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JEREMY B. STRAUGHN, PH.D.<br />
curriculum vitae<br />
<strong>Westminster</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
501 <strong>Westminster</strong> Avenue<br />
Fulton, MO 65251<br />
Jeremy.Straughn@westminster-mo.edu<br />
(573) 592-7566 home<br />
(734) 709-1843 mobile<br />
EDUCATION<br />
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 2001<br />
Dissertation: “Homeland Dilemmas After State Socialism: The Politics of Narrative<br />
and Nation-Building in the Former GDR”<br />
Committee: G. Steinmetz, A. Abbott, W. Griswold, G. Herrigel<br />
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1996<br />
Thesis: “Unified Germany as a Minority System: A Cultural-Boundaries Approach”<br />
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, 1991<br />
A.B., German, Brown University, 1988<br />
Undergraduate exchange, University of Rostock, GDR, 1986<br />
CURRENT INTERESTS<br />
Research: Politics, culture, social memory, collective identity, social change, religion<br />
Teaching: Theory, political sociology, culture/media, globalization, religion, citizenship<br />
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS<br />
Visiting Assistant Professor, <strong>Westminster</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Fulton, Mo., Aug 2012-<br />
Research Associate, The Churchill Institute, <strong>Westminster</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Fulton, Mo., Aug 2011-<br />
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University, 2004-11.<br />
Visiting Lecturer*, Department of Sociology & Department of Germanic Languages and<br />
Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2001-04. (*Courtesy of the Michigan<br />
Society of Fellows)<br />
Robert E. Park Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago,<br />
spring 2001.<br />
Research Associate, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Center,<br />
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000.<br />
Current as of: April 2012
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Visiting Lecturer*, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of<br />
Michigan, Ann Arbor, summer 1999. (*Concurrent with CIC Traveling Scholar<br />
Program)<br />
Visiting Scholar, Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course, Max Planck<br />
Institute for Human Development (Berlin), October 1996 – July 1997, April –<br />
December 1998.<br />
HONORS & AWARDS<br />
Clifford Geertz Award for best article in the sociology of culture, 2006.<br />
Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2001-04.<br />
Honors, Special Field Examination, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago,<br />
1995.<br />
Honors, Preliminary Examination, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago,<br />
1993.<br />
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS<br />
Straughn, J.B. (P.I), “Living Socialism: Ideology, Institutions, and Social Change in the<br />
(Former) German Democratic Republic.” PRF Summer Faculty Grant, 2006. ($7,000)<br />
Straughn, J.B. (P.I), PRF Research Incentive Grant (for qualitative data analysis software),<br />
2006. ($500)<br />
Straughn, J.B. (P.I), “Living Socialism: Ideology, Social Change, and the Life Course in<br />
the (Former) German Democratic Republic.” Purdue Library Scholars Grant, 2006.<br />
($2,500)<br />
Straughn, J.B. (P.I), “National Identity in America.” Research Grant, <strong>College</strong> of Liberal<br />
Arts, Purdue University, 2004-5. ($7,000)<br />
Writing Fellowship, University of Chicago Alumni Association, 1999. ($10,000)<br />
Research Fellowship, SSRC Berlin Program for Advanced German and European<br />
Studies, 1998. (18,000 DM)<br />
Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 1996-7. ($17,260)<br />
Research Grant, Germanistic Society of America, 1996-7. (Not used)<br />
Travel Grant, USIA Fulbright Program, 1996. (Not used)<br />
Research Fellowship, Council for European Studies, 1994. ($3,000)<br />
Graduate Study Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1992-6.<br />
($32,000)
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PUBLICATIONS<br />
Refereed Articles<br />
Straughn, J.B., and A.L. Andriot. 2011. “Education, Civic Patriotism, and Democratic<br />
Citizenship: Unpacking the Education Effect on Political Involvement.” Sociological<br />
Forum 26 3: 556-580.<br />
Straughn, J.B., and S.L. Feld. 2010. “America as a ‘Christian Nation’ Understanding<br />
Religious Boundaries of National Identity.” Sociology of Religion 71 3:280-306.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2009. “Culture, Memory, and Structural Change: Explaining Support for<br />
‘Socialism’ in a Post-Socialist Society.” Theory & Society 38 5: 485-525.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2007. “Historical Events and the Fragmentation of Memory in the Former<br />
East Germany.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 35:103-123.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2005. “‘Taking the State at Its Word’: The Arts of Consentful Contention<br />
in the German Democratic Republic.” American Journal of Sociology 110 6 (May):<br />
1598-1650.<br />
Recipient, 2006 Clifford Geertz Award.<br />
Warber, S.L., D. Cornelio, J.B. Straughn, G. Kile. 2004. “Biofield Energy Healing from the<br />
Inside.” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10 6:1107-13.<br />
Reviews and Essays<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2012. Review of Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification<br />
Germany, by Andrew Bickford. Contemporary Sociology 41 2: 182-184.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2009. Review of Exit-Voice Dynamics and the East German Revolution, by<br />
Steven Pfaff. American Journal of Sociology 114 4: 1211-1213.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2007. Review of Intellectuals and the Flag, by Todd Gitlin. Mobilization: An<br />
International Quarterly 12 1: 97-98.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2006. “The Power of Patriotic Protests: A Comment on Jeffrey<br />
Alexander.” Culture Newsletter 20 3 (Spring): 1, 7-9.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2002. Review of Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National<br />
Identity, by Siobhan Kattago. American Journal of Sociology 107 6: 1631-1632.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2001. Review of Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the<br />
German Borderland, by Daphne Berdahl. SAE Journal 1 1: 37-39.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 1995. Review of Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence, by Charlotte Linde.<br />
American Journal of Sociology 101 2: 518-520.<br />
Work in Progress<br />
Fein , L.C., and J.B. Straughn, “Losing the ‘Right to Have Rights’ Statelessness and<br />
Citizenship Choice in Estonia.” Article manuscript in preparation.
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Straughn, J.B., Fragments of Memory: Narrative, Identity and Recollection in Post-Unity<br />
Eastern Germany. Book manuscript in preparation.<br />
INVITED APPEARANCES<br />
Lectures and Papers<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2011. “Support for the Idea of Socialism in a Post-Socialist Society.”<br />
Culture, Power & History Workshop, University of Georgia, November 2011.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2007. “What Does It Mean to Be an American” Featured lecture, Rotary<br />
Club of Lafayette, Indiana, April 2007.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2007. “On Being and Becoming American.” Invited lecture, Department<br />
of Sociology, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.), April 2007.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2007. “Living Socialism: Ideology, Everyday Life, and Social Change in<br />
the German Democratic Republic.” Purdue Library Scholars Seminar (West<br />
Lafayette, Ind.), April 2007.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2000. “Between Loyalty and Opposition: ‘Austricksen’ and the Politics of<br />
Everyday Life in East Germany and Beyond.” Conference on “Socializing<br />
Knowledge: Transformation and Continuity in Post-Socialist Cultural Forms.”<br />
University of Chicago.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 1999. “Citizens' Rights and Human Rights: German Reunification as a<br />
Model for Integration” Invited talk for the conference “New Generation—New<br />
Approach: Germany and the USA in an Age of Global History” (Chicago, Ill.)<br />
November 18-21.<br />
Panels<br />
Invited chair and moderator, session on Political Culture and State Building, MPSA<br />
(Chicago, Ill.), April 2006.<br />
Panelist, "Cultural Politics of Globalization and Community in East Central Europe,"<br />
NSF workshop (Budapest, Hungary), May 12-15, 2005.<br />
Co-organizer, chair, “Conflicted Identities: Imagining the National in the New<br />
Millennium.” 13th International Conference of Europeanists (Chicago, Ill.), March<br />
14-16, 2002.<br />
Chair, discussant, “Testing Hirschman’s Exit-Voice-Loyalty Model as a Theoretical Tool<br />
for Migration and Refugee Studies.” 26th Annual Meeting of the Social Science<br />
History Association (Chicago, Ill.), November 15-18, 2001.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS<br />
Straughn, J.B. “Patriotic Duty and Support for War.” Paper presented at the Regular<br />
Session on Collective Behavior, American Sociological Association (Atlanta, GA),<br />
August 2010.<br />
Straughn, J.B., and Tauna S. Sisco, “When the Rally Is Over: Patriotism, Presidential<br />
Approval, and Dissent in the Aftermath of War.” Conference paper, panel on Social<br />
Justice, Peace, and Environment, Society for the Study of Social Problems (San<br />
Francisco, Calif.), August 2009. Accepted, but not presented.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2008. “American Like Me Social Membership and National Identity in<br />
the United States.” Conference paper, refereed round table, American Sociological<br />
Association (Boston, Mass.), August 2008.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2007. “Being and Becoming American: National Identity as Idealization<br />
and Boundary Maintenance.” Presented at regular session on nations and<br />
nationalism, American Sociological Association (New York, N.Y.), August 2007.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2006. “The Fractal Geography of Cultural Politics in the Postcommunist<br />
Transition.” Presented at refereed round table, American Sociological Association<br />
(Montreal, Quebec), August 2006.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2006. “Can Dissent Be Patriotic in Wartime Results from a<br />
Representative U.S. Survey.” Presented at Midwest Political Science Association<br />
(Chicago, Ill.), April 2006.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2005. “National Identification in the United States.” Presented at SSSP<br />
Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, Penn.), August 2005.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2004. “Ideology, Socialization, and Social Change: Explaining Support for<br />
the Socialist Idea in Eastern Germany, 1991-2.” Presented at regular session on<br />
Political Culture, ASA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, Calif.), August 2004.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2004. “Nation-Building as Hegemonic Cleavage Formation: Toward a<br />
Reinterpretation of Germany’s New ‘Wall in the Mind.’” Presented at Association for<br />
the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Harriman Institute, Columbia University (New<br />
York, N.Y.), April 2004.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2004. “Pride, Prejudice, or Particularity Why Most Eastern Germans<br />
Don’t Assimilate.” Presented at the Conference of Europeanists (Chicago, Ill.), March<br />
11-13, 2004.<br />
Straughn, J.B, and Audra Rowley. 2003. “Measuring German Unity: Preliminary<br />
Findings from a Survey of Measurement Approaches in the German Social-Science<br />
Literature.” Poster presentation, UROP Spring Research Symposium (Ann Arbor,<br />
Mich.), May 2003.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 2001. “Homeland Dilemmas After State Socialism, or, Why East Germans<br />
Can't Just Be Germans.” Presented at regular session on Nations and Nationalism.<br />
ASA Annual Meeting (Anaheim, Calif.), August 2001.
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Straughn, J.B. 1999. “Narratives of Opportunity and Loss in the Collective Memory of the<br />
East German Revolution.” Poster session at ASA Annual Meeting, Chicago, August<br />
1999.<br />
Straughn, J.B. 1997. “Cultural Boundaries and ‘East German Identity’ in Unified<br />
Germany.” Regular session paper, ASA Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C.), August<br />
1997.<br />
Lloyd, R.D, and J.B. Straughn. 1996. “Neighborhood Change and Identity Construction<br />
in an Artists’ Scene.” Refereed round-table paper, ASA Annual Meeting (New York,<br />
N.Y.), August 1996.<br />
Johnston, J. Straughn, J.B., Meaney, M., Krause, S.R., Fayer, G.A., and Commons, M.L.<br />
1991. “Ethics within a University: A Scoring Application of the General Stage<br />
Model.” Paper presented at the Sixth Adult Development Symposium, July, Boston,<br />
Mass.<br />
COURSES TAUGHT<br />
<strong>Westminster</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
INT/TNS 201: Introduction to International & Transnational Studies (fall 2012)<br />
POL 112: Introduction to Political Science (fall 2012)<br />
Columbia <strong>College</strong>-Jefferson City<br />
SOCI 111: General Sociology (Introduction to Sociology)<br />
Purdue University<br />
SOC 402: Sociological Theory/Principles of Sociology<br />
SOC 530/630: Political Sociology<br />
SOC 590: Independent Study (“Reading Capital”; “National & Ethnic Identity”)<br />
SOC 602: Contemporary Theories<br />
SOC 609: Readings in Critical Cultural Theory<br />
SOC 609N: Seminar on Nations and Nationalism<br />
University of Michigan<br />
SOC 300: Modern Social Change<br />
SOC 305: Introduction to Social Theory<br />
SOC 425/GER 432: Political Economy & Society of the Postwar Germanys<br />
SOC 595: Ideology, Culture, & Power (Political Sociology)<br />
GER 205: German Conversation<br />
GER 232: Scientific and Mathematical German (co-taught)
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University of Chicago<br />
SOC 203/304: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (teaching assistant)<br />
SOC 243: Introduction to the Sociology of Nationalism<br />
PLSC 298: Senior Honors Colloquium (Department of Political Science)<br />
STUDENT MENTORING<br />
Advisory Roles<br />
Academic Probation Counselor, <strong>Westminster</strong> <strong>College</strong>, 2011-<br />
Doctoral Committee Member, Brian Charek, 2010-<br />
AP Committee Member, Corey Schimpf, 2009-<br />
Doctoral Committee Member, David Thomas, 2008-<br />
AP Major Professor, Malika Masimova, 2007-08<br />
AP Major Professor, Jennifer Turner, 2006-07<br />
AP Major Professor, Myung Kyung Chung, fall 2005<br />
AP Committee Member, Myung Kyung Chung, spring 2006<br />
BA Thesis Adviser, Chiann Karen Tsui, 2003-04<br />
UROP Adviser, Audra Rowley, spring 2003<br />
Research Assistants and Collaborators<br />
Angie Andriot<br />
Hubert Izienicki<br />
Malika Masimova<br />
Audra Rowley<br />
Tauna Sisco<br />
Jennifer Turner<br />
Letters of Recommendation<br />
Angie Andriot<br />
Brian Charek<br />
Kyle Lawrence<br />
Fan Jiang<br />
Lauren Griffin<br />
Zhenyu Tang<br />
Corey Schimpf<br />
David Thomas<br />
Malika Masimova<br />
Myung-Kyung Chung<br />
Joleen Bonner<br />
Matthew Garrett<br />
Sarah Kenny<br />
Fiona Itani<br />
Audra Rowley<br />
Michael Thao<br />
ACADEMIC SERVICE<br />
Departmental (Purdue University)<br />
Member, Undergraduate Committee, 2009-10.
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Member, Website Committee, Department of Sociology, 2008-09.<br />
Member, Sociology Faculty Search Committee, 2006-07.<br />
Member, Colloquium Committee, fall 2004 - spring 2005; 2007-08.<br />
Chair, Colloquium Committee, fall 2005.<br />
Extra-Departmental<br />
Member, Selection Committee, Clifford Geertz Award for best article, ASA Section on<br />
the Sociology of Culture, 2007-08.<br />
Invited panelist, Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) seminar, Purdue University, February<br />
2007.<br />
Library Scholars Grant Advisory Panel, Purdue University, Fall 2007.<br />
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS<br />
American Sociological Association<br />
Sections: Collective Behavior & Social Movements, Comparative-Historical<br />
Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Culture<br />
AD HOC REVIEWER<br />
American Journal of Sociology<br />
Citizenship Studies<br />
Democratization<br />
Social Forces<br />
Sociology of Religion<br />
Sociological Theory<br />
Theory & Society<br />
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING<br />
ASA Seminar on Service Learning, August 2011<br />
Media Training Workshop (invited), Purdue University, fall 2007<br />
Teaching Tutorial, Purdue University, fall 2005<br />
ASA Workshop on Undergraduate Social Theory, August 2005<br />
Human Subjects Research Workshop, Purdue University, October 2004<br />
Grantsmanship Workshop, Purdue University, October 2004<br />
Intramural Grants Workshop, Purdue University, August 2004<br />
LISREL Models: General Structural Equations, ICPSR, summer 2003<br />
Regression Analysis Workshop, CSCAR, Ann Arbor, MI, April 2003<br />
Grant Proposal Writing Workshop, DRDA, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2003<br />
Editorial Assistant, book series in Politics, History, & Culture (Duke University Press),<br />
1999-2000. Editors: George Steinmetz, Julia Adams<br />
Workshop for Teaching at Chicago, University of Chicago, Sept 2000<br />
Manuscript Seminar, AJS, Chicago, IL. Spring-summer 1996
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Coordinator, Culture & Society Workshop, University of Chicago, 1995-6<br />
Wilder House Intern, Book Series in Politics, History, and Culture (Cornell University<br />
Press), 1994-6. Editors: David Laitin, George Steinmetz<br />
MEDIA COVERAGE (*dedicated news stories)<br />
LiveScience.com 5/2/11<br />
Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal 11/2/10*<br />
Religion News Service 10/20/10*<br />
Lafayette-West Lafayette Journal & Courier 5/3/10, 10/21/10<br />
New York Times 1/16/09<br />
Congressional Quarterly 10/23/08*<br />
Purdue Exponent 11/6/08<br />
Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette 12/17/06<br />
Elkhart (IN) Truth 9/9/06<br />
Washington Times 7/4/06<br />
Lincoln (NE) Journal Star 7/2/06*<br />
Chicago Tribune 6/25/06<br />
Indianapolis Star 4/26/06<br />
Christian Science Monitor 4/25/06<br />
KTAR 620AM (Phoenix, AZ) 4/25/06*<br />
Associated Press 3/17/06<br />
LANGUAGES<br />
English (native), German (fluent), French (read with dictionary)