Curriculum Vitae - Ivan Allen College - Georgia Institute of Technology

January 2013
BILL WINDERS
School of History, Technology, and Society
Georgia Institute of Technology
221 Bobby Dodd Way
Atlanta, GA 30332-0225
(404) 894-8401
fax: (404) 894-0535
E-mail: bill.winders@gatech.edu
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2008-present.
Associate Professor of Sociology, 2009-present.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2002-2009.
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2001-2002
School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Tech
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Sociology, Emory University, 2001.
M.A. in Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1995.
B.A. in Sociology, McKendree College, Lebanon, IL, 1993.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Political Sociology, Social Movements, Social Inequality, Political Economy of the World System,
Political Economy of Agriculture, Sociology of Food.
TEACHING AWARDS
Hesburgh Teaching Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011.
E. Roe Stamps, IV, “Excellence-in-Teaching” Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
Class of 1969 Teaching Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-2004.
Freshman Partner of the Year, Georgia Institute of Technology, Faculty Winner, 2003.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Emory University, 1999-2000.
Graduate Student Teaching Award, Sociology Department, Emory University, 1999-2000.
OTHER HONORS
2011 Book Award, Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological
Association: The Politics of Food Supply.
Bernstein & Byres Prize for the Best Article in the Journal of Agrarian Change in 2009: “The
Vanishing Free Market.”
Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award, Political Sociology Section of the ASA: “The Roller
Coaster of Class Conflict,” 1999.
Pi Gamma Mu National Honor Society Graduate Student Scholarship, 1993.
Lincoln Laureate, McKendree College, Illinois, 1993.
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PUBLICATIONS
Book:
Winders, Bill. 2009. The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy.
Yale University Press. (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
*Winner of the 2011 Book Award given by the Political Economy of the World-System
(PEWS) section of the American Sociological Association.
*Paperback edition with new preface by author, 2012.
Journal Articles:
Winders, Bill. 2009. “The Vanishing Free Market: The Formation and Spread of the British and US
Food Regimes.” Journal of Agrarian Change. 9(3):315-345.
*Winner of the “Bernstein & Byres Prize” for the Best Article in JAC in 2009.
Winders, Bill. 2006. “‘Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction’: Southern Planters, State Policy,
and the Market, 1933 to 1975.” Journal of Agrarian Change. 6(2):143-166.
Winders, Bill. 2005. “Maintaining the Coalition: Class Coalitions and Policy Trajectories.” Politics &
Society. 33(3):387-423.
Winders, Bill. 2004. “Sliding Toward the Free Market: Shifting Political Coalitions and U.S.
Agricultural Policy, 1945-1975.” Rural Sociology. 69(4):467-489.
Winders, Bill and David Nibert. 2004. “Consuming the Surplus: Expanding ‘Meat’ Consumption and
Animal Oppression.” International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy. 24(9):76-96.
*Reprinted in Between the Species: A Reader in Human-Animal Relationships, edited by
Arnold Arluke and Clinton Sanders, 2008. New York: Allyn & Bacon.
Werum, Regina and Bill Winders. 2001. “Who’s In and Who’s Out: State Fragmentation and the
Struggle Over Gay Rights, 1974-1999.” Social Problems. 48(3):386-410.
Stalp, Marybeth and Bill Winders. 2000. “Power in the Margins: Gendered Organizational Effects on
Religious Activism.” Review of Religious Research. 42(1):41-60.
Winders, Bill. 1999. “The Roller Coaster of Class Conflict: Class Segments, Mass Mobilization, and
Voter Turnout in the U.S., 1840-1996.” Social Forces. 77(3):833-862.
Book Chapters and Scholarly Essays:
Winders, Bill. 2012. “The Food Crisis and the Deregulation of Agriculture.” Brown Journal of World
Affairs. 18(1):83-95.
Winders, Bill. Forthcoming. “U.S. Agricultural Policy and the World Economy.” In Handbook on the
Globalisation of Agriculture, edited by Guy Robinson, Doris Schmallegger, and Jen Clearyto.
Edward Elgar Publishers, UK.
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Winders, Bill. Forthcoming. “Lessons from New Deal Agricultural Policy: Understanding Policy
Trajectories.” In When Government Helped: Learning from the Successes and Failures of the
New Deal, edited by Sheila Collins and Trudy Goldberg. Oxford University Press.
Book Reviews:
Winders, Bill. 2007. Review of Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral
History, by Melissa Walker. Journal of Agrarian Change. 7(3):416-418.
Winders, Bill. 2004. Review of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality by Joanne Nagel, and of Animal Rights,
Human Rights by David Nibert. Gender and Society. 18(2):257-259.
Teaching Publications:
Winders, Bill. 2003. “Social Movements.” Pages 150-155 in Social Movements and Collective Action:
Syllabi and Instructional Materials, edited by Bob Edwards, Marieke Van Willigen, and Tisha
Yelvertion. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center.
Winders, Bill. 2000. “Teaching Title IX.” Pages 105-106 in Teaching Sociological Concepts and the
Sociology of Gender, edited by Marybeth C. Stalp and Julie Childers. Washington, D.C.:
American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center.
Other Publications:
Winders, Bill. 2004. “Historical Lens Blurs His ‘Solid Mandate.’” Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
November 17:A-23.
Winders, Bill. 1996. “Privatizing War Veterans Home.” Z-Magazine, October.
Papers in Progress:
Winders, Bill. “Life After the Regime: Market Stability and Volatility for Wheat, Corn, and Coffee
with the Fall of the U.S. Food Regime.” (5,500 words)
Winders, Bill. “Making Sense of the Chaos: Food Crises and the Fall of the British and U.S. Food
Regimes.” In preparation.
Winders, Bill, Kathy Liddle, and Regina Werum. “Mainstream Politics: How State and Mobilization
Capacity Affected Gay-Rights Ordinances, 1974-1994.” (10,100 words)
Winders, Bill. “Changing Racial Inequality: The Rise and Fall of Systems of Racial Inequality in the
U.S.” (10,500 words)
Winders, Bill. “The 2004 Presidential Election in Historical Perspective: Party Cohesion and the
Advantage of Incumbency in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1900-2004.” (9,300 words)
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Marsh, Kristin and Bill Winders. “Freedom Rising: The Demise of Apartheid in South Africa and the
U.S. South.” (8,000 words)
Winders, Bill. “The Birth of Nations: Dynamics in the World Economy and the Emergence of Nation-
States.” In preparation.
Grants:
Winders, Bill. 2010. Ivan Allen College Incentives for Seeking Extramural Research Funding
(ISERF) Grant ($2,500).
Winders, Bill. 2003. Faculty Foundation Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology. To fund
international travel ($2,140).
Winders, Bill. 2002. Faculty Foundation Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology. To fund archival
research ($1,500).
INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES
“Cultivating Conflict and Change: The Contours of US Agricultural Policy.” Invited Speaker at the
Global Outlook Symposium celebrating the 200 th Anniversary of the Royal Swedish Academy
of Agriculture and Forestry, Stockholm, Sweden. January 2013.
“Making Sense of the World Food Crisis, 2007-2008.” Plenary Speaker at the Food Studies
Conference, Las Vegas, NV. December 2011.
“The Political-Economy of the World Food Crisis, 2007-2008.” Invited Paper at the American Studies
Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD. October 2011.
“Making Food Industrial and the World Hungry: US Agricultural Policy in the World Economy.”
Guest Speaker, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
February 2011.
“Between State and Market: The Politics of Food Supply.” AKD Speaker, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology. At Mary Washington University, Fredricksburg, VA. April 9, 2009.
“The Politics of Food Supply.” Panel Discussion on Sustainable Farming, Goizueta Business School,
Emory University, March 25, 2009.
“Locked Out? How the United States Limits Voter Participation.” Constitution Day Talk, Georgia
Tech Library, September 17, 2008.
“Don’t Skip My Table: A Brief Introduction to Interpreting and Understanding Regression.” Graduate
Student Forum, HTS. At Georgia Tech, March 28, 2008.
“Lessons Learned in Graduate School.” Guest Speaker, Annual Awards Ceremony, Department of
Sociology. At Emory University, April 25, 2007.
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“Historical Racial Inequality and Reparations.” Panel Discussion on the Brown University Report on
“Slavery and Justice.” At Georgia Tech, February 20, 2007.
“The Politics of Twentieth Century U.S. Agricultural Policy.” Guest Speaker, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology. At Mary Washington University, Fredricksburg, VA.
November 8, 2005.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
“When Chaos Reigns: A Comparison of the Collapse of the British and U.S. Food Regimes.” Annual
Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, July 2012.
“Life After the Regime: Market Stability and Volatility for Wheat, Corn, and Coffee with the Fall of
the U.S. Food Regime.” Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Boise, ID, July
2011.
“Author Meets Critics: The Politics of Food Supply.” Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological
Society, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.
“The ‘Perfect Storm’?: The Political-Economic Context of the 1996 FAIR Act.” Annual Meeting of
the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, WI, July 2009.
“The Politics of Retrenchment: Agricultural Coalitions and the FAIR Act of 1996.” Annual Meeting
of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August 2008.
“The Vanishing Free Market: Changing International Food Regimes Under British and U.S.
Hegemony.” Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Manchester, NH, July 2008.
“Restricting the Market: The International Food Regime Under U.S. Hegemony.” Annual Meeting of
the Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, VA, April 2008.
“The Business of Racial Equality: A Comparison of Movements for Racial Equality in the U.S. South
and South Africa.” (With Kristin Marsh) Annual Meeting of the American Sociological
Association, New York, NY, August 2007.
“The 2004 Election in Historical Perspective: Party Cohesion and the Advantage of Incumbency in
U.S. Presidential Elections, 1900-2004.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological
Society, Atlanta, GA, March 2007.
“The South at the Center: The Rise and Demise of Supply Management Policy, 1920-1975.”Annual
Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 2006.
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Panelist. “Author Meets Critics: One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. has no National Health
Insurance, by Jill Quadagno.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New
Orleans, LA, April 2006.
“When Incumbents Lose: The 2004 Presidential Election in Historical Context.” Annual Meeting of
the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction’: Southern Planters, the Civil Rights Movement, and
U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1938 to 1975.” Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society,
Sacramento, CA, August 2004.
“Changing Racial Inequality: The Rise and Fall of Systems of Racial Inequality in the U.S.” Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 2004.
“Sectionalism and Economic Interests: Access to Vocational Training in the U.S. South, 1920-1937.”
Presented with Regina Werum at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Bildungsforschung and the
Annual Meeting of the European Social Science History Conference, both in Berlin, Germany,
March 2004.
“Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction’: Southern Planters, the Civil Rights Movement, and
U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1938 to 1975.”Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society,
Atlanta, GA, March 2004.
“The Return of the Market: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the late 1900s.” Annual Meeting of the Rural
Sociological Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2003.
“Changing Racial Inequality: Political Coalitions and Systems of Racial Inequality in the U.S.”
Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
Panel Participant. “Bringing Social Justice into the Classroom.” Annual Meeting of the Southern
Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
“Race, Economics, and Policy Implementation: Access to Educational Opportunities in the South,
1917-1937.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, St. Louis, MO,
October 2002. (With Regina Werum, Emory University)
“Sliding Towards the Free Market: Shifting Political Coalitions and U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1945 to
1975.” Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, August 2002.
“Mainstream Politics: How State and Mobilization Capacity Affected Gay-Rights Ordinances, 1974-
1994.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002.
(With Regina Werum and Kathy Liddle, Emory University)
“The Vanishing Free Market: Comparing British and U.S. Food Regimes.” Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000.
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“Maintaining the Coalition: Class Coalitions and the Trajectories of the Wagner Act and Agricultural
Adjustment Act.” Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA,
April 2000.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Introduction to Sociology
Social Movements
Class, Power, and Social Inequality
Social Problems; Social Issues and Public Policy
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Development
Social Change (senior seminar)
Food in the World Economy (senior seminar)
The Civil Rights Movement (senior seminar)
Research Methods
Graduate
Foundations of Socio-Historical Research
Social Movements
Food and Crisis in the World Economy
SERVICE
Department Service
Director of Undergraduate Studies, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2008-present.
Undergraduate Program Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2006-present.
Executive Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2007-2009, 2011-present.
Urban History Search Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2012-2013.
Chair of Speaker Series Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2010-2011.
Chair of Sociology Search Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2010-2011.
Graduate Program Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2002-2005.
Policy Alignment Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2003-2004.
Seminar in Comparative History and Society (SCHaS) Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2003-2005.
Dissertation Committee, Ben Shackleford, “Going National While Staying Southern: Stock Car
Racing in America, 1949-1979,” 2004.
Dissertation Committee, Hannes Toivanen, “Learning and Corporate Strategy: The Dynamic
Evolution of the North American Pulp and Paper Industry, 1860-1960,” 2004.
Institute Service
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Planning Committee, Georgia Tech, 2011-present.
Dean Search Committee, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech, 2009-2010.
CETL Awards Committee, Georgia Tech, 2010.
Evaluation Committee, President’s Scholarship Program, Georgia Tech, 2006.
HTS Representative to the Faculty Assembly and Senate, 2003-2006.
Freshman Partner Program, Georgia Tech, 2002-2003.
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Professional Service
Program Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2011-2012.
Program Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2011-2012.
Chair, Sociology of Agriculture & Food Research Interest Group (SAFRIG), Rural Sociological
Society, 2011-2012.
Co-Chair, Sociology of Agriculture & Food Research Interest Group (SAFRIG), Rural Sociological
Society, 2010-2011.
Endowment Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2010-present.
International Advisory Board, Journal of Agrarian Change, 2010-present.
International Advisory Board, Food Studies Conference and Journal, 2012-present.
Co-organizer, SAFRIG Field Trip, Rural Sociological Society, 2010.
Development Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2008-2011.
Nomination Committee, Animals & Society Section, American Sociological Association, 2004.
Local Arrangements Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2004.
Member of the ASA Political Sociology Section’s Committee for the Outstanding Graduate Student
Paper Award Committee, 2000.
Registration Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, San Francisco, CA, August 1998.
Peer Reviewer
Agriculture & Human Values, 2012, 2013
American Sociological Review, 2001, 2006
American Journal of Sociology, 2006, 2008
American Political Science Review, 1999
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2011
Rural Sociology, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013
Sex Roles, 2001
Social Forces, 2005, 2006, 2008
Social Problems, 2005, 2007, 2012
Sociological Forum, 2006, 2007
Sociological Quarterly, 2005
Southern Rural Sociology, 2007
Yale University Press, 2009
National Science Foundation (NSF), 2006
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Rural Sociological Society (RSS)
Southern Sociological Society (SSS)
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