JEAN HALLEY
Sociology and Anthropology Department
Wagner College
One Campus Road
Staten Island, NY 10301
718-390-3487
jean.halley@wagner.edu
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Sociology Program; Women’s Studies Certificate Program
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City
February 1, 2003
Master of Theological Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
June 1992
Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Psychology major with honors; Women Studies minor
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Grade Point Average: 3.86/4.0; Phi Beta Kappa, Dean’s List, Alpha Lambda Delta
May 1989
Semester Abroad
La Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
Fluent in Spanish
Spring 1987
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2007.
Peer reviewed articles
The wire. Essay in volume The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2007.
Ranch Style: A History Told in Carpets. Qualitative Inquiry, 11:4, August 2005, 514-517.
The Cleaning Lady: An Exploration of Class and Gender in a Rural Wyoming Family. Qualitative Inquiry, 11:2, April 2005, 191-197.
To Speak of My Mother. Qualitative Inquiry, 9:1, February 2003, 49-56.
This I Know: An Exploration of Remembering Childhood and Knowing Now. Qualitative Inquiry, 6:3, September 2000, 349-358.
This I Know: An Exploration of Remembering Childhood and Knowing Now. Qualitative Inquiry Reader, Sage 2001, 91-103.
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive practices of growth and decline. Zukin, Sharon, Halley, Jean, et al. Urban Affairs Review. May 1998, pages 627-654.
Book reviews and other publications
To Ashes We Shall Return. Anandabazar Patrika, July 6, 2003, Calcutta, India (published in Bengali in the Sunday supplement of this major Calcutta newspaper read by an estimated 6 million people).
Book review of Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. By Claude S. Fischer, et al. Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal. February 1998.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology Department at Wagner College
-teaching “Introduction to Sociology,” “American Society and Its Problems,” “The Modern Self: Race, Class and Gender at Work,” “Race and Gender: The Self and Society in Modern Times,” “Growing up Female,” “The Family,” “Sexualities and the Social,” “Senior Reflective Tutorial,” and “Senior Seminar,” courses as a full-time, tenure-track professor.
-advisor for the Family Studies Concentration of the Sociology and Anthropology Department.
2003-2007
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department at Moravian College
-taught “Introduction to Sociology,” “Social Class in America,” “Race, Ethnic and Gender Relations,” and “Fieldwork in Sociology” courses as a full-time, tenure-track professor.
2002-2003
Substitute Assistant Instructor, Women’s Studies Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York
-taught “Growing Up Female,” “Introduction to Women’s Studies,” and “Women and the Media” classes.
Spring 2001
Adjunct Instructor, Film and Media Studies Program and Women’s Studies Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York
-taught “Introduction to Media Studies,” “Women and the Media,” “Growing Up Female,” and “Introduction to Women’s Studies,” classes.
Summer 1997, Spring 1998, 1998-1999, Fall 1999, Summer 2001
Adjunct Instructor, Women’s Studies Program at Queens College of the City University of New York
-taught “Introduction to Women’s Studies” class.
Fall 1997
Adjunct Lecturer for Dr. Stuart Ewen at Hunter College of the City University of New York
-taught two discussions sections each semester, and lectured periodically for Dr. Ewen’s “Introduction to Media Studies” class.
1996-1997, 1997-1998, Fall 1998, Fall 1999
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Vagina Warrior Award
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
-chosen by Wagner College students to be a Vagina Warrior, presented and celebrated at their production of The Vagina Monologues as someone who has done extensive work for women’s rights
2004
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Princeton, New Jersey
-awarded Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grant in Children’s Health
grant for dissertation research on twentieth century United States ideologies of adult-child touch.
2000-2001
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Writing Fellowship
City University of New York
-awarded $22,000 per year to develop the Writing Across the Curriculum Program (WAC) at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
2001-2002
Conviction Project Seminar Grantee
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-awarded stipend to be part of the Conviction Project “Prisons Without Walls” seminar.
-researched the development of the prison/industrial complex and concerns such as the impact of the privatization of prisons on those imprisoned.
2001-2002
Leopold Schepp Foundation
New York City, New York
-funded for graduate studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999
Helena Rubinstein Foundation
New York City, New York
-funded for graduate studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
1995-1996, 1996-1997
Jewish Foundation for Education of Women
New York City, New York
-awarded grant for graduate studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
1996-1997
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-funded for second, third, fourth and fifth years of doctoral study.
1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2001-2001
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-funded for presenting at the “Virtual Unreality Symposium,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.
October 20-22, 1996
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado
-awarded grant for travel to Nicaragua with the Princeton Women’s Delegation to study the Nicaraguan Women’s Movement.
January 1989
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Touching Problems: Feminists, Conservatives and Child Sexual Abuse,” presentation on the “Sex Panics” panel, at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 16, 2005.
“Babies in Bed: To Sleep or Not to Sleep (with Your Baby),” presentation on the “Mothers in Families” roundtable session, at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 16, 2005.
“An Ethnography of Trauma: Intimate Violence in Rural Wyoming,” presentation on a panel chaired by Patricia Ticineto Clough on “Pedagogies of Memory and Trauma,” at the Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, June 27, 2004.
Panel respondent to film maker Begonya Plaza at the screening of her film “Souvenir Views,” Wagner College, January 27, 2004.
“Notions of Freedom in the Western United States,” at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 26, 2002.
“Blood, Beef and Freedom in Rural Wyoming,” presentation on a panel with Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michele Wallace for the Women’s Studies Certificate Program and Center for the Study of Women and Society Ninth Annual Book Party, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City, May 3, 2002.
“To Speak of My Mother,” at the Midwest Sociological Society, Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 4-7, 2002.
“Studying Child Rearing Practices,” in a panel on “Disciplinary Disruptions: The Fantasmatic Undoing of Sociological Categories,” at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Annual Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 9-11, 2001.
“The Symptomatic Performance of Trauma,” in a panel with Patricia Ticineto Clough and Catherine Silver at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Annual Conference, Columbia University, New York City, October 29-31, 1999.
“This I Know: An Exploration of Remembering Childhood and Knowing Now,” at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 7-8, 1999.
“Feminism: Then and Now,” presentation on a panel with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ann Snitow, Debra Dantzler and Jennifer Disney for the Women and Society Seminar at Columbia University, New York City, May 17, 1999.
“Gram’s House,” in a panel on “The Embodiments and Disembodiments of Intimate Spaces: Theory and Methodology,” at the Eastern Sociological Society, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 4-7, 1999.
“Writing as Scholarship,” presentation with Patricia Ticineto Clough for the Feminist Research Seminar of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City, March 3, 1999.
“The Violent Journey of Progress: The Myth of the American Frontier in Turner, Curtiz’s Santa Fe Trail and Ford’s Stagecoach,” at the Eastern Sociological Society, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 19-22, 1998.
“Growth, Decline, and the American Dream: Las Vegas, Coney Island, and the “Urban Imaginary,”” in collaboration with Courtney Guthreau, et al. at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 9-13, 1997.
“Las Vegas as Coney Island’s Other,” at the “Virtual Unreality Symposium,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20-22, 1996.
“Coney Island and Las Vegas: Cultural Images of Growth and Decay,” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Annual Meeting, New York City, August 1996.
RESEARCH AND COMMITTEE WORK
Advisory panelist for the Researching Families: Understanding Intimacy and Sexuality in Families project of the Open University in the United Kingdom
-advised and gave feedback on this international research project exploring how families express emotions
2005
Reviewer for the Research Awards Program of the City University of New York
-evaluated applications for research awards
2005
Peer reviewer for Qualitative Inquiry
-reviewed manuscripts submitted for publication in this sociological methods journal.
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Peer reviewer for Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies
-reviewed manuscripts submitted for publication in this cultural studies and methodology journal.
2002
Peer reviewer for Studies in Symbolic Interaction
-reviewed manuscripts submitted for publication in this research annual.
2000
Presenter for the Sociology Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-presented on and answered questions about dissertation writing and the academic job search.
2002
Executive Committee for the Sociology Program Student Representative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-elected to represent the student body in the faculty executive committee.
1997-1998
Doctoral Student Council Sociology Program Representative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-elected by the student body to represent the Sociology Program in the graduate school’s student organization.
1997-1998
President of the Sociological Student Association at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-elected by the student body to run the program’s student organization.
1996-1997
Member of Criminology and Deviance Research Group at Columbia University
-invited to take part in a closed ongoing “Law and Society” research group made up of both faculty and graduate students from Columbia and other New York City universities exploring contemporary issues within the areas of criminology and deviance.
1997, 1998, 1999
Research Assistant in the Sociology Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
-assisted Dr. Roslyn Wallach Bologh.
1996-1997
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Program Coordinator of Pathways to Housing, Inc., New York City
-directed this alternative not-for-profit housing agency working to house the most disenfranchised of New York City’s homeless population.
-supervised a staff of fifteen and oversaw a budget of $500,000.
-developed and co-directed a research project with Dr. Sam Tsemberis exploring the effects of housing on people with severe psychiatric disabilities, substance addictions and long term homeless histories.
1994-95
Consultant and Member of Kuleana, Mwanza, Tanzania
-invited to work with this grassroots Tanzanian organization as a consultant and an advocate for over one hundred street children in Mwanza.
Fall 1993
House Manager in Boston shelters for the homeless, Boston, Massachusetts
-Pine Street Inn/Saint Paul’s Women’s Shelter.
1989-1990
-Boston Family Shelter.
1990-1992, and Spring 1993
Trained by the Solidarity Movement of Mental Health and Human Rights, Buenos Aires, Argentina
-invited to travel to Argentina for training in alternative mental health techniques working with families of the disappeared.
August 1991
Member of the Movement for Mental Health and Social Justice and the Boston Committee for Mental Health and Human Rights, Boston, Massachusetts
-belonged to these organizations within an international network.
-helped start the former; an action-reflection group.
1990-1992
Live-in Community Member at the Haley House Catholic Worker, Boston, Massachusetts
-lived in social justice oriented community.
-helped run the Haley House soup kitchen for homeless men.
1989-1990
RESIDENCIES
Participant in the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Middlebury, Vermont
-accepted to participate in this highly competitive intensive eleven-day workshop as a nonfiction writer with Terry Tempest Williams.
August 2002
Resident at the Dorset Colony House for Writers and Performing Artists
Dorset, Vermont
-chosen to spend two weeks working on a nonfiction book at the residency.
April 1998
REFERENCES
Dr. Stuart Ewen
Sociology and History Programs at the Graduate Center and
Film and Media Studies Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Avenue
New York City, NY 10021
drstu@bway.net
Dr. Patricia Ticineto Clough
Sociology Program
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10016
stmart96@aol.com
Dr. Hester Eisenstein
Sociology Program
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10016
HESTER1@prodigy.net
Dr. Lynn Chancer
Sociology Department
695 Park Avenue
New York City, NY 10021
Dr. Robert R. Alford (deceased; letter on file)
Sociology Program
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10016
Social service reference
Rakesh R. Rajani
Executive Director, HakiElimu
Fellow, Harvard University
PO Box 79401
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
255-744-264240; rrajani@post.harvard.edu
Writing reference
Lore Segal
Author of Her First American, Other People’s Houses, and Lucinella
280 Riverside Drive, 12K
New York City, NY 10025-9031
212-663-1524; lore@usa.net
