Degrees

• PhD in Sociology
  The Graduate School and University Center
  of The City University of New York
  New York, N.Y.
  June, 1992
  

• MPhil in Sociology
  The Graduate School and University Center
  of The City University of New York
  New York, N.Y.
  October, 1990

• MA in Sociology
  C.W. Post Center of Long Island University
  Greenvale, N.Y.
  October, 1983

• BA in Communication
  University of Alabama
  Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  May, 1980

Experience
Courses taught: Contemporary Sociological Theory; Race, Class, and Gender; Impersonality, Violence, and Film; Introductory Sociology; Social Trends and Problems; Social Order and Social Change; Social Stratification; Popular Culture and Arts

• California State University, Fullerton
  Lecturer in Sociology
  Fullerton, California
  Fall, 2001 - Present (presently on leave)

• California State University, Long Beach
  Lecturer in Sociology
  Long Beach, California
  January, 1997 - Summer, 2001

• Rancho Santiago College
  Adjunct Instructor in Sociology
  Santa Ana, California
  1993

• Mt. San Antonio College
  Adjunct Instructor in Sociology
  Walnut, California
  1992

• Hofstra University
  Adjunct Instructor in Sociology
  Hempstead, N.Y.
  1990

• The S.U.N.Y. College of Technology
  at Farmingdale
  Assistant Professor in Sociology
  Farmingdale, N.Y.
  1989

Presentations, Papers, Publications, and Projects

• Review: "The Family Snaps" - review of Deborah Chambers' 2001 Representing the Family in Framework: The Journal of Film and Media. Volume 43, Number 1 - Spring, 2002, pp. 80-82. (Wayne State University Press: [ISSN:0306-766])

• Proceedings: In The Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media, and Society, "'A Vain Effort to Fly': Consequences of Resistance in Literature and Pop." Sponsored by the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery and the University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado. Scheduled for publication, Summer, 2002.

• Presentation: "'A Vain Effort to Fly': Consequences of Resistance in Literature and Pop" at The Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media, and Society. February 2, 2002 at Antlers Adam's Mark Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sponsored by the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery and the University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado.

• Member: Advisory board, The Journal of American Popular Culture, published by The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture.

• Advisor: American Classics, Alexis Robie, producer. (Atlas Media, mini-series to be broadcast on The History Channel, late 2001 [also available for sale on video cassette from the History Channel])

• Presentation: "Which Witch?: Charges of Witchcraft in Child Sexual Abuse Cases" at Border Subjects IV: Growing Up (Post)Modern. October 7, 1999 at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.

• Essays: "Bill Cosby," "The Cosby Show," "E-mail," "Graceland," "Levittown," "Madonna," "Michael Jackson," and "Joe Namath" in the five-volume St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Pendergast, T. and Pendergast, S., editors. (Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999) [ISBN 1-55862-400-7]

• Paper: "Free To Be You and Me: Tragic Resistance in Popular Culture" included in Body Politics Symposium, April 10, 1999 at The University of Toledo, Toledo Ohio. Sponsored by the University of Toledo's Women's Studies Program.

• Presentation: "Using the Internet to Enhance Student-Teacher Collaboration and Communication" in Learning and Instructional Technologies in Higher Education, October 20, 1998 at California State University, Long Beach.

• Presentation: "The Chanukah Bush: Poaching the Iconography of Christmas" in Border Subjects III: (Dis)locations of Culture, October 9, 1998 at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.

• Editor and founder: "Cultural Studies Central," an internationally cited electronic clearinghouse of cultural studies resources and original socio-cultural analysis. Founded 1996.

• Review: Book Review of John Storey's Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and Methods in Cultural Dynamics 9(1) 1997.

• Dissertation: "Ain't Nobody's Business": The Public Text of Michael Jackson - defended and submitted Spring, 1992 to the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

• Presentation: "Canonizing the Popular," in the C.U.N.Y Graduate Center Committee for Cultural Studies' May 1991 conference "Banality and Fatality." Blind peer reviewed.

• Panel Member: "Is Cultural Studies the New High Art?" in the C.U.N.Y.
  Graduate Center Committee for Cultural Studies' May, 1989 Conference "Theologies of Confusion."

• Panel Member: "Rock, Rap, and Socialism," in Socialist Scholars' Conference, New York City, April, 1989.

• Panel Member: "Sound Affects," in MassCult Research Group's May 1987 conference "The Cultural Politics of Post-Modernism," C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center.

• Invited Speaker: "Rock and Politics in the Eighties," at the C. W. Post Center of Long Island University, Greenvale, N.Y. February, 1986. Sponsored by C.W. Post Sociology Club.

Awards

• "Faculty Recognition Award"
  College of Liberal Arts, California State University, Long Beach
  May 9, 2000
• "Commendation in Recognition of Valued Faculty Contributions"
  College of Liberal Arts, California State University, Long Beach
  May 13, 1999
• "Outstanding Faculty Member"
  Department of Sociology, California State Universtity, Long Beach
  1996-1997 Academic Year
• Dissertation Travel Grant
  CUNY Committee for Cultural Studies, 1990

References

• Professor Michael Brown
  Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
  547 Holmes
  Northeastern University
  Boston, Mass. 02115
  (617) 373-3851

• Professor Lindsey Churchill
  Department of Sociology
  The Graduate School and University Center
  of The City University of New York
  33 W. 42nd Street
  New York, NY 10036
  (212) 642-2400

• Professor William Difazio
  Department of Sociology
  St. John's University
  8000 Utopia Parkway
  Jamaica, NY 11439
  (718) 990-6161 (ext. 5183)