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Junior Fellows’ Publications

Matthew Norton

A Structural Hermeneutics of ‘The O’Reilly Factor‘” in Theory & Society, 40:315–346, 2011.

“Narrative Structure and Emotional Mobilization in Humanitarian Representations: The Case of the Congo Reform Movement, 1903-1912,” forthcoming in The Journal of Human Rights.

“Afterward, ‘The Geertz Effect’” in Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith and Matthew Norton, April 2011.

Elizabeth Butler Breese

Meaning, Celebrity, and the Underage Pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears,”
Cultural Sociology 4 (3): 337- 355, 2010

Reports from ‘Backstage’ in Entertainment News,” Society 47 (5): 396- 402, 2010

February 14, 2011

Shai Dromi

“Penny for your Thoughts: Beggars and the Exercise of Morality in Daily Life.” Sociological Forum 27, no. 4 (Forthcoming December 2012).

“Trauma Construction and Moral Restriction: The Ambiguity of the Holocaust for Israel” (with Jeffrey C. Alexander). In Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering, edited by Ron Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander and Elisabeth Butler Breese, 107-132. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2011.

  • Reprinted as “Holocaust and Trauma: Moral Restriction in Israel” in Alexander, Jeffrey C., Trauma: A Social   Theory. London: Polity (2012).

Recovering Morality: Pragmatic Sociology and Literary Studies” (with Eva Illouz). New Literary History 41, no. 2 (2010): 351-369.

February 14, 2011

Carolyn Ly

More than a Library?: Urban Poverty and an Exploratory Look at the Role of a Neighborhood Institution,” Introduction by Waverly Duck, Perspectives on Urban Education Fall 2010

Michael Yarbrough

“When Symbolic Action Fails: Illustrations from Small-Claims Court” forthcoming in Qualitative Sociology Review 8(3), December 2012.

Mira Debs

“The Suffering of Symbols: Giotto Frescoes and the Cultural Trauma of Objects” in Cultural Sociology Published online 30 August 2012.