1 September 2023 Curriculum Vitae GARY ALAN FINE Department

September 2023

Curriculum Vitae

GARY ALAN FINE

Department of Sociology

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL 60208

(847) 491-3495

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2016-present JAMES E. JOHNSON PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY

Department of Sociology, Northwestern

University

2004-2016 JOHN EVANS PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY

Department of Sociology, Northwestern

University

Fall 2022 VISITING SENIOR FELLOW

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville,

Virginia

2020-2021 VISITING RESEARCHER

Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY

2019-2020 RESEARCH FELLOW

Kaplan Humanities Institute, Northwestern

University

June 2019 LEAD FACULTY

Medici Summer School, HEC Paris, France

Spring 2019 VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW

King’s College, University of London, London,

Great Britain

2018-present RESEARCH CONSULTANT

Office of Crisis Communications

Government of Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden

Spring 2018 VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW

School of Social Sciences, Australian National

University, Canberra, Australia

Spring 2017 VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW

Centre for Corporate Reputation, Saïd Business

School, University of Oxford, Oxford, United

Kingdom

Spring 2016 VISITING FACULTY

Department of Sociology, Observatoire

Sociologique du Changement, Sciences Po, Paris,

France

2016-2023 INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOW (non-resident)

Centre for Corporate Reputation, Said Business

School, Oxford University

2014-2015 MEMBER

Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Social

Science, Princeton, New Jersey

2014-present SENIOR FELLOW (non-resident)

Yale Ethnography Project, Yale University

2011-2014 DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES

Department of Sociology, Northwestern

University

Spring 2012 VISITING FELLOW

Institute for Advanced Studies, Indiana

University

2010-2011 FELLOW

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral

Sciences, Palo Alto, California

2010-present FACULTY FELLOW (non-resident)

Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University

Spring 2010 VISITING FELLOW

Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University

Spring 2009 VISITING FELLOW

Kings’ College, University of Cambridge

Spring 2008 FELLOW

Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy

2006 - 2007 JEAN GIMBEL LANE PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES

Alice Berline Kaplan Humanities Institute,

Northwestern University

Spring 2007 VISITING PROFESSOR

Qualitative Research Methods in the Social

Sciences Program, University of Cardiff

2005 - 2006 VISITING SCHOLAR

Russell Sage Foundation, New York

2004 - 2005 DIRECTOR

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama

Winter 2004 FELLOW

Lady Davis Fellowship, Department of Sociology

and Anthropology, Hebrew University of

Jerusalem

Fall 2004 HOOKER DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, McMaster University,

Hamilton, Ontario

2003 FELLOW

Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the

Social Sciences, Uppsala

1997 - 2004 PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, Northwestern

University

1997 - present ASSOCIATE FACULTY

American Studies Program, Northwestern

University

1998 - present ASSOCIATE FACULTY

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama

Summer 1999 VISITING SCHOLAR

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of

American Art

1990 - 1997 PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

Faculty Member: Environmental Ethics

Certificate Program

Fellow: International Laboratory for Socio-

Political Ecology

Executive Director, Summer Research Workshop in

Field Methods (National Science Foundation

funded, 1992-1995)

1994 - 1995 FELLOW

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral

Sciences, Palo Alto

1990 - 1993 DEPARTMENT HEAD

Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

Spring 1991 VISITING PROFESSOR

Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria,

South Africa

1985 - 1990 PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, University of

Minnesota

Fall 1988 VISITING PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, University of Iceland

Spring 1986 VISITING PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, University of Bremen

(Germany)

1980 - 1985 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, University of

Minnesota

Winter 1985 VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, University of Chicago

Fall 1980 VISITING RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Department of Sociology and Folklore Institute

Indiana University

1976 - 1980 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of Sociology, University of

Minnesota

1977 - 1979 RESEARCH CONSULTANT

Natural Hazards Warning Research Project

University of Minnesota

1974 - 1975 LECTURER

Department of Sociology, Boston College

EDUCATION

1972 - 1976 HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Ph.D. in Social Psychology

1968 - 1972 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

B.A. in Psychology

Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's List with Distinction

AWARDS

George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Contributions, Society

for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2003

Elected Fellow, Academy of Leisure Sciences, 2008

Department of Sociology Nominee, Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate

Faculty Award for Student Mentoring, 2008

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010-2011

Mentoring Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction,

2011

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in

Mentoring Undergraduate Research, Northwestern University, 2013

Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Psychology,

Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association,

2013

Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018

Linda Dégh Lifetime Achievement Award for Legend Scholarship,

International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, 2019

Lifetime Achievement Award, History of Sociology Section,

American Sociological Association, 2022

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

A. National

American Sociological Association,

Member, Committee on Committees (1985-1987)

Member, Committee on Distinguished Scholarly

Contribution to Sociology Award (1987-1988, 1989-

1990)

Chair, Committee on Distinguished Scholarly

Contribution to Sociology Award (1988-1989)

Member, Committee on Awards Policy (1991-1992)

Chair, Committee on Awards Policy (1992-1994)

Member, Committee on the Public Understanding of

Sociology (1998-2001)

Member, Chicago Area Spotlight Subcommittee (1998-99)

Member, Excellence in Reporting of Social Issues Award

Selection Committee (2014-2017, Chair 2015-2016)

Member, Publications Committee (2020-2023)

Social Psychology Section

Chair, Committee on the Creation of the Social

Psychology Award (1976-1977)

Chair, Social Psychology Award Committee (1978)

Member, Nominations Committee (1981, 2020-2021)

Secretary (1983-1986)

Organizer, Social Psychology Roundtables at the ASA

(1986-1987)

Council Member (1990-1993)

Chair, Social Psychology Section (1993-1994)

Chair, Graduate Student Participation Committee (1991-

1992)

Member, Graduate Student Participation Committee

(1992-1993)

Member, Publications Committee (1992-1994)

Member, Cooley-Mead Award Committee (2002-2003)

Member, Distinguished Contribution Award Committee

(2011-2012)

Member, Nominations Committee (1980-1981, 2012-2013,

2020-2021)

Chair, Cooley-Mead Award Committee (2013-2014)

Member, Cooley-Mead Award Committee (2014-2015)

Sociology of Culture Section

Chair (1989-1990)

Member, Handbook Committee (1989-1990)

Chair, Nominations Committee (1990-1991)

Member, Nominations Committee (1991-1992, 2019-2020)

Sociology of Children and Youth Section

Member, Council (1994-1996)

Member, Nominations Committee (1998-1999)

Chair (2002-2003)

Chair, Student Paper Committee (2003-2004)

Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section

Member, Elections Committee (1979-1980)

Member, Publications and Workshops Committee

(1981-1984)

Chair, Publications and Workshops Committee (1984)

Member, Nominations Committee (1988-1989)

Council Member (1991-1994)

Sociological Theory Section

Member, Council (1997-2000)

Chair (2001-2002)

Member, Nominations Committee (2002-2003)

Member, Publications Committee (2002-2003)

Member, Theory Prize Committee (2004-2005)

History of Sociology Section

Member, Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Award

(2019-2020)

Member, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

Committee (2008-2009)

Chair, Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Award

(2009-2010, 2022-2023)

Chair (2010-2011)

Chair, Nominations Committee (2011-2012)

Chair, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

Committee (2016-2017)

National Science Foundation

Panelist, Sociology Dissertation Grant Committee

(2007-2010)

Midwest Sociological Society

Member, Program Committee (1989-1990)

Member, Local Arrangements Committee (2000)

President-Elect (2000-2001)

President (2001-2002)

Member, Distinguished Book Award Committee (2015-2016)

Southern Sociological Society

Member, Committee on the Profession (1994-1995)

Vice-President (1996-1997)

Society for the Advancement of Social Psychology

Steering Committee (1975-1979)

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Chair, Committee on Regional Coordination (1977)

Chair, 1978 Program Committee (1977-1978)

Regional Coordinator, Midwest Region (1977-1981)

Member, 1979 Program Committee (1978-1979)

Member, Publications Committee (1980-1983)

Chair, 1983 Program Committee (1982-1983)

Vice President (1982-1983)

President (1990-1991)

Chair, George Herbert Mead Award Committee (1999-2000,

2011-2012)

Member, George Herbert Mead Award Committee (2021-22)

Sociological Research Association

Membership Committee (2019)

International Sociological Association

Executive Board, Research Committee 37 (Sociology of

Art) (1982-1986, 1990-1994)

Co-organizer, Working Group on Social Movements and

Collective Behavior (1988-1994)

Executive Board, Research Committee 48 (Social

Movements, Social Class, and Collective Behavior

(1994-1998)

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Advisory Committee on SPSSI-Sponsored Social

Psychology Text (1978-1981)

American Folklore Society

Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Publications Committee (1977-1978)

Organizing Committee, Foodways Folklore Section

(1978-1979)

Treasurer, Children's Folklore Section (1978-1979)

President, Children's Folklore Section (1979-1980)

Co-Chair, 1980 Program Committee (1979-1980)

Chair, Local Arrangements Committee (1981-1982)

Member, 1989 Opie Prize Award Committee, Children's

Folklore Section (1989)

Co-Chair, 1992 and 1993 Aesop Prize Award Committee,

Children's Folklore Section (1991-1993)

Fellow of the American Folklore Society (1994- )

Member, 1996 Newell Prize Award Committee, Children's

Folklore Section (1996)

Folklore Fellows International

Full Member (Elected 1995)

Popular Culture Association

Section Coordinator, Psychology and Popular Culture

(1975-1976)

Section Coordinator, Sociology and Popular Culture

(1979-1980)

The Association for the Study of Play

Member, Membership Committee (1980-1981)

Member, Executive Board (1983-1985)

President (1985-1986)

Member, Nominations Committee (1987-1988)

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Member, Media Committee (1987-1988)

Member, Lee Founders Award Committee (1988-1989)

Chair, Division on Social Problems Theory (1990-1992)

Chair, Council of Special Problems Division

Chairpersons (1991)

Member, Board of Directors (1993-1996)

Member, C. Wright Mills Award Committee (2000-2001,

2006-2007)

President (2004-2005)

Member, Bylaws Committee (2007-2009)

Chair, Social Problems Theory Book Award Committee

(2011-2012)

Association of Humanistic Sociology

Midwestern Regional Representative, AHS Board (1978-

1980)

Minnesota Folklife Society

Organizing Committee (1977)

Publications Vice-President (1977-1979)

Secretary (1979-1980)

PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTING SERVICES

Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007-2010

Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1986-1988

Guest Issue Editor, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa (with

Cheris Chan and Chiara Bassetti), 2020

Editorial Advisory Committee, Princeton University Press, Series

in Cultural Sociology, 2023-

Editorial Board, “Interpretive Lenses in Sociology,” Bristol

University Press, 2019-

Associate Editor, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2016-

Editorial Board, Sage Research Methods Foundations, 2016-2022

Associate Editor, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2014-2017

Editorial Board, Heartland Foodways series, University of

Illinois Press, 2014-

Editorial Board, Memory Studies, 2010-

International Editorial Board, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa,

2008-

Advisory Board, Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2006-

Editorial Board, Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2006-2010

Consulting Editor, Qualitative Sociology Review, 2005-

International Editorial Board, Socio/logica, 2006-

Editorial Board, Small Group Research, 2005-

Editorial Board, Contexts, 2004-2007, 2013-2016

International Advisory Board, Cultural Sociology, 2006-

Board of Consulting Editors, Humor, 2003-2014

Advisory Editor, Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 2002-2005

Consulting Editor, Acta Sociologica, 2002-several years

Editorial Board, The Sociological Quarterly, 2000-2006

Editorial Board, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth,

2000-

Editorial Board, Qualitative Research, 2000-2021

Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 2000-2003

Advisory Board, Journal of Consumer Culture, 2000-

Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 1997-2000

Editorial Board, The American Sociologist, 1997-

Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1994-1998

Associate Editor, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1994-

Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 1984-1987, 1993-1995,

2017-2019

Advisory Editor, Play Theory and Research, 1993-1994

Advisory Board, Symbolic Interaction, 1992-

Associate Editor, Visual Studies, 1991-several years

Newsletter Editor, Social Movements/Collective Behavior Section,

International Sociological Association, 1990-1994

Review Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1989-1991

Editorial Board, Play and Culture, 1988-1992

Editorial Board, Humor, 1988-2002

Ad Hoc Advisory Editor, Contemporary Psychology, 1988-1989

Contributor, Journal of American Folklore, Centennial Index,

1986-1988

Associate Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1983-1986

Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1983-1985,

1996-1998

Associate Editor, Sociological Observations, 1983-1985

Issue Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1983, 2007

Editorial Board, Sport Sociology Journal, 1983-1986

Editor, ASA Social Psychology Section Newsletter, 1981-1984

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, 1982-1986

Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1980-1983, 1990-

1992

Editorial Board, Humanity and Society, 1977-1980

Issue Editor, Journal of Popular Culture, Sociology and Popular

Culture, 1977

Advisory Editor, Journal of Popular Culture, 1977-1983

Co-Editor, Humor Research Newsletter, 1976-1979

Section Editor, SASP Newsletter, Section on Social Psychological

Theory, 1974-1979

Contributor, Abstracts of Folklore Studies, 1973-1975

Contributing Editor, Folklore Forum, 1973-1975

Consultant, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency; Nexus

Contemporary Art Center; South African Breweries; British

Broadcasting Corporation; Yankelovich, Skelly, and Wright;

Center for Applied Linguistics; United Press International;

Urban Poverty Project, University of Chicago; St. Paul

Pioneer Press; Minnesota Public Radio; Gustavus Adolphus

College

Expert Witness, United States Ninth Circuit Court (U.S. v Lees),

Seattle, Washington, June 1991

Defense Consultant, (Brownlee v Sunnyvale School District),

Yakima, Washington, December 1994; (Procter and Gamble v

Amway), Chicago, Illinois, 1996 - 1998, 2000-2007

BOOKS

Ralph L. Rosnow and Gary Alan Fine. Rumor and Gossip: The

Social Psychology of Hearsay. New York: Elsevier, 1976.

(Translated into Japanese, Iwanami Publishing Company,

1982. Translated into Chinese, China International Culture

Press, 1990).

Gary Alan Fine. Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social

Worlds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Selections (“Frames and Games”) reprinted in The Game

Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology, ed. By Katie

Salen and Eric Zimmerman. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

Gary Alan Fine. Talking Sociology. Boston: Allyn & Bacon,

1985.

Gary Alan Fine. With the Boys: Little League Baseball and

Preadolescent Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 1987.

Recipient of the 1988 Opie Award for the Best

Scholarly Book in the field of Children's Folklore and

Culture (American Folklore Society, Children's

Folklore Section)

Selections reprinted in Inside Social Life: Readings

in Social Psychology and Microsociology, ed. Spencer

Cahill. Los Angeles: Roxbury.

Selections reprinted in Sociology: Social Life and

Social Issues, 2

Edition, ed. Linda L. Lindsey and

Stephen Black. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

Gary Alan Fine (ed.). Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning.

Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1987.

Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom. Knowing Children: Participant

Observation Among Minors. Newbury Park, California: Sage,

1988.

Gary Alan Fine. Talking Sociology, Second Edition. Boston: Allyn

& Bacon, 1990.

Gary Alan Fine, Harvey A. Farberman, and John Johnson (eds.).

Sociological Slices: Introductory Readings From the

Interactionist Perspective. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press,

1992.

Harvey A. Farberman, Gary Alan Fine, and John Johnson (eds.).

Social Psychological Foundations: Readings From the

Interactionist Perspective. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press,

1992.

John M. Johnson, Harvey Farberman, and Gary Alan Fine (eds.).

The Cutting Edge: Advanced Interactionist Theory.

Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1992.

Gary Alan Fine. Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in

Contemporary Legends. Knoxville: University of Tennessee

Press, 1992.

Nominated for the Chicago Folklore Prize and the John Hope

Franklin Publication Prize (American Studies Association)

Gary Alan Fine, Talking Sociology, Third Edition. Boston: Allyn

and Bacon, 1993.

Karen Cook, Gary Alan Fine, and James S. House (eds.),

Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology. Boston:

Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Gary Alan Fine (ed.), A Second Chicago School?: The Development

of a Postwar American Sociology. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

(Translated into Japanese, Hosei University Press, 2000)

Gary Alan Fine, Talking Sociology, Fourth Edition. Boston: Allyn

and Bacon, 1996.

Gary Alan Fine, Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Recipient of the 1999 Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society

for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W. H. Smith (eds), Erving Goffman.

Four volumes. London: Sage, 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of

the Evil, Inept and Controversial. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2001.

Gary Alan Fine, Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and

Adolescent Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press,

2001.

Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner, Whispers On the Color Line:

Rumor and Race in America. Berkeley: University of

California Press, 2001.

Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of

Social Problems, 2002

Gary Alan Fine and David Shulman, Talking Sociology, Fifth

Edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, Symbols,

Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach

to Sociology and Social Psychology. Los Angeles: Roxbury,

2003.

Gary Alan Fine, Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture

of Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

2004. (Translated into Chinese, Yilin Press, 2015).

Common Book selection, Furman University, 2007.

Gary Alan Fine, Veronique-Campion-Vincent, and Chip Heath

(eds.), Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend.

New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2005.

Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, Symbols,

Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach

to Sociology and Social Psychology. Second Edition. Los

Angeles: Roxbury, 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, Authors of the Storm: Meteorology and the

Culture of Prediction. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 2007.

Recipient of the 2008 Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society

for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, Symbols,

Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach

to Sociology and Social Psychology. Third Edition. New

York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

(Translated into Portuguese, Simbolos, Selves e Realidade

Social: Uma Abordagem Interacionista Simbolica a Psicologia

Social e a Sociologia. Petropolis, Brasil: Editora Vozes,

2016.)

Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis, The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors

of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2010.

First runner-up, Katharine Briggs Award for outstanding

work of folklore, The Folklore Society (Great Britain),

2011

Finalist, Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central

Sociological Association, 2012.

Gary Alan Fine, Sticky Reputations: The Politics of Collective

Memory in Midcentury America. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Gary Alan Fine, Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and

Culture. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.

Kent Sandstrom, Kathryn J. Lively, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary

Alan Fine, Symbols, Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic

Interactionist Approach to Sociology and Social Psychology.

Fourth Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

(Translated into Italian, Simboli, Sé e Realtà Sociale,

Napoli-Salerno Orthotes Editrice of Nocera Inferiore, 2014)

Gary Alan Fine, Players and Pawns: How Chess Creates Community

and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2015.

Gary Alan Fine, Talking Art: The Practice of Culture and the

Culture of Practice in MFA Education. Chicago: University

of Chicago Press. 2018.

Gary Alan Fine, Ethnografia e Società. Edited and translated by

Ghita Bordieri, Giovanni Zampieri, and Matteo Bortolini.

Milan: Mimesis, 2021.

Gary Alan Fine, The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and

the Power of Local Commitments. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press. 2021.

Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, Group Life: The Case for Local

Sociology. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2022.

Gary Alan Fine, Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics and

the Culture of Resistance. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 2023.

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ARTICLES

Gary Alan Fine, “The Monumental Crowd: Collective Attention in

Symbolic and Material Spaces.” Social Research 90(2): 315-

36. 2023.

Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, and Cal Abbo, “The Ballot

of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity

Leaders.” Pp. 89-110 in Interpreting Contentious Memory:

Countermemories and Conflicts over the Past, ed. Janet

Jacobs and Thomas DeGloma. Bristol, England: Bristol

University Press, 2023.

Gary Alan Fine, “Senior Activists and Age Affiliations in

Ethnographic Peering.” Pp. 93-106 in Crafting Ethnographic

Fieldwork: Sites, Selves and Social Worlds, ed. Amir

Marvasti and Jay Gubrium. New York: Routledge. 2023.

Gary Alan Fine and Ugo Corte, “Dark Fun: The Cruelties of

Hedonic Communities.” Sociological Forum 37(1): 70-90.

2022.

Gary Alan Fine, “Wispy Selves: Identity and Identification on

History’s Edge.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction

(Festscrift in honor of Kathy Charmaz), 56: 47-53. 2022.

Nicholas Bascunan-Wiley, Michaela DeSoucey, and Gary Alan Fine,

“Convivial Quarantines: Cultivating Co-presence at a

Distance.” Qualitative Sociology 45(3): 371-92. 2022.

Ryan Mack and Gary Alan Fine, “Nothing Funny About That!:

Erving Goffman and the (Un)humorousness of Everyday Life.”

Pp. 399-410 in Routledge International Handbook of Goffman

Studies, ed. Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Greg Smith. New

York: Routledge, 2022.

Baptiste Brossard and Gary Alan Fine, “The Problem of Pétain: The

State Politics of Difficult Reputations.” Sociological

Perspectives 65(2): 278-96. 2022.

Emma Brandt and Gary Alan Fine, “Tarnished Nationalism:

Rehabilitating Serbia’s Reputation on the World Stage.”

Sociologica 16(2): 103-16.

https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/13703/14831.

2022.

Elena Weber and Gary Alan Fine, “Performance Studies, Sociology,

and Ethnography.” Handbuch Soziologische Ethnographe,

edited by Angelika Perferl and Norbert Schroer. Berlin:

Springer VS Verlag, 2022.

Gary Alan Fine, Hannah Wohl, and Simone Ispa-Landa, “Reading

Routines: Strategies of Recall in Graduate Education.”

Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education 12(2): 173-

189. 2021.

Gary Alan Fine, “Viral Buzz: Rumor and Its Disruptions in

Pandemic Uncertainty.” Sociologica 15(1, article 4). 2021.

Online Journal.

Gemma Mangione and Gary Alan Fine, “Critical Circles and

Regional Reputations: The Chicago Imagists and the Politics

of Art World Peripheries.” American Journal of Cultural

Sociology 9: 555-80. 2021.

Weston Twardowski and Gary Alan Fine, “Entertaining the

Forgotten: Southern Governors and the Performance of

Populism.” The Drama Review 65: 144-166. 2021.

Gary Alan Fine in conversation with Reiner Keller, “Tiny Publics

and Social Worlds - Toward a Sociology of the Local.” Forum:

Qualitative Social Research (Sozialforschung) 22 (1, article

8). 2021. Online Journal.

Gary Alan Fine, “Una Vita Empirica Intrisa Di Teoria” (“An

Empirical Life Awash in Theory”). Pp. 9-13 in Gary Alan

Fine, Ethnografia e Società. Edited and translated by

Ghita Bordieri, Giovanni Zampieri, and Matteo Bortolini.

Milan: Mimesis, 2021.

Kent Sandstrom, Lisa-Jo van den Scott, and Gary Alan Fine, “The

New Horizons of Symbolic Interactionism.” Pp. 435-46 in

Routledge Interactional Handbook of Interactionism, edited

by Dirk vom Lehn, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, and Will Gibson. New

York: Routledge, 2021.

Gary Alan Fine, “Aesthetic Citizens: Producing Engaged Artists

and Civic Art in the Modern University.” Civic Sociology

1(1), https://doi.org/10.1525/cs.2020.18221. 2020.

Gary Alan Fine, “Now and Again: Eventful Experience in Senior

Activism.” Social Movement Studies 19: 576-91. 2020.

Gary Alan Fine and Christopher Robertson, “Reputation in

Rupture: Broken Alliances and Relational Politics in the

Roosevelt-Taft Split.” Sociological Forum 35: 73-94. 2020.

Iddo Tavory and Gary Alan Fine, “Disruption and the Theory of

the Interaction Order.” Theory & Society 49: 365-85. 2020.

Jun Fang and Gary Alan Fine, “Names and Selves: Transnational

Identities and Self-Presentation among Elite Chinese

International Studies.” Qualitative Sociology 43: 427-48.

2020.

Chiara Bassetti, Gary Alan Fine, and Cheris Chan. “Introduction:

Ethnography in and of the Age of Covid-19.” Etnografia e

Ricerca Qualitativa 13(2): 159-63. 2020.

Gary Alan Fine and Corey Abramson, “Ethnography in the Time of

COVID-19: Vectors and the Vulnerable.” Etnografia e Ricerca

Qualitativa 13(2): 165-74. 2020.

Larissa Buchholz, Gary Alan Fine, and Hannah Wohl, “Art Markets

in Crisis: How Personal Bonds and Market Subcultures

Mediate the Effects of COVID-19.” American Journal of

Cultural Sociology 8: 462-76. 2020.

Coline Ferrant and Gary Alan Fine, “Food Desert or Food Oasis?

Insights from Mexican Chicago.” Gastronomica 20(4), 85-89.

2020.

Gary Alan Fine, “Moral Cultures, Reputation Work, and the

Politics of Scandal.” Annual Review of Sociology 45: 247-

264. 2019.

Translated into Chinese, Tsinghua Journal of Social

Sciences, 2023.

Gary Alan Fine, “Relational Distance and Epistemic Generosity:

The Power of Detachment in Skeptical Ethnography.”

Sociological Methods and Research 48: 828-49. 2019.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Meso-World: Tiny Publics and Political

Action.” Qualitative Sociology Review 15: 10-24. 2019.

Gary Alan Fine and Iddo Tavory, “Interactionism in the Twenty-

First Century: A Letter on Being-in-a-Meaningful-World.”

Symbolic Interaction 42: 457-67. 2019.

Gary Alan Fine, Stephanie Bliese, and Christopher Robertson,

“The Jesus Movement as Folk Group.” Pp. 111-21 in Wolfgang

Mieder and Simon Bronner (eds.), Contexts of Folklore:

Festschrift for Dan Ben-Amos on his Eighty-Fifth Birthday

(International Folkloristics Series). New York: Peter Lang,

2019.

Ugo Corte, John Parker, and Gary Alan Fine, “The Microsociology

of Creativity and Creative Work.” Social Psychology

Quarterly 82: 333-39. 2019.

Marc Argemi and Gary Alan Fine, “Faked News: The Politics of

Rumour in British World War II Propaganda.” Journal of War

and Culture Studies 12: 176-93. 2019.

Gary Alan Fine, “Charles Horton Cooley and the Choice of

Predecessor Selection.” Pp. 208-14 in Natalia Ruiz-Junco and

Baptiste Brossard (eds.), Updating Charles H. Cooley:

Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic. New

York: Routledge, 2019.

Gary Alan Fine. “Group Cultures and Subcultures.” Pp. 247-56 in

Laura Grindstaff, Ming-Cheng Lo, John Hall (ed.), Handbook

of Cultural Sociology, Second Edition. New York: Routledge.

2019.

Gary Alan Fine and Jun Fang. “Idioculture.” In Paul Atkinson,

Sara Delamont, Melissa Hardy, and Malcolm Williams (eds.),

SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA:

Sage, 2019. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036).

Gary Alan Fine and Hannah Wohl, “Reading and Reputation: Sense,

Sensibility, and Status in Graduate Education.” Qualitative

Research 18: 554-64. 2018.

Kevin Loughran, Gary Alan Fine, and Marcus Hunter,

“Architectures of Memory: When Growth Machines Embrace

Preservationists.” Sociological Forum 33: 855-76. 2018.

Marcus Hunter, Kevin Loughran, and Gary Alan Fine, “Memory

Politics: Growth Coalitions, Urban Pasts, and the Creation

of ‘Historic’ Philadelphia.” City & Community 17: 330-49.

2018.

Rachel Merrill Moss and Gary Alan Fine, “Pageants and Patriots:

Jewish Spectacles and Performances of Belonging.” Journal

of American Drama and Theater 31(1), 2018. (20 pages,

online).

Angel Escamilla Garcia and Gary Alan Fine, “Fair Warnings: The

Ethics of Ethnography with Children.” Pp. 367-81 in Ron

Iphofen and Martin Tolich (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Ethics

in Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2018.

Gary Alan Fine, “A Matter of Degree: Negotiating Art and

Commerce in MFA Education.” American Behavioral Scientist

61: 1463-86. 2017.

Gary Alan Fine and Ugo Corte, “Group Pleasures: Collaborative

Commitments, Shared Narrative, and the Sociology of Fun.”

Sociological Theory, 35: 64-86. 2017.

Gary Alan Fine and Black Hawk Hancock, “The New Ethnographer at

Work.” Qualitative Research 17: 260-68. 2017.

Clare Forstie and Gary Alan Fine, “Signaling Perversion: Senator

David Walsh and the Politics of Euphemism and Dysphemism.”

Sexualities, 20: 772-92. 2017.

Rebecca Plante and Gary Alan Fine, “Sexuality and Reputation: An

Introduction.” Sexualities, 20: 767-71. 2017.

Hannah Wohl and Gary Alan Fine, “The Active Skim: Efficient

Reading as a Moral Challenge in Post-Graduate Education.”

Teaching Sociology, 45: 220-27. 2017.

Gary Alan Fine, “My Kids: Fair Warnings and Brazen Methods.”

Sociological Studies of Children and Youth: Researching

Kids and Teens: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and

Innovations 22: 375-80. 2017.

Hannah Wohl and Gary Alan Fine, “Reading Rites: Teaching

Textwork in Graduate Education.” The American Sociologist

48: 215-32. 2017.

Gianna Mosser, Hannah Wohl, and Gary Alan Fine, “Alone in

Publand: Leaving Academics to Themselves.” The American

Sociologist 47: 238-52. 2016.

Kevin Loughran, and Gary Alan Fine, and Marcus Anthony Hunter,

“Urban Spaces, City Cultures, and Collective Memories.” Pp.

193-204 in Anna-Lisa Tota and Trever Hagan, Routledge

International Handbook of Memory Studies. New York:

Routledge. 2016.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Promiscuity of Facts: Barack Obama and

Uncertain Knowledge.” Diogenes, 62 (3-4): 330-38. 2015

Translated into French (and previously published) as

“Barack Obama et la Connaissance Incertaine.” Diogène 249-

250: 130-142. 2015.

Daphne Demetry, Jessica Thurk, and Gary Alan Fine, “Strategic

Poverty: How Social and Cultural Capital Shapes Low-Income

Life.” Journal of Consumer Culture 15: 86-109. 2015.

Gary Alan Fine, “Participant Observation.” Pp. 530-34 in

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral

Sciences. Volume 17. Second Edition. London: Elsevier.

2015.

Gary Alan Fine, “Micro-Cultures.” In Emerging Trends in the

Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Robert Scott and

Stephen Kosslyn.

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/mrw/advanced/search?doi=10.

1002/9781118900772). New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Hannah Wohl and Gary Alan Fine, “The Art of Together: Social

Coordination as Dyadic Achievement.” Pp. 248-67 in Edward

Lawler, Shane Thye, and Jeongkoo Yoon, eds. Order on the

Edge of Chaos: Social Psychology and the Problem of Social

Order. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015.

Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, “Group Cultures and the Everyday

Life of Organizations: Interaction Orders and Meso-

Analysis.” Organization Studies 35(12): 1773-92. 2014.

Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, “Stranger and Stranger: Creating

Theory through Ethnographic Distance and Authority.”

Journal of Organizational Ethnography 3: 188-203. 2014.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Culture, and

the

Interaction Order.” Social Psychology Quarterly 77: 5-26.

2014.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Mind, The Body, and the Soul of Chess.”

American Journal of Play 6: 321-44. 2014.

Gary Alan Fine and Harvey Young, “Still Thrills: The Drama of

Chess.” The Drama Review 58: 87-98. 2014.

Gary Alan Fine and Christine Simonian Bean, “Dining with Joe

McCarthy: Performing Partisanship at American Political

Banquets.” Pp. 155-63 in Regina Bendix and Michaela Fenske,

eds. Political Meals. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 2014.

Al Muniz, Toby Norris, and Gary Alan Fine, “Marketing Artistic

Careers: Pablo Picasso as Brand Manager.” European Journal

of Marketing 48: 68-88. 2014.

David Schieber, Al Hunter, and Gary Alan Fine, “Alcohol in

Heavenston: Shifting Moral Orders and Economic Interests in

a Suburban Community.” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

27: 174-88. 2013.

Gary Alan Fine, “Sticky Cultures: Memory Publics and Communal

Pasts in Competitive Chess.” Cultural Sociology 7: 395-414.

2013.

Gary Alan Fine, “Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of

History in the Post-Segregationist South.” Social Forces

91: 1319-42. 2013.

Gary Alan Fine, “If You Can’t Stand the Heat: The Business of

Observing Restaurant Kitchens.” Journal of Business

Anthropology 2(2): 141-45. 2013.

Raynald Harvey Lemelin and Gary Alan Fine, “Leisure on the

Recreational Fringe: Naturework and the Place of Amateur

Mycology and Entomology.” PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature

10: 77-86. 2013.

Jeong-Chul Kim and Gary Alan Fine, “Collaborators and National

Memory: The Creation of the Encyclopedia of Pro-Japanese

Collaborators in Korea.” Memory Studies 6: 130-45. 2013.

Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine, “Chess as Art, Science,

and Sport.” Pp. 390-404 in David Andrews and Ben

Carrington, eds., A Companion to Sport. Oxford: Wiley

Blackwell. 2013.

Gary Alan Fine, “Group Culture and the Interaction Order: Local

Sociology on the Meso-Level.” Annual Review of Sociology

38: 159-79. 2012.

Gary Alan Fine, “Time to Play: The Temporal Organization of

Chess Competition.” Time & Society 21: 395-416. 2012.

Gary Alan Fine and Daphne Demetry, “Contemporary Gastronomic

Identities.” Food and History 10: 195-209. 2012.

Gary Alan Fine and Bin Xu, “Honest Brokers: The Politics of

Expertise in the ‘Who Lost China?’ Debate.” Social Problems

58: 593-614. 2011.

Erin McDonnell and Gary Alan Fine, “Pride and Shame in Ghana:

Collective Memory and Nationalism among Elite African

Students.” African Studies Review 54: 121-42. 2011.

Gary Alan Fine and Lisa-Jo van den Scott, “Wispy Communities:

Transient Gatherings and Imagined Micro-Communities.”

American Behavioral Scientist 55: 1319-35. 2011.

Gary Alan Fine and Nicholas DiFonzo, “Uncertain Knowledge: Rumor

and Collective Sense-Making.” Contexts (Summer 2011): 16-

21.

Gary Alan Fine. “Jonathan Swift: Political Satire and the Public

Sphere.” Pp. 245-52 in Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren,

eds., Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers: Sociology

through Literature, Philosophy, and Science. Santa Barbara:

Praeger, 2011.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Sociology of the Local: Action and Its

Publics.” Sociological Theory 28: 355-76. 2010.

Max Clarke and Gary Alan Fine. “’A’ is for Apology: Slavery and

the Discourse of Remonstrance in American Universities.”

History & Memory 22: 81-112. 2010.

Bin Xu and Gary Alan Fine, “Memory Movements and the State-

Society Relationship in the Chinese WWII Victims’

Reparations Movement Against Japan.” Pp. 166-89 in Barry

Schwartz and Mikyoung Park (eds.), Northeast Asia’s

Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory. New York:

Palgrave-Macmillan. 2010.

Reprinted in Japanese in Northeast Asia's History and

Memory (Tohoku Ajia'no Rekishi'to Kioku). Tokyo:

Keisoshobo. 2014.

Gary Alan Fine. “Group Cultures and Subcultures.” In John Hall

(ed.), Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Abingdon, UK:

Routledge. 2010.

Alice Eagly and Gary Alan Fine, “Bridging Social Psychologies.”

Social Psychology Quarterly 73: 313-15. 2010.

Gary Alan Fine and Shannon Fitzsimons, “The Secret Life of

Readers.” Society 47(3): 353-55. 2010.

Gary Alan Fine, Calvin Morrill, and Sharmi Surianarain.

“Ethnography in Organizational Settings.” Pp. 602-19 in

David Buchanan and Alan Bryman (eds.), Handbook of

Organizational Research Methods. London: Sage, 2009.

Gary Alan Fine and David Shulman, “Lies from the Field: Ethical

Issues in Organizational Ethnography.” Pp. 177-95 in Sierk

Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels, and Frans Kamsteeg (eds.),

Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of

Everyday Life. London: Sage. 2009.

Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine. “Peopling

Organizations: The Promise of Classical Symbolic

Interactionism for Inhabited Institutionalism.” Pp. 486-509

in Paul S. Adler (ed.), Oxford Handbook for Sociology and

Organizational Studies: Classical Foundations. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2009.

Gary Alan Fine, “Does Rumor Lie? Narrators, Trust, and the

Framing of Unsecured Information.” Pp. 183-200 in Brooke

Harrington (ed.), Deception: From Ancient Empires to

Internet Dating. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2009.

Michaela DeSoucey, Daphne Demetry, and Gary Alan Fine, “The

Foodie’s Dilemma: Snobbery No More.” Sociologica (number

1), online, 2009.

Michael Sauder and Gary Alan Fine, “Arbiters, Entrepreneurs and

Business School Reputation.” Sociological Forum 23: 699-723.

2008.

Gary Alan Fine, Brooke Harrington, and Sandro Segre, “Politics in

the Public Sphere: The Power of Tiny Publics in Classical

Sociology.” Sociologica (Number 1), online. 2008.

Gary Alan Fine, Brooke Harrington, and Sandro Segre, “Tiny

Publics and Group Practice.” Sociologica (Number 1), online.

2008.

Japonica Brown-Saracino, Jessica Thurk, and Gary Alan Fine,

“Beyond Groups: Seven Pillars of Peopled Ethnography in

Organizations and Communities.” Qualitative Research 8(3):

547-67. 2008.

Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont (eds.), SAGE

Qualitative Research Methods. London: Sage, 2010.

Gary Alan Fine and Corey Fields, “Culture and Microsociology:

Anthills and the Veldt.” Annals of the American Academy of

Political and Social Sciences. 619 (1): 130-48. 2008.

Michaela Desoucey, Jo-Ellen Pozner, Corey Fields, Kerry

Dobransky, and Gary Alan Fine, “Memory and Sacrifice: An

Embodied Theory of Martyrdom.” Cultural Sociology 2: 99-

121. 2008.

Amin Ghaziani and Gary Alan Fine, “Infighting and Ideology: How

Conflict Informs the Local Culture of the Chicago Dyke

March.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and

Society 20: 51-67. 2008.

Julia Rothenberg and Gary Alan Fine, “Artworlds and Their

Ethnographers.” Ethnologie Francaise 38: 33-39. 2008.

Gary Alan Fine and Terrence McDonnell, “Erasing the Brown Scare:

Referential Afterlife and the Power of Memory Templates.”

Social Problems 54: 170-87. 2007.

Co-recipient, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Social Problems Theory Division Outstanding Article Award,

2009

Aaron Beim and Gary Alan Fine, “Trust in Testimony: The

Institutional Embeddedness of Holocaust Survivor

Narratives.” European Journal of Sociology 48: 55-74. 2007.

Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor, Trust and Civil Society: Collective

Memory and Cultures of Judgment.” Diogenes 54: 5-18. 2007.

Reprinted in Chinese in Cultural Study (source journal of

the CSSCI), 2015.

Aaron Beim and Gary Alan Fine, “The Cultural Frameworks of

Prejudice: Reputational Images and the Postwar Disjuncture

of Jews and Communism.” The Sociological Quarterly 48: 373-

97. 2007.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Construction of Historical Equivalence:

Weighing the Red and Brown Scares.” Symbolic Interaction

30: 27-39. 2007.

Gary Alan Fine and Aaron Beim, “Interactionist Approaches to

Collective Memory.” Symbolic Interaction 30: 1-5. 2007.

Gary Alan Fine, “Notorious Support: The America First Committee

and the Personalization of Policy.” Mobilization 11: 405-

26. 2006.

Reprinted in Hank Johnston (ed.), Culture, Social

Movements, and Protest. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing,

2008.

Kerry Dobransky and Gary Alan Fine, “The Native in the Garden:

Floral Politics and Cultural Entrepreneurs.” Sociological

Forum 21: 559-85. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Attraverso un Vetro Scuro: Le Previsioni

Meteorologiche e le Promesse de ‘Lavoro Sul Futuro.’” Studi

Culturali 3(2): 215-47. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine and Rashida Z. Shaw, “An Isolationist Blacklist?:

Lillian Gish and the America First Committee.” Theatre

Survey 47: 283-88. 2006.

Albert Muniz, Thomas O’Guinn, and Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor in

Brand Communities.” Pp. 227-47 in Donald Hantula (ed.),

Advances in Theory and Methodology in Social and

Organizational Psychology: A Tribune to Ralph Rosnow.

Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Chaining of Social Problems.” Social

Problems 53: 3-17. 2006.

Brooke Harrington and Gary Alan Fine, “Where the Action Is:

Small Groups and Recent Developments in Sociological

Theory,” Small Group Research 37: 4- 19. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Humor Me.” Studies in American Humor 3.13 (New

Series): 99-106. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Ground Truth: Verification Games in Operational

Meteorology.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 37: 3-23:

2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Shopfloor Cultures: The Idioculture of

Production in Operational Meteorology.” The Sociological

Quarterly 47: 1-20. 2006.

Gabrielle Ferrales and Gary Alan Fine, “Sociology as a Vocation:

Reputations and Group Cultures in Graduate School.” The

American Sociologist 36: 57-75. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Rumeur, Confiance, et Société Civile.” Diogenes

213: 3-22. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine and Michaela DeSoucey, “Joking Cultures: Humor

Themes as Social Regulation in Group Life.” Humor 18: 1-22.

2005.

Steven Hoffman and Gary Alan Fine, “The Scholar’s Body: Mixing

It Up with Loïc Wacquant.” Qualitative Sociology 28: 151-

57. 2005.

Gary Alan Fine and Irfan Khawaja, “Celebrating Arabs and

Grateful Terrorists: Rumor and the Politics of

Plausibility.” Pp. 185-205 in Gary Alan Fine, Veronique-

Campion-Vincent, and Chip Heath (eds.), Rumor Mills: The

Social Impact of Rumor and Legend. New Brunswick:

Transaction Press, 2005.

Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor Matters: An Introductory Essay.” Pp. 1-7

in Gary Alan Fine, Veronique-Campion-Vincent, and Chip

Heath (eds.), Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and

Legend. New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2005.

Chip Heath, Veronique Campion-Vincent, and Gary Alan Fine,

“Rumor and Legend: Seven Questions.” Pp. 255-65 in Gary

Alan Fine, Veronique-Campion-Vincent, and Chip Heath

(eds.), Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend.

New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2005.

Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, “Wild Thoughts: An

Interactionist Analysis of Ideology, Emotion, and Nature.”

Pp. 237-58 in Peter Kivisto (ed.), Illuminating Social

Life, Third Edition. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge.

2005.

Gary Alan Fine and Brooke Harrington, “Tiny Publics: Small

Groups and Civil Society.” Sociological Theory 22: 341-56.

2004.

Gary Alan Fine, Tim Hallett, and Michael Sauder, “The Myth and

Meaning of Bowling Alone.” Society 47-49. July/August 2004.

Gary Alan Fine, “Adolescence as a Cultural Toolkit: High School

Debate and the Repertoires of Childhood and Adulthood.” The

Sociological Quarterly 45: 1-20. 2004.

Gary Alan Fine, “Crafting Authenticity: The Validation of

Identity in Self-Taught Art.” Theory and Society. 32: 153-

180. 2003.

Gary Alan Fine, “On the Trail of Tribal Sociology” (Review Essay

of five books). Sociological Forum 18: 653-65. 2003.

Gary Alan Fine and Philip Manning, “Preserving Philip Rieff: The

Reputation of a Fellow Teacher.” Journal of Classical

Sociology. 3:227-233. 2003.

Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, “Dust: A Study in Sociological

Miniaturism.” The Sociological Quarterly. 44: 1-15. 2003.

Reprinted in Michael Carroll and Jerry P. White (eds.),

Images of Society: Readings that Inspire and Inform

Sociology. Pp. 13-18. Toronto: Thompson Nelson Publishers,

2005.

Gary Alan Fine, “Tornadoes and Ground Truth.” Contexts. 2: 56-

57. 2003.

Gary Alan Fine, “Toward a Peopled Ethnography: Developing Theory

from Group Life.” Ethnography. 4:41-60. 2003.

Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont (eds.), SAGE

Qualitative Research Methods. London: Sage, 2010.

Reprinted in Sam Hillyard (ed.), Approaches to Fieldwork.

London: Sage, 2014.

Jessica Thurk and Gary Alan Fine, “The Problem of Tools:

Technology and the Sharing of Knowledge.” Acta Sociologica.

46: 107-17. 2003.

Kent Sandstrom and Gary Alan Fine, “Triumphs, Emerging Voices,

and the Future.” Pp. 1041-57 in Larry T. Reynolds and Nancy

J. Herman-Kinney (eds.), The Handbook of Symbolic

Interactionism. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003.

Gary Alan Fine and Emily Eisenberg, “Tricky Dick and Slick

Willie: Despised Presidents and Generational Imprinting.”

American Behavioral Scientist. 46: 553-65. 2002.

Gary Alan Fine and Ryan D. White, “Creating Collective Attention

in the Public Domain: Human Interest Narratives and the

Rescue of Floyd Collins.” Social Forces. 81: 57-85. 2002.

Minna Bromberg and Gary Alan Fine, “Romancing the Red: Pete

Seeger and the Purification of Difficult Reputations.”

Social Forces 80: 1135-1155. 2002.

Gary Alan Fine, “Coordination, Symbolic Action and the Quadrants

of Social Order.” Pp. 15-31 in Elzbieta Halas (eds.),

Symbols, Power and Politics. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002.

Gary Alan Fine, “Thinking About Evil: Adolf Hitler and the

Dilemma of the Social Construction of Reputation.” Pp. 227-

237 in Karen Cerulo (ed.), Culture in Mind: Toward a

Sociology of Culture and Cognition. New York: Routledge,

2002.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Storied Group: Social Movements as ‘Bundles

of Narratives.’” Pp. 229-45 in Joseph E. Davis (ed.),

Stories of Change: Narratives of Social Movements. Albany:

SUNY Press, 2002.

Gary Alan Fine, “Participant Observation.” Pp. 11073-78 in

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral

Sciences. Volume 16. London: Elsevier. 2002.

Michael Flaherty and Gary Alan Fine, “Present, Past and Future:

Conjugating Mead’s Perspective of Time.” Time and Society.

10: 147-161. 2001.

John Stolte, Gary Alan Fine, and Karen Cook, “Sociological

Miniaturism: Seeing the Big Through the Small in Social

Psychology.” Annual Review of Sociology 27: 387-413. 2001.

Gary Alan Fine, “Enacting Norms: Mushrooming and the Culture of

Expectations and Explanations.” Pp. 139-64 in Michael

Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp (eds.), Social Norms. New York:

Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.

Gary Alan Fine, Wendy Espeland, and Dean Rojek, “Young Citizens:

The Position of Children in Communitarian Theory.”

Sociological Studies of Children and Youth 8: 295-414,

2001.

Christopher Wellin and Gary Alan Fine, “Ethnography as Work:

Career Socialization, Settings and Problems.” Pp. 323-38 in

Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, John Lofland,

and Lyn Lofland (eds.), Handbook of Ethnography. London:

Sage, 2001.

Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, “Symbolic

Interaction in an American Century.” Pp. 217-231 in George

Ritzer and Barry Smart (eds.), Handbook of Social Theory.

London: Sage. 2001.

Brooke Harrington and Gary Alan Fine, “Opening the Black Box:

Small Groups and Twenty-First Century Sociology.” Social

Psychology Quarterly 63: 312-23. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, “Games and Truths: Learning to Construct Social

Problems in High School Debate.” The Sociological Quarterly

41: 103-23. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, “Normative Troubles: Social Expectations as

Cultural Productions.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction 24:

33-39. 2000.

Tim Hallett and Gary Alan Fine, “Learning From the Field

Research of an Old Century.” Journal of Contemporary

Ethnography 29: 593-617. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, Philip Manning, and Gregory W. H. Smith,

“Introduction.” Pp. ix-xliv in Gary Alan Fine and Gregory

W.H. Smith (eds.), Erving Goffman (London: Sage, 2000).

Adam King and Gary Alan Fine, “Ford on the Line: Business Leader

Reputation and the Multiple Audience Problem.” Journal of

Management Inquiry. 9(1): 71-86. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, “Learning About Work from Creative Nonfiction.”

Journal of Management Inquiry. 9(1): 65-66. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine and Kimberly Elsbach, “Ethnography and Experiment

in Social Psychological Theory Building: Tactics for

Integrating Qualitative Field Data With Quantitative Lab

Data.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 36: 51-

76. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine and Philip Manning. “Erving Goffman.” Pp. 457-85

in George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Major Social

Theorists. Oxford: Blackwell. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, “John Brown’s Body: Elites, Cultural Resonance

and the Legitimation of Political Violence.” Social

Problems 46: 225-249. 1999.

Leigh Thompson and Gary Alan Fine, “Socially Shared Cognition,

Affect and Behavior: A Review and Integration.” Personality

and Social Psychology Review. 3: 278-302. 1999.

Gary Alan Fine, “Field Labor and Ethnographic Reality.” Journal

of Contemporary Ethnography. 28: 532-539. 1999.

Gary Alan Fine, “Tworzenie Ram Dla Norm: Kultura Oczekiwan i

Wyjasnien.” Pp. 65-94 in Elzbiety Halas, Teoria

Socjologiczna Floriana Znanieckiego a Wyzwania XXI Wieku

(Lublin, Poland: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego

Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego). 1999. (In Polish: “Framing

Norms: The Culture of Expectations and Explanations”)

Reprinted as “Framing Norms: The Culture of Expectations

and Explanations’ in Elzbieta Halas (ed.), Florian

Znaniecki’s Sociological Theory and the Challenges of the

Century. Pp. 49-67. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, "Claiming the Text: Parsing the Sardonic Visions

of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen." Pp. 177-197 in

Greg Smith (ed.), Goffman and Social Organization: Studies

in a Sociological Legacy. London: Routledge. 1999.

Gary Alan Fine, "Art Centers: Southern Folk Art and the

Splintering of a Hegemonic Market." Pp. 148-162 in Barry

Smart (ed.), Resisting McDonaldization. London: Sage. 1999.

Judith Preissle, Linda Grant, Josephine Beoku-Betts, William

Finlay, and Gary Alan Fine, "Fieldwork in Familiar Places:

The UGA Workshop in Fieldwork Methods,” Anthropology and

Education Quarterly 30: 238-248. 1999.

Gary Alan Fine, Beth Montemurro, Bonnie Semora, Marybeth Stalp,

Dane S. Claussen, and Zayda Sierra, “Social Order Through a

Prism: Color as Collective Representation.” Sociological

Inquiry 68 443-57. 1998.

Jeanne Barker-Nunn and Gary Alan Fine, “The Vortex of Creation:

Literary Politics and the Demise of Herman Melville’s

Reputation.” Poetics 26: 81-98. 1998.

Amy Campion and Gary Alan Fine, “Main Street on Main Street:

Community Identity and the Reputation of Sinclair Lewis.”

The Sociological Quarterly 39: 79-99. 1998.

Gary Alan Fine, "Scandal, Social Conditions and the Creation of

Public Attention: 'Fatty' Arbuckle and the 'Problem' of

Hollywood." Social Problems 44: 297-323. 1997.

Lori Holyfield and Gary Alan Fine, "Adventure as Character Work:

The Collective Taming of Fear." Symbolic Interaction 20:

343-363. 1997.

Gary Alan Fine, "Symbolic Interaction: An Introduction." In

Craig Calhoun and George Ritzer (eds.), Social Problems.

New York: McGraw-Hill/Primis. 1997.

Gary Alan Fine, "Naturework and the Taming of the Wild: The

Problem of 'Overpick' in the Culture of Mushroomers."

Social Problems 44: 68-88. 1997.

Calvin Morrill and Gary Alan Fine, "Ethnographic Contributions

to Organizational Sociology," Sociological Methods and

Research 25: 424-51. 1997.

Nancy Wisely and Gary Alan Fine, "Making Faces: Portraiture as a

Negotiated Worker-Client Relationship." Work and

Occupations 24: 164-87. 1997.

Gary Alan Fine and James Deegan, "Three Principles of Serendip:

The Role of Chance in Ethnographic Research." Qualitative

Studies in Education. 9: 434-47. 1996.

Todd Bayma and Gary Alan Fine, "Fictional Features and Imaginary

Relations: The Transformation of Lolita From Victim to

Vixen." Studies in Symbolic Interaction 20: 165-178. 1996.

Gary Alan Fine, "Justifying Work: Occupational Rhetorics as

Resources in Restaurant Kitchens." Administrative Science

Quarterly 41: 90-115. 1996.

Gary Alan Fine and Lori Holyfield, "Secrecy, Trust, and

Dangerous Leisure: Generating Group Cohesion in Voluntary

Organizations." Social Psychology Quarterly 59: 22-38.

1996.

Reprinted in Philip Stone and Mark Cannon (eds.),

Organizational Psychology, Volume II. Aldershot, England:

Dartmouth, 1997.

Gary Alan Fine, "Reputational Entrepreneurs and the Memory of

Incompetence: Melting Supporters, Partisan Warriors, and

Images of President Harding." American Journal of Sociology

101: 1159-93. 1996.

Melissa Landers and Gary Alan Fine, "Learning Life's Lessons in

Tee Ball: The Solidification of Gender and Status in

Preschool Sport." Sociology of Sport Journal 13: 87-93.

1996.

Gary Alan Fine, "Wittgenstein's Kitchen: Sharing Meaning in

Restaurant Work." Theory and Society. 24: 245-269. 1995.

Lori Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine, "The Construction of

Nonpersonhood and Demonization: Commemorating the

'Traitorous' Reputation of Benedict Arnold." Social Forces.

73: 1309-31. 1995.

James House, Gary Alan Fine, and Karen Cook, "The Promise of

Sociological Social Psychology." Social Psychology

Quarterly 58: 336-338. 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, "Public Narration and Group Culture: Discerning

Discourse in Social Movements." Pp. 127-143 in Hank

Johnston and Bert Klandermans (eds.), Social Movements and

Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1995.

Shun Lu and Gary Alan Fine, "The Presentation of Ethnic

Authenticity: Chinese Food as a Social Accomplishment." The

Sociological Quarterly. 36: 601-619, 1995.

Spencer Cahill, Gary Alan Fine, and Linda Grant, "Dimensions of

Qualitative Research." Pp. 605-29 in Karen Cook, Gary Alan

Fine, and James S. House (eds.), Sociological Perspectives

on Social Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, "Building Blocks and the Quadrant of Action."

Pp. 1-7 in Karen Cook, Gary Alan Fine, and James S.

House (eds.), Sociological Perspectives on Social

Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, James S. House, and Karen S. Cook,

"Introduction." Pp. ix-xii in Karen Cook, Gary Alan Fine,

and James S. House (eds.), Sociological Perspectives on

Social Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, James S. House, and Karen S. Cook, "Invitation

to Methodology." Pp. 601-603 in Karen Cook, Gary Alan Fine,

and James S. House (eds.), Sociological Perspectives on

Social Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Social Construction of Style: Reading

Veblen, Judging Veblen." The Sociological Quarterly. 35:

457-72. 1994.

Reprinted in Jeffrey Alexander, Raymond Boudon, and

Mohammed Cherkaoui (eds.), The Classical Tradition in

Sociology. (London: Sage, 1998).

Reprinted in Rick Tilman (ed.), The Legacy of Thorstein

Veblen. (Cheltenham, United Kingdom, 2003)

Lori Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine, "No Escaping Obligation:

Erving Goffman on the Demands and Constraints of Play." Pp.

89-111 In Ronald Bogue and Mihai Spariousu (eds.), The Play

of the Self. Albany: SUNY Press. 1994.

Gary Alan Fine and Jeffrey Victor, "Satanic Tourism: Adolescent

Dabbling in 'Demonic Culture.'" Phi Delta Kappan. 76:70-72.

1994.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and

Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Interactionism." Annual

Review of Sociology. 19: 61-87. 1993.

Reprinted in Portuguese in Revista de Administracao de

Empresas (Sao Paulo), 2005.

Reprinted in Portuguese in Teoria das Organizações, edited

by Miguel P. Caldas and Carlos Osmar Bertero. Sao Paulo:

Editora Atlas, S.A., 2007. Pp. 257-288.

Gary Alan Fine, "Ten Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of

Field Research." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 22:

267-294. 1993.

Reprinted in Polish as "Dziesięć kłamstw etnografii –

dylematy etyczne w terenie." Pp. 87-112 in Etyczne

Problemy Bada ń Antropologicznych, edited by Katarzyny

Kaniowskiej and Noemi Modnickiej. Warsaw: Polskie

Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze. 2010.

Gary Alan Fine and Nancy Wisely, "Learning From Symbolic

Interaction: Portraits as Communicative Meaning," Art and

Academe 5: 31-47. 1993.

Gary Alan Fine and Laura Leighton, "Nocturnal Omissions: Steps

Toward a Sociology of Dreams." Symbolic Interaction 16: 95-

104. 1993.

Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, "Ideology in Action: A

Pragmatic Approach to a Contested Concept." Sociological

Theory. 11: 21-38. 1993.

Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling, "Child Saving and Children's

Cultures." Pp. 120-146 in Shirley B. Heath and Milbrey W.

McLaughlin (eds.), Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond

Ethnicity and Gender. New York: Teachers College Press.

1993.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Culture of Production: Aesthetic Choices

and Constraints in Culinary Work." American Journal of

Sociology. 97:1268-1294. 1992.

Reprinted in The Anthropology of Organisations, Alberto

Corsin Jiminez (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate.

Reprinted in Creative Industries: Critical Readings, Brian

Moeran and Ana Alacovska (eds.). Oxford: Berg.

Reprinted in Food and Folklore Reader, Lucy Long (ed.). New

York: Bloomsbury.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Depths of Deep Play: The Rhetoric and

Resources of Morally Controversial Leisure." Play and

Culture. 5: 246-251. 1992.

Helen M. Reid and Gary Alan Fine, "Self-Disclosure in Men's

Friendships: Variations Associated With Intimate

Relations." Pp. 132-152 in Peter Nardi (ed.), Men's

Friendships. Newbury Park, California: Sage. 1992.

Gary Alan Fine, "Agency, Structure, and Comparative Contexts:

Toward a Synthetic Interactionism." Symbolic Interaction.

15: 87-107. 1992.

Gary Alan Fine, "Wild Life: Authenticity and the Human

Experience of 'Natural' Places." Pp. 156-175 in Carolyn

Ellis and Michael Flaherty (eds.), Investigating

Subjectivity: Research on Lived Experience. Newbury Park,

California: Sage. 1992.

Linda Grant and Gary Alan Fine, "Sociology Unleashed: Creative

Directions in Classical Ethnography." Pp. 405-446 in

Margaret D. LeCompte, Wendy L. Milroy, and Judith Preissle

(eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education New

York: Academic Press. 1992.

Diana K. Harris, Gary Alan Fine, and Thomas C. Hood, "The Aging

of Desire: Playboy Centerfolds and the Graying of America."

Journal of Aging Studies. 6: 301-306. 1992.

Gary Alan Fine and Lazaros Christophorides, "Dirty Birds, Filthy

Immigrants, and the English Sparrow War: Metaphorical

Linkage in Constructing Social Problems." Symbolic

Interaction. 14: 375-393. 1991.

Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling, "Minor Difficulties: Changing

Children in the Late Twentieth Century." Pp. 58-78 in Alan

Wolfe (ed.), America at Century’s End. Berkeley: University

of California Press. 1991.

Gary Alan Fine, "On the Microfoundations of Macrosociology:

Constraint and the Exterior Reality of Structure." The

Sociological Quarterly. 32: 161-177. 1991.

Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine, "Satanic Cults, Satanic

Play: Is Dungeons & Dragons a Breeding Ground for the

Devil." Pp. 107 - 123 in James Richardson, David Bromley,

and Joel Best (eds.), The Satanism Scare. New York: Aldine

de Gruyter. 1991.

Gary Alan Fine, "Justifying Fun: Or, Why We Do Not Teach "Exotic

Dance" in High School." Play and Culture. 4: 87-99. 1991.

Reprinted in revised form in Philip Smith (ed.), The New

American Cultural Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1998.

Ramona M. Asher and Gary Alan Fine, "Fragile ties: Shaping

research relationships with women married to alcoholics."

Pp. 196- 205 in William Shaffir and Robert Stebbins (eds.),

Experiencing Field Work: Qualitative Research in the Social

Sciences. Newbury Park: Sage. 1991.

Gary Alan Fine, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Donald F. Roberts,

"Leisure, work, and mass media." Pp. 225-252 in Shirley

Feldman and Glen Elliott (eds.), At the Threshold: The

Developing Adolescent. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

1990.

Gary Alan Fine, "Credit and blame in ethnographic writing." The

American Sociologist. 21: 76-79. 1990.

Susan M. Fournier and Gary Alan Fine, "Jumping Grannies:

Exercise as a Buffer Against Becoming 'Old.'" Play &

Culture 3: 337-342. 1990.

Gary Alan Fine, "Organizational Time: Temporal Demands and the

Experience of Work in Restaurant Kitchens." Social Forces.

69: 95 - 114. 1990.

Reprinted in Lorne Tepperman and James Curtis, Everyday

Life: A Reader (Whitby, Ontario: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995)

Gary Alan Fine, "Symbolic Interaction in the Post-Blumerian

Age." Pp. 117-157 in George Ritzer (ed.), Frontiers of

Social Theory. New York: Columbia University Press. 1990.

Gary Alan Fine and Daniel D. Martin, "A Partisan View: Sarcasm,

Satire, and Irony as Voices in Erving Goffman's Asylums."

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 19: 89-115. 1990.

Reprinted in John Van Maanen (ed.), Representation in

Ethnography (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995), pp. 165-197.

Reprinted in Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W.H. Smith (eds.),

Erving Goffman (London: Sage, 2000), volume II, pp. 135-

155.

Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont (eds.),

Ethnographic Discourse. London: Sage. 2008.

Gary Alan Fine, "Mobilizing Fun: Provisioning Resources in

Leisure Worlds," Sport Sociology Journal. 6:319-334. 1989.

Reprinted in Peter Kivisto (ed.), Exploring the Social:

Readings in Contemporary Sociology (Boston: McGraw-Hill,

2001), pp. 103-115.

Reprinted in French as "Pour une Sociologie des Loisirs :

La Mise á Disposition des Ressources." In Tracés, Issue

Number 28, 2015 (ENS Editions, École Normale Supérieure de

Lyon).

Gary Alan Fine, "The Process of Tradition: Cultural Models of

Change and Content." Pp. 263-277 in Craig Calhoun (ed.),

Comparative Social Research. Volume 11: Culture. Greenwich,

CT: JAI Press. 1989.

Gary Alan Fine, "Art Forgery." In George Gerbner (ed.),

International Encyclopedia of Communications. New York:

Oxford University Press. 1989.

John Bloom and Gary Alan Fine, "Windows on Fantasy: Studying

Public and Private Components of Imagination." ARENA

Review. 13: 20-27. 1989.

Gary Alan Fine, "Little League Baseball as Sport, Play and

Work." Pp. 39-57 in Jeffrey Goldstein (ed.), Sports, Games

and Play, 2nd Edition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Associates. 1989.

Gary Alan Fine, "A Theory for the Republic," Symbolic

Interaction. 12: 93-96, 1989.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Ten Commandments of Writing," The American

Sociologist 19: 152-157, 1988.

Reprinted in revised form in Write Margin: Newsletter of

the Atlanta Writing Resource Center. 5(3): 2, 1991.

Gary Alan Fine, "Good Children and Dirty Play," Play and Culture

1: 43-56, 1988.

Gary Alan Fine, "One of the Boys: Women in Male-Dominated

Settings." In Michael S. Kimmel (ed.), Changing Men: New

Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity. Newbury

Park, California: Sage, 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "Working Cooks: The Dynamics of Professional

Kitchens." In Helena Lopata (ed.), Current Research on

Occupations and Professions, vol. 4. Greenwich,

Connecticut: JAI Press, 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Strains of Idioculture: External Threat and

Internal Crisis on a Little League Baseball Team." In Gary

Alan Fine (ed.), Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning.

Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "Adolescent Gossip as Social Interaction." In

Jenny Cook-Gumperz, William A. Corsaro and Jurgen Streeck

(eds.), Children's Worlds and Children's Language. Berlin:

Mouton de Gruyter, 1986.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Dirty Play of Little Boys," Society /

Transaction 24, 1986. 63-67.

Reprinted in Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner

(eds.), Men's Lives. New York: Macmillan, 1989, pp. 171-

179.

Reprinted in Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner

(eds.), Men's Lives, Second Edition. New York: Macmillan,

1992, pp. 135-143.

Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman, "Interpreting the

Sociological Classics: Can There be a 'True' Meaning of

Mead?" Symbolic Interaction 9:129-46. 1986.

Reprinted in Symbolic Interactionism, Volume I: Foundations

and History, edited by Ken Plummer. Brookfield, Vermont:

Edward Elgar, 1991, pp. 95-112.

Reprinted in The Cutting Edge: Advanced Interactionist

Theory, edited John Johnson, Harvey Farberman, and Gary

Alan Fine. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1992, pp. 1-

18.

Gary Alan Fine, "Small Groups and Sports: A Symbolic

Interactionist Analysis." Pp. 159-169 in C. Roger Rees and

Andrew W. Miracle (eds.), Sport and Social Theory.

Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Press. 1986.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Diffusion Structure of Common Knowledge,"

Zeitschrift fur Soziologie 15:302-303. 1986.

Gary Alan Fine, "Friendships in the Workplace." Pp. 185-206 in

Val Derlaga and Barbara Winstead (eds.), Friendship and

Social Interaction. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986.

Gary Alan Fine, "Behavioral Change in Group Space: A

Reintegration of Lewinian Theory in Small Group Research."

Pp. 23-50 in Edward Lawler (ed.), Advances in Group

Process: Theory and Research, Vol. 3. Greenwich, CT: JAI

Press. 1986.

Gary Alan Fine, "Rumors and Gossiping." Pp. 223-237 in Teun Van

Dijk (ed.), Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Volume Three.

London: Academic Press. 1985.

Gary Alan Fine, "Occupational Aesthetics: How Trade School

Students Learn to Cook," Urban Life 14:3-32, 1985.

Gary Alan Fine, "Team sports, seasonal histories, significant

events: Little League baseball and the creation of

collective meaning." Sociology of Sport Journal 2:299-313.

1985.

Gary Alan Fine and Janet S. Severance, "Great Men and Hard

Times: Sociology at the University of Minnesota." The

Sociological Quarterly 26:117-134. 1985.

Gary Alan Fine and Deborah Shatin, "Crimes against Art: Social

Meanings and Symbolic Attacks." Empirical Studies of the

Arts 3:135-152. 1985.

Gary Alan Fine and Randy Stoecker, "Can the Circle Be Unbroken?:

Small Groups and Social Movements." Advances in Group

Processes 2:1-28. 1985.

Reprinted in Social Psychology of Groups: A Reader, edited

by Edward J. Lawler and Barry Markovsky. Greenwich, CT: JAI

Press, pp. 225-52. 1993.

Gary Alan Fine, Jeffrey Stitt and Michael Finch, "Couple Tie

Signs and Interpersonal Threat: A Field Experiment," Social

Psychology Quarterly 47:282-286. 1984.

Reprinted in Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W.H. Smith (eds.),

Erving Goffman (London: Sage, 2000), volume II, pp. 244-

251.

Gary Alan Fine and Nora L. Ross, "Symbolic meaning and cultural

organizations." In Samuel Bachrach and Edward Lawler

(eds.), Perspectives in Organizational Sociology: Theory

and Research, Vol. 4, pp. 237-256. Greenwich, CT: JAI

Press. 1984.

Gary Alan Fine, "Negotiated orders and organizational cultures."

Annual Review of Sociology 10:239-62. 1984.

Gary Alan Fine, "Humorous interaction and the social

construction of meaning: Making sense in a jocular vein."

Pp. 83-101 n Norman Denzin (ed.), Studies in Symbolic

Interaction, Vol. 5. 1984.

Gary Alan Fine, "Sociological aspects of humor." Pp. 159-182 in

Jeffrey Goldstein and Paul McGhee (eds.), Humor Research

Handbook. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1983.

Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Network and Meaning: An

Interactionist Approach to Structure." Symbolic

Interaction 6:97-110. 1983.

Gary Alan Fine, "Cheating History: Rhetorics and Art Forgery."

Empirical Studies in the Arts 1:75-93. 1983.

Reprinted in Italian: "Ingannare la storia: le

argomentazioni del falsario d'arte." Rivista d'Psicologia

dell' Arte 6: 81-98. 1985.

Gary Alan Fine. "Fantasy role-playing gaming as a social

world." Pp. 215-224 in John Loy (ed.), Play as Paradox.

Corning, NY: Leisure Press. 1982.

Gary Alan Fine. "Fantasy games and social worlds: Simulation as

leisure." Simulation and Games 12:251-280. 1981.

Gary Alan Fine. "Rude words: Insults and narration in

preadolescent obscene talk." Maledicta 5:51-68. 1981.

Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont, Narrative

Research Methods (London: Sage, 2006)

Frederick Linsk and Gary Alan Fine. "The role of implicit

social influence on humor response: A social evaluation

perspective." Sociology and Social Research 66:69-79. 1981.

Gary Alan Fine. "Impression management and preadolescent

behavior." In Steven Asher and John Gottman, The

Development of Children's Friendships. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press. 1981, pp. 29-50 (Volume Sponsored by the

Society for Research in Child Development).

Reprinted in G. Stone and H. Farberman, Social Psychology

Through Symbolic Interaction. New York: Wiley. 1980, pp.

257-273.

Reprinted in Gerald Handel, Childhood Socialization. New

York: Aldine. 1988, pp. 209-233.

Reprinted in Gerald Handel, Childhood Socialization. Second

Edition. New York: Aldine. 2004.

Gary Alan Fine. "Little League baseball and the development of

the male sex role." Pp. 62-74 in R.A. Lewis (Ed.), Men In

Difficult Times. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1981.

Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Mass and specialized

media: Reply to Corzine." American Journal of Sociology

87: 173-177. 1981.

Gary Alan Fine. "The natural history of preadolescent male

friendship groups." Pp. 293-320 in H. Foot, A.J. Chapman

and J. Smith, Friendship and Social Relations in Childhood.

Chichester: Wiley. 1980.

Gary Alan Fine. "Cracking diamonds: The relationship between

observer role and observed content in Little League

baseball settings." Pp. 117-132 in W. Shaffir, A.

Turowetz, and R. Stebbins (Eds.), The Social Experience of

Field Work. New York: St. Martins. 1980.

Charles B. Thomas, Judith A. Hall, Frederick Miller, Joseph

Dewhirst, Gary Alan Fine, Marylee Taylor and Ralph L.

Rosnow. "Evaluation apprehension and interpretation of

test correlations." Social Behavior and Personality 7:193-

197. 1979.

Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Rethinking subcultures:

An interactionist approach." American Journal of Sociology

85: 1-20. 1979.

Gary Alan Fine. "Small groups and cultural creation: The

idioculture of Little League baseball teams." American

Sociological Review 44: 733-745. 1979.

Reprinted in Italian in Marco Santoro and Roberta

Sassatelli, eds., Studiare la Cultura. Bologna: Il Mulino,

2009.

Gary Alan Fine and Barry Glassner. "Participant observation with

children: Promise and problems." Urban Life 8:153-74. 1979.

Sherryl Kleinman and Gary Alan Fine. "Rhetorics and action in

moral organizations: Social control of Little Leaguers and

ministry students." Urban Life 8:275-294. 1979.

Gary Alan Fine. "The Pinkston settlement: An historical and

social psychological investigation of the contact

hypothesis in the rural Midwest." Phylon 40:229-242. 1979.

James M. Jones, Gary Alan Fine, and Robert Brust. "Interactive

effects of picture and captions on funniness ratings of

cartoons." Journal of Social Psychology 108:193-198. 1979.

Gary Alan Fine. "Preadolescent Socialization Through Organized

Athletics: The Construction of Moral Meanings in Little

League Baseball.” In March Krotee (Eds.), Dimensions of

Sport Sociology. Corning, NY: Leisure Press. 1979.

Reprinted in Marie Hart and Susan Birrell, Sport in the

Social Cultural Process. Third Edition. Dubuque: W.C.

Brown, 1981, pp. 79-105.

Gary Alan Fine and Ralph L. Rosnow. "Gossip, Gossipers,

Gossiping." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 4:

161-168. 1978.

Frances V. Bigda-Peyton and Gary Alan Fine. "The Hephaestus

Complex: Power Themes in the Life of James Thurber."

Biography 1:37-60. 1978.

Gary Alan Fine. "Popular Culture and Social Interaction:

Production, Consumption, and Usage." Journal of Popular

Culture 11:453-466. 1977.

Gary Alan Fine. "Popular...Culture: Sociological Issues and

Explorations." Journal of Popular Culture 11:381-384. 1977.

Gary Alan Fine. "Humour in situ: The role of humour in small

group culture." Pp. 315-318 in A.J. Chapman and H.C. Foot

(Eds.), It's a Funny Thing, Humour. London: Pergamon, 1977.

Gary Alan Fine. "Humour and Communication." Pp. 329-33 in A.J.

Chapman and H.C. Foot (Eds.), It's a Funny Thing, Humour.

London: Pergamon. 1977.

Gary Alan Fine. "Social components of children's gossip."

Journal of Communication 27: 181-185. 1977.

Gary Alan Fine. "Obscene joking across cultures." Journal of

Communication 26: 134-140. 1976.

Gary Alan Fine. "Recall of information about the diffusion of a

major news event: The aftermath of the Agnew resignation."

Journalism Quarterly 52:751-755. 1975.

Robert J. Wolosin, James Esser, and Gary Alan Fine. "Effects of

Justification and Vocalization on Actors' and Observers'

Attributions of Freedom." Journal of Personality

43:612-633. 1975.

Gary Alan Fine. "The Psychology of Cigarette Advertising."

Journal of Popular Culture 8:513-522. 1974.

Reprinted in J. Nachbar and J.L. Wright, The Popular

Culture Reader. Popular Press. Bowling Green, Ohio. 1977,

pp. 63-72.

FOLKLORE ARTICLES

Gary Alan Fine, “The Folklore of Small Things: Traditions in

Group Culture.” Western Folklore 77: 5-27. 2018.

Gary Alan Fine and Barry O’Neill. “Policy Legends and Folklists:

Traditional Beliefs in the Public Sphere.” Journal of

American Folklore 123: 150-178. 2010.

Gary Alan Fine and Christine Wood. “Accounting for Jokes:

Jocular Performance in a Critical Age.” Western Folklore

69: 299-321. 2010.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Sweep of Knowledge: The Politics of Grand

and Local Theory in Folkloristics.” Journal of Folklore

Research 45: 11-18. 2008.

Reprinted in Lee Haring (ed.) Grand Theory in

Folkloristics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.

Gary Alan Fine, “In the Company of Men: Female Accommodation and

the Culture of Male Groups.” Pp. 61-76 in Simon Bronner

(ed.), Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American

Masculinities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005.

Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner, “Contemporary Legend and

Claims of Corporate Malfeasance: Race, Fried Chicken and

the Marketplace.” DePaul Law Review 50: 635-646. 2000.

Gary Alan Fine, "Accounting for Rumor: The Creation of

Credibility in Folk Knowledge." Pp. 123-36 in Regina Bendix

and Rosemary Zumwalt (ed.), Folklore Interpreted: Essays in

Honor of Alan Dundes. New York: Garland, 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, "Methodological Problems of Collecting Folklore

from Children." Pp. 121-139 in Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay

Mechling, Thomas Johnson, and Felicia McMahon (eds.),

Children's Folklore: A Sourcebook. New York: Garland. 1995.

Gary Alan Fine, "Rumors of Apartheid: The Ecotypification of

Contemporary Legends in the New South Africa." Journal of

Folklore Research. 29: 53-71. 1992.

Gary Alan Fine, "Redemption Rumors and the Power of Ostension."

Journal of American Folklore. 104: 179-181. 1991.

Gary Alan Fine, "Among Those Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of

Kooks, Cults, and Corporations." Southern Folklore. 47:

133-146. 1990.

Gary Alan Fine, "Mercantile Legends and the World Economy:

Dangerous products from abroad." Western Folklore. 48: 153-

162. 1989.

Gary Alan Fine and Julie Ford, "Magic Settings: The Reflection

of Middle-Class Life in 'Beauty and the Beast'." Midwestern

Folklore 15: 89-100. 1989.

Gary Alan Fine, "What Have Our Histories Taught Us." The

Folklore Historian. 6: 20-23. 1989.

Gary Alan Fine, "The Third Force in American Folklore: Folk

Narratives and Social Structures." Fabula 29: 342-353.

1988.

Reprinted (pp. 331-46) in Paul Smith and Gillian Bennett

(eds.), New Perspectives on Contemporary Legend. Sheffield:

Hisilisk Press. 1996.

Reprinted (pp. 311-24) in Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith

(eds.), Contemporary Legend: A Reader. New York: Garland

Press. 1996.

Gary Alan Fine, "Dying for a Laugh: Negotiating Risk and

Creating Personas in the Humor of Mushroom Collectors."

Western Folklore 47: 177-194, 1988.

Gary Alan Fine, "Letting off Steam?: Redefining a Restaurant's

Work Environment." In Michael Owen Jones, Michael D. Moore,

and Richard C. Snyder (eds.), Inside Organizations:

Understanding the Human Dimension. Newbury Park,

California: Sage, 1988, pp. 119-127.

Gary Alan Fine, "Joseph Jacobs: A Sociological Folklorist."

Folklore 98: 183-193. 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "Community and Boundary: Personal Experience

Stories of Mushroom Collectors." Journal of Folklore

Research 24: 223-240. 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "Welcome to the World of AIDS: Fantasies of

Female Revenge." Western Folklore 46: 192-197. 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "The City as a Folklore Generator: Legends in

the Metropolis." Urban Resources 4: 3-6, 61. 1987.

Gary Alan Fine. "Organized Baseball and its Folk Equivalents:

The Transition from Informal to Formal Control." In

Bernard Mergen (ed.), The Cultural Dimensions of Play,

Games, and Sport. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics

Press. 1986.

Gary Alan Fine, "Redemption Rumors: Mercantile Legends and

Corporate Beneficence," Journal of American Folklore

99:208-22. 1986.

Reprinted in Spanish as "Rumores de Expiacion: Leyendas

mercantiles y Beneficencia Empresaria" in Marta Blanche

(ed.), Serie de Folklore 12: 3-33, 1991. (Translated by

Diana Lenton and Jorge Sosa).

Reprinted in Spanish as "Rumores de Expiacion: Leyendas

mercantiles y Beneficiencia Empresaria." Pp. 75-98 in Marta

Blanche (ed.), Narrativa Folklorica. Buenos Aires: Centro

Editor de America Latina. (Translated by Diana Lenton,

Jorge Sosa, and Maria Ines Palleiro).

Gary Alan Fine, "The Goliath Effect: Corporate Dominance and

Mercantile Legends." Journal of American Folklore

98:63-84, 1985.

Gary Alan Fine, "Social Change and Folklore: The

Interpenetration of Social Structure and Culture." Arv 41:

7-15, 1985.

Gary Alan Fine, "Evaluating Psychoanalytic Folklore: Are

Freudians Ever Right?" New York Folklore 10:5-20. 1984.

Gary Alan Fine, "Legendary Creatures and Small Group Culture:

Medieval Lore in a Contemporary Role-Play Game." Keystone

Folklore 24:11-27. 1982.

Gary Alan Fine. "The Manson Family as a Folk Group: Small

Groups and Folklore." Journal of the Folklore Institute

19:47-60. 1982.

Cindy Steiner and Gary Alan Fine, "Beaneology: The Growth of a

Local Folk Tradition." Southwestern Folklore 5: 24-28.

1981.

Gary Alan Fine. "Childlore, Friendship and Performance."

Southwestern Folklore 4:87-92. 1980.

Gary Alan Fine. "Preadolescent Slang: Local, Regional and

National Speech Patterns among American Children."

Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 6:5-16. 1980.

Gary Alan Fine. "Children and Their Culture: Exploring Newell's

Paradox." Western Folklore 39:170-183. 1980.

Gary Alan Fine. "Multi-conduit Transmission and Social

Structure: Expanding a Folklore Classic." In Nikolai

Burlakoff and Carl Lindahl (eds.), Folklore on Two

Continents: Essays in Honor of Linda Degh. Bloomington,

IN: Trickster Press, 1980, pp. 300-309.

Reprinted in Spanish as "Transmission multiconducto y

estructura social: Expansion deun clasico de folklore." In

Marta Blanche (ed.), Serie de Folklore. Buenos Aires,

Argentina, 1989, pp. 3-20.

Gary Alan Fine. "The Kentucky Fried Rat: Legends and Modern

Society." Journal of the Folklore Institute 17:222-243.

1980.

Reprinted in Spanish. In Cristina Sanchez-Carretero and

Dorothy Noyes (eds.), American Folkloristics in

Translation. Spain: Sendoa Editorial. 1999.

Gary Alan Fine and Bruce N. Johnson. "The Promiscuous

Cheerleader: An Adolescent Male Legend." Western Folklore

39:120-129. 1980.

Gary Alan Fine. "Folklore Diffusion Through Interactive Social

Networks." New York Folklore 5:99-125. 1979.

Gary Alan Fine. "Cokelore and Coke Law: Urban Belief Tales and

the Problem of Multiple Origins." Journal of American

Folklore 92:478-482. 1979.

Gary Alan Fine and Beverly Crane. "The Expectancy Effect in

Anthropological Research: An Experimental Study of Riddle

Collection." American Ethnologist 4:517-524. 1977.

ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

Gary Alan Fine, “The Democracy of Rumor: Folklore, Uncertain

Knowledge, and Public Security.” In The Folklore of

Democracy, edited by Anthony Buccitelli and Stephen

Gencarella. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press in

press.

Gary Alan Fine and Fiona Greenland, “Owning Color: The Visual as

Property.” Contexts in press.

Gary Alan Fine and Claire Whitlinger, “Reputation as

Articulation: Alliance Building of Career Politicians in the

Jim Crow South.” Social Currents in press.

Max Besbris and Gary Alan Fine, “Planning as Social Practice: The

Formation and Blockage of Competitive Futures in Tournament

Chess, Homebuying, and Political Organizing.” Theory &

Society, in press.

Victor Raymond and Gary Alan Fine, “Soft Communities and Vicarious

Deviance in Dungeons & Dragons.” Dungeons & Dragons at 50,

edited by Premeet Sidhu, Marcus Carter, and Jose Zagal.

Cambridge: MIT Press, in press.

Gary Alan Fine, “Fantasy Games at 50: An Academic Memoir.”

Dungeons & Dragons at 50, edited by Premeet Sidhu, Marcus

Carter, and Jose Zagal. Cambridge: MIT Press, in press.

Moira Marsh and Gary Alan Fine, “Play or Power?: The Social

Significance of the Practical Joke.” In Giselinde Kuipers,

Tom Ford, and Władysław Chłopicki, De Gruyter Handbook of

Humor Research. Berlin: De Gruyter, in press.

OTHER ARTICLES

Gary Alan Fine, “Setting the Scene: Forgotten Masterpiece

(Sociology as an Art Form by Robert Nisbet). In Samira van

Bohemen, Pauwke Berkers, and Liesbet van Zoonen, Handbook on

Cultural Sociology. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, in press.

Gary Alan Fine, “Hobbes is Wrong About Society: People Create

Order, Not States.” IAI News (Institute of Arts and Ideas,

London) (https://iai.tv/articles/hobbes-is-wrong-about-

society-auid-2181?_auid=2020), July 14, 2022.

Gary Alan Fine, “Viral Beliefs: COVID Claims in a World of Rumor.”

Report to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, available

from Demicom (Report No. 48), Mid-Sweden University, 2022.

Gary Alan Fine, “A Memoir of Barry.” In “Barry Schwartz: A

Remembrance,” Edited by Mark Jacobs. Pp. 8-9 in Newsletter of

the American Sociological Association Section on Culture.

Spring 2021.

Gary Alan Fine and Corey Abramson, “Ethnography in the Time of

COVID-19.” ASA Footnotes 48 (3, May-June): 8-9. 2020.

Gary Alan Fine, “Efterord: Ryktets öde.” Pp. 47-56 in Lars Nord

and Henrik Olinder, Inga Kriser Utan Rykten. Stockholm:

Myndigheten for Samhallsskydd och Beredskap. 2020.

Gary Alan Fine, “Foreword: The Splendid Dangers and Worthy Methods

of the Social Pathologist.” Pp. xv-xvi in Amir Marvasti and

A. Javier Trevino (eds.), Researching Social Problems. New

York: Routledge, 2020.

Gary Alan Fine, Philip Cohen, Colin Jerolmack, Shamus Kahn, Steven

Lubet, and Mary Pattillo, “Panel Discussion: Author Meets

Critics.” Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy

13(3): 107-37. 2018.

Gary Alan Fine, Wendy Griswold, and Hannah Wohl, “The Past,

Present, and Future of Culture at Northwestern.” Newsletter

of the American Sociological Association Section on Culture

29 (1-2, Summer): 14-15, 2017.

Gary Alan Fine, “Wanted in the World of Politics: A Dirty Little

Scandal to Get Voters to the Polls.” Chicago Tribune (October

18, 2016)

Gary Alan Fine, “Dining in Style.” Discover Society,

http://discoversociety.org/2016/09/06/dining-in-style/.

(September 6, 2016)

Gary Alan Fine, “The Futures We Build: Local Sociology and the

Struggles for Better Worlds.” International Sociological

Association Futures Forum, http://futureswewant.net/gary-

alan-fine-local/ (February 25, 2016)

Gary Alan Fine, “Dzielenie Się Fantazją” (in Polish, “Sharing

Fantasy,” translated by Mateusz Kominiarczuk). Spotkania

Losowe 3(1): 104-5. 2015.

Gary Alan Fine and Christine Simonian Bean, “Red Meat: American

Political Banquets and Partisan Culture.” Gastronomica

15(2): 1-2. 2015.

Gary Alan Fine, Marcus Hunter, and Kevin Loughran, “Getting Malled

in Philadelphia: The Growth Coalition and the Historic City.”

Discover Society,

http://discoversociety.org/2015/06/03/getting-malled-in-

philadelphia-the-growth-coalition-and-the-historic-city/

(June 3, 2015)

Gary Alan Fine, “Charlie and the Ducks.” Huffington Post,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-alan-fine/charlie-and-the-

ducks_b_6471528.html?1421255389 (January 14, 2015)

Gary Alan Fine, Adam Mendel, Heather Menefee, and Forrest Bruce,

“Sand Creek Massacre a Moral Stain on NU’s Past.” Daily

Northwestern (January 24, 2013): 4.

Gary Alan Fine, “George Orwell and the N.C.A.A.,” New York Times,

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/opinion/penn-states-

vacated-victories.html?hp (July 24, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine and Shannon Fitzsimons, “Learning to Read, Again,”

Chronicle of Higher Education (February 4, 2011): B4-B5.

Gary Alan Fine, “Geek Chic.” Oxford University Press Blog,

http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/geek-chic-culture-pride/

(May 25, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Dark Fears and Bright Children: Adults and

Children Together.” Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201111/dark-fears-and-bright-children-adults-and-

children-together (November 21, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Fact and Fancy: The Case of Herman Cain.”

Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-

global-grapevine/201111/fact-and-fancy-the-case-herman-cain

(November 6, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Amero Dreams: The North American Currency Union.”

Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-

global-grapevine/201108/amero-dreams-the-north-american-

currency-union (August 4, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “The Great Nebraska Nuclear Meltdown?: Analogy and

the Appeal of Rumor.” Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201106/the-great-nebraska-nuclear-meltdown-analogy-

and-the-appeal-rumor (June 26, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Rumors on Fire: Illegal Immigrants and the

Arizona Blaze.” Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201106/rumors-fire-illegal-immigrants-and-the-

arizona-blaze (June 17, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Women Behaving Badly?: Are Male Politicians

Unique?: Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201106/women-behaving-badly-are-male-politicians-

unique (June 13, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Weiner Redux: The ‘I’m Special’ Rule.” Psychology

Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201106/weiner-redux-the-i-m-special-rule (June 6,

2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Of Weiners and Wieners: The Personalization of

Policy and Its Dangers.” Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201106/weiners-and-wieners-the-personalization-

policy-and-its-dangers (June 1, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Mitch and Nation: When Family Comes First.”

Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-

global-grapevine/201105/mitch-and-nation-when-family-comes-

first (May 28, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Charmed Circle of

Scandal.” Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201105/dominique-strauss-kahn-and-the-charmed-

circle-scandal (May 18, 2011)

Reprinted on Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 26, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “The Roving Eye of Newt.” Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201105/the-roving-eye-newt (May 10, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Barack the Birther.” Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201105/barack-the-birther-0 (May 3, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Shark Fin Soup and Sauteed Kitten: The Cultural

Politics of Cuisine.” Grist: A Beacon in the Smog,

http://www.grist.org/food/2011-04-11-shark-fin-soup-and-

sauteed-kitty-the-cultural-politics-of-cuisin (April 11,

2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Sandy Hook and Hitler.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (December 24, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “All-Consuming Liberalism.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (November

23, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “47: A Prime Political Number for Romney and

America.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (October 1, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “The Three Stigmata of Todd Akin.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (September

12, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Reflections on Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day.”

Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (August 6, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Partisan Change.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (July 16, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “’Through No Fault of Their Own’: Immigration,

Social Injustice, and the Bank Bailout.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 25,

2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Marriage Equality and the Dustbin of History.”

Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 23, 2012)

Reprinted on Oxford University Press blog,

http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/marriage-equality-and-the-

dustbin-of-history/ (June 10, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Hoodie Nights: Trayvon Martin and the Racial

Politics of Small Things.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (April 2, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Mandates and Their Foes.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 8,

2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Promiscuous Facts: Barack Obama and Uncertain

Knowledge.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 10, 2012)

Reprinted on Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201202/promiscuous-facts-Barack-Obama-and-

uncertain-knowledge (February 10, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “The Florida Primary and the ADD Electorate.”

Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 1, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “My Magazine.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (January 5, 2012)

Gary Alan Fine, “Brokered Democracy.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (December 8, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Glenn Beck, Prophet?.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (November 21, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street: Unhappy

Warriors.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (November 4, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Our Heroes: Responsibility and War.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (October

12, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Two Deaths.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (September 26, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Forgetting 9/11.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (September 7, 2011)

Reprinted on Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201109/forgetting-911 (September 8, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Means Testing: The GOP’s Surprising Class

Warfare.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (July 25, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Red Jobs, Blue Jobs.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (July 15, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Medicare: Redux or Redo.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 27,

2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “Atrocity and Epistemology: Cruel Claims in

Troubled Times.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 21, 2011).

Reprinted on Psychology Today,

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-

grapevine/201106/atrocity-and-epistemology-cruel-claims-in-

troubled-times (June 23, 2011)

Gary Alan Fine, “The Weiner Follies: The Personification of

Politics.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 13, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “In Praise of Serious Pols.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 24,

2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Rumor.”

Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 18, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “The Human Comedy.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 7, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Easy Targets.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 3, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “The Tea Party is No Thing.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (April 13,

2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “War Games.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (April 1, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Candid Camera Politics.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 23, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Ducks, Docks, and Disasters: Joking About Japan.”

Deliberately Considered

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 17, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “On Moral Sentiments in Shaky Times.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 17,

2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Jesus, King, and Collective Guilt.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 9,

2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Hate Speech or Biting Political Provocation?”

Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 1, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Who Lost Egypt?” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 16, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Beck and Call.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 2, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “The Conundrum of their Character.” Deliberately

Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (January

19, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Jared Lee Loughner.” Deliberately Considered,

http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (January 12, 2011).

Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor in Collective Behavior and Social

Movements.” Pp. 1129-1131 in David Snow, Donatella Della

Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam, eds., The Blackwell

Encyclopedia of Political and Social Movements. Oxford:

Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Reprinted in David Snow, Donatella Della Porta, and Doug

McAdam, eds., The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political

and Social Movements. Second Edition. Oxford: Wiley-

Blackwell, 2022.

Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, “Symbolic Interaction.” Oxford

Bibliographies Online. 2011.

Daphne Demetry and Gary Alan Fine. "Dining Out." in Encyclopedia

of Consumer Culture, edited by D. Southerton. Thousand Oaks,

CA: Sage. 2011.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Conundrum of Character,” Chicago Tribune

(October 15, 2010): 39.

Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis, “Five Bogus Immigrant Rumors.”

Washingtonpost.com (June 4, 2010).

Bill Ellis and Gary Alan Fine, “Islam Just the Latest Loathed

Faith in U.S.” Philadelphia Inquirer (August 31, 2010).

Bill Ellis and Gary Alan Fine, “Immigration Debate Won’t Change:

Political Arguments Mirror Those of Candidates in 1910.”

Arizona Republic (July 27, 2010).

Roberta Sassatelli, “A Serial Ethnographer: An Interview with Gary

Alan Fine.” Qualitative Sociology 33: 79-96. 2010.

Gary Alan Fine. “The Colorist: Marcia R. Cohen/Sight Specific.”

Pp. 8-13 in Working Artist Project, 2008-2009. Atlanta:

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. 2009.

Gary Alan Fine. “Introduction to the Introduction.” Social

Psychology Quarterly 72 (3): 206. 2009.

Gary Alan Fine. “The Boy in the (Public) Sphere.” Thymos: Journal

of Boyhood Studies 3(2): 117-18. 2009.

Gary Alan Fine, “Robbers Cave Experiment.” In Rick Schaefer (ed.)

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society. Thousand Oaks,

CA: Sage. 2008.

Gary Alan Fine. “Reputation.” Contexts (Summer 2008): 78-79.

Michaela DeSoucey and Gary Alan Fine. 2008. “Virtuous Food:

Conscientious Production as Moral Imperative.” Pp. 93-102 in

Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2007.

Prospect Books.

Gary Alan Fine. “The Last Editor’s Note.” Social Psychology

Quarterly 70 (1): 1-3. 2007.

Eric W. Larson and Gary Alan Fine, “High School Debate.” Pp. 111-

12 in Kathryn Borman, Spencer Cahill, and Bridget Cotner

(eds.), The Praeger Handbook of American High Schools.

Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. 2007.

Gary Alan Fine, “Reputation.” In George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell

Encyclopedia of Sociology. Cambridge: Blackwell. 2007.

Revised for Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology,

Second Edition, in press.

Gary Alan Fine, “Robert Freed Bales.” In Bryan Turner (ed.)

Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Group Dynamics.” In Bryan Turner (ed.) Cambridge

Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Small Groups.” In Bryan Turner (ed.) Cambridge

Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, “Symbolic Interaction.” In

Bryan Turner (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006.

Kent Sandstrom and Gary Alan Fine, “Stigma.” In Bryan Turner

(ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Skeptics and Believers.” Social Problems Forum.

37(2): 11-12. 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Kids Gone Wild? In Praise of Hazing.” Chicago

Tribune (June 20, 2006): 15.

Gary Alan Fine, “Prema Napuenoj Etnografiji. Razvijanje Teorije

iz Grupnog ivota.” Diskrepancija 11, 83-98, 2006.

Gary Alan Fine and Jacqueline Boles, “Chain Letter.” Pp. 166-70

in Simon Bronner (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Folklore.

Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

Gary Alan Fine, “Little League Baseball and Youth Sports

Organizations.” Pp. 706-709 in Simon Bronner (ed.),

Encyclopedia of American Folklore. Armonk, New York: M.E.

Sharpe, 2006.

Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner, “Cultural Myths Behind

Katrina Whispers.” Christian Science Monitor (October 4): 9.

2005.

Gary Alan Fine, “Collective Memory.” Pp. 116-17 in George Ritzer

(ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Newbury Park: Sage.

2005.

Gary Alan Fine, “Bush-contempt, Kerry-scorn: Is it ‘Hate-

Thought’?” Christian Science Monitor 96 (October 18): 9.

2004.

Gary Alan Fine, “Ire to the Chief.” Washington Post (August 6):

A19. 2004.

Gary Alan Fine, “The When of Ethnographic Theory.” Perspectives:

The Newsletter of the Theory Section of the American

Sociological Association. 27(1): 4, 5, 11. 2004.

Gary Alan Fine, “Mushroom Collectors.” In Solomon H. Katz (ed.),

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. New York: Charles

Scribner’s Sons, 2003.

Gary Alan Fine, “Crafting Authenticity: The Politics of Identity

in Self-Taught Art.” Folk Art Messenger 15(3) (Winter 2002):

12-17.

Gary Alan Fine, “Presidential Commendation Awarded to Without

Sanctuary.” SSSP Newsletter 32 (Fall 2001): 8-9.

Gary Alan Fine, “In Chaotic Times, Rumors Soothe, Frighten and

Divide.” Newsday (October 10, 2001): A42.

Gary Alan Fine and Kevin T. Leicht, “The Sociological Quarterly:

Directions for the Future.” The Midwest Sociologist (June)

73-74, 2000.

Lori Holyfield and Gary Alan Fine, "Francis Stuart Chapin." Pp.

690-692 in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.)

Encyclopedia of American Biography, Volume Four. New York:

Oxford University Press. 1999.

Christena Nippert-Eng and Gary Alan Fine, “The Changing Worlds of

Workplace Culture.” Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture

Section of the American Sociological Association. 13 (3,

Spring-Summer): 1, 6-9. 1999.

Gary Alan Fine. "Ritual Murder." Pp. 555-56 in Mary Ellen Brown

and Bruce A. Rosenberg (eds.), Folklore and Literature: An

Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio. 1998.

Gary Alan Fine, “The Collecting Urge.” Mushroom 59 (Spring 1998):

7, 9, 11-14.

Gary Alan Fine, “Alarms and Dangers.” Mushroom 58 (Winter 1997-

1998): 5-7, 9-10.

Gary Alan Fine, “...Until the Scandals Start to Surface.” Chicago

Tribune (March 2, 1998): 11.

Gary Alan Fine, "On Jokes Having the Right to be Told." Humor 10

(4): 498-500. 1997.

Gary Alan Fine, "Rumor." Pp. 741-744 in Thomas A. Green (ed.),

Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. 1997.

Gary Alan Fine, "Gossip." Pp. 422-423 in Thomas A. Green (ed.),

Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. 1997.

Gary Alan Fine, "Hail to the Crook?: Clinton, Harding, and the

Politics of Reputation." Reason (November 1996): 5-7.

Gary Alan Fine, "Sociological Approaches." Pp. 675-77 in Jan H.

Brunvand (ed.), American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New

York: Garland Press. 1996.

Gary Alan Fine, "Just Ask." Pp. 16-18 in Mistakes That Social

Scientists Make: Error and Redemption in the Research

Process, edited by Richard Seltzer. New York: St. Martin's,

1995.

Gary Alan Fine, "Trials and Tribulations: Sense of Deja Vu"

Atlanta Journal/ Constitution. February 1, 1995: A11.

Gary Alan Fine and Lazaros Christophorides. "Bedwetting." In

Donald Ward (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Popular Beliefs

and Superstition. Berkeley: University of California Press,

1994.

Gary Alan Fine, "Absent-Mindedness." In Donald Ward (ed.),

Encyclopedia of American Popular Beliefs and Superstition.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Gary Alan Fine and Jacqueline Boles. "Chain Letters." In Donald

Ward (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Popular Beliefs and

Superstition. Berkeley: University of California Press,

1994.

Gary Alan Fine, "Isn't Sociological Style Swell?" Writing

Sociology 1: 4-5. 1993.

Gary Alan Fine. "Dreams of Field." In Newsletter of the Sociology

of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.

6(4): 6-7. Summer 1992.

Gary Alan Fine, "Americans Should Admit It: We Love a Good

Scandal," Atlanta Journal/Constitution. February 16, 1992:

F2.

Patrick Schmidt and Gary Alan Fine. "Coaching." The Forensic

Educator 6(2): 7-9. 1991-1992.

Gary Alan Fine and Dean G. Rojek. "Atlanta's Curfew Was

Overrated," Atlanta Journal/Constitution. October 20, 1991:

G1-G2.

Gary Alan Fine. "World Series Ticket System Needs Justice,"

Atlanta Constitution. October 4, 1991: A11.

Gary Alan Fine. "The Republic of Rumor: Corporate Targets,"

Indicator South Africa. 8 (4), Spring 1991: 80-84.

Gary Alan Fine and Laura Fischer Leighton. "Imagery, Dreams, and

Social Order," Journal of Mental Imagery. 15: 113-115. 1991.

Gary Alan Fine, "Learning With the Boys." In Beth B. Hess,

Elizabeth W. Markson, and Peter J. Stein, Sociology, Fourth

Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1991, p. 37.

Reprinted in Charles Bazerman (ed.), Involved: Writing for

College, Writing for Your Self. Everett, MA: Houghton

Mifflin, 1996.

Patrick Schmidt and Gary Alan Fine, "Debaters: Who are They?,"

Rostrum 65 (3, November): 8, 1990.

Gary Alan Fine, "Is Collegiate Football an Oxymoron?" Columns

(Newsletter of the University of Georgia). 18 (November 12,

1990): 6.

Gary Alan Fine, "Those Preadolescent Ninja Turtles," New York

Times. June 2, 1990: 19.

Gary Alan Fine, "Harold Finestone (1920-1989)" (obituary notice),

ASA Footnotes. 17, October 1989: 15.

Gary Alan Fine. "A Morel Community," The World and I. October

1989: 611-623.

Gary Alan Fine, "Why We Do Not Teach 'Exotic Dance' in High

School: The Social Construction of Dance." In Dance

Directions: 1990 and Beyond. Reston, Virginia: National

Dance Association, 1989.

Gary Alan Fine, "A Fungus Among Us: Images of Mushrooms in

American Culture." The Toadstool Review: Newsletter of the

Minnesota Mycological Society. 14(1): January 1989: 3.

Gary Alan Fine, "Sport as Play." The World & I October 1988, 643-

655.

Gary Alan Fine, "Deadly humor." Mushroom 6(3): 5-7, 1988.

Gary Alan Fine and Janet Severance, "Gerucht." In Enzyklopadie

des Marchens. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang." In David Sloane,

ed., American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals. New

York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Gary Alan Fine, "Mushrooms, birds, or old bottles?": Mushroomers

and their concerns." McIlvainea 7, 1986, 23-30.

Gary Alan Fine, "Symbolic interactionism's next fifty years,"

Perspectives (the newsletter of the Theory Section of the

ASA), 1986.

Gary Alan Fine, "A response to Sutton-Smith's 'Idealization of

play.'" In C. Roger Rees and Andrew W. Miracle (eds.),

Sport and Social Theory. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics

Press, 1986, pp. 103-106.

Gary Alan Fine, "In defense of censorship...uh...selection," View

from the Loft, November 1985, pp. 7-8.

Sue Smith-Cunnien and Gary Alan Fine, "Comments on Westrum."

Zetetic Scholar 10:112-116, 1982.

Gary Alan Fine. "Recurring political satire." Maledicta

6:72-75, 1982.

Gary Alan Fine. "Cheap talk." Omni (Feb.):24, 122, 1982.

Gary Alan Fine. "Children's folk speech." Children's Literature

Association Quarterly 6:28-30. Summer, 1981.

Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Comparative context

theory: A social psychological way of knowing." Society for

the Advancement of Social Psychology Newsletter 7:10-11.

1981.

Gary Alan Fine. "How children's folklore spreads." Center for

Southern Folklore Magazine 3:8. 1980.

Gary Alan Fine. "The War of the Worlds broadcast: Credibility in

the news frame." Michigan Sociological Review 5:1-11

(Special Issue on Sociology and Popular Culture). 1979.

Gary Alan Fine and C. Steven West. "Do Little Leagues work?:

Player satisfaction with organized preadolescent baseball

programs." Minnesota Journal for Health, Physical Education

and Recreation 7:4-6. 1979.

T. Michael Carter, John P. Clark, Robert K. Leik and Gary Alan

Fine. "Social factors affecting the dissemination of and

response to warnings." Proceedings of the 11th Technical

Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. 302-309.

1978.

Gary Alan Fine. "Humor under stress: No laughing matter." Humor

Research Newsletter 2:3-4. 1977.

Gary Alan Fine. "Social psychology, naive psychology and

folklore: All together now?" Educational Resources

Information Center. Document Ed 12036. 1977.

Gary Alan Fine and Susan Fine. "The use of advertising in

popular culture scholarship." Popular Culture Methods

6:46-50. 1977.

Gary Alan Fine. "Psychics, clairvoyance, and the real world."

Zeitetic 1:25-33. 1976.

Gary Alan Fine. "The dangers of a popular psychology." Human

Behavior. 12-13, June 1976.

Gary Alan Fine. "Components of perceived sense of humor ratings

of self and other." Psychological Reports 36:793-794.

1975.

Gary Alan Fine. "Popular culture as humor: The psychology of

cultural evaluation." Proceedings of the Fifth Annual

Popular Culture Association Convention. 1975.

Ralph L. Rosnow and Gary Alan Fine. "Inside rumors." Human

Behavior. August 1974. 64-68.

Gary Alan Fine. "In search of the quadrennial perennials."

Folklore Forum 7:203-204. 1974.

Gary Alan Fine. "Popular culture and behavioral science."

Popular Culture Methods 1:11-13. 1973.

Alvia Y. Branch, Gary A. Fine, and James M Jones. "Laughter,

smiling, and rating scales." Proceedings of the American

Psychological Association. 189-190. 1973.

BOOK REVIEWS

Erving Goffman and the Cold War by Gary Jaworski. Symbolic

Interaction in press.

Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics by Fabio Parasecoli.

Contemporary Sociology in press.

Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of

Social Ties by David Trouille. American Journal of Sociology

128(4): 1284-85. 2023.

The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy

by Raul Perez. Symbolic Interaction 46(1): 101-04. 2023.

The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore

and Science edited by K. Brandon Barker and Daniel J.

Povinelli. Folklore 133(4): 555-56. 2022.

Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior

Are Not Enough by Pawar Dhingra. Contemporary Sociology

50(5): 403-404. 2021.

Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power by

Timothy Pachirat. Contemporary Sociology 48: 266-68. 2019.

The Goffman Lectures: Philosophical and Sociological Essays about

the Writings of Erving Goffman by Thomas Hood and Dwight Van

de Vate. Contemporary Sociology 47: 189-90. 2018.

Appetite for Innovation: Creativity & Change at elBulli by M.

Pilar Opazo. Work and Occupations 45: 235-43. 2018.

Review Essay: Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban

Economy by Richard Ocejo. Sociological Forum 33: 553-56.

2018.

“Sports/Medicine: Partners in Crime?” Doping in Elite Sports:

Voices of French Sports: Voices of French

Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010 by Christophe

Brissonneau and Jeffrey Montez de Oca. Symbolic Interaction

42: 321-323. 2018.

Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma by Daniel Wojcik.

Journal of Folklore Research

http://www.jfr.indiana.edu/review.php?id=2243. 2018.

The Ethnic Restaurateur by Krishnendu Ray. Gastronomica 17(4):

141-42. 2017.

“Whose Mead?” Review essay: The Timeliness of George Herbert

Mead, edited by Hans Joas and Daniel Huebner. Symbolic

Interaction 40: 439-41. 2017.

The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American

Region by Marcie Cohen Ferris. Folklore 128: 325-26. 2017.

“Our Mead.” Review of Becoming Mead: The Social Process of

Academic Knowledge by Daniel Huebner. Contemporary Sociology

45: 266-68. 2016.

Everyday Troubles: The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict

by Robert Emerson. American Journal of Sociology 121: 1641-

43. 2016.

Practically Joking by Moira Marsh. Journal of Folklore Research

http://www.indiana.edu/~jfr/review.php?id=1920. 2015.

The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine

Dining by Christel Lane. American Journal of Sociology 120:

1590-92. 2015.

“The Threads of Practice.” Review of 33 Artists in 3 Acts by

Sarah Thornton. Society 52(2): 182-84. 2015.

“Distinction and Dining.” Review of Fashioning Appetite:

Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity by Joanne

Finkelstein; How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining,

1920 by J. Rey; Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New

American Century, 1900-1910 by Michael Lesy and Lisa

Stoffer. Gastronomica 15(1): 90-91. 2015.

Playing Dead: Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School

Drunk Driving Tragedies by Montana Miller. Folklore 125:

262-63. 2014.

“Kitchen Confidences.” Review of Back of the House: The Secret

Life of a Restaurant by Scott Haas; Behind the Kitchen Door

by Saru Jayaraman; Smart Casual: The Transformation of

Gourmet Restaurant Style in America by Alison Pearlman.

Gastronomica 14: 92-94. 2014.

Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and

Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present by Mark

Pittenger. American Journal of Sociology 119: 845-47. 2013.

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation by

Richard Sennett. Archives of European Sociology 53: 372-75.

2012.

“Who Made Them Boss?” Review of Twilight of the Elites: America

After Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes. Reason

http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/08/who-made-them-boss

(August 8, 2012).

Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture by Simon

J. Bronner. Folklore 123: 234-35. 2012.

“The Culture of Couples.” Review Essay of Gripes: The Little

Quarrels of Couples by Jean-Claude Kaufmann; The Single

Woman and the Fairytale Prince by Jean-Claude Kaufmann;

Dirty Linen: Couples and Their Laundry by Jean-Claude

Kaufmann. Contemporary Sociology 39: 664-667. 2010.

Collections of Nothing by William Davies King. Journal of Modern

Craft 3: 265-67. 2010.

Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America by Sabina

Magliocco. Journal of American Folklore 122: 103-104. 2009.

Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception by

Diane E. Goldstein. Journal of American Folklore 122: 102-

103. 2009.

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

by Rick Perlstein. Contexts 7(4): 73-75. 2008.

“Everybody’s Business.” Review of Guarding Life’s Dark Secrets:

Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and

Privacy by Lawrence Friedman; The Future of Reputation by

Daniel Solove. Wilson Quarterly 2008 (Winter): 92-94.

Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect

Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park by Edwin

Amenta. Contemporary Sociology 37: 139-40. 2008.

Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations by Gabriella

Turnaturi. American Journal of Sociology 114: 540-41. 2008.

“Sociology at the Stove.” Review of Ratatouille (film review).

Contexts 7 (Winter): 59-61. 2008. (with Priscilla Ferguson).

The Purchase of Intimacy by Viviana Zelizer. Social Forces 86:

1353-55. 2008.

“Mind, Games.” Review of Games and Sport in Everyday Life:

Dialogues and Narratives of the Self by Robert

Perinbanayagam; Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives

on Human Expression by Thomas Henricks. Contemporary

Sociology 37: 317-319. 2008.

Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor

by Mikita Brottman; The Mirth of Nations by Christie Davies.

Journal of American Folklore 121: 497-499. 2008.

Hotel: An American History by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. New York

Sun (January 23, 2008), 15.

”Grub and the City.” Review of the New York Fancy Food Show (food

review). Contexts 6 (Spring): 76-77. 2007.

Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict by Paul Lewis.

The Common Review (Summer 2007): 53-55.

Market Day in Provence by Michele de la Pradelle. American

Journal of Sociology 112: 1283-85. 2007.

Why?: What Happens When People Give Reasons by Charles Tilly; The

Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life by

Eviatar Zerubavel. European Journal of Sociology 47: 468-71.

2006.

Good Night, and Good Luck (film review). Contexts 5(3): 65-66.

Summer 2006.

Doubt (theater review). Contexts 5(2): 70-71. Spring 2006.

The Aristocrats (film review). Contexts 5(1): 63-65. Winter 2006.

Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys’ Baseball

by Sherri Grasmuck. American Journal of Sociology 111: 1596-

98. 2006.

Interaction Ritual Chains by Randall Collins. Social Forces 83:

1287-88. 2005.

What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in

Trouble--And How Four of Them Got Out by David L. Marcus;

I'm OK, You're My Parents: How to Overcome Guilt, Let Go of

Anger, and Create a Relationship That Works by Dale Atkins;

Ready or Not, Here Life Comes by Mel Levine. Chicago

Tribune (April 3, 2005): 4.

Arun’s (restaurant review with Jenny Korn). Contexts 4(1): 63-65.

2005.

The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest

Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs. Christian Science

Monitor 96 (November 16): 12, 2004.

Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loic Wacquant.

American Journal of Sociology 110: 505-507. 2004

Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank by

John Weeks. Cat Culture: The Social World of a Cat Shelter

by Janet M. Alger and Steven F. Alger. Journal of

Contemporary Ethnography 33: 638-44. 2004

Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment

by Muzafer Sherif, O.J. Harvey, B. Jack White, William R.

Hood, and Carolyn W. Sherif. Sociological Forum (Forgotten

Classics) 19: 663-666. 2004.

Engaging Humor by Elliott Oring. Journal of American Folklore

117: 224-25. 2004.

Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America by

Robert Alan Goldberg. Journal of American History 137: 313-

14. 2003.

Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

by Alan Dundes. The Shabbat Elevator and Other Sabbath

Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and

Jewish Character by Alan Dundes. Western Folklore 61: 101-

104. 2002.

Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture by Douglas Harper.

Society/Transaction 40(1): 114, 116. 2002.

Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence by Nancy

Lesko. Teachers College Record 104 (5), 916-19. 2002.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric

Schlosser. Reason (November 2001): 58-59, 61-62.

Review Essay: “You are Where You Eat.” Eating Out: Social

Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure by Alan Warde and

Lydia Martens; Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the

Culinary Profession by Amy B. Trubek; and The Invention of

the Restaurant by Rebecca L. Spang. Contemporary Sociology

30: 231-33. 2001.

Fashion and Its Social Agendas by Diana Crane. American Journal

of Sociology 106: 1828-1830. 2001.

The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story by Jan Harold

Brunvand. Southern Folklore 57. 2001.

The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology edited by Luigi

Tomasi. Contemporary Sociology 29: 674-75. 2000.

Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland by Aviad E.

Raz. American Journal of Sociology. 105: 884-886. 2000.

Talk is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation and the Evolution of Language

by John Haiman. Journal of Communication. 49: 213-215. 1999.

The Public Realm by Lyn Lofland. Social Forces. 78: 408-410.

1999.

Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds by George Hudler. American

Scientist. 86: 578. 1999.

Tricks of the Trade by Howard S. Becker. Qualitative Sociology

22: 93-98. 1999. (co-authored with Christopher Wellin).

Humor and Laughter by Peter Berger. Contemporary Sociology 27:

383-385. 1998.

Making the Majors by Eric Leifer. Social Forces 76: 715-16. 1997.

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture,

and the Past by Sidney W. Mintz. American Journal of

Sociology 102: 1487-89. 1997.

Sociology as an Art Form by Robert Nisbet. Contemporary Sociology

25: 448-449. 1996.

Handbook of Qualitative Methods edited by Norman K. Denzin and

Yvonna Lincoln. Contemporary Sociology 24: 416-418. 1995.

Continual Permutations of Action by Anselm Strauss. Social Forces

74: 741-42. 1995.

Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV

Marketing by Stephen Kline. American Journal of Sociology

100: 1360-1362. 1995.

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas.

Reason (July) 58-59. 1995.

Gender Play by Barrie Thorne; The People in the Playground by

Iona Opie. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 23: 526-529.

1995.

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga

Iceland by William Ian Miller. American Ethnologist. 21:

1103-1104. 1994

Remembering My Birth by Alice Lovelace. Unity Magazine. (Spring):

35. 1994.

Whistling Dixie by John Shelton Reed. Sewanee Review. 101: lvii-

lx. 1993.

Playing With Power by Marsha Kinder and Nintendo Kids by Eugene

Provenzo. Contemporary Sociology. 21: 852-854. 1992.

Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream by Alan Klein.

Contemporary Sociology. 21: 109-110. 1992.

Creating Sociological Awareness: Collective Images and Symbolic

Representations by Anselm Strauss. Contemporary Sociology.

21: 259-261. 1992.

Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's "Goodly

Heritage" by David B. Parker. Florida Historical Quarterly.

(January): 389-391. 1991.

How to Talk Jewish by Jackie Mason. Jewish Times. (April 12): 32.

1991.

Rumors: Uses, Interpretations & Images by Jean-Noel Kapferer.

Public Opinion Quarterly. 55: 463-465. 1991.

Writing Strategies by Laurel Richardson. Contemporary Sociology.

20: 488-489. 1991.

Coming of Age in Buffalo: Youth and Authority in the Post-War Era

by William Graebner. Annals of the American Academy of

Political and Social Science. 514: 192-193. 1991.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihalyi

Csikszentmihalyi. Star/Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) (July

15): 10F. 1990.

City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise

of Sports by Steven A. Riess. Baseball History. 3: 145-147.

1990.

In the Field: Readings on the Field Research Experience edited by

Carolyn D. Smith and William Kornblum. Social Forces. 69:

336-338. 1990.

The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities by Helen

Schwartzman. American Journal of Sociology 96: 241-242.

1990.

Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences edited by Joan

Cassell. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 19: 240-242.

1990.

The Social Fabric edited by James Short, Jr. Social Forces. 68:

320-321. 1990.

Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humor edited by John Durant

and Jonathan Miller. Contemporary Psychology. 35: 186. 1990.

The Anatomy of Humor: Biopsychosocial and Therapeutic

Perspectives by Robin Haig. Contemporary Psychology. 34:

406. 1989.

A Theory of Social Interaction by Jonathan H. Turner. American

Journal of Sociology. 95: 809-811. 1989.

Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows by

George Eisen. Journal of Sport History. 16: 90-92. 1989.

American Classrooms: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner by Anne

Wilkes Tucker. Visual Sociology Review. 4: 18-19. 1989.

Grass Roots Commitment: Basketball and Society in Trinidad and

Tobago by Jay R. Mandle and Joan D. Mandle. Contemporary

Sociology. 18: 602. 1989.

Arguing and Thinking by Michael Billig. Contemporary Sociology.

18: 297-298. 1989.

Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by

Robert Bogdan. Contemporary Sociology. 17: 676-677. 1988.

The Quest for Excitement by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning.

American Journal of Sociology. 93: 1520-1522. 1988.

The Inside Scoop by Jack Levin and Arnold Arluke. Journal of

Communication. 1988.

The Character Factory by Michael Rosenthal and The Games Ethic

and Imperialism by J.A. Mangan. Contemporary Sociology.

17: 80-82. 1988.

All Manners of Food by Stephen Mennell. American Journal of

Sociology 92:503-505. 1986.

Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion by Michael Schudson. The

Making of Modern Advertising by Daniel Pope. Contemporary

Sociology 14:688-690. 1985.

Imaginary Social Worlds by John Caughey. Contemporary Sociology

14:257. 1985.

The Democratic Muse by Edward Banfield. Transaction/Society

23:89-91. 1985.

The Forger's Art, edited by Denis Dutton. Studies of Visual

Communication 10(4):77-80. 1984.

Documents of Life by Ken Plummer. Mid-America Folklore. 12: 51-

52. 1984.

The Karmic Theater by Robert Peribanayagam. American Journal of

Sociology 90:217-218. 1984.

The Terror that Comes in the Night by David Hufford. Journal of

American Folklore 97:229--230. 1984.

Small Groups and Social Interaction edited by Herbert H.

Blumberg, A. Paul Hare, Valerie Kent, and Martin F. Davies.

Contemporary Sociology 13:638-639. 1984.

Building Character in the American Boy by David MacLeod.

American Journal of Sociology 90:681-683. 1984.

The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Masson. Contemporary Sociology

13:686-688. 1984.

Children's Chants and Games (film). Journal of American Folklore

96:121-122. 1983.

Israeli Humor: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the

Pahmah by Elliott Oring. Journal of American Folklore

96:229-230. 1983.

Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology by Ulf

Hannerz.

The Territorial Experience by E. Gordon Erickson. Contemporary

Sociology 12:282-284. 1983.

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn by Jonathan Cott. Minneapolis

Tribune (August 7, 1983):14G, 15G.

The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their

Meanings by Jan Brunvand. Western Folklore 41:156-157.

1982.

Symbolic Interactionism: A Social Structural Version by Sheldon

Stryker. Contemporary Sociology 11:26-27. 1982.

Childhood and Folklore: A Psychoanalytic Study of Apache

Personality by L. Bryce Boyer. Western Folklore 41:69-71.

1982.

Nicknames: Their Origins and Social Consequences by Jane Morgan,

Christopher O'Neill, and Rom Harre. Journal of American

Folklore 95:92-93. 1982.

Social Interactional Theory of Emotions by Theodore Kemper.

Social Forces 59:1332-1333. 1981.

Amateurs by Robert Stebbins. Urban Life 10:109-111. 1981.

Humor: Its Origin and Development by Paul McGhee. American

Humor: Interdisciplinary Newsletter 7:35. 1980.

Oscar: An Inquiry into the Nature of Sanity by Peter J. Wilson.

Humanity and Society 1980.

Yearning for Yesterday by Fred Davis. Contemporary Sociology

9:410. 1980.

Alone Together: Social Order on an Urban Beach by Robert

Edgerton. Journal of Popular Culture 14:160. 1980.

One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American Children

by Mary and Herbert Knapp. Journal of American Folklore

92:87-89. 1979.

The Human Bond by Elbert Stewart. Contemporary Psychology

24:503-504. 1979.

Understanding Laughter by Charles Gruner, Contemporary Psychology

24:798. 1979.

The Nude Beach by Jack Douglas and Paul Rasmussen with Carol

Flanagan, Qualitative Sociology 1:155-58. 1978.

Witcracks: Jokes and Jests from American Folklore by Alvin

Schwartz, Folklore Forum 7:219. 1974.

PRESENTATIONS

August 2023. “Demagogues in Action: The Reputational Rise and

Demise of ‘Cotton’ Tom Heflin.” (With Claire Whitlinger).

American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA

June 2023. Keynote Address. “Devoted Strangers: Managing

Detachment in Skeptical Ethnography.” Ethnography and Qualitative

Research International Conference. Trento, Italy.

July 2022. Keynote Address. “Soft Communities and Vicarious

Deviance in Dungeons & Dragons.” Ropecon. European Gaming

Conference. Helsinki, Finland.

June 2022. Keynote Address. “The Meso-World: Tiny Publics and

Political Action.” Couch-Stone Conference. Society for the Study

of Symbolic Interaction. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

August 2019. “What’s in a Name? English Names, Transnational

Identities, and Self-Presentation among Chinese Students in

American Universities” (with Jun Fang). American Sociological

Association. New York, NY

August 2019. Chair, Panel on “Updating Charles Horton Cooley.”

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. New York, NY

April 2019. Peter M. Hall Invited Lecture. “Interactionism in the

Twenty-First Century: A Letter on Being-in-a-Meaningful-World.”

Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago, IL

December 2018. “The Culture of Practice and the Practice of

Culture in MFA Education.” Symposium on “Creativity in Art and

Science.” Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Study. Helsinki, Finland

August 2018. “Disruption: Revising the Theory of the Interaction

Order.” American Sociological Association (with Iddo Tavory).

Philadelphia, PA

August 2018. “Joking in Colors: Is Racial Teasing Racist

Teasing?” Special Invited Session. American Sociological

Association (with Corey Fields) Philadelphia, PA

August 2018. Panelist. “Interpretive Methods: A Panel Discussion

on Levels of Analysis and Levels of Abstraction.” Featured

Thematic Panel. The Roots and Branches of Interpretive Sociology.

Philadelphia, PA

August 2018. Panelist. “Being There/Being Them: Ethnography Then

and Now.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL

May 2018. Panelist. “Art and Authenticity.” Fourth Annual

Authenticity Workshop. Kellogg School of Management. Evanston,

IL.

August 2017. Invited Speaker. “Skeptical Ethnography and Critical

Realism.” Beyond Positivism Conference. Montreal, Canada.

August 2017. Chair. Thematic Session. “The Cognitive Sociology of

Inclusion and Exclusion.” American Sociological Association.

Montreal, Canada.

February 2017. Keynote Address. “My Life in Ethnography.” Nanyang

Technological University International Workshop on Ethnographic

Methods. Singapore.

October 2016. “Group Cultures as Arenas of Action.” Economic

Sociology Conference. Chicago, IL

August 2016. Discussant. Session on Social Psychology and

Culture. American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA

July 2016. “Group Pleasures: Collaborative Commitments, Narrative

Gratification and the Sociology of Fun.” International

Sociological Association. Vienna, Austria

July 2016. Keynote Address. “Group Pleasures: Collaborative

Commitments, Narrative Gratification and the Sociology of Fun.”

Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic

Interaction. Topola, Bulgaria.

April 2016. Discussant, “Geographies and Scales of Innovation.”

Lambert Family Conference on Inventing the New: Innovation in

Creative Enterprises. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois

March 2016. “Medium Rare: How MFA Artists Are Shaped by Talk and

Theory.” 3 Million Stories: Arts Graduates in a Changing Economy.

Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona.

January 2016. “Gallery or Theory: The Strains of Embracing

Markets in Graduate Art Education.” The Art Market in a Global

Perspective. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

January 2016. Chair and Discussant, “Emerging Art Markets.” The

Art Market in a Global Perspective. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

November 2015. Discussant, “Difficult Reputations in Media and

Memory.” Society for Biblical Literature. Atlanta, GA

October 2015. Plenary Address. “Epistemic Generosity and Social

Comedy: The Demands of a Skeptical Ethnography.” Atlantic Centre

for Qualitative Research and Analysis Fall Conference

(“Qualitative Research Methods That Work”). Fredericton, New

Brunswick

August 2015. Chair, Session on Cultural Studies. American

Sociological Association. Chicago, IL

August 2015. “Signaling Perversion: The Politics of Euphemism and

Dysphemism.” Thematic Session, American Sociological Association.

Chicago, IL

August 2015. Discussant, Author Meets the Critics Session,

Becoming Mead by Daniel Huebner. American Sociological

Association. Chicago, IL

August 2015. Discussant, Junior Theorists Symposium. Theory

Section. American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL

February 2015. “Epistemic Generosity and Social Comedy: The

Demands of a Skeptical Ethnography.” Eastern Sociological

Society, New York, NY

February 2015. Chair, “Continuity and Discontinuity.” Eastern

Sociological Society, New York, NY

November 2014. Keynote Address. “Faith and Fellowship:

Reputational Entrepreneurs, Group Cultures, and the Jesus

Movement.” Society for Biblical Literature, San Diego, CA

May 2014. Chair, “Criticizing Capitalism in Our Times.”

International Critical Theory Conference, Evanston, IL

April 2014. “Speaking for the Object: Justifying the Creative

through the Power of Talk.” Conference on the Infrastructures of

Creativity, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

March 2014. Gert Mueller Memorial Lecture. “The Hinge: Civil

Society, Group Culture, and the Interaction Order.” American

University, Washington, DC

August 2013. Keynote Speaker, “The Hinge: Civil Society, Group

Culture, and the Interaction Order.” International Conference on

Symbolic Interaction. Uppsala, Sweden

August 2013. Cooley-Mead Award Address. “The Hinge: Civil

Society, Group Culture, and the Interaction Order.” American

Sociological Association, New York, NY

August 2013. Organizer and Chair, Panel on Article and Book

Reviewing in Sociology, American Sociological Association, New

York, NY

August 2013. Panelist, “Writing Journal Articles and Books.” ASA

Directors of Graduate Studies Conference. New York, NY

May 2013. Keynote Speaker, “Group Cultures as Arenas of Action:

Inhabited Institutions as Social Worlds.” Organization Studies

Summer Workshop, Mykonos, Greece

May 2013. Panelist, "Methodologies in the Sociology of Culture."

Spring Institute, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago,

Chicago, IL

August 2012. Panelist. Session on “Art and Activism.” Society for

the Study of Social Problems. Denver, CO

July 2012. “Groups and Publics: Building on Action.”

Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research. Chicago, IL

May 2012. “Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of History

in the Post-Segregationist South.” Florian Znaniecki Memorial

Lecture. University of Illinois. Urbana, IL

March 2012. “Stranger and Stranger: Incorporation, Socialization,

Connection and Ethnographic Authority.” Causal Thinking and

Ethnographic Research Conference. University of Chicago, Chicago,

October 2011. Keynote Speaker. “The Promiscuity of Facts: Barack

Obama and Uncertain Knowledge.” Conference on Uncertain

Knowledge: Practices, Media and Agents of (Non-)Affirmation in

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American History. German

History Institute. Washington, DC

August 2011. Discussant, “Chicago Sociology: Service and

Professionalism.” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Las

Vegas, NV

December 2010. Discussant, “Restaurants.” Conference on Food:

Convergence and Divergence in Europe since 1800. Brussels,

Belgium

October 2010. “The Folklore of Small Things: Tiny Publics and

Realms of Local Knowledge.” Francis Lee Utley Memorial Lecture,

American Folklore Society. Nashville, TN

October 2010. Discussant, The King’s Mistress. Sarum Seminar.

Stanford University. Stanford, CA

August 2010. Discussant, Author Meets Critics Session (Michael

Messner, It’s All for the Kids). American Sociological

Association. Atlanta, GA

January 2010. “Honest Brokers: American Politics and the Creation

of Communist China.” Distinguished Scholars Lecture. Hong Kong

University. Hong Kong

November 2009. George Herbert Mead Invited Address. “The

Sociology of the Local: Action and Its Publics.” National

Communication Association. Chicago, IL

October 2009. Invited address. “Talking Beef.” Greater Midwest

Foodways Alliance. Chicago, IL

August 2009. Thematic Session. “Wispy Communities: Temporary

Gatherings and the Shaping of Identity.” American Sociological

Association. San Francisco, CA

August 2009. Discussant. Panel on “Social Psychology: Processes

Underlying Cultural Dynamics.” American Sociological Association.

San Francisco, CA

June 2009. “Accounting for Jokes: Jocular Performance in a

Critical Age.” International Society for Folk Narrative Research.

Athens, Greece

May 2009. “The Sociology of the Local: Action and its Publics.”

Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture. University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh, Scotland

March 2009. Discussant. Panel on “New Directions in Cultural

Sociology.” Eastern Sociological Society. Baltimore, MD

January 2009. “Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work.”

Culinary Historians of Chicago, Chicago, IL

September 2008. “Honest Brokers: Owen Lattimore and the Politics

of Expertise.” Allen and Polly Grimshaw Lecture, Indiana

University, Bloomington, IN

September 2008. “The Sociology of the Local: Action and Its

Publics.” Session on “Groups, Individuals and Inequality.”

International Sociological Association, Barcelona, Spain

August 2008. Chair, Workshop on Journal Reviewing, American

Sociological Association, Boston, MA

August 2008. “Performance, Folklore, and the Theory of Action,”

ASA Culture Section Conference, Boston, MA

May 2008. “Forecasting for Land, Forecasting for People?: How

Meteorologists Make Sense of their Audiences.” Conference on

Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life. Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil

May 2008. Chair, Session on “Forecasts and Publics.” Conference

on Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life. Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil

May 2008. Keynote Address and Nels Anderson Invited Lecturer.

“Lies from the Field: Ethical Issues in Organizational

Ethnography.” Qualitative Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New

Brunswick, Canada

May 2008. Panelist. “Studying the Entertainment Process: Artists,

Producers, and Consumers.” Couch-Stone Symbolic Interactionist

Symposium. Urbana-Champaign, IL

November 2007. Panelist. Symposium on Conducting High-Quality

Field Research in (and with) Organizations. Center for

Organizational Research, University of California at Irvine,

Irvine, CA

November 2007. Invited Speaker. “Meteorologists and the Culture

of Prediction.” Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago, IL

September 2007. “Virtuous Food: Conscientious Production as Moral

Imperative.” Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Oxford,

England (with Michaela Desoucey)

August 2007. “Anthills and the Veldt: Seeing Culture Under the

Micro-Scope.” ASA Culture section conference. New York, New York

August 2007. Panelist, Journal editing. American Sociological

Association, New York, New York.

August 2007. Chair, Session on Food and Social Movements.

Conference of the ASA Section on Social Movements and Collective

Behavior, Hempstead, NY

August 2007. Discussant, Session on “Food and Organization.”

Academy of Management meetings. Philadelphia, PA.

March 2007. “Memory Entrepreneurs and Uses of the Past: The

Chinese War Reparations Movement Against Japan” (with Bin Xu).

Conference on Politics of Regret: Collective Memory in Northeast

Asia. Hiroshima Peace Institute. Arlington, VA

March 2007. “Does Rumor Lie?: Narrators, Trust and the Framing of

Unsecured Information.” Conference on Deception: Methods,

Motives, Contexts, and Consequences. Santa Fe Institute. Santa

Fe, NM

March 2007. “Joking Cultures: How Groups Develop a Humor

Identity.” Invited Address. Aspects of Humor: The Art and Science

of Laughter. American Mensa Symposium. Oak Brook, IL

August 2006. “Towards a Sociology of Localism.” Invited Address,

American Sociological Association. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA

April 2006. “Frames and Games.” International Workshop on Strange

Convergences: Performance and Performativity in Fantasy Game

Cultures, the Gothic Milieu, and Pagan Spirituality. Amsterdam,

The Netherlands

April 2006. "The Cultural Frameworks of Prejudice: Reputational

Images and the Postwar Disjuncture of Jews and Communism"

Theodore G. Standing Lecture. State University of New York at

Albany, Albany, NY

March 2006. Keynote Address. “Ethnography as an Occupation.”

Qualitative Research Conference. State University of New York at

Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

November 2005. Invited Address. “In the Company of Men: Female

Accommodation and the Culture of Male Groups.” Joseph S. Schick

Lecutre. Indiana Folklore Society, Terre Haute, IN

October 2005. Plenary on “Why Is There No Grand Theory in

Folkloristics.” “Ain’t Theory Grand?: The Politics of Theory in

Folkloristics.” American Folklore Society. Atlanta, GA

August 2005. “The Chaining of Social Problems: Solutions and

Unintended Consequences in the Age of Betrayal.” Society for the

Study of Social Problems Presidential Address. Philadelphia, PA

August 2005. Chair, Invited Panel on “International Approaches to

Social Problems Theory and the Challenges of Unanticipated

Consequences.” Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Philadelphia, PA

August 2005. Panelist, Author Meets the Critics Session,

Francesca Polletta, Freedom is an Endless Meeting. American

Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA

May 2005. “Does Rumor Lie: The Framing of Unsecured Information.”

International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. Athens,

May 2005. Chair, “Between Life and Death.” International Society

for Contemporary Legend Research. Athens, GA

April 2005. “Does Rumor Lie: The Framing of Unsecured

Information.” Conference on “Deception: Methods, Motives,

Contexts and Consequences.” Santa Fe Institute. Sante Fe, NM

February 2005. Discussant, “Goffman’s Model of Context:

Deciphering Frame Analysis.” Society for the Study of Symbolic

Interaction. Couch/Stone Symposium. Boulder, CO

August 2004. Chair, “Basic Sociobehavioral Processes and

Culture.” American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA

August 2004. Discussant, “The Role of a Scholarly/Activist

Organization in the 21

Century.” Society for the Study of Social

Problems. San Francisco, CA

May 2004, “The Role of Status Judges in Reputation Markets.”

Conference on the Marketplace of Ideas. Durham, NC

May 2004, Chair, Symposium, “Fantastic Treasures: Preserving Art

Environments.” Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

Chicago, IL

October 2003, Keynote Address. “Tricky Dick and Slick Willie:

Despised Presidents and Generational Imprinting.” Illinois

Sociological Association. Chicago, IL

October 2003, “Through a Glass, Darkly: Meteorological Prediction

and the Promise of the Future.” Society for Social Studies of

Science. Atlanta, GA

August 2003, “Erving Goffman and Civil Society.” American

Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA

August 2003, Chair, Children and Their Groups: Miniature Adults,

Miniature Society. American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA

July 2003. “The When of Theory.” Workshop on the Scientific

Foundations of Qualitative Research. National Science Foundation.

Arlington, VA

July 2003. Plenary Address. “Purple Clitocybes and Odie the

Imperiled Fish: Joking Culture as Social Regulation in Group

Interaction.” International Society for Humor Studies. Chicago,

May 2003. Keynote Address. “Celebrating Arabs and Kindly

Terrorists: Rumor and Politics of Plausibility.” Nordic Congress

of Ethnology and Folklore. Elsinor, Denmark

April 2003. Organizer, Conference on “The Social Impact of Rumor

and Legend.” Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio, Italy

November 2002. “Naming the World: Taxonomic Discoveries Among

Professional Mycologists.” Society for Social Studies of Science.

Milwaukee, WI

October 2002. Keynote Address. “Everyday Genius: Reputation and

the Culture of Self-Taught Art.” Folk Art Society of America.

Savannah, GA

September 2002. Keynote Address. “Towards a Peopled Ethnography:

Analyzing Small Group Culture.” Ethnography for a New Century:

Practice, Predicament, Promise. Berkeley, CA

September 2002. “Towards a Peopled Ethnography: The Observer and

the Group.” Conference on Ethnographic Organizational Studies.

Swiss Sociological Association and European Sociological

Association Research Network on “Qualitative Methods” and

“Sociology of the Arts.” St. Gallen, Switzerland

August 2002. Panelist, Panel on “IRBs and Research With Children

- Protecting Children and Promoting Research.” American

Psychological Association. Chicago, IL

August 2002. Chair, Invited Panel, “Theorizing Morality:

Assessing the Contributions of Philip Rieff.” American

Sociological Association. Chicago, IL

April 2002. Panelist, Panel on “The Direction of Sociology.”

Midwest Sociological Society. Milwaukee, WI

April 2002. “Dust,” Presidential Address, Midwest Sociological

Society. Milwaukee, WI

February 2002. Discussant, Panel on “Microstudies in Culture.”

Chicago Ethnography Conference. Chicago, IL

February 2002. “Authors of the Storm: Some Things that a

Sociologist Has Learned about Meteorologists.” American

Meteorological Society, Chicago Chapter.

August 2001. Invited Special Session. “Tiny Publics: Small Groups

and Civil Society” (with Brooke Harrington). American

Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA

August 2001. “Present, Past and Future: Conjugating Mead’s

Perspective of Time” (with Michael Flaherty). American

Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA

August 2001. Discussant, Session on Collective Memory. American

Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA

August 2001. Chair, Session on “Organization, Interaction, and

Culture.” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Annual

Meeting. Anaheim, CA

April 2001. Chair, Invited Special Session. “Is American Culture

in Decay?” Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis, MO

February 2001. Discussant, Panel on “Identity Construction,

Social Interaction, and Culture.” Chicago Ethnography Conference.

Chicago, IL

August 2000. Panelist, Invited Panel on The State of Sociological

Social Psychology at the Millennium. American Sociological

Association, Washington, DC

August 2000. Chair, Panel on the Culture of Everyday Life.

American Sociological Association. Washington, DC

August 2000. Chair and Discussant. Breakout Session on “Culture

and Art.” Millennial Issues in the Sociology of Culture. George

Mason University. Fairfax, VA

May 2000. “Economics and Identity in the ‘Self-Taught’ Art

Market.” Conference on Negotiating Boundaries, John Michael

Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI

April 2000. Discussant, Panel on “Changes in the ‘Chicago School’

of Sociology.” Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago, IL

April 2000. “Contemporary Legend and Claims of Corporate

Malfeasance: Race and the Marketplace.” Clifford Symposium on

Tort Law and Social Policy. Chicago, IL

March 2000. Discussant, Panel on “University Life.” Chicago

Ethnography Conference. Chicago, IL

November 1999. “Thinking About Villains: Adolf Hitler and the

Problem of ‘Sticky Reputations’.” Conference on Culture and

Cognition. New Brunswick, NJ

November 1999. “Framing Norms: The Culture of Expectation and

Explanations.” National Communication Association. Chicago, IL

October 1999. Chair, Panel on “Folk Art.” American Folklore

Society. Memphis, TN

October 1999. “Economics and Identity in the Self-Taught Art

Market.” American Folklore Society. Memphis, TN

October 1999. Panelist, “Pro-Seminar for Researchers.” Social

Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference. Nashville, TN

October 1999. “Biography Work and the Creation of Art Markets:

The Case of Southern Contemporary Folk Art.” Social Theory,

Politics and the Arts Conference. Nashville, TN

August 1999. “Ethnography as an Occupation.” American

Sociological Association. Chicago, IL (with Christopher Wellin)

August 1999. Discussant, Panel, “New Developments in

Organizational Culture.” American Sociological Association.

Chicago, IL

May 1999. Keynote Address. “Ethnography as an Occupation.”

Qualitative Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.

May 1999. Chair, Forum on “Qualitative Research Ethics.”

Qualitative Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.

May 1999. Chair, Panel, “Experiencing Relationships.” Qualitative

Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.

March 1999. “Mushrooming and the Culture of Expectations and

Explanations.” Conference on Norms Russell Sage Foundation. New

York, NY.

March 1999. “Art Centers: Southern Folk Art and the Splintering

of a Hegemonic Market.” Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA.

February 1999. Chair, Panel, “Being Self-Conscious: Positionality

and the Role of the Researcher.” Chicago Ethnography Conference.

Chicago, IL.

January 1999. “Ford on the Line: Business Leader Reputation and

the Multiple Audience Problem.” International Conference on

Corporate Reputation, Identity, and Competitiveness. San Juan,

Puerto Rico

August 1998. “Alternative Perspectives on Microsocial Order”

(with Karen Cook). American Sociological Association. San

Francisco, CA

August 1998. Chair, Panel, “Social Psychology: Micro Social

Orders: Interactionist Approaches.” American Sociological

Association. San Francisco, CA

March 1999. “Framing Norms: The Culture of Expectations and

Explanations.” Russell Sage Foundation. New York, NY.

February 1998. “Images of Hitler’s Reputation.” Couch/Stone

Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Houston, Texas.

October 1997. Chair, Panel on “Folk Art.” American Folklore

Society, Austin, Texas

October 1997. “Art Centers: The McDonaldization of Folk Art.”

American Folklore Society, Austin, Texas

August 1997. Chair, “Interpretive Approaches to Children and

Adolescents.” American Sociological Society, Toronto, Canada.

August 1997. “Social Order through a Prism: Color as Collective

Representation.” Alpha Kappa Delta Invited Lecture, American

Sociological Society, Toronto, Canada

May 1997. "Rumor in Black and White." International Society for

Contemporary Legend Research, Boulder, CO

May 1997. Invited Speaker, "Social Order through a Prism: Color

as Collective Representation" and "John Brown's Body: Cultural

and Political Elites and the Legitimation of Terrorism." Spring

Institute, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago,

Chicago, IL

August 1996. "Scandal, Structural Strain and the Organization of

Public Attention: Fatty Arbuckle and the 'Problem' of Hollywood."

American Sociological Association. New York, NY

August 1996. Panelist, Thematic Session: The Changing Nature of

Childhood and Adolescence in American Society. American

Sociological Association. New York, NY

July 1996. "John Brown's Body: Cultural and Political Elites and

the Legitimation of Terrorism." Symposium on John Brown. Mont

Alto, PA.

July 1996. "Naturework and the Construction of the Wild."

Couch/Stone Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic

Interactionism. Nottingham, England.

October 1995. "Identity Art." American Folklore Society.

Lafayette, LA.

October 1995. Chair, "Folk Art." American Folklore Society.

Lafayette, LA.

October 1995. Discussant, "Methodological and Ethical Issues in

Collecting Folklore From Children." American Folklore Society.

Lafayette, LA.

August 1995. "Summer Workshop in Field Work Methods at the

University of Georgia." American Sociological Association (with

Josephine Beoku-Betts, William Finlay, Linda Grant, and Judith

Preissle)

August 1995. "My Life as Sociologist." American Sociological

Association, Honors Program (invited address). Washington, DC

August 1995. "Secrecy, Trust, and Dangerous Leisure: Generating

Group Cohesion in Voluntary Organizations." American Sociological

Association. Washington, DC (with Lori Holyfield)

May 1995. "Wittgenstein's Kitchen." Interdisciplinary Conference

on Food and Society. Boston, MA

August 1994. Chair, "Recovering Social Psychological Classics."

American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, CA

August 1994. Panelist, "Critics Meet the Editors, Sociological

Perspectives on Social Psychology." American Sociological

Association. Los Angeles, CA

July 1994. "Rings of Order and the Quadrants of Social

Psychology." International Sociological Association. Bielefeld,

Germany

July 1994. Chair, "Food and Cuisine." International Sociological

Association. Bielefeld, Germany

July 1994. Chair, "Theoretical and Empirical Contributions to

Collective Behavior." International Sociological Association.

Bielefeld, Germany

July 1994. Chair, "Interactionist Approaches to Social

Psychology." International Sociological Association. Bielefeld,

Germany

June 1994. Panelist, Symposium on "Political Correctness and

Sociological Practice." Sociological Practice Association.

Atlanta, GA

May 1994. "Three Principles of Serendip: The Role of Chance in

Ethnographic Research." Qualitative Research Conference. Waterloo,

Ontario, CANADA

May 1994. Chair, "Intersubjectivity and the Social Sciences:

Dilthey, Weber, Simmel, Cooley, Mead, Blumer, Goffman."

Qualitative Research Conference. Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

May 1994. Discussant, Section on The Authority of the Text.

SSSI/Stone Symposium. Champaign, IL

May 1994. "Games or Truth: Accomplishing Persuasion in High School

Debate." SSSI/Stone Symposium. Champaign, IL

April 1994. "Games or Truth: Accomplishing Persuasion in High

School Debate." The Association for the Study of Play. Atlanta, GA

February 1994. "The Social Construction of Style: Reading Veblen,

Judging Veblen." International Thorstein Veblen Conference. New

York, NY

October 1993. "Accounting for Rumor: The Creation of Credibility

in Folk Knowledge." American Folklore Society. Eugene, OR

October 1993. Participant, Forum, "Variations in Legend Theory:

Ostension, Belief and Violence." American Folklore Society.

Eugene, OR

August 1993. "Qualitative Methods in Social Psychology." American

Sociological Association. Miami Beach, FL

August 1993. "Nonpersonhood, Demonization, and Negative

Commemoration: Constructing the 'Traitorous' Reputation of

Benedict Arnold." American Sociological Association. Miami Beach,

FL (with Lori Ducharme)

April 1993. Chair, Social Psychology and Justice Considerations.

Southern Sociological Society. Chattanooga, TN

March 1993. "Public Narration and Group Culture: Discerning

Discourse about Social Movements." SSSI/Stone Symposium.

Knoxville, TN

March 1993. Chair, Visual Art and the Environment. SSSI/Stone

Symposium. Knoxville, TN

March 1993. "Manufacturing Tales: The Creation of Credibility in

Rumor." Journees Europeennes D'Etudes Sur La Rumeur. Paris,

France.

October 1992. Panelist, Invited Panel on The Future of Sociology

Departments. Georgia Sociological Association. Jekyll Island, GA

October 1992. Chair, Linking Teaching and Research in the

Sociology of Culture. Georgia Sociological Association. Jekyll

Island, GA

October 1992. "The Loki Effect: The Ecotypification of

Contemporary Legends in the New South Africa. II. The Black

Reality." American Folklore Society. Jacksonville, FL

October 1992. Chair, Session on Legends and the Mass Media.

American Folklore Society. Jacksonville, FL

October 1992. Participant, Forum: "The Vanishing Hitchhiker":

Archetypical Contemporary Legend or Traditional Legend in

Disguise. American Folklore Society. Jacksonville, FL

August 1992. "Ten Lies of Ethnography." American Sociological

Association. Pittsburgh, PA

August 1992. Chair, Awards Ceremony. American Sociological

Association. Pittsburgh, PA

August 1992. Discussant, Section on Men and Families. American

Sociological Association. Pittsburgh, PA

August 1992. Chair, Section on Advances in Social Problems Theory.

Society for the Study of Social Problems. Pittsburgh, PA

July 1992. "The Loki Effect: The Ecotypification of Contemporary

Legends in the New South Africa. I. The Afrikaaner Reality."

International Congress for Folk Narrative Research. Innsbruck,

Austria

June 1992. "Ideological Play: Group Dynamics, Emergent Traditions,

and Movement Cultures." Plenary Session, Workshop on Culture and

Social Movements. ASA Section of Collective Behavior and Social

Movements. San Diego, CA

February 1992. Chair, Session on "Implications of Play and

Leisure." SSSI/Stone Symposium. Las Vegas, NV

February 1992. "Playing With and Within the Frame" (with Lori

Ducharme). SSSI/Stone Symposium. Las Vegas, NV

February 1992. "Trusting Fellows: The Organization of Community

and Knowledge in Amateur Mycology." SSSI/Stone Symposium. Las

Vegas, NV

January 1992. "Ten Lies of Ethnography." Keynote Address.

Conference on Qualitative Research in Education. Athens, GA

October 1991. "Wittgenstein in the Kitchen." Conference on Social

Theory, Politics, and the Arts. Jacksonville, FL

August 1991. "Dirty Birds, Filthy Immigrants, and The Great

English Sparrow War." American Sociological Association.

Cincinnati, OH

August 1991. Presider and Introducer, The Distinguished Lecture in

Symbolic Interaction, given by Professor Rom Harre. Society for

the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Cincinnati, OH

August 1991. Chair, Invited Panel on "Classics of Social Problems

Theory." Society for the Study of Social Problems, Cincinnati, OH

May 1991. "The Republic of Rumors." Invited Address. Conference on

"Battleground for Market Prediction." Southern African Marketing

Research Association and Market Research Standards Authority.

Drakensberg, South Africa.

May 1991. "The Republic of Rumors." Keynote Address. Conference on

Rumors: A Communicative Hazard. Pretoria, South Africa.

May 1991. "The Dynamics and Structure of Credibility,"

International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, South

Padre Island, TX

April 1991. Discussant, Session on "Self and Society," Southern

Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA

March 1991. "Themes in the Writing of the Second Chicago School"

(with Lori Ducharme). Conference on the Second School of Chicago

Sociology. Atlanta, GA

February 1991. Chair, Panel on Symbolic Interaction and Social

Movement. SSSI/Stone Symposium. San Francisco, CA

February 1991. "Saving Children at Century's End" (with Jay

Mechling) Conference on Youth-Serving Organizations, Gender and

Ethnicity. Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral

Sciences. Palo Alto, CA

October 1990. Discussant, Panel on Sociology for the 1990s:

International Trends. Georgia Sociological Association.

Chatsworth, GA

October 1990. Panelist, Forum on The Contemporary Legend: An

Assessment of Present Scholarly Activities. American Folklore

Society. Oakland, CA

August 1990. "Organizational Time." American Sociological

Association. Washington, DC

August 1990. Chair, Session on "Creating Culture." American

Sociological Association. Washington, DC

August 1990. "Toward a Seamless Sociology: Beyond the Macro-

Micro Link." German-American Theory Conference. College Park,

Maryland

July 1990. "Ideology in Action: A Pragmatic Approach to a

Contested Concept." International Sociological Association.

Madrid, Spain

July 1990. "Rumors in the Marketplace." International

Sociological Association. Madrid, Spain

April 1990. "A Partisan View: Sarcasm, Satire, and Irony in

Erving Goffman's Asylums." Midwest Sociological Society.

Chicago, IL

April 1990. "The Experience of Being in Nature." The Association

for the Study of Play. Las Vegas, NV

April 1990. Panelist, Panel on the Development of Play Research

in the Past Fifteen Years. The Association for the Study of

Play. Las Vegas, NV

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March 1990. Panelist, Conference on Perspectives on American

Society, Graduate Center, City University of New York. New

York, NY

March 1990. "Minor Difficulties: Changing Children for the

Twentieth-First Century." Minerva Lecture, Union College,

Schenectady, NY

January 1990. "The Experience of Being in Nature." Stone

Symposium on Symbolic Interaction. St. Petersburg, FL

October 1989. Chair, Forum on Folk Narratives and Social

Problems. American Folklore Society. Philadelphia, PA

October 1989. "A General Theory of Contemporary Legends."

American Folklore Society. Philadelphia, PA

October 1989. Chair, Panel on Aspects of Popular Culture.

Sociologists of Minnesota. Wilder Forest, MN

August 1989. "Aesthetic Constraints: The Culture of Production in

Restaurant Kitchens." American Sociological Association. San

Francisco, CA

August 1989. Chair, Session on the Sociology of Dreams. American

Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA

June 1989. "Character and Information Control in the Icelandic

Saga" (With Thorofur Thorlindsson). International Congress

for Folk Narrative Research. Budapest, Hungary.

April 1989. "Wittgenstein in the Kitchen: The Creation of

Meanings of Talk." Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis,

April 1989. Panelist, Special Section, How to Get Published: A

Panel of Editors. Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis, MO

April 1989. "Mercantile Legends and the World Economy: Dangerous

Products From Abroad." Conference on Perspectives on the

Contemporary Legend. College Station, TX

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April 1989. Chair, Panel on Contemporary Legend and Mass

Institutions. Conference on Perspectives on the Contemporary

Legend. College Station, TX

February 1989. Chair, Panel on The Impact of Jewish Humor on

Jewish Society. Hillel Society Symposium on Jewish Humor.

University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN

November 1988. "Why We Don't Teach Exotic Dance in High Schools:

The Social Construction of Dance." Plenary Address, National

Dance Association, Bloomington, MN

November 1988. "Subcultural Penumbras: Servicing Social Worlds."

Keynote Address, North American Society for the Sociology of

Sport. Cincinnati, OH

October 1988. "Magic Settings: The Reflection of Middle-Class

Life in Beauty and the Beast. American Folklore Society.

Cambridge, MA

August 1988. "Macrointeractionism: Beyond the Micro-Macro

Linkage." Conference of Theory and Research on Group

Processes, Atlanta, GA

August 1988. "The Macrofoundations of Microsociology." American

Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA

April 1988. Chair, Panel on Atypical Play. The Association for

the Study of Play, Berkeley, CA

April 1988. "Subcultural Penumbras: Servicing Social Worlds." The

Association for the Study of Play, Berkeley, CA

March 1988. Chair, Panel on Personal Narratives, Folklore and

Postmodern Life, Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis,

March 1988. "Macrointeractionism: Beyond the Micro-Macro Link."

Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN

March 1988. "Symbolic Interaction and Kindred Theoretical

Orientations." Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN

102

March 1988. Chair, Panel on Blumer's Sociological Imagination,

Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN

March 1988. "Symbolic Interaction." Conference on Contemporary

Sociological Theory, College Park, MD

October 1987. "A Fungus Among Us: Mushrooms in American Culture."

American Folklore Society, Albuquerque, NM

August 1987. "The Ten Commandments of Writing." Society for the

Study of Symbolic Interaction, Chicago, IL

August 1987. "Among These Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of

Corporations, Kooks, and Cults." World Communication

Association, Norwich, England

July 1987. "Among These Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of

Corporations, Kooks, and Cults." Seminar on Contemporary

Legends. Sheffield, England

May 1987. "Trivial Pursuits: Mushroom Hunting and the Culture of

Nature." Qualitative Research Conference, Hamilton, Ontario

May 1987. "The Macrofoundations of Microsociology." Stone

Symposium on Symbolic Interaction, Urbana, IL

April 1987. "The Proof of the Pudding: The Production of

Aesthetics in Professional Cooking," Association for the

Study of Food, Grand Rapids, MI.

March 1987. "Dying for a Laugh: Poisoning Stories of Mushroomers

and the Shaping of Identity," The Association for the Study

of Play, Montreal, Quebec.

March 1987. Chair, Session on Play and Humor, The Association for

the Study of Play, Montreal, Quebec.

October 1986. "Community and Boundary: The Personal Experience

Stories of Mushroom Collectors," American Folklore Society,

Baltimore, MD.

April 1986. "Good Children and Dirty Play," Presidential Address,

The Association for the Study of Play, Tempe, Arizona.

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October 1985. "The Third Force in Folkloristics." Cincinnati,

OH. American Folklore Society.

August 1985. Chair, Session on the Sociology of Popular Culture.

Washington, DC. American Sociological Association.

August 1985. Discussant, Session on the Sociology of the Arts.

Washington, DC. American Sociological Association.

March 1985. Panelist, Symposium on Ethnography in Play Research.

Washington, DC. The Anthropological Association for the

Study of Play.

March 1985. "Playing With Your Food: Expressive Culture in

Restaurant Kitchens." Washington, DC. The Anthropological

Association for the Study of Play.

November 1984. "The Folklore of Children and Other Urban Groups."

St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Folklife Society.

October 1984 "Redemption Rumors: Mercantile Legends of Corporate

Beneficence," San Diego, CA. American Folklore Society.

October 1984. Chair, Forum on Psychoanalytic Folklore, San Diego,

CA. American Folklore Society.

October 1984 Panelist, Forum on Children's Folklore, San Diego,

CA. American Folklore Society.

August 1984. "Negotiated Order and Organizational Culture," San

Antonio, TX. American Sociological Association.

August 1984. Discussant, Session on Child Development and

Symbolic Interaction, San Antonio, TX. Society for the Study

of Symbolic Interaction.

June 1984. "Bringing Humor Back Alive: Methodological Issues in

Qualitative Research on Humor," Tel Aviv, Israel.

International Conference on Humor and Laughter.

June 1984. "Social Change and Folklore," Bergen, Norway.

International Congress on Folk Narrative Research.

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June 1984. "The Two Faces of Corporate Culture," Lund, Sweden.

International Conference on Organizational Symbolism.

April 1984. Chair, Session on The Illusion of the Private Life,

St. Paul, MN. Conference on Orwell's 1984.

March 1984. "Negotiated Order and Organizational Culture,"

DeKalb, IL. Stone Symposium on Symbolic Interaction.

October 1983. "Is Alan Dundes Ever Right?: Evaluating

Psychoanalytic Folklore," Nashville, TN. American Folklore

Society.

October 1983. Chair, Session on Folklore Theory, Nashville, TN.

American Folklore Society.

September 1983. "Learning to Cook: Trade Schools as Socializers

of Aesthetics," Detroit, MI. American Sociological

Association.

September 1983. Chair, Session on Popular Culture, Detroit, MI.

American Sociological Association.

September 1983. Chair, Invited Symposium on Symbolic

Interactionism and Race Relations, Detroit, MI. Society for

the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

May 1983. "The Sociology of Role-Playing," Minneapolis, MN.

Conference on Simulation and Gaming in Ancient Studies.

April 1983. Chair, Invited Session on Rebuilding Sociology on a

Smaller Scale, Kansas City, MO. Midwest Sociological Society.

March 1983. "Letting Off Steam? Redefining the Work Environment,"

Los Angeles, CA. Conference on Folklore and Organizational

Symbolism.

February 1983 "Seasons, Records, and Miraculous Events: The

Historical Focus in Team Sports." Baton Rouge, LA. The

Anthropological Association for the Study of Play.

February 1983. "Child and Adult Fantasies," Baton Rouge, LA. The

Anthropological Association for the Study of Play.

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October 1982. "Actor and Audience," St. Paul, MN. Art and Social

Theory Conference.

October 1982. "Joseph Jacobs: Sociological Folklorist,"

Minneapolis, MN. American Folklore Society.

September 1982. Participant, Didactic Seminar on Fieldwork

Methods. San Francisco, CA, American Sociological

Association.

September 1982. "Humorous Interaction and the Construction of

Meaning," San Francisco, CA. American Sociological

Association.

September 1982. "Cheating History: Rhetorics of Art Forgery."

San Francisco, CA. Society for the Study of Symbolic

Interaction.

August 1982. "Adolescent Gossip as Social Interaction," Mexico

City. International Sociological Association.

March 1982. "Artistic Organizations and Symbolic Meaning,"

Dayton, OH. Stone Symposium on Symbolic Interaction.

March 1982. "Socialization Into Cooking: Conflicting

Occupational Rhetorics," New York, NY. American Educational

Research Association.

November 1981. "Small Group Research in Sports: Symbolic

Interaction," Fort Worth, TX. North American Society for

Sport Sociology.

November 1981. Discussant, Gregory Stone Memorial Lecture,

presented by Brian Sutton-Smith, Fort Worth, TX. North

American Society for Sport Sociology.

October 1981. "The Goliath Effect: Corporate Size and Urban

Legends," San Antonio, TX. American Folklore Society.

August 1981. Discussant, Session on Sociology of Art. Toronto,

Ontario. American Sociological Association.

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April 1981. "Folklore and Sociology" (Invited address in thematic

session on Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Sociology).

Minneapolis, MN. Midwest Sociological Society.

April 1981. Chair, Session on Conducting Research with Children.

Minneapolis, MN, Midwest Sociological Society.

October 1980. "The Kentucky Fried Rat: Urban Legends and Modern

Society." Pittsburgh, PA. American Folklore Society.

October 1980. Chair, Session on Exploring Folklore Classics.

Pittsburgh, PA, American Folklore Society.

August 1980. "Oscillating Frames: Fantasy Games and 'Real'

Reality," New York, NY, American Sociological Association

(Invited session).

August 1980. (With Sherryl Kleinman) "Network as Symbolic

Interaction," New York, NY, American Sociological

Association.

April 1980. "Children and Popular Culture: An Ethnographic

Analysis," Detroit, MI, Popular Culture Association.

April 1980. "Fantasy Role-Play Gaming as a Social World," Ann

Arbor, MI, The Anthropological Association for the Study of

Play.

December 1979. Panelist, Dual-Career Families. St. Paul, MN,

Minnesota Council on Family Relations.

October 1979. Chair and Presenter, Workshop on Collecting

Folklore from Children, Los Angeles, CA, American Folklore

Society.

October 1979. "Folklore Traditions of Small Groups: The Case of

the Family of Infinite Soul," Los Angeles, CA, American

Folklore Society.

August 1979. Chair, Session on Popular Culture/Mass Society,

Boston, MA, American Sociological Association.

August 1979. "Humor and the Social Construction of Meaning:

Making Sense in a Jocular Vein," Los Angeles, CA, Second

International Conference on Humor and Laughter.

107

August 1979. "Dynamics of Diffusion of Sexual and Ethnic Humor,"

Los Angeles, CA, Second International Conference on Humor and

Laughter.

August 1979. "The Science of Folklore and the Problem of

Diffusion," Edinburgh, Scotland, International Congress on

Folk Narrative Research.

April 1979. (With Deborah Shatin) "Crimes Against Art: Symbolic

Attacks on Civilization and the State," Wayne, NJ, Conference

on the Sociology of Art.

November 1978. "Impression Management and Preadolescent

Behavior," Champaign, IL, Society for Research on Child

Development.

October 1978. Chair, Panel on Children's Folklore, Salt Lake

City, UT, American Folklore Society.

October 1978. "The Dissemination of Preadolescent Lore: An

Empirical Investigation of the Multi-Conduit Hypothesis of

Folklore Transmission," Salt Lake City, UT, American Folklore

Society.

September 1978. "Legendary Creatures and Small Group Culture:

Medieval Lore in a Contemporary Role-Play Game," Omaha, NB.

Creatures of Legendary Symposium.

September 1978. Chair, Invited Panel on the Frontiers of Research

in Symbolic Interaction, San Francisco, CA, Society for the

Study of Symbolic Interaction.

April 1978. "Moral Order of Little League Baseball," Invited

paper, CIC Conference on the Sociology of Sport, Minneapolis,

MN.

April 1978. "The Pinkston Settlement: An Historical and Social

Psychological Investigation of the Contact Hypothesis,"

Omaha, NB, Midwest Sociological Society.

April 1978. Organizer, Session on "Symbolic Interaction," Omaha,

NB, Midwest Sociological Society.

108

March 1978. "Subcultures, interlocking group cultures, and

mechanisms of Identification" (with Sherryl Kleinman),

Columbia, SC, Fifth Annual Conference on Symbolic

Interaction.

November 1977. "Folklore Diffusion Through Interactive Social

Networks," Detroit, MI, American Folklore Society.

November 1977. Chair, Panel on "Composition and Performance,"

Detroit, MI, American Folklore Society.

October 1977. Chair, Semi-Annual Meeting, Rochester, MN,

Minnesota Folklore Society.

September 1977. "The Sociology of Humor," Roundtable, Chicago,

IL, American Sociological Association.

September 1977. "Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Youth

Culture," Chicago, IL, Society for the Study of Social

Problems.

May 1977. "Folklore and Modernization: The Case of the Urban

Belief Legend," St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Folklife Society.

April 1977. "The Promise and Problems of Participation

Observation with Children," Minneapolis, MN, Midwest

Sociological Society.

September 1976. "The Effect of a Salient Newcomer on a Small

Group: A Force Field Analysis," Washington, DC, American

Psychological Association.

July 1976. "Humor in Situ: The Humour Culture of Small Groups,"

Cardiff, Wales, International Conference on Laughter and

Humour.

April 1976. Discussant for panel on "A Psychological Approach to

American Culture," Chicago, IL, Popular Culture Association.

August 1975. "Social Psychology, Naive Psychology, Folklore: All

Together Now?" Chicago, IL, American Psychological

Association.

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April 1975. "The Actor-Observer Effect: The Effect of Modeling

and Self-presentation," New York, NY, Eastern Psychological

Association.

March 1975. "Popular Culture as Humor: The Psychology of Cultural

Evaluation," St. Louis, MO, Popular Culture Association.

May 1974. "The Psychology of Honeymoon Advertising: The First

Resort," Milwaukee, WI, Popular Culture Association.

May 1974. Chair, Panel on "Psychology and Popular Culture,"

Milwaukee, WI, Popular Culture Association.

November 1973. "The General Inquirer System as an Aid to the

Cross-Cultural Interpretation of Folktales," Nashville, TN,

American Folklore Society.

April 1973. "An Experimental Approach to Everyday Behavior: Door

Opening Rules," Indianapolis, IN, Popular Culture

Association.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE

Guest Homilist, "Humor, Religion and Joy," Minneapolis, MN, St.

Joan of Arc Catholic Church (November 1976)

Guest Speaker, Citizens League Panel on Youth Athletics,

Minneapolis, MN (July 1979)

Guest Speaker, Campfire Council of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

(February 1984)

Guest Speaker, Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented,

Plymouth, MN (April 1988)

Member, State of Minnesota Task Force on Occupancy Standards for

Family and Group Day Care Homes (November-December 1988)

Keynote Speaker, Minnesota Mycological Society Banquet (January

1989)

Guest Speaker, First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis, MN (February

1990)

Coach, Woodward Academy, North Campus, Chess Club (January 1991 -

May 1992)

Featured Reader, Atlanta Writing Resources Center, Atlanta, GA

(April 1991)

Board Member, Atlanta Writing Resources Center, Atlanta, GA (July

1991 - December 1991)

Member, Education and Society Committee, Woodward Academy (1991 -

1992)

Board Vice President, Atlanta Writing Resources Center, Atlanta,

GA (December 1991 - 1993)

Member, Education Committee, Nexus Center for Contemporary Art

(Atlanta) (February 1992 - June 1993)

Member, Board of the Twentieth Century Art Society, High Museum of

Art (Atlanta) (April 1992 - )

111

Moderator, Panel on "Critics in the Spotlight," Alliance Theater

(Atlanta) (April 1992)

Member, Mayor's Fellowships in the Arts Grants Advisory Panel

(Atlanta) (May - June 1993)

Member, Board of Directors, Nexus Center for Contemporary Art

(Atlanta) (June 1993 - June 1994, June 1995 - June 1997)

Chair, Education Committee, Nexus Center for Contemporary Art

(Atlanta) (June 1993 - June 1994)

President, Atlanta Writing Resource Center, Atlanta, GA (August

1993 - August 1994)

Chair, Program Committee, Twentieth Century Art Society, High

Museum of Art (Atlanta) (December 1993 - August 1994)

Panelist, "Bridging the Gap: Public Arts Funding and the Right to

Censorship." Arts Exchange (Atlanta) (January 1994)

Special Guest, "Investing in People: U.S.-South Africa Conference

on Democracy and Economic Development," Atlanta (June 1994)

Panelist, "The Zen of Collecting: A Tour of the Thrift Store

Paintings." Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (December

1995)

Chair and Panelist, "Obsession: The Collector's Urge." Nexus

Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (November 1996)

Member, Education Committee, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught and

Intuitive Art (1998 - 1999, 2005-2009)

Chair, Education Committee, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught and

Intuitive Art (2002-2005)

Chair, Communications Committee, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught

and Intuitive Art (2007-2009)

Member, Collections Committee, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught and

Intuitive Art (2009-2017)

112

Member, Gallery Committee, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught and

Intuitive Art (1999-2007)

Member, Nominations Committee, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught and

Intuitive Art (1999-2000, 2001-2002)

Member, Long-Range Planning Committee, Intuit: Center for Self-

Taught and Intuitive Art (2000-2002)

Member, Board of Directors, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught and

Intuitive Art (1999-2009)

Featured Speaker, Illinois Mycological Association (August 2004)

Featured Speaker, Illinois Mycological Association (May 2018)

113

UNIVERSITY SERVICE -- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Member, Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research

(1988-1990)

Member, Board of Student Publications (1987-1990)

Chair, University Senate Honors Committee (1986-1988)

Member, Nominating Committee for the CLA Consultative Committee

(1986-1988)

Member, American Studies Nominating Committee (1988)

Member, American Studies Admissions Committee (1985-1986)

Member, CLA Honors Committee (1985-1986)

Associate Member, Physical Education Faculty (1985-1990)

Member, Program Planning Committee on Conference on Orwell's 1984

(1983-1984)

Chair, American Studies, Turpie/Bowran Fund Committee (1983-1984)

Member, Policy-Advisory Board for Composition and Communication

(1983-1984)

Member, Rene Cisneros Evaluation Committee (1982-1983)

Member, American Studies Executive Committee (1981-1983)

Member, CLA Assembly (1979-1980)

Member, Measurement Services Advisory Committee (1978-1980)

Member, Grievance Committee, American Studies (1978-1980)

Member, College of Liberal Arts Honors Committee (1978-1980)

Member, Faculty Search Committee, American Studies (1977-1978)

Sociology Representative to the School of Education (1977-1979)

Member, American Studies Assembly, University of Minnesota

(1976-1990)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE -- UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Member, Institutional Review Board (Human Subjects Committee)

(1991-1994)

Member, State-of-the-Art Conference and the Study in a Second

Discipline Committee (1991-1992)

Chair, State-of-the-Art Conference and the Study in a Second

Discipline Committee (1992-1993)

Member, Special Speakers Committee, Qualitative Research

Conference, School of Education (1991-1992)

Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Art (1993-1994)

Member, Internal Review Committee, Department of Special Education

(1995-1996)

Member, Faculty Senate (1995-1997)

Member, Faculty Senate Steering Committee (1995-1996)

Member, University Council (1995-1997)

114

UNIVERSITY SERVICE -- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Member, Committee on Academic Initiatives for Minority Students

(1997-1998)

Member, Provost’s Ad Hoc Committee on Northwestern Education

(1997-1998)

Member, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Tenure Committee

(1997-1999)

Chair, Weinberg College of Arts and Science Tenure Committee

(1999-2000)

Member, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Ad Hoc Promotion

Committee (1998)

Member, Medical School Ad Hoc Tenure Committee (1998-1999)

Member, Northwestern University, Institutional Review Board (1999-

2000)

Chair, Northwestern University, Institutional Review Board

(Evanston Campus) (2000-2002)

Member, University Faculty Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure, and

Dismissal Appeals Panel (2000-2003)

Member, Faculty Search Committee, Psychology Department (2000-

2001)

Member, Faculty Search Committee, Art History Department (2000-

2001)

Chair, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Ad Hoc Tenure

Committees (2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2007-

2008, 2009-2010, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2015-2016, 2016-2017,

2017-2018, 2019-2020)

Panelist, Northwestern University Student Conference on Diversity

(2001)

Member, Committee on Honorary Degrees (2003-2006)

Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Committee on Theatre and

Drama (2003-2004, 2006-2010, 2015-2019)

Member, University Hearing and Appeals System (2003-2004)

Member, Office for Protection of Research Subjects/Institutional

Review Board Advisory Committee (2004-2008)

Member, Middle East Studies Search Committee (2009)

Member, Environmental Social Science Search Committee (2015-2016)

Member, Kaplan Humanities Institute Fellowship Application Review

Committee (2019-2020)

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE -- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Applied Sociology Program

(1988-1989)

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Member, Personnel Committee (1986-1987)

Director of Undergraduate Studies (1983-1984)

Member, Executive Committee (1982-1984)

Chair, Admissions Committee (1989-1990)

Member, Admissions Committee (1980-1981; 1982-1983; 1987-1988)

Chair, Promotion, Tenure, and Salary Committee (1985-1986)

Member, Promotion, Tenure and Salary Committee (1979-1980)

Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Committee (1983-1984)

Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee (1978-1980; 1981-1982)

Director of Sociology Department Honors Program (1978-1980,

1989-1990)

Member, Graduate Affairs Committee (1977-1978, 1988-1990)

Member, Grievance Committee (1976-1977)

Chair, Awards Committee (1988-1989)

Member, Awards Committee (1977)

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Developing Sociological Research

Protocols for the Human Subjects Committee (1977)

Member, Advisory Committee, Training Grant on Systematic

Observation Research in Criminal Justice Settings (1976-1978)

Chair, Social Theory Reading List Committee (1977)

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE -- UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Department Head (1990-1993)

Member, Promotion, Tenure, and Compensation Committee (1993-1994,

1995-1996)

DEPARTMENT SERVICE -- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Chair, Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018-2019)

Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2014)

Co-Chair, Faculty Search Committee (2008-2009)

Chair, Graduate Student Recruitment Committee (1998-1999, 2001-

2002, 2004-2005)

Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee (2020-2021)

Member, Computer Committee (1997-1999)

Graduate Student Placement Officer (1999-2000)

Member, Graduate Student Recruitment Committee (2000-2001, 2016-

2017)

Member, Graduate Affairs Committee (2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2015-

2016, 2019-2020, 2021-2022)

Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee (2006-2007, 2017-2018)

Chair, Colloquium Committee (2007-2008, 2009-2010)

Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee (2011-2014)