Curtis Holland
PhD Candidate Email:
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Phone: 508-631-5356
Northeastern University
Renaissance Park, 9th floor, Boston, MA 02115
Research and Teaching Focus
Ethnic and political conflict, Peacebuilding, Globalization and inequality, Crime and criminal justice, Intersectionality, Northern Ireland
Education
2016 (Expected) PhD in Sociology (Northeastern University)
2010 MA in Sociology (Boston College)
2008 BA (Bridgewater State College,Summa
Cum Laude and Departmental Honors)
Dissertation
Social Immobility, Ethno-politics and Sectarian Violence: Obstacles to Post-conflict Reconstruction in Northern Ireland
-Dissertation Committee:GordanaRabrenovic(advisor), Jack Levin, Liza Weinstein, Neil Jarman
Publications
Forthcoming Holland, Curtis and GordanaRabrenovic.“Social Immobility, Ethno-
Politics and Sectarian Violence: Obstacles to Post-conflictReconstruction
in Northern Ireland.” Forthcoming in International Journal of Politics,
Culture and Society.Accepted July 2016.
Forthcoming Holland, Curtis, Marjorie Cohn, Ira Helfand and Jean Grassman.“Weapons of
War and Mass Destruction,” In W. H. Wilst & M. White (eds.),
Preventing War andPromotingPeace(Forthcoming, Cambridge
University Press, 2017).
2013 “An Empirical Analysis of the Structuration of American Ideologies about
Economic Justice.”Qualitative Sociology Review9(4): 85-99.
2013 Marieke Liem, Jack Levin, Curtis Holland and James A. Fox.“The Nature
and Incidence of Familicide in the United States, 2000-2009.”Journal of
FamilyViolence28(4): 351-358.
2011(Book Review) De Koning, Anouk. 2009. Global Dreams: Class, Gender
and Public Space in Cosmopolitan CairoCairo and New York: The
American University in Cairo Press. International Sociology Review of
Books 28(5): 644-646.
Article Under Review
“‘The Somebodies of Yesterday are the Nobodies of Today’: Masculinities, Social and
Political Exclusion and Contradictions in Ex-combatant Community-based
Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland.”Revise and resubmission requested from Men
and Masculinities, June 2016.
Conference Presentations
2016 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “Ethnocentric Politics,
Culturesof Masculinity, and the State: Ambiguities of Ex-combatant
Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland.”Special Topics Regular Paper Session: War,
Peace, and Conflict Resolution
2015Complicating Violence: Moving Beyond Bounded Understandings, “Neoliberalism, Paramilitarism, and Ethno-Politics in ‘Post-Conflict’ Northern Ireland.” Graduate Student Conference, Northeastern University, March 27.
2012 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,“The Structuration of
American Dominant Ideology Beliefs about Economic Justice.”Regular Paper
Session, Social Psychology
2012 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, “The Nature and
Incidence of Familicide in the United States: 2000-2009.” Regular Paper
Session
2010 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, “Ideology and Business
Ethics:MBA Students’ Perspectives on the Causes and Implications of the 2008
Economic Crisis.”Regular Paper Session
2008 New England Sociological Association, “Discourse on Human Rights
and Social Entrepreneurship in MBA Curricula and Alumni Magazines:
Comparative Analysis of the Top 10 Graduate Business Schools in the US.”
Undergraduate Honors Thesis
2008 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, “Effectsof Neoliberal
Globalization on the Rights and Welfare of Children in Indonesia, Colombia and
Kenya: A Comparative Study.” Undergraduate Paper
Teaching Positions
Northeastern University
Research Methods in Sociology (Summer 1 2016)
Juvenile Delinquency (Summer 1 2015, Fall 2012)
Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs (Spring 2015)
Social Movements (Spring 2013)
Deviance and Social Control (Summer 2012)
Class, Power, and Social Change (Spring 2012)
Social Problems (Spring 2012)
MET College, Boston University
Sociology of Crime and Delinquency (Fall 2014, Fall 2013)
Violence in the Family (Summer 2 2015, Summer 2 2014)
Social Problems (Spring2016, Spring 2015)
Bentley University
Diversity, Minorities, and Social Change (Fall 2013)
Social Problems (Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Summer 1 2013, Fall 2012)
Issues and Investigations in Sociology (Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012)
Popular Culture in Consumer Societies (Spring 2014)
Bridgewater State University
Social Inequality (Spring 2012)
Social Theory (Spring 2012)
Sociological Analysis (Fall 2011, 2 sections)
Suffolk University
Social Problems (Spring 2011)
Teaching Assistantship
Environment and Society, Dr. Daniel Faber (Northeastern University, Fall 2014)
Grants and Research Awards
2013 – 2014 Research Associate, Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence,
Northeastern University
2012 Joint Faculty-Graduate Student Research Grant (with Gordana
Rabrenovic). Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the
Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence, $2,000.
Honor
Service to the Department Award for Organizing Second Annual Conference on Globalization hosted by Northeastern’s Sociology & Anthropology Department: Global Commodities: Chained and Unchained, March 2011.
Other Professional and Community Activities
2010 – 2011 Part-time Research Assistant,Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence,
Northeastern University
2009 Part-time Research Assistant, Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, Boston
College
2008 Chair of Graduate Student Committee for Boston College Sociology
Department Faculty Job Search
2007 Co-founder of student social justice organization –the Social Justice
League –as an undergraduate at Bridgewater State University, leading to
various Fair Trade initiatives, including the affiliation of the college’s
Bookstore with the Worker Rights Consortium
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