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JOHN MARSHALL GRADY,
Ph.D.
34 Creighton St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-6155
Employment
1978-present WHEATON
COLLEGE (Norton, MA)
Assistant Professor (1978); Associate Professor (1985); Professor
(1990); Chair, 1986-1989; 1992-93; 1998-99; 2008; Hannah Goldberg
Professor of Sociology; 1999-2004); Coordinator, Urban Studies;
Wheaton Faculty Advisor, Wheaton College/ Suffolk University Dual
Degree Program in Mass Communications.
1997-present Visiting
Research Scholar, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland,
ME
1977-78 C.D. FILM WORKSHOP (Roxbury, MA) Director of Research.
1976-77 FRAMINGHAM STATE COLLEGE (Framingham, MA) Instructor of
Sociology.
1973-76 EMMANUEL COLLEGE (Boston, MA) Instructor in Sociology.
1971-73 MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER (Boston, MA) Research
Associate of Delta Drug Program.
1967-73 EMMANUEL COLLEGE (Boston, MA) Lecturer in Sociology.
Education
1968-77 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (Waltham, MA) Department of Sociology.
Ph.D (February, 1977). Dissertation: Status Dynamics and Social
Control in a Community Action Program
1966-67 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (Waltham, MA) Department of Anthropology.
Concentration in social anthropology.
1964-66 YALE UNIVERSITY
(New Haven, Conn.) Department of Anthropology. Concentration in
prehistory and archeology. MA (December, 1967). Thesis: Social Development
of India.
1965 UNIVERSITY OF
PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh, PA) Field training internship at Zacapoaxtla,
Mexico. Report: A Brief Ethnography of Huahuaxtla.
1960-64 BOSTON COLLEGE
(Chestnut Hill, MA) Majored in Asian Studies. Honors Program; Editor
of Stylus, campus literary magazine; Associate Editor of Humanities,
campus scholarly magazine; President of Freshman Class. BA (June,
1964) cum laude.
Publications and Films
Book
In Preparation Visual
Research in the Social and Cultural Sciences, with Luc Pauwels (University
of Antwerp) and Jon Wagner (University of California, Davis)
Articles and Book
Chapters
In Preparation "Designing
and Making Charts for Social Analysis" in Eric Margolis and
Luc Pauwels (eds) Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.
Forthcoming "World
in Change Series: Eleven Sociological Vignettes", in Anthony
Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard Appelbaum and Deborah Carr.
Introduction to Sociology, 7th Edition. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company.
Forthcoming "Visual
Research at the Crossroads" Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Volume 9.
2007(f) "Advertising
Images As Social Indicators: Depictions Of Blacks In LIFE
Magazine (1936-2000)" Visual Studies, Volume 22, 3: 211-239.
Will also be
published as "Le immagini pubblicitarie come indicatori sociali",
translated
by Patrizia Faccioli) in Patrizia Faccioli and Guiseppe (Pino) Losacco
(eds)
Lavorare Con le Immagini. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
2007(e) Advertising
Images of Blacks: LIFE Magazine (1936-2000). FileMakerPro Database
of every advertising image that contains black figures and representations.
Available from jgrady@wheatonma.edu for cost of production and shipping.
2007(d) "Photographs
as Answers" Visual Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1: 85-94 With Richard
Chalfen, Patrizia Faccioli, Doug Harper, Pino Lossacco and Charles
Suchar.
2007(c) "Surprise
and Discovery: Using GIS to Explore Social Diversity in
Contemporary America" in D. Sinton and J Lund (eds) Understanding
Place:
GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum. ESRI Press: Redland (CA):
83-96.
2007(b) "Visual
Sociology" in Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck (eds) 21st
Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Volume 2. Sage Publications:
Thousand Oaks (CA): 63-70.
2007(a) "Visual
Methods" in George Ritzer (ed) The Encyclopedia of Sociology.
Blackwell Publications: London: 2286-2289.
2006 "Edward
Tufte and the Promise of a Visual Social Science," in Luc Pauwels
(ed) Visual Cultures of Science. University Press of New England:
Hanover: 222-265
2004 "Working
with Visible Evidence: An Invitation and Some Practical Advice,"
In Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman (eds.) Picturing the Social
Landscape: Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination. Routledge:
London: 18-31.
2003 "Putting
Animals in the Picture" Visual Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2: 92-95,
With Jay Mechling
2001 (c) ".Come Si Diventa Sociologi Visuali," (edited
version of "Becoming a Visual Sociologist" translated
by Patrizia Faccioli ) in Patricia Faccioli (ed.) In Altre Parole.
Idee Per Una Sociologia Della Communicazione Visuale, Franco Angeli,
Milano: 253--283
2001(b) "Becoming
a Visual Sociologist," Sociological Imagination (Vol. 38:2-3):
81-126.
2001(a) "Sociology's
New Workshop: the Visual Challenge to Sociology", Sociological
Imagination (Vol. 38:2-3): 3-5
1999 "Conclusioni:
le Potenzialita della Sociologia Visual ," (expanded version
of "The Scope of Visual Sociology" translated by Federica
Maselli) in Patrizia Faccioli and Doug Harper (eds.) Mondi Da Vedere:
Verso Una Sociologia Pi Pisuale. Franco Agnelli: Bologna: 491-524.
1998(a) "Towards
a Quantitative Visual Social Science: The Vision of Edward Tufte,"
Visual Sociology, Vol. 13, No. 1: 74-84.
1998(b) "Reflections on Grounded Theory and Sociological Moviemaking,"
IVSA
Website. www.sjmc.umn.edu/faculty/schwartz/ivsa
1998(c) "Presenting
Images." IVSA Newsletter, Spring 1998. Co-authored with Richard
Chalfen.
1997 "Macho,
Macho Men" Wheaton Quarterly, (Winter): 6-7 (an interview conducted
by Rick Margolis).
1996 "The Scope
of Visual Sociology," Visual Sociology, Vol. 11, No. 2: 10-24
1994 "Strangers
in the Promised Land: A New Era for Israel?" Wheaton Quarterly,
(Spring): 8-12 (with Tesair Lauve).
1991(a) "The
Visual Essay and Sociology," Visual Sociology, Vol. 6, No.
2: 23-38.
1991(b) "Tremor
on the Fault Line," Wheaton Quarterly (Spring): 6-9.
1988 "A Journey
to Egypt and Israel," Wheaton Quarterly (Winter): 11-13
1984 "Review
of Boston Water and Sewer Authority" in Boston in Transition:
A Program and Policy Analysis: 67-76. City of Boston (Boston, MA).
1983 "The Manufacture
and Consumption of Child Abuse as a Social Issue," Telos No.
56: 111-118.
1978 "Dilemmas
of Community Organizing: Mission Hill in Boston: The Compromise,"
Social Policy, Vol. 9 (May-June): 43-48. Written as senior author
in collaboration with Charlotte Ploss.
1977 "Who's
Controlling Whom?: Medical Expansion and Community Control,"
Science for the People, Volume 9, Number 2: 22-28.
1976 "Bussing:
The State Connection," Liberation, Vol. 19, Number 6: 8-13.
Research directed and written in collaboration with D. Blygen, A.M.
Martineau, M. Mullen and C. Prada as the Emmanuel College Research
Group.
Review Essays
2003 "Review
of Origins of the European Economy by Michael McCormick" Visual
Studies, Volume 18, No. 2: pp. 192-195.
2002 "Toward
a More Humanistic Environmentalism," in The Future of Life
by E.O. Wilson and Four Essays By Wheaton Faculty." Norton,
MA, Wheaton
College: pps. 13-19.
2000 "The Missing
Context of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," in The
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman and Eight Essays
By Wheaton Faculty. Norton, MA,Wheaton College: pps. 19-23
1991 "Review
Essay: Four Films by Michael Loukinen," Visual Sociology, Vol.
6, No. 2, pp. 89-90.
1987 "Snappy
Stories and Boring Thoughts: Urban Studies Today," Qualitative
Sociology , Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 177-182.
1979 W. Gaylin, I.
Glasser, S. Marcus, and D. Rothman, "Doing Good: The Limits
of Benevolence," Telos , No. 8, pp. 215-218.
1970 C. Hampden-Turner,
"Radical Man," Telos , No. 6, pp. 325-335.
Films, Videos, Slide
Shows and Other Visual Displays
2005(b) Designed
charts for "Just the Numbers: Race in America" by Mikaila
Mariel Lemonik Arthur. Contexts: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 48-49.
2005(a) Designed
charts for "Just the Facts: "Newspaper Coverage of Social
Movement Organizations in the 20th Century" by Edwin Amenta,
Neal Caren and Sheera Joy Olasky. Contexts: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 48-49.
1995 Just a Fight:
The Place of Violence in Men's Lives. A video production by Cine
Research Associates. 15 minutes. Producer and Director.
1990 Home-Care: Elderly
and Disabled. A video production by Cine Research Associates. 30
minutes. Producer and Director.
1987(a) Love Stories:
Women, Men and Romance. A documentary film by Cine Research Associates.
88 minutes, color. Producer and Research Associate.
1987(b) "Literacy
in Haiti" a slide show. Producer, Director and Photographer.
1986 The Collective:
Fifteen Years Later. A video production by Cine Research Associates.
60 minutes. Executive Producer and Research Director.
1983 Water and the
Dream of the Engineers. A documentary film by Cine Research Associates.
80 minutes, color. Executive Producer and Research Director. (Screenplay
available)
1982 Down the Projects:
The Crisis of Public Housing. A documentary film by Cine Research
Associates. 60 minutes, black and white. Executive Producer and
Research Coordinator. (Screenplay available)
1979 Mission Hill
and the Miracle of Boston. A documentary film by Cine Research Associates.
60 minutes, black and white. Producer and Research Associate. (Screenplay
available)
Study Guides
1984 Study Guide:
Water and the Dream of the Engineers. Cine Research Associates.
Written in Collaboration with R. Broadman and R. Rosenzweig.
1980 Study Guide:
Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston. Cine Research Associates.
Written in collaboration with R. Broadman and R. Rosenzweig.
Photojournalism
1988 Let Me Tell
You Where I've Been: Seven Vietnam Veterans. Co-authored with Janice
Rogovin.
1987 The Fight for
Newton Corner. Senior editor and production associate with Jon Chase.
Other Publications
2004 "'Red' America's last gasp?" Providence Journal,
November 26 (with Kersti Yllo). Syndicated; reprinted in The Day
(New London, CT: December 1st, 2004)
1999(a) "President's
Report." IVSA Newsletter, Fall 1999.
1999(b) "President's
Report." IVSA Newsletter, Spring 1999.
1998(a) "President's
Report." IVSA Newsletter, Fall 1998.
1998(b) "President's
Report." IVSA Newsletter, Spring 1998.
1997(a) "President's
Report." IVSA Newsletter, Fall 1997.
1997(b) IVSA Newsletter,
Spring 1997
1996 IVSA Newsletter,
Fall 1996
1993(a) "The
Problem with Aristide," Baltimore Sun, November 16
1993(b) "Documentary"
in Diane Papademas (ed.) Visual Sociology and Using Film/Video in
Sociology Courses. American Sociological Association
Papers, Presentations
and Lectures
2007(a) "Visual
Social and Cultural Research at the Crossroads", Keynote Address
at: EUROQUAL - Conference on Qualitative Visual Data Analysis sponsored
by the European Science Foundation at the European Academy Berlin
(September 18).
2007(b) Panel Chair: Theory and Sociological Filmmaking. International
Visual
Sociology Association Conference, New York University. (August 11).
2007(c) "Future
of Visual Sociology." International Visual Sociology Association
Conference, New York University. (August 11).
2007(d) "Visual
Sociology and the City: The Case of Mission Hill." EUREX
(European Online Seminar on Urban Transformation, Poverty, Spatial
Segregation and Social Exclusion) 2007: Changing Cities hosted by
the
University of Urbino, Italy. Instructor. (April 24).
2006(a) "Telling
Stories with Numbers". International Visual Sociology Association
Conference, University of Urbino, Italy. (July 5)
2006(b) Panel Chair:
Ethnicity, Group Relations and Urban Public Culture. International
Visual Sociology Association Conference, University of Urbino, Italy.
(August 3)
2005(a) "A Discipline-based
Approach to Teaching GIS" Center for Educational Technology,
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield (CN). (October 11)
2005(b) "'Worlds'
and 'Scenes': The Relationship between Documentary and Sociology".
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Trinity College,
Dublin. (August 3)
2005(c) Panel Chair.
"Ethnic Bodies". International Visual Sociology Association
Conference, Trinity College, Dublin. (August 3)
2004(a) "Targeting
Social Stratification" with Michael Gousie. International Visual
Sociology Association Conference, San Francisco Art Institute. (August
12)
Cf. http://cs.wheatonma.edu/mgousie/social_strat/targetIndex.html
And http://cs.wheatonma.edu/mgousie/social_strat/social.html
2004(b) Panel Chair.
"Documentary Images and Social Order". International Visual
Sociology Association Conference, San Francisco Art Institute. (August
12)
2003(a) "Visualization
and GIS" Connecticut College (October 4)
2003(b) "Imagining
Integration: Advertisements as Social Indicators: The Depiction
of African Americans in Life Magazine" International Visual
Sociology
Association Conference, University of Southampton, UK. (July 8)
2003(c) Panel Chair,
"Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes" International
Visual
Sociology Association Conference, University of Southampton, UK.
(July 9)
2003(d) Panel Chair,
"Representation Reconsidered" International Visual Sociology
Association Conference, University of Southampton, UK. (July 8)
2003(e) "Advertising
Images as Social Indicators,, Incontro seminariale:
Gli indicatori visuali nella ricerca sociale." Laboratorio
di Sociologia Visuale, Dipartimento di Sociologia, Universita' di
Bologna . (May 16)
2003(f) "Ads
as Social Indicators" Faculty Lunchtime Presentation. Wheaton
College. Norton (MA). (April 23)
2003(g) "Using
Excel to Map a Multivariate Database: 'The Hollywood Pantheon."
Lunchtime Presentation at Wheaton College. Norton (MA). (April 18}
2003(h) "Mapping
Diversity: GIS and the US Census":lecture at Technology
Immersion Workshop, Wheaton College, Norton (MA). (January 22)
2003(i) Guest edited
(with Jay Mechling) special issue of Visual Studies:, Volume 18,
Number 2 "Looking at Animals; Looking at Society"
2002 "Visualizing
and Analyzing Data in Maps", lecture in Technology Immersion
course: Maps and Messages, Wheaton College, Norton (MA) (July 14)
2001(a) "Doing
Visual Sociology: A Report on a Workshop for Novices" with
Nicole Breazeale, Brian Gran and Theresa Viggiano (University of
Kentucky), presented at the International Visual sociology Association
Conference, Minneapolis, MN, (July 15)
2001(b) "Visual
Concepts Workshop: Exploring Social Boundaries", run at the
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Minneapolis,
MN.
(July 12)
2001(c) "Field
Studies", Panel chair at the International Visual sociology
Association
Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
(July 11)
2001(d) Guest edited
special issue of Sociological Imagination: "Challenging Sociology
Visually."
2000(a) "Teaching
Workshop. Effective Use of Visual Materials in Teaching Sociology,"
led at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Washington
D.C. (August 13)
2000(b) "Social
Space and the Construction of Community", presented at the
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Portland,
Maine
(July 19)
2000(c) "Re-rooting
Sociology: Building a Community Video Archive" with Molly Galvin
and Brea Walker, presented at the International Visual Sociology
Association Conference, Portland, Maine (July 16)
1999(a) "Mine,
Yours and Ours: Building Community by Design," The Grazella
Shepherd Lecture. Association for Continuing Education, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland OH (October 18)
1999(b) "Using
Databases for Classroom Based Research," presented at the International
Visual Sociology Association Conference, Antwerp, Belgium (July
14)
1999(c) "Visual
Sociology and/in the Classroom," co-chair of plenary session
at International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Antwerp,
Belgium (July 16)
1999(d) "Visuals
in Arts and Sciences Education," chair of panel presented at
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Antwerp,
Belgium (July 16)
1998(a) "Grounded
Theory and Sociological Moviemaking," presented at the International
Visual Sociology Association Conference, Louisville, KY
(June 26)
1998(b) "The
Role of the Image," panel chair at the International Visual
Sociology Association Conference, Louisville, KY(June 24)
1998(c) "The
Visual Display of Formal Argument," panel chair at the International
Visual Sociology Association Conference, Louisville, KY (June 26)
1998(d) "Issues
in Teaching Visual Sociology," co-chair of roundtable at the
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Louisville,
KY
(June 26)
1998(e) "The
Gender Adverstisement Project," presented at Wheaton College
(MA), Faculty Technology Workshop -- Visual Elements in Teaching
and Learning: Trends, Tools and Techniques (May 21)
1998(f) "The
Meanings of Fights: The Evolution of a Sociological Issue,"
Department of Sociology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (February
26)
1997(a) "Digital Technology and the Professionalization of
Visual Sociology," presented at the International Visual Sociology
Association Conference, Boston, MA (July 6)
1997(b) "The
Visual Documentation of Environmental Issues," Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority, Charlestown, MA (April 23)
1997(c) "The
Perils of Shopping and Fighting: the Vignette in Visual Social Research,"
at Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, Portland, ME (March
19)
1996(a) Panel convener for session on "Lives as Problems; the
Problem with Lives,"
at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY (August
16)
1996(b) "Fights,
Lives and Videotape," presented at the Society for the Study
of Social Problems, New York, NY (August 16)
1996(c) Panel chair for session on "Producing," at the
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Bologna,
Italy (July 13)
1996(d) "The
Field(s) of Visual Sociology," presented at the International
Visual
Sociology Association Conference, Bologna, Italy (July 12)
1996(e) "Pragmatism
and Visual Sociology," presented at the International Visual
Sociology Association Conference, Bologna, Italy. (July 10)
1996(f) "The
Scope of Visual Sociology," Discussant at panel on Visual Sociology
at the Eastern Sociological Association conference, Boston, MA (March
29)
1995(a) "Visual
Sociology as a Vocation," presented at the International Visual
Sociology Association Conference, Windsor, Ontario. (July 9)
1995(b) "Teaching
Visual Sociology," presented at the New England Sociological
Association, Wellesley, MA, (April 25)
1994(a) "Visually
Representing Sociology," presented at the International Visual
Sociology Association Conference, Chicago, IL, (July 7-10).
1994(b) "Anxiety
Surfacing: A Community's Changing Image in Mission Hill and the
Miracle of Boston and The Collective," presented at the Laboratory
of Visual Sociology, Department of Sociology, The University of
Bologna, Italy,
(July 27).
1993 "The Documentary
Sociology Project: A Proposal," presented at the International
Visual Sociology Association Conference, Rochester, NY
(July 25)
1991(a) "The
Visual Essay and Sociology" presented at International Visual
Sociology Association Conference, Rochester, NY (July 23).
1991(b) "The
Use of Fictional Film in Teaching Cultural Diversity," presented
at MATSOL (Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of
Other Languages Conference), Bunker Hill Community College (May
3).
1990 "Documentary
Film and Sociology" lecture at Northeastern University, sponsored
by the Department of Sociology (April 5).
1988 No Quarter in
a World of Discord: Israel and Egypt Today. Readings from a book
length journal (160 pages) of a trip to Egypt and Israel. Wheaton
College (throughout the year)
1987 "Literacy in Haiti: A Proposal" lecture and discussion,
Senior Administrative Staff, Roxbury Community College, April 13.
1985 "Courage
and Futility: Dilemmas of Neighborhood Organizing in the New Boston."
Conference on the History of Boston. Boston College (Chestnut Hill,
MA), Oct. 5
1984(a) "Conflict
in the Control of Science" lecture and discussion of Significant
Hazards, a documentary film, with Sheldon Krimsky at Boston College.
April 11.
1984(b) "Blaming
the Victim and Vindicating the Villain: The Functions of Stigma
in Public Policy." Sociology Department Colloquium. Colby College.
March 28.
1983(a) "Public
Housing in America" presenter & discussant of Down the
Projects. Society for the Study of Social Problems. (Detroit, August
30).
1983(b) "Water
and American Cities: A Visual Sociology," presentation and
discussion at Massachusetts Sociological Association, April.
1983(c) "The
Crisis of Public Housing," presenter and discussion leader
at twelve forms. Sponsored by MFHPP and Boston Housing Authority,
Cambridge Housing Authority, Office of the Mayor of Lawrence, Springfield
Housing Authority; Boston Planners' Network; and Department of Housing
and Urban Development (New England Region). January-May.
1983(d) "Water
Policy & Problems" Presenter. Reston Philosophers' Association,
Reston, Virginia, June.
1983(e) "The
Built Environment as a Social Problem." Society for the Study
of Social Problems (Detroit, August 27).
1982 "The Humanities
and Sociology" Plenary address given with Kent Jacobsen to
Massachusetts Sociological Association. April.
1981(a) "Class
& Race in Boston" Summer Institute, Emmanuel College (Boston).
June.
1981(b) "Child Violence Statistics: Some Questions" Trauma-X
Unit Seminar. Children's Hospital (Boston). April.
1980(a) "Autobiography
of the Making of an Urban Documentary Film" Presentation at
a forum sponsored by Urban Studies Program, Brandeis University.
1980(b) "The
Basis of Racial Conflict in Boston" Summer Institute, Brandeis
University. June.
1980(c) "Communities
& Urban Development" Presenter & Discussion Leader
at 9 forums. Sponsored by the MHFPP & 9 community associations
in greater Boston area. (April-June)
1979(a) "The
Construction of Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston." Professor
George Psathas' class in Visual Sociology. Boston University. October.
1979(b) Presentation
& Discussion of Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston."
Seminar series of the Office of Community Planning & Development.
Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, Washington DC. October.
1978 "These
Changing Times: The Shape of a Social Crisis" Five lectures
delivered at the Popular Learning Center. Charlestown, MA (Sept-Oct)
Other Professional
Activities
2008(a) Summer School
in Visual Sociology, Bertinoro. University of Bologna.
(June 8-14). Visiting Faculty.
2008(b) External Referee,
Grant Proposal. Fonds zur Förderung der
wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF), Austrian Science Fund.
2006 - present Advisory
Board, Program in Visual Sociology, University of Texas
(Houston).
2006 Summer School
in Visual Sociology, Bertinoro. University of Bologna. (June 18-26).
Visiting Faculty.
2006 MA Committee
Advisor, Antioch College.
2004 -- present Chart
Design Consultant, Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological
Association.
2002-present Multi-Media
Editor, Visual Studies
2005(a) External
Referee, Grant Proposal. Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen
Forschung (FWF), Austrian Science Fund.
2005(b) Referee,
Teaching Sociology,
2004 Conference Program
Committee, 2004 IVSA Annual Meetings, San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Theme: "The Thought of the
Eye: Visual
Sociology, Documentary Work and Public Imagery"
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2002(a) "Introducing GIS Across the curriculum" Center
for Educational Technology
and Department of Geography. Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont.
(June 24-27)
2002(b) Conference
Program Committee, 2002 IVSA Annual Meetings, Panteion
University, Dept. of Communication and Mass Media , Petros M. Nomikos
Conference Centre, Santorini Island, Greece. Theme: Visualizing
Community,
State and Nation: images of power & social bond
2001(a) Conference
Program Committee, 2000 IVSA Annual Meetings, School of Journalism
and Mass communications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Theme: Boundaries, Bytes and Ballyhoo: Visual Sociology, New Media,
and Public Information
2001(b) Visiting Senior Scholar and Coordinator "2001 Visual
Sociology Workshop", Department of Sociology, University of
Kentucky, May 11-13. Funded by the University of Kentucky and the
American Sociological Association.
2000 Conference Program
Committee (Chair), 2000 IVSA Annual Meetings, Salt Institute for
Documentary Studies, Portland, ME.. Theme: The Image in Field
Work.
1999 Conference Program
Committee, 1999 IVSA Annual Meetings, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Theme: Visual Cultures and Visual Literacies: Changing Ways of Imaging
Science and Society.
1998 Conference Program
Organizer, 1998 IVSA Annual Meetings, University of Louisville,
Louisville, KY. Theme: "Communicating Images: Defining Social
Worlds and Transcending Their Boundaries"
1997(a) Tenure Committee,
Outside Referee, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
1997(b) Conference
Program Organizer, 1997 IVSA Annual Meetings, Suffolk University,
Boston, MA. Theme: "Social Change and Visual Sociology -- New
Ideas, New Issues, New Practices, New Technologies"
1997-1999 President,
International Visual Sociology Association
1996-1997 Editor,
I.V.S.A. Newsletter.
1996-1997 Interim
President, International Visual Sociology Association
1995(a) Tenure Committee,
Outside Referee, York University , Ontario (Canada)
1995(b) Promotions
Committee, Outside Referee, University of Louisville, Louisville
(KY)
1995(c) "Grounded
Theory and the Visual Essay: Making a Sociological Film,"
Practicum at the Viterbo Workshop in Visual Sociology, sponsored
by the Department of Sociology, University of Bologna. Viterbo,
Italy (June 12-18).
1995(d) Conference
Program Organizer, 1995 IVSA Annual Meetings, Windsor,
Ontario. Theme:"Art and Analysis in Visual Sociology."
1994-1996 Vice-President,
International Visual Sociology Association;
Member, Program Advisory Committee for 1996 IVSA Annual Conference
(Bologna);
Member, By-Laws Committee (IVSA)
1991-2002 Associate
Editor, Visual Sociology
1993 American Sociological
Association. Referee for Teaching Sociology
1987 Faculty Internship (Wheaton College). Egypt and Israel (May
-August)
1984-1995 Roxbury
Community College, member Board of Trustees; Chair, Committee on
Academic and Student Affairs (1986-95)
1983 Society for
the Study of Social Problems, member. Newsletter Subcommittee, Environment
& Technology section.
1980 (a) Society for the Study of Social Problems. Member, Election
Committee
1980(b) Society for the Study of Social Problems. Referee for Social
Problems.
1978-82 Boston Urban Analysis Group. Member.
1978-present Cine Research Associates. Treasurer & Secretary.
Board of Directors.
Grant Proposals
2006 "Visualizing
Goal-Oriented Social Statistics" National Science Foundation,
with Michael Gousie (Wheaton college) and Richard Kline (Pace University).
1990-1991 "Um
Kulthuum," A Documentary Film proposal for pre-production research
in Egypt. Submitted to CIES (Fulbright Fellowship Program). Finalist
in 1990 and 1991.
1984 "Where
Have all the Good Men Gone?: The Social History of Intimacy in America."
A film proposal written in conjunction with Richard Broadman and
Kersti Yllo. Funded by Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities and
Public Policy, Connecticut Humanities Council; and the Maine Council
on the Humanities. ($40,000)
1983(a) "The
Changing American City Series: The Parks and the People-The Legacy
of Frederick Law Olmstead." Research Director Cine Research
Associates. Submitted to National Endowment for the Humanities;
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy; New
York Council on the Humanities.
1983(b) "The
Social Organization of Ward Politics: Boston 1926-51." Funded
by National Endowment for the Humanities ($25,000)
1982(a) "The
Social Organization of Ward Politics: Boston 1926-51." Rockerfeller
Foundation Humanities Fellowship finalist.
1982(b) "The
Changing American City Series: Water and the City," NEH production
grant. Cine Research Associates. Research Director. ($172,000)
1981(a) "The
Changing American City: A film series," NEH planning grant.
Cine Research Associates. Research Director. ($15,000)
1981(b) "The
Crisis of Public Housing: a film production grant." Awarded
by MFHPP. Cine Research Associates. Research Coordinator. ($25,000)
1980 "Mission
Hill and the Miracle of Boston: Distribution Grant," Cine Research
Associates. Awarded by MFHPP. ($9000)
1977 Center for Independent Education, Institute of Humane Studies.
Summer Research Fellow. ($2000)
1968-71 National Institute of Mental Health. Pre-Doctoral Intermediate
Fellowship.
1965 National Science Foundation. Field Training Internship.
Professional Organizations
American Sociological Association
International Visual Sociology Association.
Courses Taught at Wheaton
Introduction to Sociology;
Sociology of Work; Political Sociology; Sociology of Medicine &
Health Care; The Black Community in America; Urban Sociology; The
Experience of Community (First Year Seminar); Race and Ethnic Relations;
Sociological Moviemaking; Society, Technology and the Environment;
Global Sociology; Senior Research Methods; Film and Society (First-Year
Seminar); Introduction to Visual Sociology; Introduction to Geographic
Information Systems; Analyzing Social Trends: an Introduction to
Quantitative Sociology
Courses Taught Elsewhere
Introduction to Anthropology;
American Society; Comparative Anthropology; Comparative Cultural
Institutions; World Ethnography (India, Mexico, and Vietnam); Social
Movements; Social Research in Urban Settings; Marxist Social Theory;
Crisis of Advanced Industrial Society; Culture and Personality;
Ethnic Experience in America; Approaches to Field Research.
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