International Summer School in Visual Sociology

JOHN MARSHALL GRADY (FULL TIME FACULTY)

 

 

 

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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