Curriculum Vitae, Page 1
Susan J. Ferguson
SUSAN J. FERGUSON
Department of SociologyHome Address
Grinnell College1726 4th Avenue
Grinnell, Iowa 50112Grinnell, Iowa 50112
(641) 269-3133(641) 236-6576
EDUCATION:
1988 - 1993 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (July 1993)
Dissertation: "'Old Christmas Cake' or Independent Women? Never Married Chinese and
Japanese American Women." Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Suzanne Model.
1986 - 1988M.A. in Sociology, Colorado State University (May 1988)
Masters thesis: "Women Workers in the Maquiladoras: What is the Potential for a Social
Movement?"Master’s Thesis Advisor: Dr. Stanley Eitzen.
1979 - 1984B.A. in Political Science and Spanish, Colorado State University (May 1984)
Phi Beta Kappa; graduated with honors and completed the University Honors' Program
Senior Honors thesis: "The Development and Status of Peruvian Women."
1979 - 1984Certificate of Study in Women's Studies, Colorado State University (May 1984)
1979 - 1984Certificate of Study in Latin American Studies, Colorado State University (May 1983)
Summer 1982Certificate of Study in Spanish Language and Culture (August 1982)
Universidad de Madrid, Spain
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Nominated for the ASA Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology (March 2016)
Invited to join faculty on the inaugural CSU/ISE Fall 2016 Semester at Sea voyage
Asked to Co-Chair ASA Task Force on Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major (2015-2017)
Nominated and elected to Editorial Board of Teaching Sociology (2015-2018)
Asked to Co-author MCL White Paper in Sociology, Social Science Research Council (2014-2016)
Invited to join team of sociologists for Measuring College Learning Project at the SSRC (2014)
Appointed Series Editor, Contemporary Family Perspectives, Sage Publications (2010)
Promoted to Full Professor at Grinnell College (Spring 2009)
Nominated to be editor of Teaching Sociology, a peer-reviewed journal in sociology (Fall 2008)
Received the Karen J. Wedge Award from CSUhonoring a Women's Studies alumna (March 2007)
Invited to join the Departmental Resources Group of the ASA (June 2006)
Nominated and elected to chair ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Selection Committee (2006-2008)
Nominated and elected to serve on the Committee on Nominations, ASA (2005-2007)
Appointed Series Editor, Families in the Twenty-First Century, Pearson ( 2004)
Contributing Editor to Contexts, the new ASA journal for a lay audience (2000-2003)
Nominated and elected State Director of Iowa, Midwest Sociological Association (2000-2002)
Nominated and elected to Editorial Board of Teaching Sociology (2000-2002)
Awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at Grinnell College (1999)
Nominated for the 1992-1993 Distinguished Teaching Award, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Awarded First Place for paper atNortheast Popular Culture Assn. Amherst, MA.(Oct. 1990)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Received $1,500.00 research grant from SAGE Publications for book development. (Summer 2017)
Received $14,900.00 research grant from ACM FaCE Grant program, “Building Community and Curriculum in a 21st Century Liberal Arts Major: Curriculum Mapping in Sociology as a Means to Collaborate and Innovate.” (2017-2018)
Received $3,000.00 research grant from SAGE Publications for book development. (Summer 2016)
Received the Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Grant of $2,500.00 for project: “Curriculum Mapping Tool to Advance Progressive Structures for Essential Learning Outcomes in the Sociology Major.” Stephen Sweet, Ithaca College, Co-Principle Investigator (March 2016)
Invited to participate in Social Science Research Council and Gates Foundation Research Grant: “Measuring College Learning Project” (2014-2016)
Applied to DASIL Innovation Fund for project to learn GIS for Sociology of Health and Illness course, Grinnell College (Spring 2014)
Applied to Grinnell College Innovation Fund for project “Learning Beyond the Classroom.” (Spring 2013)
Curricular Development Award, Grinnell College (Summer 2005)
Grinnell College Research Grant Board Awards (1994-2001; 2004; 2006)
Harris Fellowship Recipient, Grinnell College (1997-1998)
ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award (1996-1998)
Gender and Women's Studies Curricular Awards, Grinnell College (Summer 1996; Summer 1994)
Technology Studies Curricular Awards, Grinnell College (Summer 1996; Summer 1994)
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: (new courses developed listed below)
2009 – presentFull Professor of Sociology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
---Global Health: Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, and the United States
---Identities and Inequalities: Race, Class, and Gender Revisited
---Dystopian Visions: The Hunger Games Revisited (First Year Seminar)
Fall 2016Professor of Sociology, Semester at Sea, Institute for Shipboard Education
---General Sociology from a Global Perspective
---Gender and Society
1999 - 2009Associate Professor of Sociology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
---The Practicum in Sociology
---Contemporary Women’s Health Issues
---Sociology of the Body
1997 - 1998Harris Fellow, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
---Year research leave in Bay Area, CA. interviewing never married Asian American women.
1993 - 1999Assistant Professor of Sociology, Grinnell College
---Introduction to Sociology
---Sociology of Health and Illness
---Research Methods
---Women and Work
---The Family
---Frankenstein: Gender, Technology, and the Sociological Imagination (First Year Seminar)
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: (new courses listed below)
1989 - 1993Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
---Sociology of the Family
---Social Problems
---General Introduction to Sociology
Fall 1992Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Smith College, MA
---Statistics, Prof. Nancy Whittier
1992 - 1993Interviewer, Florida Retirement Study, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
1988 - 1993Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst
---Race, Sex and Social Class, Prof. Stephen Small
---Sociology of Parenthood, Prof. Alice S. Rossi
---Social Problems, Prof. Randall Stokes
---Sociology of the Family, Prof. Naomi Gerstel
---Data Collection and Analysis, Prof. Mina Safizadeh
---Introduction to Legal Studies, Prof. Janet Rifkin
1989 - 1990Research Assistant for Prof. Alice S. Rossi. Worked on two research grants from the MacArthur Foundation, involving gender measurement and research on menopause.
1989Research Assistant for Prof. W. Clark Roof. Coding and data entry for national survey of baby boomers' religious attitudes.
1986 - 1988Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Sociology, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Spring 1984Co-Teacher with Professors Pattie Cowell and Karen J. Wedge. Women’s Studies Seminar. Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Articles and Book Chapters
Jan. 2018“Early Thinking on Implementing the New ASA Recommendations for the Undergraduate Sociology Major.” Co-authors are Edward Kain and Diane Pike. Submitted to Teaching Sociology. Under review.
June 2016“(Non)Traditional Values, Egalitarian Expectations: Gendering College Students’ Plans for Relationship and Family Formation.” Written with former MAP student, Katherine Tucker. Submitted to Gender Issues. Under review.
May 2016“The Center Does Hold: The Sociological Literacy Framework.” Teaching Sociology. Vol. 44. No. 3. Pp. 163-176. Published online and in print.
May 2016“Measuring College Learning in Sociology.” Co-author is William Carbonaro. Pp.135-187 in Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century. Edited by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, and Amanda Cook.San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH, continued:
Fall 2013“Preparing for Program Review.” The Department Chair. Vol. 24, No. 2. Pp. 15-16.
Fall 2012“How to Present Your Teaching Self When You Are On the Job Market.”Co-written with Meg Wilkes Karraker and Charlotte Ann Kunkel. Teaching and Learning Newsletter. Vol. 41, No. 2. Manuscript published.
August 2012“Constructing the Teacher Self, (Part One): Learning the Trade.” Co-written with Meg Wilkes Karraker and Charlotte Ann Kunkel. Teaching and Learning Newsletter. Vol. 41, No. 1. Manuscript published.
Spring 2012“Constructing the Teaching Portfolio.” Co-written with Meg Wilkes Karraker and Charlotte Ann Kunkel. The Midwest Sociologist. Manuscript published.
May 2010“Constructing the Teacher Self.” Co-written with Meg Wilkes Karraker and Charlotte Ann Kunkel. Teaching Sociology. Revise and Resubmit. Nov. 2010, Rejected.
Spring 2009“Socialization and Identity among Chinese American Young Women.” Race, Gender, and Class Journal. Submitted manuscript for review.
October 2008"At the Crossroads of Identity: Never Married Chinese American Women." International Journal of the Family 34(2):235-256.
Dec. 2004“Gendering Processes in Immigration: The Effects of Spousal Immigration Order and Women’s Labor on Chinese American and Japanese American Gender Roles.” Equal Opportunities International 23(3/4). Co-author is Grinnell College student, Julie Dona.
Jan. 2004“Challenging Traditional Marriage: Never Married Chinese American and Japanese
American Women.” Pp. 139-155 in Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience. Edited by Lee D. Baker. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Reprint of earlier publication.)
May 2003“Early Sociologist at Grinnell Was a Radical Socialist.” Sociology Department Newsletter. Volume 2. Grinnell College. Grinnell, Iowa.
Sept. 2001“How Constructions of Race in China, Japan, and the U.S. Shape Chinese American and
Japanese American Dating and Marriage Patterns.” Co-author is Katie Brindley, former
Grinnell student. Submitted for review to The Sociological Quarterly.
Sept. 2000“‘Deformities’ and ‘Diseased’: The Medicalization of Women’s Breasts.” Pp. 51-86 in Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic, edited by Anne S. Kasper and Susan J. Ferguson. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
Feb. 2000“Challenging Traditional Marriage: Never Married Chinese American and Japanese
American Women.” Gender and Society. 14(1):136-159.
April 1998“Rewriting Menopause: Challenging the Medical Paradigm to Reflect Menopausal Women’s Experiences.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 19(1):20-41. Co-author is Carla Parry, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH, continued:
June 1997"Vessels and Vectors: Sexism and Pronatalism in Public Health Policies Regarding
Women and AIDS." Submitted for review to NWSA Journal. Co-author is Erin White.
Status: Accepted as a revise and resubmit in November, 1997.
April 1997Research and analysis of Japanese never married women. Paper presented at Midwest
Sociological Society meetings, Des Moines, IA. Written with student, Yayoi Suzuki.
1997 - 1998Completed fieldwork during Harris Fellowship Year: Interviewed 62 never married Chinese American and Japanese American women in the Bay Area of California.
Summer 1996Research on never married Chinese American and Japanese American women. Contact
letters sent to over 80 Asian American organizations and individuals in the Bay Area. Traveled to San Francisco July 12th to July 27th, 1996 to do pilot interviews.
March 1996"How to Put the "Teaching" Back into the Graduate Teaching Assistantship." Submitted forreview to Teaching Sociology. Status: Accepted as a revise and resubmit (May, 1996).
Summer 1995Research on the medicalization of women and breast reconstruction, with a particular
emphasis on the breast implant fiasco. Research conducted with student, Alice Gates.
May 1995"The Marriage Timing of Chinese American and Japanese American Women." Journal of
Family Issues. 16(3):314-343.
Dec. 1991"The Old Maid Stereotype in American Film, 1938-1965." Film and History. 21(4):131-143.
Books
July 2017Co-author. The Sociology Major in the Changing landscape of Higher Education: Curriculum, Careers, and Online Learning. Diane Pike et al. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
May 2017Editor. Eighth Edition. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. (2018 publication date)
July 2015Editor. Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality and Identity. Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (2016 publication date)
Nov. 2012Editor. Seventh Edition. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (2013 publication date)
August 2012Editor. Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (2013 publication date)
May 2010Editor. Fourth Edition. Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (2011 publication date)
Nov. 2009Editor. Sixth Edition. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (2010 publication date)
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH, continued:
March 2007Editor. Fifth Edition. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (2008 publication date)
Jan. 2006Editor. Third Edition. Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (2007 publication date)
July 2004Editor. Fourth Edition. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (2005 publication date)
July 2001Editor. Third Edition. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company. (2002 publication date)
Jan. 2001Editor. Second Edition. Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Sept. 2000Co-editor. Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic. Co-editor is Anne S. Kasper.
New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. (Paperback published in Dec. 2001)
Jan. 1999Editor. Second Edition. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Jan. 1998Editor. Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Jan. 1996Editor. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Mountain View, CA:
Mayfield Publishing Company.
Family Series Editor
Fall 2014Series Editor. LGBT Families. Written by Nancy J. Mezey. (Seventh Volume in “Contemporary Family Perspectives” series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
(2015 publication date)
April 2013Series Editor. Families and Health. Second Edition. Written by Janet R. Grochowski. (Sixth Volume in “Contemporary Family Perspectives” series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (2014 publication date)
March 2013Series Editor. The Work-Family Interface: An Introduction. Written by Stephen Sweet. (Fifth Volume in “Contemporary Family Perspectives” series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (2014 publication date)
July 2012Series Editor. Family Policy and the American Safety Net. Written by Janet Zollinger Giele. (Fourth Volume in “Contemporary Family Perspectives” series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (2013 publication date)
Spring 2012Series Editor. Global Families. Written by Meg Wilkes Karraker. (Third volume in “Contemporary Family Perspectives” series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (2013 publication date)
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH, continued:
August 2011Series Editor. Making Families through Adoption. Written by Nancy E. Riley and Krista Van Vleet. (Second volume in “Contemporary Family Perspectives” series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (2012 publication date)
May 2011Series Editor. Families: A Social Class Perspective. Written by Shirley A. Hill. (First volume in “Contemporary Family Perspectives” series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Jan. 2010Series Editor. Families and Health. Written by Janet Grochowski. (Third volume in Families inthe Twenty-First Century series.) Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Dec. 2007Series Editor.Global Families. Written by Meg Wilkes Karraker. (Second volume in Families in the Twenty-First Century series). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Nov. 2006Series Editor. Families in Poverty. Written by Karen Seccombe. (First volume in Families in the Twenty-First Century series). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Book Reviews
Fall 2014Book review of Contemporary Grandparenting: Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts, edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen. (The Polity Press, 2012). Contemporary Sociology.
Spring 2009“Still No Makin’ It.” Book review of Ain’t No Makin It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood by Jay MacLeod. (Westview Press, Third Edition, 2008).Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds. 8(2):74-76.
May 2007Book review of The Work and Family Handbook: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Methods, and Approaches by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ellen Ernst Kossek, and Stephen Sweet. Editors. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,Publishers, 2006). Journal ofMarriage and Family. 69(2):547-549.
Feb. 2002Book review of Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same Sex and Unwed Parents. By Mary Lyndon Shanley (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). J. of Marriage and Family. (2002):272-273.
Oct. 2001Book review of Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States. Third Edition.By Virginia Cyrus, Editor. (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 2000).Teaching Sociology. 29(4): 506-507.
Feb. 1997Book review of Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms, by Jennifer Pierce. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1995). Gender and Society 11(1):131-133.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH, continued:
Op-Ed Writing and Blog Posts
July 2016“Going Global: Creating the Sociological Literacy Framework from International Assessment Practitioners.”Posted July 14, 2016 on Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education.
Fall 2014“Discovering a Grinnell Connection through an Argentine Poet.” Grinnell Magazine.
Summer 2014“Reply to “How Do We Edit Sociology? Some Thoughts on Introductory Readers by Michael DeCesare. Teaching/Learning Matters (ASA Section on Teaching and Learning Newsletter). 42(2):8-9.
Publications Related to Pedagogy
January 2017The Sociology Major in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education: Curriculum, Careers, and Online Learning. 2017 Report of the ASA Task Force on the Undergraduate Major. Susan Ferguson and Jeffrey Chin, Co-Chairs. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
May 2016“The Center Does Hold: The Sociological Literacy Framework.” Teaching Sociology. Vol. 44. No. 3. Pp. 163-176. Published online and in print.
May 2016“Measuring College Learning in Sociology.” Co-author is William Carbonaro. Pp.135-187 in Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century. Edited by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, and Amanda Cook. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Summer 2014Published syllabus, “Identities and Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality” on TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. URL: http:/trails.asanet.org.
Summer 2014“Reply to “How Do We Edit Sociology? Some Thoughts on Introductory Readers by Michael DeCesare. Teaching/Learning Matters (ASA Section on Teaching and Learning Newsletter). 42(2):8-9.
Summer 2010“Instructor’s Manual.” Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families. Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
Spring 2010“Instructor’s Manual.” Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Sixth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
August 2007Co-editor. Teaching the Sociology of the Body: A Collection of Syllabi, Assignments, and Other Resources. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
March 2007“Instructor’s Manual.” Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Fifth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. Written with student, Madison Van Oort.
Publications Related to Pedagogy, continued
Nov. 2006Website. Designed and wrote content for website for Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. Written with help from student, Madison Van Oort.