative Political Histories.” American Studies Association, Oakland, October.
2006
“Desertion.” Invited. The Dictionary of War. Munich. July.
2006
“Imprisonment and the War on Terror.” Invited. Institute for Race Relations, London, June.
2006
Seminar on “Abu Ghraib: Imprisonment and the War on Terror.” Invited. Law & Society, UC Santa Barbara, May.
2006
“Producing the Nation.” Invited Respondent. University of California Santa Cruz, April.
2006
“The US Prison Industrial Complex.” Invited. Department of International and Comparative Politics, The American
University of Paris, March.
2006
“The History of Imprisonment in the U.S.” Invited. Université Paris VIII, January.
2005
“Things theory carries home: On Outlaws, Rebels, Fugitives, and the Taste of Fate.” Invited. KIOSK Dialogues. KW
Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, December.
2005
“Utopia, Abandonment, Abolition.” Invited. Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, London,
November.
2005
“The US-Abu Ghraib Continuum.” World International Studies Committee Meeting. Istanbul. August.
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2005
“’Regarding the pain of others.’” Invited. Seminar on Culture and Politics. Amherst College, February.
2005
“Untold Stories: Alternative Ways of Telling.” Invited. Organization of American Historians, San
Francisco, April.
2005
“Racism and Security in Europe.” Invited. “The Art of Security: Sex, Gender and Conflict.” International Studies
Association, Hawaii, March.
2004
“The Future of Radical Scholarship.” Invited. Symposium on Cedric Robinson’s Radical Thought: Toward Critical
Social Theories and Practice.” University of California, Santa Barbara, November.
2004
“The U.S. - Abu Ghraib Continuum.” Invited. Plenary Panel on Torture, Prisons, Militarism, and the Racial State.
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November.
2004
“Culture at the World Social Forum.” Invited. Utopia Station. Das Theater Am Turm (TAT), Frankfurt, March.
2003
“Keeping Good Time.” Invited. Goldsmith College, Department of Visual Culture, London, December.
2003
"Social Life in the Shadow of the Prison." Invited Presidential Session. American Anthropological Association,
Chicago, November.
2003
"Premature Death." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, October.
2003
“’Something more powerful than skepticism.’” Invited Lecture. Women’s Studies, University of Washington,
Seattle, May.
2003
"Exercised." Invited. Towards a Critical Globalization Studies. UC Santa Barbara, May.
2003
“"Returning from Exile: Haunting and the Utopian Imagination.” Invited. Special Session on Haunting.
American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, March.
2003
“Utopian Pedagogies: Grassroots Media and Democratic Change.” World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil,
January.
2003
“Something more powerful than skepticism.” Invited Lecture. Women’s Studies, UC, Santa Cruz, January.
2002
“Reading Sociology.” Invited. Modern Language Association, New York City, December.
2002
“War on Iraq?” Invited. UC Santa Barbara, Multicultural Center, October.
2001
“No Alibis: A Community Radio Collaboration”. Invited. American Studies Association, Washington, DC, November.
2001
“Going Inside: The Prison Research Visit.” American Studies Association, Washington, DC, November.
2001
"Something more powerful than skepticism.'" Invited Lecture. Center for Race & Ethnicity, UC, San Diego, October.
2001
“The World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa: A Report.” UC Santa Barbara, October.
2001
“Gallery Talk: Gary Simmons.” SITE Santa Fe, May.
2001
"Some thoughts on the utopian"; "'Something more powerful than skepticism': Toni Cade Bambara's utopian
thinking"; "Emancipating Socialism"; "Knowledge for what?." Invited Lectures. University of Chicago, April.
2000
"Meditations on the Utopian." Invited. University of Minnesota. October.
2000
Chair. Global Problematics. Invited. Disciplinary Diagrams/Political Fields Conference. Duke University, MarchApril.
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2000
"Some thoughts on the utopian, or, how to be a utopian thinker." Invited. Columbia University. Franz Boas
Lecture. February.
1999
“On Utopian Thinking Reprised.” Invited. Duke University. John Hope Franklin Lecture, October.
1999
Chair. Antiracist Strategies and Struggles: Comparative Perspectives. American Studies Association
Annual Meeting, October.
1999
“The Rising of Renegade Ghosts: Haunting and Social Memory.” Frontiers of Memory, University of East London,
September.
1999
“Racisms in the U.S. and Abroad.” Invited. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting , 6-10 August.
1999
“Cultural Studies and Economics.” Invited Participant. University of North Carolina, Cultural Studies Department,
May.
1999
“On Utopian Thinking.” Invited. Department of Sociology. Boston College, April.
1999
“Transnational Fictions.” Invited. Women of Color and Visual Representations, UC Santa Cruz, March.
1999
“Making a Difference: Women’s Studies in the Academy.” Invited. Women’s Studies 25th Anniversary, George
Washington University, March 3.
1999
“In the Shadow of the Bottom Line.” Invited. The Henry Jackson School of International Studies, University of
Washington, February.
1999
Respondent. Seminar on Orlando Patterson. Invited. The Cultural Turn, UC Santa Barbara, February.
1998
“More on Positive and Negative Images: The Case of Kara Walker.” American Studies Association, November.
1998
“‘Face Up To What’s Killing You’: Fear and the Prison Industrial Complex.” Invited. Critical Resistance:
Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex. UC Berkeley, September 24-27.
1998
“Ghostly and Other Gothic Figures.” Invited. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 6.
1998
“Author Meets Critic: M.A. Bortner’s Youth in Prison.” Pacific Sociological Association, April 17.
1998
“Concluding Remarks”. Invited. Gender and Globalization. UC Berkeley, March 12-15.
1998
"On Education During War-Time." Invited. Unfinished Liberation: Conference in Honor of Angela Y. Davis.
Arizona State University, March 6-8.
1998
“Making Pictures of Ghosts: The Art of Gary Simmons.” Invited. Department of African-American Studies, Duke
University, February 12.
1997
"Seeing the Desaparecidos." Invited. Talking Violence. UC Los Angeles, November 21-22.
1997
"DayDream Believer: The Art of Gary Simmons." Invited. Center for Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara, November 18.
1997
Invited Participant. “Transnationalization and Gender.” Seminar at UC Berkeley, May.
1997
"Corporate Culture and Diversity Management." Invited Talk. Humanities Institute. UC Davis, April.
1997
“In the Shadow of the Bottom Line.” Invited Talk. Conversations in Cultural Studies. UC Davis, April.
1997
Seminar on Ghostly Matters. Invited. The Cultural Turn: Cultural Sociology and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara,
February.
1997
"Mapping Multiculturalism: Future Prospects." Multicultural Center, UC Santa Barbara, January.
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1996
"What is Orthodox Marxism?" Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December.
1996
"Will This Election Matter?" Invited. Voting Matters Conference. UC Santa Barbara, November.
1996
"the other door, its flood of tears with consolation enclosed." Invited Talk. UC Santa Cruz, October.
1996
Invited Participant. "Transnational Globalization and Gender." Seminar at UC Berkeley, October.
1996
"Sociology After the Crisis." Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, March.
1996
"Cultural Studies and Business Culture." Invited Talk. College of Arts & Letters, San Diego State University, San
Diego, CA, January.
1995
Moderator and Discussant for panel, "Artistic Being, Interpretation and Meaning." Conference on Social Theory,
Politics and the Arts, UC Santa Barbara, October.
1995
"Considering Multiculturalism." American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August.
1995
"Race and Corporate Culture." Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, April.
1994
"The Work of Corporate Culture: Diversity Management." Modern Language Association, San Diego,
December.
1994
"Corporate Cultural Studies." American Studies Association, Nashville, October.
1994
"Sociology After Deconstruction." Social Theory Conference sponsored by the American Sociological Association
Theory Section, San Diego, August.
1994
Discussant. Culture and Meaning. American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August.
1994
Didactic Seminar: Culture Studies and Sociology (with Jon Cruz). American Sociological Association,
Los Angeles, August.
1994
"Diversity Management: The Work of Corporate Culture." Invited Talk. Princeton University, Afro-American
Studies, April.
1994
"Theory and Justice." Invited Talk. Arizona State University, Justice Studies Department, Tempe, April.
1994
Los Angeles and the Cultural Georgraphy of Exile. Chair. Los Angeles: City of Exile, UC Santa Barbara, February.
1994
Gender Roles and Cultural Change. Commentator. Culture in Diaspora: Punjabis Abroad, UC Santa Barbara,
February.
1993
Black Marxism. Chair. Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, December.
1993
"The Current Conjuncture: U.S. Society and Politics" (with Michael Sprinker and Fred Pfeil). Marxist Literary
Group, Summer Institute on Culture, Pittsburgh, June.
1993
"Current Problems in Feminist Theory." Invited Talk. Harvard University, Committee on Degrees in Women's
Studies, April.
1992
"Translating Cultures: The Future of Multiculturalism?." Conference Organizer. University of California,
Santa Barbara, November.
1992
"Double Jeopardy: Postmodernity as a Social Problem." Society for the Study of Social Problems
Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, August.
1992
"The Future of Deconstruction: Reading Marx's The German Ideology." Invited Respondent. Interdisciplinary
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Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, February.
199l
"Marketing Differences: Feminism as Cultural Capital." Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, December.
1991
“Introductory Remarks: War-time Research: The Front Lines.” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual
Meeting, Cincinnati, August (Session Chair).
1991
“Gender, Race, and Ghostly Memories.” Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture, Eugene, June.
1991
“Materializing the Ghost: Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Invited Talk. University of California, Irvine, May.
1991
"Chair and Discussant for Panel: War and Hysteria.“ Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio,
March.
1991
“Feminist Research and Sociology.” Invited Talk. Stone Symposium, The Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction, San Francisco, February.
1990
“The Pleasures of Criminology.” Invited Talk. A Special Session on Criminological Displacements: A Sociological
Deconstruction (with Stephen Pfohl). Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
August.
1989
"Disappearing Acts: Luisa Valenzuela's He Who Searches." Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture,
Pittsburgh, June.
1989
“A Ghost Story.” Conference: Strategies of Critique III, York University, Toronto, April.
1989
“Feminists in the Postmodern Field.” Invited Talk. Harvard University, April.
1989
“(S)he Who Searches: The Politics of Disappearing Subjects.” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting,
St. Louis, April.
1988
“Ethnography as Fiction, Fiction as Social Science.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, August.
1988
“Masquerading in the Postmodern.” Invited Talk. The Humanities Institute, SUNY Stony Brook, March.
1985-87Criminological Displacements: A Power Reflexive Reading of Transgression and Criminal Law. Video-text
presented at:
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 1985
Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture, Pittsburgh, June 1986
31st Annual Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland, September 1986 (Invited)
Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, March 1987
The Cultural Politics of Postmodernism, Conference, CUNY, New York, May 1987
1983
“Work and Retirement: Private Pensions and Labor Process Control.” The Society for the Study of Social
Problems Annual Meeting, Detroit, August.
1983
“Corporatist Structures and Workplace Politics” (with Andrew Herman and Paul Schervish). American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Detroit, August.
Special Appointments:
2009Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London
09-Editorial Working Committee, Race & Class and Council Institute of Race Relations
2013
Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, University of London
11-14
National Council, American Studies Association
09--10 Member, 2010 American Studies Association Program Committee
08-11
Member, Women’s Committee, American Studies Association
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88-90
International Editorial Board, Journal of Sociology (Australian Sociological Association official journal)
Advisory Board, Routledge Book Series, Social Justice
Associate Editor, American Quarterly.
Member, 2006 American Studies Association Program Committee
Invited Member, Our Media (International network of alternative media, media scholars, activists, practitioners)
Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology
Editor, Book Series, Social Studies Across the Borders, Duke University Press
International Advisory Board, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa
Associate Editor, Gender & Society
Editorial Associate, Socialist Review
Editor, Mediations
Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Managing Editor, Politics and Culture, Westview Press Book Series
Book Review Editor, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
Awards and Honors
2013
Writer in Residence, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London
2012
Anna Maria Kellen Fellow, American Academy in Berlin
2000
Special Session, American Sociological Association, on Ghostly Matters
99-00
Duke University, John Hope Franklin Fellowship
99-00
UC Humanities Research Institute, Residential Fellowship, Spring 2000.
1995
Outstanding Faculty Member, UCSB Office of Residential Life
1993
UC Humanities Research Institute, Minority Discourse Initiative, Residential Fellowship, Fall l993
1989
Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Boston College
1987
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Boston College
1983-89 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Boston College
1980-81 Women and Public Policy Congressional Fellowship, The Revson Foundation
Professional Activities
Reviewing and Refereeing Activity:
09—Present
Reviewer, Antipode
05--Present
Reviewer, Space and Society
03--Present
Reviewer, Political Theory
02--Present
Reviewer, NYU Press
00--Present
Reviewer, Cultural Critique
97-98
Reviewer, MacArthur Fellows Program
98--Present
Reviewer, University of California Press
97-PresentReviewer, Academic Press
97--Present
Reviewer, Social Identities
96--Present
Reviewer, Duke University Press
96--Present
Reviewer, Routledge
96--Present
Reviewer, Roman & Littlefield Publishers
96--Present
Reviewer, Cambridge University Press
95--Present
Reviewer, Sociological Focus
93--Present
Reviewer, Blackwell Press
93Reviewer, The Sociological Quarterly
93Reviewer, American Journal of Sociology
90Reviewer, Westview Press
90Reviewer, College Literature
90Reviewer, Guilford Press
90-Present
Reviewer, University of Minnesota Press
90-Present
Reviewer, Social Problems
Grants
03-08
01-03
99-01
99-00
UCSB Social Science Division Dean’s Research Grant
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, "In the Shadow of the Bottom Line "
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, “Social Dispossession and the Prison Industrial Complex”
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mentor for Roderick Ferguson (Declined)
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1988
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
Social Science Research Council, Sexuality Research Program (for Susana Peña)
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, “In the Shadow of the Bottom Line”
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, "In the Shadow of the Bottom Line"
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, "Profane Illuminations"
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Graduate Division, Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship (Susana Peña)
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, Continuation of 1994-95 Award
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Graduate Division, Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship (Paulette Haban)
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, "Corporate Culture"
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Faculty Career Development Award. Summer Stipend for Summer l994
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, "Corporate Culture"
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Faculty Career Development Award.
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, "Translating Cultures: The Future of Multiculturalism?"
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, “Ghostly Memories: Feminist Rituals of Writing the Social Text"
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, Special Opportunity Funds, "Translating Cultures: The Future of Multiculturalism?"
UC Humanities Research Institute. Minority Discourse Initiative Conference Grant for "Translating Cultures:
The Future of Multiculturalism?" (with C. Newfield)
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, “Translating Cultures: The Future of Multiculturalism?” (with C. Newfield).
UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Travel
Mass Council on the Arts and Humanities, Static and Interference: The Politics of Alternative Music (with A.
Herman and G. Levine of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Public Service (Selected):
Radio/Media:
00-KCSB Santa Barbara, Co-host (with Elizabeth Robinson)) No Alibis (weekly 2 hour public affairs show)
05
AMARC Daily Radio Broadcasts from the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil (English language Team)
03
AMARC Daily Radio Broadcasts from the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil (English language Team)
02
AMARC Daily Radio Broadcasts from the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil (English language Team)
99-97
KCSB Santa Barbara, Co-host (with Elizabeth Robinson) Viewpoints (weekly 1 hour public affairs show)
90-KCSB Supporting Member
97-Member, Lizard’s Mouth Media Collective
02-Member, AMARC (via Lizard’s Mouth Media Collective)
03
Invited Member, Our Media
03
KCSB Public Affairs, Headline News on War on Iraq for national Pacifica feed
03
Infopossible, AMARC Daily Radio Broadcasts (with FIRE) from the WSF, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
03
Special Report on WSF for Santa Barbara Channel 13’s Third World News Review
02
Special Live Reports on CUE/AFT Strike, UCSB, KCSB.
01
Voices without Frontiers, AMARC Global Radio Broadcast, San Francisco (with Elizabeth Robinson)
01
Special Report on South Africa for Santa Barbara Channel 13's Third World News Review,
98
Interview, Affirmative Action, Chronicle of Higher Education
97
KSOP Jefferson Public Radio, Ashland Oregon, Radio Interview on Proposition 209
96
KCSB Santa Barbara, Radio Report on Proposition 209, Interview & Reading from Ghostly Matters
95
KCSB Santa Barbara, Radio Interview on Corporate Culture, Affirmative Action Radio Special Broadcast
92-93
KCSB Santa Barbara, on Multiculturalism
91-90
KPFK Los Angeles, Radio Interview on Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Nomination
KCSB Santa Barbara, on the Gulf War
Other:
09
Invited Guest, “Against the Grain” KPFK FM. 31 August.
02-03
Report on World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Multicultural Center
Israel-Palestine, War on Iraq Teach-ins
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Report on World Conference Against Racism in South Africa, Sociology Dept. Colloquium
Israel-Palestine Teach-ins
Host & Introduction, Regent's Lecturer, Luisa Valenzuela
Host & Introduction, Gary Phillips, Center for Black Studies
Introduction, Michael Moore, The Big One, Arts & Lectures
Co-host, Campus Visit, A. Sivanandan, Director, Institute of Race Relations (London)
Host & Introduction, Amitava Kumar, Multicultural Center
Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, Book-signing and discussion about Mapping Multiculturalism
Affirmative Action Coalition
"State of the Art/Art of the State? Beyond Censorship: The Assault on Civil Liberties," Contemporary Arts Forum
Consultant, University Art Museum, Mistaken Identities Exhibition and Catalogue
Member, University Art Museum/Contemporary Arts Forum Advisory Committee
Commencement Address, Alternative Graduation
Gulf War Teach-Ins
Convener, UCSB Concerned Faculty (through 1996)
Languages: English, French, Spanish (intermediate reading only)