JENNIFER L. PIERCE
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Department______
American Studies
104 Scott Hall
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Office: (612) 624-0852; FAX (612) 624-3858
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Academic History
Degrees:
1991 Ph.D. Sociology University of California, Berkeley
1984 M.A. Sociology University of California, Berkeley
1980 B.A. Sociology University of California, Berkeley (Honors with GreatDistinction)
Areas of Specialization:
Ethnographic Research Methods, Feminist Theory and Feminist Methodology, Gender Studies, Personal Narrative Analysis, Race Relations, Sexualities, Social Theory, Sociology of Emotions,and Work and Organizations.
Academic Employment
2010-Full Professor, American Studies, University of Minnesota
1998-2010Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Minnesota
1997 –1998Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
1993 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
1991 - 1993 Assistant Professor, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Utah
Awards and Honors
1998Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, U.C., Berkeley
1995Faculty Mentor Award, Sociology Department, University of Minnesota
1991 American Sociological Association Dissertation Award, awarded by the Sex and Gender Section
1991Herbert Blumer Prize for the best paper in the symbolic interactionist tradition written by a graduate student, Department of Sociology, U.C., Berkeley
1990American Sociological Association Graduate Student Paper Prize, Sociology of Emotions Section.
1987Gertrude Jaeger Prize for most outstanding essay by a women graduate student, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
1986Outstanding Student Instructor Award, Sociology Department, U. C., Berkeley
1980Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
Grants and Fellowships
2010Single Semester Leave, University of Minnesota, “Apprehending Silences about Race Through Ethnography and Fiction.”
2008Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota,“The Prison Industrial Complex,” applied with Steve Dillon ($5,000).
2006Schochet GLBT Research Award, “Queering Oral History: The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project,” ($6,060)
2006RockefellerBellagioCenter Residential Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy, April - May.
2005Sabbatical Supplement, College of Liberal Arts, “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, American Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action”
2004President’s Multicultural Research Award, "Public Narratives, Race, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action” ($4,500)
2004Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota, “Re-enacting the Past: Emotional Labor in Living History Museums,” applied with Amy Tyson ($5,000).
2003Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, University of Minnesota. “Feminist Generations,” Spring semester leave.
2003Grant-in-Aid for Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, "Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, American Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” ($18,000)
2003GraduateSchool Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Creative Activities Grant ($5,000), Institute for Global Studies Grant ($5,000), Humanities Institute Grant ($9,744), Lippincott Fund Grant, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota ($5,000), “Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Summer 2003 Institute on Gender, Migration, and Global Change”
2004Law School Admissions Council Grant, “Racial Climates in Law Schools,” faculty sponsor for Wendy Leo Moore($23,000).
2003Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota. “Popular Culture and Constructions of Race in Post-Civil Rights America,” applied with Wendy Leo Moore ($5,629)
2002Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota. “Engendering Service Work,” applied with Karla Erickson ($7,325)
2002Grant-in-Aid for Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, "Feminist Generations," ($16,037)
1998Bush Diversity Teaching Grant, University of Minnesota. "Dealing with Diversity in the Classroom and the Curriculum," ($4,000)
1997McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota. "Communities on the Margins" ($5,000)
1997Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota. "Communities on the Margins," ($5,000) 1997.
1996Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small Grant Program. "Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences,” ($2,500) applied with M.J. Maynes and Barbara Laslett
1995Grant-in-Aid for Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, "Creating Identity on the Margins" ($13,827)
1994McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota, "Outsiders in the Land of Zion," ($4,500)
1994Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota. "Outsiders in the Land of Zion," ($4,500)
1992Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Utah. "Improving the `Chilly' Climate for Women in Large Law Firms," ($2,500)
1990Dissertation Research Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
1989Dissertation Research Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley
1988Sagan Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley
1987Regents Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley
1985Thomasin and Abigal Bellah Memorial Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Queer Twin Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Projectis a collective including Michael Franklin, Larry Knopp, Kevin Murphy, Ryan Murphy, Jason Ruiz, and Alex Urquhart.
Selected for“Author Meets Critic Session” at the American Geographical Association Meetings in Seattle, Washington, March 2011
Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and in History, Cornell University Press, 2008. Co-authored with M.J. Maynes; Barbara Laslett is third author.
Selected for “Author Meets Critic Session” at the Social Science History Association Meetings in Long Beach, California, 2009
Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology; American Historical Review
Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995 (second printing, 1998).
Selected for “Author Meets Critics Session” at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings in San Francisco, California, 1998
Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Gender & Society,Law and Politics Book Review,Law and Social Inquiry, Social and Legal Studies,Symbolic Interaction, UCLA Women’s Law Journal, Qualitative Sociology
Edited Volumes and Journals:
Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Co-edited with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson.
Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology, Contemporary Women’s Writing, American Studies, Discourse and Society
Qualitative Sociology: Special issue on Personal Narratives. 26, 3 (Fall 2003).
Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New YorkUniversity Press, 2000. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies including Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, and Naomi Schemen.
Explorations in Ethnic Studies: Special Issue on Race, Class, and Gender 17, 1 (January 1994) Co-edited with Alberto Pulido.
Refereed Articles:
“Still Killing Mockingbirds: Race and Innocence in Hollywood’s Depiction of the White Messiah Lawyer,” Qualitative Sociology Review, III, 2 (August 2007): 171-187. (Co-authored with Wendy Leo Moore.)
“Farewell to the Organization Man: The Feminization of Loyalty in High-End and Low-End Service Work.” Ethnography (September 2005): 283-313 (Co-authored with Karla Erickson).
"Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology and Back: One Woman’s Tale of Tenure and the Politics of Backlash." Qualitative Sociology 26, 3 (Fall 2003): 369-396.
"'Racing for Innocence': Whiteness, Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action." Qualitative Sociology 26, 1 (Spring 2003): 53-70.
"The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success Among Latinas and Latinos in College." Gender & Society vol. 15, no. 6 (December 2001): 859-878. (Co-authored with Heidi Barajas).
"From Scholarship Girls to Scholarship Women: Surviving the Contradictions of Class and Race in the Academy," Explorations in Ethnic Studies 17, 1 (January 1994): 21-24. (Co-authored with Gloria Cuadraz).
"Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, 1 (Autumn 1993): 62-91. (Co-authored with Denise Segura).
"Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in Nuclear and Extended Families," American Sociological Review 56, 3 (June 1991): 321-330. (Shavit, first author; Pierce, second author).
"Emotion Work and Hysteria: A Feminist Reinterpretation of Freud's Studies on Hysteria," Women's Studies 16, 3 and 4 (1989): 255-270.
"The Implications of Functionalism for Chicano Family Research," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 29 (1984): 93-117.
Book Chapters and Invited Essays:
“Introduction: Queer Twin Cities,” in Queer Twin Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
“Introduction: Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations” in Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pages 1-45. (Co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson.)
“Introduction: Special Issue on Personal Narratives.” Qualitative Sociology 26, 3 (Fall 2003): 307-311.
"'Not Committed?' or 'Not Qualified?': A Raced and Gendered Organizational Logic in Contemporary Law Firms," pages 155-171 in Reza Banakar and Max Travers, editors,An Introduction to Law and Social Theory. London: Hart Publishing, 2002.
"Lawyers, Lethal Weapons and Ethnographic Authority," pages 146-162 in Susan Moch and Marie Gates, eds. Qualitative Research and the Researcher Experience. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.
“Introduction,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 1-4. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, and Naomi Schemen).
“Theory Binds: The Perils of Retrofit,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 5-7. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Naomi Schemen).
“Storytelling: Sites of Empowerment, Sites of Exploitation,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 131-136. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Naomi Schemen).
“Starting Here, Starting Now: Challenges to Academic Practices,” Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000, pages 261-265. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, Jennifer Pierce, and Naomi Schemen).
"Emotional Labor Among Paralegals." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. (special issue on "Emotional Labor in the Service Economy"). Vol. 561 (January 1999): 127-142. (Excerpted and revised from Gender Trials.)
"Reproducing Gender Relations in Large Law Firms," Pages 184-219 in Cameron MacDonald and Carmen Sirianni, eds., Working in the Service Society: Critical Paradigms. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1996. (excerpted and revised from Gender Trials.)
"Reflections on Fieldwork in a Complex Organization," pages 94-110 in Rosanna Hertz and Jonathan Imber, eds., Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.
"New Scholarship on Race, Class and Gender: Other Voices Challenging the Mainstream." Explorations in Ethnic Studies 17, 1 (January 1994): 1-9. (Co-authored with Alberto Pulido).
Reprinted Articles:
"Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology and Back: One Woman’s Tale of Tenure and the Politics of Backlash, reprinted in Hokulani Aikau, Karla Erickson, and Jennifer L. Pierce, editors, Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pages 109-139.
“Farewell to the Organization Man: The Feminization of Loyalty in High-End and Low-End Service Work,” reprinted in Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson, editors, The Gendered Society.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2007. (Co-authored with Karla Erickson).
"The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success Among Latinas and Latinos in College," reprinted in Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret Anderson, eds. Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2007, second edition. (Co-authored with Heidi Barajas.)
“Les Emotions du Travail: Le Cas Des Assistantes Legal” Travailler(Spring 2004): 51-72. (This article is a French translation of my 1999 "Emotional Labor Among Paralegals" article that appeared in theAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.)
"Rambo Litigators," reprinted in Nancy Sacks and Catherine Marrone, eds., Gender and Work in Today’s World: A Reader. Westview, 2004.(Excerpted from Gender Trials.)
"'Racing for Innocence': Whiteness, Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action," reprinted in Woody Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, editors, White-Out. New York: Routledge, 2003.
"Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited," (Co-authored with Denise Segura). Reprinted in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Sex and Gender. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002
"Rambo Litigators," in John Bonsignore, et al., editors, Before the Law: An Introduction to the Legal Process. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
"Rambo Litigators," in Michael Kimmel and Michael Messner, editors, Men's Lives. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.
"Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited," reprinted in Karen Hansen and Anita Garey, eds. Family Values, Kinship, and Sexual Politics in the U.S.: Critical Feminist Perspectives. Temple University Press, 1998.(Co-authored with Denise Segura).
"Rambo Litigators," in Amy Wharton, editor, Work in America: Continuity, Conflict and Change. Mayfield Publishing, 1997.
"Emotional Labor in a Male Dominated Occupation," in Cliff Cheng, ed. Masculinities in Organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.
Review Essays and Encyclopedia Entries:
“Feminist Questions for Ethnographies of Work: A Review Essay on Miliann Kang’s The Managed Hand and Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt’s Stretched Thin, Contemporary Sociology (forthcoming).
"Paralegals." Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 2000.
Burawoy's Manufacturing Consent. Contemporary Sociology, 30, 5 (September 2001): 435-441.
"Is Sisterhood Global? A Review Essay," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 30 (1985): 151-161. (Co-authored with Karla Hackstaff).
"Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Ambivalence and the Psychology of Good and Evil," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 33 (1988): 181-190 (Co-authored with Karla Hackstaff).
Book Reviews:
Anthony Chen. The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972. Contemporary Sociology, vol. 39, no. 3 (May 2010).
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn. The Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution. Contemporary Sociology, vol 33, no. 1 (January 2004).
Rachel Buff. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992. Cultural Critique (Winter 2003).
"Manufacturing Consent in the 'New' Global Economy." A Continuities Symposium on Michael
Ruth Milkman, editor. Organizing Immigrants and Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong. Voices from the Front Lines: Organizing Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles. Ethnography, 2, 2 (June 2001).
Jacki Krasas Rogers. Temps: The Many Faces of Employment. Qualitative Sociology, 24, 4 (Winter 2001).
Joyce Fletcher. Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice. American Journal of Sociology, (September 2000).
Herbert Kritzer. Legal Advocacy: Lawyers and Non-Lawyers at Work. Contemporary Sociology, 29, 3 (May 2000).
Melissa Herbert. Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military. Contemporary Sociology 29. 2 (March 2000).
Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, editors. Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities. Contemporary Sociology, 28, 2 (March 1999).
Chilla Bulbeck. Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diversity in a Postcolonial World. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 40, 2 (March 1999).
Thomas Scheff. Emotions, the Social Bond and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis. Symbolic Interaction, 22,1 (January 1999).
Jerry Van Hoy. Franchise Law Firms and the Transformation of Personal Legal Services. Contemporary Sociology, 27, 5 (September 1998).
Martha McMahon. Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-Transformation in Women's Lives. Contemporary Sociology 26, 1 (January 1997).
Helena Znaniecka Lopata. Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women. Social Forces 74 (December 1995).
Anthony Elliott. Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: From Freud to Kristeva. Contemporary Sociology 23, 5 (September 1994).
Gregory Matoesian. Reproducing Rape: Domination Through Talk in the Courtroom. The Law and Politics Book Review 4, 2 (February 1994).
Michael Lerner. Surplus Powerlessness: The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life and Social Transformation. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 33 (1988).
Carol Gilligan. In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 28 (1983).
Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 27 (1982).
Other Professional Publications and Productions:
"Selected Readings on Race, Class and Gender: A Bibliography," Explorations in Ethnic Studies 17, 1 (January 1994): 113-122. (Co-authored with Alberto Pulido)
"Race, Class and Gender Syllabi." Chicano and Latino Studies in Sociology. American Sociological Association Publication, 1994
"Unheard Voices: Race, Class and Gender in Salt Lake City," (Spring 1993) Video Production for KUED TV, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Co-produced with Alberto Pulido and Kim Koch)
Manuscripts Under Contract, Under Review, or in Progress:
“Your Maria’s a real hot tamale:” Racialization, Sexualization, and Desexualization of Women Legal Workers.” Under review Gender & Society.
“Racing for Innocence": Whiteness, American Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action, book manuscript under review.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Refereed Presentations:
August 2011, “Narratives of White Male Innocence and Injury: The Politics of Cultural Memory in the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Panel on Culture and Narrative, American Sociological Association, Las Vegas Nevada, accepted.
August 2010. “Your Maria’s a real hot tamale:” Racialization, Sexualization, and Desexualization of Women Legal Workers,” Panel on Race, Class, and Gender, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
November 2009. “Creating Solutions at Minnesota,” Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time, American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
August 2008. “Feminist Questions for the Sociology of Work,” Panel on the History of Industrial Sociology, American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts.
November 2006. "Rethinking Feminist Waves: Life Histories of a Movement, 1964-2000," Panel on Second Wave Feminism, Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota (co-authored with Karla Erickson and Hokulani Aikau)
August 2006. “Feminist Waves: Reflections on the Uneven Diffusion of Feminist Thought in the Academy,” Feminism and Academic Cultures, American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada (co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson)
August 2005. “Making Trouble for the Binary between Second and Third Wave Feminism: Re-conceptualizing ‘Waves’ and ‘Generations,’” Panel on Feminist Theory: American Sociology Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (co-authored with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson)