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Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1983
M.A., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1978
B.A., Comp. Literature, Brown University, 1976
Selected Publications and Activities:
The Art of Surrender: War and Politics at Conflict's End, forthcoming,
The University of Chicago Press.
Theorizing the Standoff: Contingency in Action, Cambridge University
Press, 2000. Winner of 2001 Culture Section of the American Sociological
Association Best Book Award
Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia Versus MOVE.
The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama. The University
of Chicago Press, l986.
"The Dubious Place of Virtue: Reflections on the Impeachment
of William Jefferson Clinton and the Death of the Political Event
in America," co-authored with Magali Sarfatti-Larson, Theory
and Society, Volume 30, Issue 6, December 2001.
"The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult
Past." co-authored with Barry Schwartz. The American Journal
of Sociology, Vol.97, No.2, September, 1991.
Teaching and Research Interests:
Analysis of interstitial moments in social and political contexts
(including standoffs and surrenders), with a methodological approach
that includes discourse analysis, semiotic analysis of visual
material, hermeneutics.
Courses Taught:
Symbols and Society (SOAN 006B)
Power, Authority, and Conflict (SOAN 026C)
Social Inequaltiy (SOAN 046B)
Standoffs, Breakdowns and Surrenders (SOAN 056B)
Standoffs, Breakdowns and Surrenders (SOAN 109)
Political Sociology (SOAN 114)
Social Inequality (SOAN 130)
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