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CURRICULUM VITAE - VERA L. ZOLBERG
1. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1983-present Professor, Department of Sociology; Committee on Liberal
Studies; Committee on Historical Studies; Gender Studies &
Feminist Theory; Eugene Lang College
Graduate Courses: Museums in Society; Outsider Art;
Fundamentals of Culture and Society; Education and Society;
Social Construction of the Avant-Garde; Bohemianism and its
Transformations; States, Markets, and Culture. Seminars in
Construction of Social Memory; Publics and Audiences; Advanced
Seminar in the Sociology of Culture. Undergraduate Courses:The
Arts, Culture and Society; Inequality: Race, Sex, Class; Art in the
City; Culture Wars, Censorship, and the Arts
Summer 2009 Acting Chair, Sociology Department
2006—07 Acting Chair, Committee for Liberal Studies
2002-2003 Acting Chair, Anthropology Department
1998-2001 Co-Director, Privatization of Culture Program, Rockefeller
Foundation Humanities Fellowships (with NYU)
1994-1997 Chair of Concentration on Social and Historical Studies, Eugene
Lang College, New School for Social Research
1992 - 94 Visiting Professor, Chair in Sociology of the Arts of the Boekman
Foundation, University of Amsterdam, Political and Social
Sciences Institute
1974 - 83 Associate Professor (from Assistant Professor), Purdue
University, Hammond, Indiana
Courses: Culture, the Arts, and Society; Social Theory; Culture
and Personality; Social Movements; Race and Ethnicity; Social
Problems; Cultural Anthropology; Religion in American Society;
General Sociology
Summer 86 Research Associate, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Centre de Sociologie des Arts
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1979-80 Visiting Lecturer, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sciences
Sociales, Centre de Sociologie Européenne, Paris. Seminar:
Trends in American Sociology of Culture
Summer 71 Lecturer, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
1964 - 67 Assistant Professor, St. Xavier College, Chicago
1962-63 Instructor, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
2.PUBLICATIONS
“Aesthetic Uncertainty as a New Canon: Constraints and Opportunities for Art
Theorizing” in Special Issue of The Journal of the Periodical of the
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (forthcoming 2010, in
Portuguese)
“Marginality Triumphant: Asymmetry of Conflict in the Art World” in Special
Issue of International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society “Politics and
the Arts” (2010)
« Marginalité triomphante ? Sur l’asymétrie des conflits dans les mondes de
l’art » in V. Roussel, ed., Les Artistes et la Politique : Terrains
Franco-Américains. Paris : Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2010
Co- Editor, Special Issue of International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society
“Politics and the Arts” (2010) - Introduction
“How Culture Changes: Looking Back at The Meanings of May – Paris 1968” in
CULTURE: ASA Section on Sociology of Culture (vol. 23, no. 1) (Spring
2009): 3-12
Editor, Special Issue of International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society
[“The New Sociological Imagination III”] Vol. 20 Numbers 1-4 (Sept.
2008)
“Les peines de la sociologie de l’art aux États-Unis” in 20 Ans de Sociologie de
L’Art: Bilan et Perspectives (vol. I) ed. Pierre Le Quéau. Paris:
L’Harmattan, 2007
“The Happy Few--en Masse: Franco-American Comparisons in Cultural
Democratization” in The Arts of Democracy: Culture, Civil Society, and
the State in ed. Casey N. Blake Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson
Center Press and University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
Co-Editor, Special Issue of Theory & Society “Sartre for the Twenty-First
Century?”(with D.L.Swartz) Vol.36/3 (June 2007)
“The Sociology of Art ” in The Handbook of 21 st Century Sociology eds: C.D.
Bryant and D.L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2007)
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“Success and Failure of the Sociology of Culture? Bringing the Arts Back” in
Sociedade e Estado [Dossiê: Sociologia da Arte Hoje] Vol. 20 No.2 (May-
Aug. 2005): 337-351
“Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon?” in The Blackwell Companion to the
Sociology of Culture eds. M. Jacob and N. W. Hanrahan (Blackwell
Publisher, 2005)
Co-editor, with D. L. Swartz, After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publisher [Now Springer] 2004
Co-editor, with D. L. Swartz, special issue of Theory and Society [The Sociology
of Symbolic Power: A Special Issue in Memory of Pierre Bourdieu] Vol.
32/5-6 (Dec. 2004)
Co-editor, special issue of Poetics [The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu to the
Sociology of Culture] with H. Verdaasdonk, Vol. 31, Nos. 5/6 (Oct.-Dec.
2003)
“Fine Arts” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(2002)
“Public Policy, Outsider Art” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences (2002)
“Una memoria contestata: la controversia della mostra su Hiroshima” in La
Memoria Contesa: Studi sulla comunicazione sociale del passato, ed.
Anna Lisa Tota. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2001
“L’Art Outsider” (with J.M. Cherbo) in L’Art contemporain: Champs artistiques,
critères, réception [Actes du colloque du Musée d’Art Contemporain de
Lyon, 16-18 October 1998] edited by T. Raspail and J-P Saez. Paris:
L’Harmattan, 2000
“Contributions of Richard Peterson to the Sociology of Art” Poetics 28 [Special
Issue on the contribution of Richard Peterson to the sociology of culture]
(2000): 157-171
“Privatization: Threat or Promise for the Arts and Humanities?” in International
Journal of Cultural Policy Vol.1, No.1 (2000): 1-19
“A cultura de museu e a ameaça à identidade nacional na era do GATT” in
Sociedade e Estado [Issue on Interações: Estado, Sociedade e
Identidade] Vol. XIII no.2 (July-December 1998): 123-140 [Brazil]
“The Sociology of Art” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly
(Columbia University), Oxford University Press, 1998
Co-editor, with Charles Tilly Theory and Society 27/4 (August 1998) [Special
Issue on Interpreting Historical Change at the End of the
TwentiethCentury] and:
“Theorizing History - Culture, Power, Subjectivity: Introduction to Part II
of the Symposium: 445-451
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“Contested Remembrance: The Hiroshima Exhibit Controversy”:565-590
“Les États-Unis” in Musées, Gérer autrement: Un regard international ed.
Jean-Michel Tobelem. Paris: La Documentation Française,1998:.45-55
“African Legacies, American Realities: Art and Artists on the Edge” in Zolberg
and Cherbo (53-73)
Outsider Art: Contested Boundaries in Contemporary Culture (introduction and
edited, with Joni M.Cherbo) Cambridge University Press (1997)
Reviews of the book
Contemporary Sociology (Nov. 1998); Sociedade e Estado (June-Dec. 2000);
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Metapsychology (on line, in
cooperation with Amazon.com) 2001
“Cultura de Nova York: Ascendente ou Descendente?” in Cultura Vozes 91/3
(May-June 1997): 172-194 [Brazil]
"Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair" in
Theorizing Museums: Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing
World ed. Gordon Fyfe and Sharon Macdonald, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996
"Art Without Limits" in Footnotes (newspaper of the American Sociological
Association.) Aug.1996:1ff
"Museum Culture and the Threat to National Identity in the Age of the GATT" in
The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society 25/1 (Spring 1995): 5-
16
"All Things to All People: Success at What Price?" in Museum International No.
186 of UNESCO (1995)
"The Collection Despite Barnes: From Private Preserve to Blockbuster" in New
Research in Museum Studies Vol.V [Art in Museums] Leicester, England:
1995
"African Art in Transit," review essay of African Art in Transit by C.B. Steiner,
Cambridge University Press, 1994 in Boekmancahier 22 (December 1994):
487-491
"Museums face-to-face with the Millennium" in Museum Management and
Curatorship 13/2 Oxford, England: (June 1994)
"Texte et Contexte: Le cinéma comme aiguillon de créativité populaire en
Afrique" in Le texte, l'oeuvre, l'émotion ed. Jean-Olivier Majastre with
Gisèle Peuchlestrade, Brussels: La Lettre Volée, 1994
"`An Elite Experience for Everyone': Art Museums, the Public and Cultural
Literacy" in Museum Culture: The Politics of Display, eds. I.Rogoff and
D.Sherman, University of Minnesota Press, 1994
"Art Museums and Cultural Policies: Challenges of Privatization, New Publics,
and New Arts" in Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 23/4
(Winter 1994): 277-290
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"Pagando Pelas Artes: Dilemas Norte-Americanos em Açao" in Sociedade e
Estado 9/1 & 2 (1994) :21-34 [Brazil]
"Chronic Crisis in a Cultural Institution: The American Art Museum" (pp.21-31)
and "Epilogue: The Quality of Success and the Price of Quality: Remarks
on the Changing Relations between Art Museums and their Publics"
(pp.145-160) in Art Museums and the Price of Success eds. T. Gubbels
and A. Van Hemel, Amsterdam: Boekman Foundation, 1993
"Remaking Nations: Public Culture and Postcolonial Discourse" in Paying The
Piper: Patterns of Patronage and their Consequences, ed. Judith H.
Balfe, University of Illinois Press, 1993: 234-250
"An Inductive Approach," Review essay of Painting, Power and Patronage: The
Rise of the Professional Artist in the Italian Renaissance by Bram
Kempers, London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 1992 (trans.into Dutch) in
Boekmancahier 5/16 (June 1993): 215-229
"New York Cultural Institutions: Ascendant or Subsident" in The Capital of the
American Century: The National and International Influence of New York
City, ed. M. Shefter, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993
"Art on the Edge: Political Aspects of Aestheticizing the Primitive" in
Boekmancahier 4/14 (Dec. 1992): 413-25
"Debating the Social: A Symposium on, and with, Pierre Bourdieu," for
Contemporary Sociology, my translation of Bourdieu's response (March
1992): 151-161
"Barrier or Leveler: The Case of the Art Museum" in Cultivating Differences:
Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality," eds. Michèle Lamont
and Marcel Fournier, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992: 187-209
"Art Museums and Living Artists: Contentious Communities" in Museums and
Communities, eds. Karp, Ivan, Lavine, Steven, Mullen-Kreamer,
Christine, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992:
105-136
"Censorship in the United States: Politics, Morality, and the Arts" in Social
Problems eds/ Craig Calhoun and George Ritzer. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1992
"Une marginalité créatrice: Les collectionneurs de l'art d'avant-garde" in L'Art
et la Contemporanéité, eds. Jean-Olivier Majastre and Alain Pessin.
Brussels: La Lettre Volée, 1992: 185-202
"The Arts and Society in North America: Continuities and Change" in Arte,
Cultura y Sociedad eds I. Dominguez and A. Rodriguez Morato.
Barcelona: AESCA (Spanish Association of the Sociology of the Arts),
1992: 31-44
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"The Arts, Money and Morality in Global Perspective" in Post-Communism, the
Market and the Arts: First Sociological Assessments, eds. R. H. Reichardt
and G. Muskens. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1992
"Cultural Sociology and the Cosmopolitan Turn" in Culture: Newsletter of the
Sociology of Culture 7/1 (Fall 1992): 13-14
"La persistance de l'exclusion: les musées d'art et les artistes" in Cahiers de
Recherche Sociologique 16 (Spring 1991): 105-122
Constructing A Sociology of the Arts.[Contemporary Sociology Series] New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1990
[Italian translation, La Sociologia dell'arte Bologna: Il Mulino, 1994;
Korean trans. Seoul, Korea: Nanam Publishing House, 2000; Spanish
Trans. Sociología de las Artes Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores y
Editores, 2002; Portuguese Trans. Para uma Sociologia das Artes, trans.
Assef Nagib Kjouri, Sao Paulo, Brazil: 2006 [Trans. Of Constructing a
Sociology of the Arts, Cambridge University Press, 1990]
Sao Paulo: SEYNAC, 2006]
Reviews of the book
American Journal of Sociology 96/5 (March 1991): 1294-1295; Contemporary
Sociology (January 1991):98-99; Social forces 69/3 (March 1991):957-959;
Crafts [pub. by Crafts Council of England and Wales] (Jan/Feb 1991):58; Faces
[Journal d'Architecture, Université de Genève] no.19 (Spring 1991):p.71;
Cahiers de Recherche Sociologique no.16 (Spring 1991):164-166; Design for
Arts in Education (May/June 1992):47-48; Classical Music (Nov. 28, 1992);
Social Science Quarterly 73/1 (March 1992):210-210; Boekmancahier 14
(1992):468-470; Observatoire (Grenoble, France), 1995
"Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, entre la culture et le public: Barrière ou facteur de
nivellement?" in Sociologie et Sociétés 21/2 (October 1989): 75-90
"Elias and Dunning's Theory of Sport and Excitement", Review essay of Quest for
Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias
and Eric Dunning, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986 in Theory, Culture, &
Society, Number 2/3 (1987): 571-575
"Betrayal of a Trust? Art Critics in the World of Art" in The Evolution of Art
Criticism in a Changing Society [19th Congress of the International
Association of Art Critics], Brussels: Post-Scriptum, 1987
"Introduction to Round-table on Cultural Policies and Cultural Institutions" in
Sociologie de l’Art (Proceedings of the French Sociological Society
meeting in Marseilles, June 1985), Paris: La Documentation Française,
1986 [Reprinted by Paris: L’Harmattan,1999]
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"Taste as a Social Weapon," Review Essay of Distinction: A Social Critique of the
Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu, Harvard University Press, 1984
in Contemporary Sociology (June,1986): 511-515
"Tensions of Mission in American Art Museums" in Nonprofit Enterprise in the
Arts, ed. Paul DiMaggio, Oxford University Press, 1986 (reprint of
"Conflicting Visions in American Art Museums")
"Bohemianism: Utopian Antidote for the Alienated?" in Alienation and
Participation in Culture, eds. D.Rupel and L.Herek, Ljubljana,
Yugoslavia: E.Kardelj University 1985
"Workers in the French XIXth Century Novel: Myths and Realities" in Sociologia
Internationalis Special Issue (1985):79-100, ed. K. Peter Etzkorn, Berlin:
Dunckert Humbolt, 1985
"All that Money Can Buy--and More", Review Essay of From Graven Images by
Chandra Mukerji, Columbia University Press, 1983 in Contemporary
Sociology 13 (September 1984)
"American Art Museums: Sanctuary or Free-for-all?" in Social Forces 63
(December 1984)
"Le musée d'art américain: Des optiques contradictoires" in Sociologie du
Travail 4 (1983): 446-458
"New Art--New Patrons: Coincidence or Causality in the Twentieth Century
Avant-Garde" in Contributions to the Sociology of the Arts, Sofia,
Bulgaria, 1983
"Changing Patterns of Patronage in the Arts" in Performers and Performances:
The Social Organization of Artistic Work, eds. J. Kamerman and R.
Martorella, New York: Praeger, 1982
"Conflicting Visions in American Art Museums" in Theory and Society 10 (1981):
103-125
"Autonomy for the Arts: The Dilemma of Public Funding" in Lectures from the
9th World Congress of Sociology, Budapest, 1980
"Displayed Art and Performed Music: Selective Innovation and the Structure of
Artistic Media" in Sociological Quarterly 21 (Spring 1980)
[reprinted in Art and Society: Readings in the Sociology of the Arts, eds.
A.W. Foster and J.R. Blau, Albany: State University of New York Press,
1989]
"National Goals, Social Mobility and Personal Aspirations: Students in Mali" in
Canadian Journal of African Studies 10 (1976)
"Museums in the Post-Professional Era" in The New Art Examiner (June 1974)
"The Regimentation of Bourgeois Culture" in Comparative Education Review
(September 1971), with A.R. Zolberg
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"The Meanings of May, Paris, 1968" in Midway (Winter 1969): 91-109, with A.R.
Zolberg
"In Search of Serafina" in Africa Report (November 1967), with A.R. Zolberg
"The Americanization of Frantz Fanon" in The Public Interest (Fall 1967), with
A. R. Zolberg
Articles on Africa in encyclopedias and reference works
3. B00K REVIEWS
Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria by Wendy
Griswold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000 in American Journal
of Sociology (in press)
The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress by Shelly
Errington. Berkeley:University of California Press, 1998 in Contemporary
Sociology (2000):391-392)
Museums and the Making of “Ourselves” - The Role of Objects in National
Identity by Flora E.S.Kaplan, ed. London: Leicester University Press,
1994 in Contemporary Sociology (1997):766-67
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-
1803 by Tia Denora, University of California Press, 1995 and The Glory of
Van Gogh: An Anthropology of Admiration , Princeton University Press,
1997 Nathalie Heinich in American Journal of Sociology (1997):102:1194
La Passion Musicale: Une sociologie de la médiation by Antoine Hennion, Paris:
Edition Métailié, 1993, in Contemporary Sociology (1994)
Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-
Century France by D. J. Sherman, Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1989, in Theory and Society 1992
Corporate Art by Rosanne Martorella. Rutgers University Press, 1989, in
American Journal of Sociology 97, no.3 (November 1991):896-97
Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America by
Lawrence W. Levine. Harvard Univ. Press, 1989, in Society & Space:
Environment and Planning 9/3 (1991): 369-70
Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-economic Study of the Seventeenth
Century by J.M.Montias. Princeton University Press, 1982, in L'Année
Sociologique 39 (1989): 480-84
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The Museum Time-Machine: Putting Culture on Display edited by R. Lumley,
New York: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1988, in Journal of Arts Management
and Law 19 (Fall 1989): 109-11
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes, in American Journal of Sociology (July
1982)
The French Press: Class, State, and Ideology by J.W. Freiberg, in Contemporary
Sociology 11 (July 1982)
The Subsidized Muse: Public Support for the Arts in the United States by Dick
Netzer in American Journal of Sociology 85 (1980)
The Production of Culture edited by R.A. Peterson, in Sociology and Social
Research 62 (1978)
Introduction to the Sociology of Music by Theodor Adorno in Sociology and
Social Research 62 (October 1977)
Organizational Survival in the Performing Arts by M. Salem in American Journal
of Sociology 83 (March 1978)
The Action-Image of Society: On Cultural Politicization by A. Willener in
American Journal of Sociology 78 (July 1972)
Crises de la société-crises de l'enseignement: Sociologie de l'enseignement
4. ACADEMIC RECORD
secondaire français by V. Isambert-Jamati in American Journal of
Sociology 77 (January 1972)
Ph.D. University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, 1974
Dissertation: "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Sociology of a Cultural
Organization"
High honors in Special Field, Social Stratification, 1972
Research funds, Center for Study of Social Organizations (1971-72;
1972-73)
Research funds, Center for Comparative Education (1964), West Africa
M.A. Boston University, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology; African Studies
Prog, 1956
A.B. Hunter College, New York City, 1953
Magna cum laude; Claudine Gray French Prize; Phi Beta Kappa (Jr.yr.);
Pi Delta Phi (French Honor Society); Dean's List; New York State Regents
Scholarship
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5. INVITED PARTICIPATION
CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF WORLDS, European Sociological Assoc. - Soc. Of Culture
Res’ch Netwk, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy 7-9 October 2010
Université Pierre-Mendès-France – Grenoble 2, member of Scientific Committee for
the conference on L'ART, LE POLITIQUE ET LA CRÉATION: Frictions et Fictions socioanthropologiques,
19-20-21 novembre 2009
Laboratoire de Sociologie CSRPC-ROMA – UPMF Centre de Sociologie des
Représentations et des Pratiques Culturelles Recherches sur les Oeuvres et les Mondes
de l'Art - GDR OPuS – CNRS OEuvres, Publics, Sociétés
IUAF University, Venice, Italy
Keynote speaker, 4-8 November, 2008, under the Aegis of the Centre of Economics
and Advanced Cultural Policy Research and the Research Networks on Sociology of
Culture and Sociology of the Arts of the European Sociological Association.
Culture Section Miniconference
Moderator: Panel on "Popular Culture and Communications, Harvard University, Aug.
31, 2008
International Sociological Association
Paper “Marginality Triumphant? On the Asymmetry of Conflict in the Art World,” ISA
Interim Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Sept. 5-8, 2008
Presider and Discussant in sessions on Collective Memory (Trauma; Performance and
Controversy; Artistic Heritage, Emotion and Expertise.
Conference on Managing Religious Diversity in Democracies,
Moderator at St. Petersburg, Russia, Sept.21-Oct.2, 2007
International Conference on Arts and Politics? French and American Perspectives
Featured speaker, at Université de Paris X, Nov.9-11, 2007
European Sociological Association conference on Changing Cultures-European
Perspectives,
Featured Speaker at Ghent, Belgium Nov. 15-17, 2006
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Pollock-Krasner Study Center Conference
“Aliens in an Expanding Universe: Museums, Exhibitions and Rituals of
Representation”, SUNY Stony Brook, May 2-3, 2006
Symposium on Interrogating Boundaries, April 5, 2006, Fairleigh Dickinson University
“Globalized Exchanges: Art Works or Cultural Product?” Featured Speaker
International Conference on 20 Years of Sociology of Art: Balance Sheet and Future
Prospects [20 ans de Sociologie de l’art: Bilan et Perspectives]
“La culture, oui, mais l’art aussi: La Sociologie de l’art aux USA.” Featured
Speaker Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble, October 20-22, 2005.
International Seminar on Modernity, Material Culture and Life Styles,
Keynote Speaker “Creative Capitals in a Globalizing World: The Arts, the Media and
the Future of Cities” Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 20 – 22, 2004
The International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Arts and the
Arts Network of the European Sociological Association on “New Trends in the
Sociology of the Art, meeting in Paris, April 22-26, 2003
Keynote Speaker, on the States of the Arts: Aesthetic Media in Europe Across the
Millennia, Exeter University, England, 1-3 September 2000
Keynote speaker, plenary session of International Conference for Sociology of Culture
and the Arts on The Culture Society: A New Place for the Arts of the Twenty-
First Century, Barcelona, 6-8 July 2000
Invited participant in interdisciplinary study group, “People and Things: The Forms,
Formations, and Experience of Material Culture” sponsored by Center for
Media, History, and Culture, New York University, since 1998
Invited participant and presider on panel, International Symposium on Military War
Crimes: History and Memory, New School University, Dec. 3-6, 1999
Featured Speaker at the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research in
Bergen, Norway, Nov. 10-12, 1999
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Featured Speaker at Governor’s Conference on the Arts, “Beyond the Millennium:
Redefining the Arts for the 21st Century” in Los Angeles, December 7-11, 1998
Featured Speaker at conference “What Is A City? Cultural Institutions and Urban
Unity,” The Center for the Humanities, University of Missouri-St. Louis,
November 12-13, 1998
Featured Speaker at conference on “L’Art Outsider” L’Art sur la Place: L’art
contemporain: champs artistiques, critères et réception, Lyon, France 16-18
October, 1998
Recipient of grant from Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships Program for
“The Privatization of Culture Project” (with NYU’s American Studies Program
and CUNY’s Center for Cultural Studies) of $250,000 (1998-2001)
Co-organizer with George Yudice (NYU) and others of Conference on New
Trends in Cultural Policy for the 21st Century, at the New School for Social
Research (April 30-May 1, 1998) and Cultural Capital/Cultural Work at the New
School University (Dec. 2000)
Listed in International Authors and Writers Who’s Who (15th edition), Who's Who
Registry of Global Business Leaders, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in the
East, Who's Who of Women (13th edition), etc.
Gallatin Division, New York University, Interdisciplinary Arts Seminar: Spring 1995 on
“Why A Sociology of Art?”
Keynote Speaker and Participant in the Grenoble Colloquium, "Museums: New Forms
of Management", Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles of the French Ministry
of Culture, 27-28 January 1994
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, World Congress of Sociology,
Bielefeld, July 1994
Faculty Travel Grant, New School for Social Research for World Congress of Sociology,
Bielefeld, July 1994
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American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for study of avant-garde art
movements, Jan. to Sept. 1991
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, World Congress of Sociology,
Madrid, July 1990
Faculty Travel Grant, New School for Social Research World Congress of Sociology,
Madrid, July 1990
New York University Post-Industrial Colloquium Series of the Department of Sociology,
"Art, Money and Morality" March 11, 1990
Brooklyn College, Wolff Center, Humanities Colloquium on "The Social History of U.S.
Cultural Institutions" Dec. 11, 1989
Social Science Research Council, Invited paper for symposium on "Public Culture in
India and its Global Problematics" in Carmel, California. Sponsored by
ACLS/SSRC Joint Committee, April 26-30, 1989
University of Chicago, Culture Workshop Presentation, Department of Sociology
October 11, 1988
Harvard University, Center for European Studies Invited paper for conference on the
art museum, Center for European Studies, March 25-27, 1988
Social Science Research Council Participant in Study Group on New York City and
Metropolitan Dominance, culture in New York City, April, 1988
Gallatin Division, New York University, Interdisciplinary Arts Seminar: Spring 1987 "Is
Beauty Best"
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Gallatin Division, New York University, Interdisciplinary Arts Seminar: Spring 1986
Lecture on "States, Markets, and Culture"
New England Museum Association Invited Guest speaker at NEMA meeting, Bretton
Woods, New Hampshire, October 14-17, 1986
International Art Critics Association (AICA): Guest speaker at Congress, Brussels,
Belgium, September 15-20, 1985
American Sociological Association Travel grant to New Delhi meetings of World
Sociology Congress, August 1986 (received)
Purdue University Research Foundation Travel grant, Marseilles, France, as presider
over sessions of French Sociological Society and Colloquium, Research
Committee on Sociology of Art, International Sociological Association, June,
1985; Mexico City, World Congress of Sociology, 1982; Budapest, Hungary, for
meeting of Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts, 1981; Research Grant
for study in Paris, Summer, 1981; Uppsala, Sweden, for World Congress of
Sociology,1978
6. PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (since 1990)
“Arts in Their Public Spheres” at International Conference on Cultural Policy
Research Jyvaskyla University, Finland, Panel chair and discussant.
Member, Scientific Committee, August 23-26, 2010
International Conference on Cultural Policy Research 20-24 August 2008,
Yeditipe University, Istanbul, Turkey. Chaired panels and led
discussions, member of Scientific Committee
Interim Meeting of ISA, Forum of Barcelona. Organized, chaired, presented
paper & served as discussant, Barcelona, 2008
“From Bombay to Abidjan: Popular Cinema as a Creative Medium” presented at
Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference, Nashville, Oct. 7-10,
1999
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“What Does ‘Community’ Mean for Cultural Policy?” at Cultural Policy Network
Center for the Arts and Culture Meeting in Washington, DC July 16,17,
1999
“Outside In: African Art in France and America” presented at French Institute
Luncheon Seminar, NYU, Feb. 16, 1999
“Privatization: Threat or Promise for the Arts and Humanities?” for the Social
Theory, Politics and Arts Meetings,” Drexel University, Philadelphia, 16-
18 October 1998
“From Elites to Mass and Back Again?” for Thematic Session: Rethinking
Inequality: Cultural Institutions and Reflections on their Relations with
their Publics, ASA meetings, San Francisco, August 1998
“Postmodernism Previewed: Aesthetic Eclecticism in the 19th Century Art
Museum” for the ISA meetings in Montreal, July 1998
“Monuments, Worthy or Unworthy: Commemorating Hiroshima at the Air &
Space Museum,” Bard College Humanities Series, March 1995
“The Enola Gay Affair: The Museum as a Contested Site of Remembrance” at
International Institute of Sociology, Trieste, July 3-7, 1995
"On Culture, Power, and Subjectivity" at Conference on Interpreting Historical
Change at the End of the 20th-century: The Challenges of the Present
Age to Historical Thought and Social Theory, Univ. of Calif.-Davis and
"Theory and Society" Feb. 1995
"Museum Culture and the Threat to National Identity in the Age of the GATT"
for the conference on GATT, the Arts and Cultural Exchange Between
the United States and Europe, at Tilburg University, The Netherlands,
20-21 October 1994
"Art Collecting and Social Mobility: Albert Barnes as a Posthumous Insider" at
American Sociological Association Meetings in Los Angeles, 5-9 August
1994
"Texte et contexte: Le cinéma comme aiguillon de créativité populaire en
Afrique" at 2nd International Conference of the Sociology of Art on "Le
Texte, l'Oeuvre, l'Emotion" in Grenoble, November 25-27, 1993
"Globalization, Primordialization, Creolization: Conflicting Cultural Trends" at
Refereed Roundtable, American Sociological Association Meetings in
Miami, August 16, 1993
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"Cosmopolitans vs. Nationals: The Politics of Art in the Early Avant-Garde" at
the Workshop on Intellectuals, Politics, and Society in Europe", New York
University Center for European Studies, March 23, 1992
"An Elite Experience for Everyone?: The Museum as Alternative Education in the
City," for the seminar series, Museums, Galleries, and Historic
Preservations as Educational Forces Outside the Academy.
Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, University of
Virginia, 19 February, 1992
"Une marginalité créatrice: Les collectionneurs de l'avant-garde" 1st
International Colloquium on of the Sociology of Art on "Art et
Contemporanéité" at Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, 28-30
November, 1991
"The Arts, Money and Morality in Global Perspective," conference on Creativity,
Cultural Institutions, and the Market Economy, with special reference to
Post-Communist Conditions, Vienna, 7-10 September, 1991
"An Overview of Developments in the Study of the Arts and Society in North
America" at Spanish Association of Sociology of Culture and the Arts
meeting, Barcelona, 19-21 September 1991
"The Persistence of Exclusion: Art Museums and Artists" Regular Session on the
Sociology of Culture ; Refereed Roundtable on "Research Strategies in
Bridging the Humanities and Social Science" American Sociological
Association meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio, 23-27 August, 1991
"Une marginalité créatrice: Les collectionneurs de l'avant-garde," seminar of
the Centre de Sociologie Européenne, Paris, 18 April, 1991
"Musées et artistes: Analyse d'un antagonisme," seminar on "L'Evolution des
Musées Américains" at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations,
Michel Crozier, discussant. Paris, 17 April, 1991
"Creative Marginality: Collectors of the Avant-Garde," Postdoctoral Institute for
Social Science, University of Amsterdam, 15 April, 1991.
"La censure des arts aux Etats-Unis" and "L'exclusion de l'artiste dans les
rapports art/musée" lectures at University of Montreal, Quebec (UQAM),
26-27 March, 1991
College Art Association, Washington, DC, February 1991. Invited Discussant on
session "Social Networks and Identities in American Art
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"New Art - New Patrons: Marginality in the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde"
Conference of the Institute for Social Analysis on Modern Culture: Social
Science and Social Theory, State University of New York, Stony Brook,
Nov. 28, 1990
"Art on the Edge: Political Aspects of Aestheticizing the Primitive" World
Congress of Sociology, Madrid, July 8-13, 1990
"Marginalization and Demarginalization of a Domain: The Arts in American
Sociology" American Sociological Association Meetings, Washington, DC,
Aug. 1990
"New York Culture: Ascendant or Subsident?" 16th Annual Conference on Social
Theory, Politics and the Arts, at CUNY Graduate Center, Oct. 11-13,
1990
"Art Museums and Living Artists: Contentious Communities," Conference,
"Museums and Communities" Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC,
21-23 March 1990
7. ASSOCIATIONAL/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
European Research Council
Referee for the ERC, which supports the best science and scholarship by
funding investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of
science, including the social sciences. 2009-10
University of Grenoble, Conference on Politics and Art, Grenoble, France 19-21
Nov. 2009
Member, International Scientific Committee
Princeton University Center for Arts & Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson
School
Member of New York City Seminar on the Arts and Cultural Policy
sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1994-1997
American Sociological Association
Member of Publications Committee: Distinguished Book Award 2010-13
Organized Teaching Workshop on Art Worlds: Howard Becker’s impact
on Teaching the Sociology of Culture and the Arts, ASA, August 1998
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Member of Committee on International Sociology of ASA, 1988-91
Liaison with ASA Task Force on Professional and Human Rights.
Culture Section: Chair, 1988-89; Chair-Elect and Program Organizer of
Culture Section, 1987-88; Program Organizer 1986-87; Co-Editor
of Culture Syllabi Project, 1988-89; Chair of Name of Prize
Committee, 1989-90; Chair of Best Article Award Committee,
1991; 1995 Co-Organizer of Section Session on "New Trends in the
Sociology of the Arts"; 1997 Co-Organizer of Section Session on
“Politics, Culture Policies, Culture Wars; Member of Best Article
Award Committee, 2011
Society for Social Theory, Politics and the Arts
Co-Organizer and Co-Chair of annual conference, at the New School for
Social Research and Adelphi University, Oct. 25-27, 1985
Regular participant as organizer, presenter, discussant, since 1970s
International Conference on Cultural Policy Research
Member of Scientific Committee, keynote speaker and participant since 1999
European Sociological Association
Conference on Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere by Sociology of Culture
Research Network and Sociology of Arts RN Conference in Venice, Italy
4-8 November 2008
International Sociological Association
Co-organized sessions of Gotheborg, Sweden meetings on “Art Worlds as
Trading Zones,” July 2010
Organized sessions of RC 37 at Durban meetings of ISA World Congress 2006
Organized sessions on “Privatization of Culture and its Consequences”
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World Congress of Sociology in Montreal, July 1998
Delegate to the United Nations Office (Alt.) fall 1994 to summer 1998
Vice-President of Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts, 1994-98
President of RC37 Sociology of the Arts, 1990-94
Organizer of 18 sessions for World Congress in Bielefeld, July 1994
Liaison to ISA Research Council, 1986-90; Organizer of Research Committee on
Sociology of the Arts Program; and Session on "Insider vs. Outsider Art",
Madrid Congress, July 9-13, 1990
Secretary-Treasurer of RC37 Sociology of the Arts, 1978-1986
Co-organizer of Research Committee 37 Sociology of the Arts Program, World
Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, 1986
Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française
Member since 1990
Eastern Sociological Society
Invited panel organizer and discussant, meetings in Baltimore, March 2-
5, 2000
Judge on committee for best student paper, 1992
Referee for submitted papers, 1990 meetings
American Council for the Arts
Member of Research Advisory Council (ACARAC) 1983-90
8. Editorial Positions and Referee Service
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Senior Co-Editor, since
2005
Museums and Society University of Leicester, England. Editorial Board, since
2000
Theory and Society, Senior Editor, 1995 - ; Corresponding Editor, 1989-95
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Poetics Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts,
Member of Advisory Board, 1992-2007
Westview Press, Consulting Editor for Series: "Institutional Structures of
Feeling" since 1990
Social Psychology Quarterly, Editorial Board, 1984-88
Newsletter editor, Research Committee on the Sociology of Art, ISA, 1978-86
The Sociological Quarterly, Advisory Editor, 1990-93
Referee for American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology,
Theory and Society, Social Forces, Theory, Culture and Society,
Qualitative Sociology, Social Research, Museums & Societies (on line
from University of Leicester) and for the presses of the University of
Chicago, Rutgers University, Stanford University, Unwin Hyman, Ltd.,
Routledge and Kegan Paul et al. Also, Referee for such grant-awarding
bodies as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National
Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, European
Research Committee, Australia, among others.
9. Foreign Travel and Language Competence
France: research or teaching at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations; Centre de Sociologie
des Arts, and conferences in universities in Grenoble, Lyon, Paris,
Nanterre, etc.
Netherlands: visiting professor of Sociology of the Arts, Boekmanstichting,
University of Amsterdam and the Postgraduate Institute - 1992-1994
Other countries: Spain; Italy; England; Finland; Norway; Sweden; Mexico;
Canada; Brazil; Turkey; Russia; field work in Africa
French - fluent; German, Dutch and Spanish - speaking and/or reading
knowledge
10. University Service (since 1990)
Acting chair, Sociology Department, summer 2008 and summer 2009
Acting Chair, Committee for Liberal Studies, fall 2006
Acting chair, Anthropology Department, 2002-03
Member of University Art Committee Sept. 2000-
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Co-Organizer of Privatization of Culture Conference on “Cultural
Capital/Cultural Labor” Dec.1-2, 2000
Invited participant as presider on panel at International Symposium on
Military War Crimes: History and Memory at New School University,
Dec. 3-6, 1999
Co-organizer, conference on Trends in Cultural Policy in the 21st Century, for
the Privatization of Culture Program, at the New School, April 30-May
1, 1998
Chair, Eugene Lang Social and Historical Inquiry Concentration 1994 - 96;
Member, GF-Lang Social and Historical Inquiry Concentration
Committee 1992-94; Lang Culture and Society Concentration
Committee
University Committee for Honorary Degrees, 1993-94
Committee on West European Studies, 1991-92; Chair of Culture Workshop,
New School/NYU/Columbia Western European Consortium, 1991-
GF Diversity Committee, Representing Sociology Department, Committees on
Liberal Studies and Historical Studies, 1993-96
Committee on Liberal Studies, Acting Chair: Spring 1989 and 1991-92; Faculty
Liaison for Parsons School of Design, Program in Architecture/Design
Criticism, 1987-91
Gender, Culture and Society Lecture Series, Organizer (1984-1993)
Gender Studies and Feminist Theory Steering Committee Member, 1991-
Member of REALM Workshop (Research on Lower Manhattan) 1989-90
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