Jennifer Pierce

Publications

• Narrative Sociology. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. Co-edited with Leslie Irvine and Robert Zussman.

• Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action, Stanford University Press, 2012.

• Queer Twin Cities. University of Minnesota Press, 2010. The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project is a collective including myself, Michael Franklin, Larry Knopp, Kevin Murphy, Ryan Murphy, Jason Ruiz, and Alex Urquhart.

• Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and in History, Cornell University Press, 2008. Coauthored with M.J. Maynes and Barbara Laslett (third author).

• Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Co-edited with Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson

• Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Co-edited by the Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies including Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, and Naomi Schemen. 

• Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms, University of California Press, 1995 (second printing 1998).

Activities

Awards

• American Sociological Association Disseration Award, Sex and Gender Section, 1991 - none
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1998 - 1999
• Law School Admissions Council Grant, “Racial Climates in Law Schools“ with Wendy Leo Moore., May 2003 - June 2004
• Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, University of Minnesota. “Feminist Generations,“, January 2004 - May 2004
• Frenzel Chair, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2014 - 2017
• Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residential Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy, , April 2006 - May 2006
• Sabbatical Supplement, College of LIberal Arts, "Working in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women's Movement, and the New Economy, 2012 - 2013
• Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate, Professional and Post-Baccalaureate Education, 2012

Courses Taught

• AmSt 3114 - America in International Perspective
• AmSt 8401 - Practicum in American Studies
• AmSt 8202 - Theoretical Foundations in American Studies
• AmSt 4301 - Workers and Consumers in the Global Economy
• AMST 8920 - Personal Narratives in Interdisciplinary Research
• AmSt 1902 - In Pursuit of Fairness: The History of Affirmative Action in 20th Century America
• HSEM 2005 - Chasing the American Dream