Jennifer Pierce

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Publications

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Queer Twin Cities. Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, Pierce, Jennifer, 2010.
Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History. M.J. Maynes and third author Barbara Laslett, Cornell University Press, Pierce, Jennifer, 2008.
Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson, University of Minnesota Press, Pierce, Jennifer, 2007.
Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action. Pierce, Jennifer, 2012.
Narrative Sociology. Leslie Irvine, Robert Zussman, Vanderbilt University Press, Pierce, Jennifer, 2019.

Activities

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Chair, Program Committee, American Studies Association 2014 - 2015
Member: American Sociological Association Distinguished Book Award Committee. 2011 - present
Editorial Board Member: Contemporary Sociology, American Sociological Association. 2009 - present
Chair, Sex and Gender Section: American Sociological Association. 2006 - 2007
Chair: Lora Romero Book Award Committee, American Studies Association. 2005 - 2006
Chair, Max Weber Distinguished Book Award Committee: American Sociological Association, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section. 2004 - none
Faculty Chair, Committee on the Press for the University of Minnesota Press 2003 - 2006
Member, Distinguished Lectureship Selection Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society 2002 - 2004
Member, Distinguished Book Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section 2002 - none
Director, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota 2002 - 2004
Chair, Distinguished Article Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section 2001 - none

Awards

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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

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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