JEAN HALLEY
Associate Professor of Sociology
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
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya. Lanham, Michigan: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., forthcoming in Spring 2011.
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 Death of a Cow. Essay in volume Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice. Edited by Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009.
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
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology Department at Wagner College
-teaching “Introduction to Sociology,” “American Society and Its Social Problems,” “The Modern Self: Race, Class and Gender at Work,” “Race Matters and Gendered Selves in American Society,” “Making Privilege Visible: Seeing Power in Race, Class and Gender,” “Growing up Female,” “The Family,” “Sexualities and the Social,” “Queer Lives,” Violence and Aggression,” Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Tanzania: Writing Women’s Lives,” “Senior Reflective Tutorial,” and “Senior Seminar,” courses as a full-time, tenured professor.
-adviser for the Family Studies/Social Work Concentration of the Sociology Major.
2003-2009
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
Civic Engagement Recognition Award
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
-honored for service and teaching work in the Wagner College and Staten Island community.
Spring 2010
Faculty Award for Exceptional Performance in Teaching
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
-selected by the faculty to be recognized for exceptional performance in teaching with this competitive award and a stipend of $1,000.
Fall 2009
Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
-chosen by Omicron Delta Kappa Wagner College students to be initiated into the Wagner College ODK Circle.
2009
Faculty Award for Exceptional Performance in Research
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
-selected by the faculty to be recognized for extensive research with this competitive award and a stipend of $1,000.
Fall 2008
Diversity Award
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
-honored by the Diversity Action Council of Wager College for promoting diversity and cultural awareness on campus.
Fall 2007
Visiting Research Scholar
The Center for the Study of Women and Society
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10016-4309
Fall 2006
Maureen Robinson Fellowship
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
-recognized as a Maureen Robinson Fellow with a stipend of $4,000 to support final research for the forthcoming book, Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy.
Summer 2006
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
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
“Genealogy in Motion: A Tale of Two Families, One Horse and a Wire,” invited to present on a plenary panel, “Narrative and Performance I,” at the Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Conference 2010, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 29, 2010.
“The Death of a Cow: Slaughterhouses and Dying in our Time,” invited to present on a plenary panel, “Narrative and Performance,” at the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Conference 2009, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 23, 2009.
“Child Sexual Abuse, Culture and the Family” by special invitation, guest lecture at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, March 12, 2009.
“Ranch Style: A History Told in Carpets,” invited to present on a plenary panel, “Narratives,” at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Conference 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 17, 2008.
“Meat Markets: The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows,” spotlight panel presentation at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Conference 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 16, 2008.
“The Wire” by special invitation, guest speaker at the Ethnographic Dreamworlds 2008, Ninth Annual Sociology Conference at Buffalo State College Buffalo Sociology Conference in Buffalo, NY, April 2008.
“Violent Touch: Feminists, Conservatives, and Child Sexual Abuse” by special invitation, guest lecture co-sponsored by the Women’s Center as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, April 2, 2008.
“Beyond the Mommy Wars,” presenter on panel with Ann Crittenden and Ruth Sidel at Wagner College, New York City, September 12, 2007.
“Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy,” presentation at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 5, 2007.
“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.
“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.
MEDIA ENGAGEMENTS
Radio interview, July 15, 2007, “Conversations with Peter Solomon,” WIP in Philadelphia.
Radio interview, August 20, 2007, “The Frankie Boyer Show,” WROL, WSRO in Boston.
Radio interview, August 21, 2007, “Lambda Radio Report,” WRFG-FM in Atlanta.
Radio interview, August 22, 2007, “The 8:00 Buzz,” WORT in Madison, WI.
Radio interview, August 25, 2007, “Every Woman,” KKFI in Kansas City, MO.
Radio interview, August 26, 2007, “The Wimmin’s Music Program,” KKUP in Santa Cruz, CA.
Radio interview, August 31, 2007, Jean Halley interview by Arly Helm, KVMR-FM in GrassValley, CA.
Radio interview, September 5, 2007, “The Quilting Hour,” WGDR in Plainfield, VT.
Radio interview (taped), September 5, 2007, “The WFNY Free Forum,” WFNY in New York City, NY.
Radio interview, September 7, 2007, Jean Halley interview by Woody Woodland, WSMN in Nashua, NH.
Radio interview (taped), September 7, 2007, “Open mind” with Cecilia Skidmore, Michigan Public Radio (NPR).
Radio interview (taped), September 11, 2007, Jean Halley interview by John Ford, KAOS in Evergreen, WA.
Radio interview, September 17, 2007, “Lesbian and Gay Voices,” KPFT (Pacifica) in Houston, TX.
Radio interview (taped), September 18, 2007, “Perspectives” with Richard Baker, syndicated to twenty-five stations.
Radio interview (taped), September 19, 2007, “KRWM Sunday Morning Mag.” with Kate Daniels in Seattle, WA.
Radio interview (taped), September 20, 2007, “Active Voice Radio,” with Chris Goldstein (webcast).
Radio interview, October 21, 2007, “Forward Forum,” with John Quinlan on WTDY-AM in Madison, WI.
Radio interview, October 31, 2007, “Transitions,” with Bruce Wadzeck on the New Jersey Network (syndicated National Public Radio).
Radio interview, November 26, 2007, “Emotional Fitness,” with Dr. Goldsmith on KCLU/NPR.
Radio interview, December 22, 2007, “Women’s Voices” with Carol Boss on KUNM in Albuquerque, NM.
COLLEGE SERVICE AND COMMITTEE WORK
Scholar for Teaching and Learning
-chosen by the Provost to be the first Wagner College Scholar for Teaching and Learning
-helped set up the Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
-started, developed and co-ran two fellowships entitled Faculty Fellows for Teaching, Learning and Research
-began the Wagner College “Teaching Matters” lunch discussions where faculty lead regular lunch discussions on teaching and learning issues, concerns and best practices
-started a regular, optional midsemester diagnostics program for faculty working to improve their classes in the middle of the term
-met one-on-one with numerous faculty to privately discuss teaching concerns
2007-2010
Peer reviewer for The International Journal of Men’s Health
-reviewed manuscript submitted for publication in this men’s studies journal.
2008
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, 2009, 2010
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
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
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. 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. Stuart Ewen
Sociology and History Programs at the Graduate Center and
Film and Media Studies Program at Hunter College
The City University of New York
695 Park Avenue
New York City, NY 10021
drstu@bway.net
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
Hunter College
The City University of New York
695 Park Avenue
New York City, NY 10021
lchancer@hunter.cuny.edu
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, Twaweza
Fellow, Harvard University
Post Office Box 3503
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
255-22-2664167; rrajani@post.harvard.edu
Writing reference
Lore Segal
Author of Her First American, Other People’s Houses, Lucinella, and Shakespeare’s Kitchen
280 Riverside Drive, 12K
New York City, NY 10025-9031
212-663-1524; lore@usa.net
