Visiting Fellows, 2011 – 2012
Lynette Spillman
University of Notre Dame
Lyn Spillman’s research is animated by curiosity about the ways meso-level processes of meaning-making interact with macro-level historical processes. Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1997) explores these issues in a comparative historical study of the long-term cultural production of national identities in two similar settler societies. Her current research, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, investigates the cultural construction of economic action in business associations. She has pursued her interest in developing cultural sociology in several articles on culture and social structure, as well as by editing Cultural Sociology (Blackwell, 2002), and co-editing (with Mark Jacobs) the Spring 2005 issue of Poetics on “Cultural Sociology and Sociological Publics.” Other interests are represented in articles on theories of nationalism, on collective memory, and on causal reasoning.
(CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow, Spring 2012)
Radim Marada
Masaryk University
Radim Marada gained his PhD in sociology at the New School for Social Research in 1995. Since 1993, he has been working as a teacher and researcher at the Department of Sociology of the Masaryk University, and he chaired the Department from 2003 to 2011. In 1999-2003, he also acted as the Vice-Dean for Distance Learning at the Masaryk University’s Faculty of Social Studies. From 2005 to 2011, he led the research team Ethnization-Migration-Identity within the MU’s Institute for the Research on Social Reproduction and Integration. Since 2000 until 2011, he also acted as the Editor in Chief of an academic journal Social Studies published by the Masaryk University. His major areas of interest are sociological theory and history of social thought, cultural sociology, generations and generational conflict, civil society and collective memory. More recently, he has been conducting research in the fields of urban memory, generational imagination and education of ethnic minorities. Among his publications, are The Culture of Protest: Politicization of Everyday Life (2003) and Ethnic Diversity and Civic Unity (2006, editor).
(CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow (Fulbright), March – November, 2012)
Annika Arnold
University of Stuttgart
Annika Arnold is a doctoral candidate at the Department for Environmental and Technological Sociology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where she is also affiliated with the International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies (IZKT). She received her M.A. in Sociology, Art and Media Sciences and German Literature at Konstanz University. In her Ph. D. thesis she focuses on the interface between Environmental and Cultural Sociology, seeking to investigate the changes in nation’s self-perception due to climate change. The dissertation tries to apply theoretical concepts of community-building to the case of climate change as a global phenomenon. At Stuttgart University, she has taught an introductory course on sociology as well as a practical course on qualitative data analysis using MAX QDA Software.
(CCS Visiting Graduate Student, Academic Year 2011-2012)
Magnus Ring
Lund University
(CCS Visiting Fellow, Fall 2011)
Monica Brito Vieira
University of Lisbon
(CCS Visiting Fellow, Fall 2011)
Filipe Carreira da Silva
University of Lisbon
Filipe Carreira da Silva is Research Assistant Professor (University of Lisbon) and Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. His areas of interest include social theory, intellectual history, modern welfare states, comparative historical sociology, and social revolutions. More recently, he has been working on a sociological theory of rights, by reference to the Portuguese experience of social rights constitutionalization in the 1970s.
(Visiting Fellow, Fall 2011)
Martin Sauter
Dublin City University
(Visiting Fellow, Fall 2011)
Mats Trondman
Linnaeus University
(Visiting Fellow, November & December 2011)
Erik Hannerz
Uppsala University
Having started his undergraduate studies in sociology and social psychology at Uppsala University, Erik Hannerz completed his studies at Lund University with a Master Thesis in Cultural Studies on subcultural hierarchies and a Master Thesis in Sociology on the punk scene in Indonesia. He is currently a PhD student in Sociology at Uppsala University.
Erik’s work is centered on subcultural meaning and authenticity, and more specifically the relationship between subcultures and a conceived mainstream. His dissertation, entitled “Positioning the Mainstream – Concave and convex frameworks of punk”, deals with how punks (re)construct and make use of a mainstream in order to validate their own as well as others’ behaviour as authentic. Drawing from an extensive fieldwork of punk scenes in Indonesia and Sweden Erik’s focus is how the meaning of the mainstream differ among participants and the consequences this have concerning the drawing of boundaries and how subcultural identities are claimed, maintained, negotiated and refuted in relation to the subcultural profane.
(CCS Visiting Graduate Student, Fall 2011)
Thomas Franssen
University of Amsterdam
Thomas Franssen is a graduate student at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently working on his dissertation which concerns globalization and commercialization in the Dutch literary field between 1980 and 2009. For this he is analyzing translation flows between the Dutch and foreign literary fields, especially the flow between The Netherlands and the Anglo-Saxon world.
He is interested in the way globalization is produced in daily practices and how these practices are institutionalized (for example in the hiring of literary scouts). Also, he works on the terrain of aesthetics and aesthetic experience. In this project he tries to move away from theories that connect (the dept of) aesthetic experience to, for example, class to a more performative and cultural theory of aesthetic experience. Lastly, he is co-editing a book on the sociology of failure in which individual failure on different terrains of social life is analyzed from a sociological perspective.
(CCS Visiting Graduate Student, Fall 2011)