Ann Branaman Address Department of Sociology 301 NW 35 th Street Education Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 777 Glades Road Cell: (561) 654-6378 Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: Branaman@fau.edu Phone: (561) 297-3278 Ph.D.1997 M.A. 1993 B.A. 1991 Pennsylvania State University, Department of Sociology Pennsylvania State University Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Academic Employment Fall 2003 - Present Fall 1997 Spring 2003 Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University Publications 1993-1997 Graduate Instructor in Sociology The Pennsylvania State University 2014. Feminist and Postfeminist Theory. Pp. 74-96 in The Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory, edited by Anthony Elliott. Routledge. 2013. Theater as Life: The Seminal Contributions of Kenneth Burke. Pp. 6-15 in Life as Performance: A Dramaturgical Handbook, edited by Charles Edgley. Ashgate Publishers. 2012 Emotions. In The Handbook of the Sociology of Human Rights, edited by Brunsma, Smith, and Gran. Paradigm Publishers. 2011 Feminism and Identity. In The Handbook of Identity Studies, edited by Anthony Elliott. Routledge.
2010 Identity and Social Theory. In The Routledge Companion to Social Theory, edited by Anthony Elliott. Routledge. 2009 The Protean Goffman: Erving Goffman and the New Individualism. In The Contemporary Goffman, edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen. Routledge. 2007 Gender and Sexuality in Liquid Modernity. In The Contemporary Bauman, edited by Anthony Elliott. Routledge. 2006 Contemporary Social Theory and the Sociological Study of Mental Health. In Mental Health, Social Mirror, edited by Bill Avison, Jane McLeod, and Bernice Pescosolido. Springer Publishing. 2003 Interaction and Hierarchy in Everyday Life: Goffman and Beyond, In The Sociology of Face-to-Face Encounters after Erving Goffman, edited by Javier Trevino. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2001 Rational and Irrational Bases of Commitment to Hierarchy in Group Interaction. Advances in Group Processes 18: 31-64. 2001 Goffman. In Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory, edited by Anthony Elliot and Bryan Turner. Sage Publications. 2001 The Self and Society Reader. Cambridge, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers. 2000 The Bonds of Hierarchy: Anglo-American Psychoanalytic-Feminist Theory on Inequality in Intimate Relationships. Current Perspectives in Social Theory 20: 67-89. 1997 "Goffman's Social Theory." In The Goffman Reader, edited by Charles Lemert and Ann Branaman. 1997 The Goffman Reader. Co-edited with Charles Lemert. Cambridge, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers. 1995 Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, Ann Branaman, and Alan Sica. "Belief and Behavior: Does Religion Matter in Today's Marriage?" Journal of Marriage and the Family 57:661-671, 1995. 1994 "Reconsidering Kenneth Burke: His Contributions to the Identity Controversy." Sociological Quarterly 35(3):443-455.
Conference Papers Book Reviews 2014 Making Meaningful Lives: The Promises, Perils, and Contradictions of the New Individualism. Invited presentation. Conference on The New Individualism: For and Against, The Hawke Institute, University of South Australia. August 15, 2014. 2009 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 2009. Invited presentation, Eastern Sociological Association Meeting, March 2009. 2006 Goffman and the New Individualism. Invited presentation, American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2006. 2003 Goffmanian Social Psychology: Research Directions for the 21 st Century. Invited presentation, American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2003. 2002 Interaction and Hierarchy in Everyday Life: Goffman and Beyond. Invited presentation, American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2002. Extended version of this paper was accepted for publication as a book chapter in The Sociology of Face-to-Face Encounters after Erving Goffman (2003, Rowman and Littlefield). 1999 Do They Really Think She s Stupid?: Goffman and Status Characteristics Theory on Interaction and Inequality. Presented at American Sociological Association Meeting in Chicago, August 1999. Revised version of this paper will be published in Advances in Group Processes. 1998 Defending Hierarchy: A Goffmanian Approach to Gender, Interaction, and Inequality. Presented at American Sociological Association Meeting in San Francisco, August 1998. 1997 Rethinking Inequality in Family and Gender Relations: Psychoanalytic -Feminist Contributions. Accepted for presentation at American Sociological Association Meeting in Toronto, August 1997. Did not attend meeting due to conflict with relocation. Revised version of this paper was published in Current Perspectives in Social Theory. 1995 The Self and Social Criticism: Mead in the Deweyan Context. Presented at American Sociological Association meeting in Washington, D.C. August 1995. 2014. Status, Power, and Ritual Interaction: A Relational Reading of Durkheim, Goffman, and Collins, Theodor Kemper, Contemporary Sociology, Forthcoming.
Workshops 2010 A New Type of Womanhood: Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America, by Natasha Kraus. Forthcoming in Contemporary Sociology. 2010 Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives, by Anthony Elliott. Forthcoming in Contemporary Sociology. 2003 Gender and Social Theory, by Mary Evans. Forthcoming in Gender and Society. 2002 Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition, edited by Karen Cerulo. Contemporary Sociology 32 (2):196-198. 1997 Finding Philosophy in Social Science, by Mario Bunge. Contemporary Sociology 26(6):783-784. 2006 Teaching the Sociology of Emotions. Presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2006. Co-organized with Leslie Irvine. 2004 Teaching as Public Sociology. Presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2004. 2004 Teaching the Sociology of Emotions. Presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2004. Co-organized with Leslie Irvine. Professional Service 2003-2006 Reviewer for American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, and The Sociological Quarterly. 2000-2003 Member of Editorial Board of The Sociological Quarterly. 1997-2002 Reviewer for American Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, Sociological Inquiry, McGraw-Hill Publishers, and Blackwell Publishers, University Service College of Arts and Letters Committee on Research and Creative Development, 1997-1999 Honors College, Faculty Search Committee for Sociology/Women s Studies, Spring 2000 Department of Sociology Search Committee, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009-2010, 2013-2014.
Sociology B.A. program assessment committee, 2000-2005. Chair, Sociology B.A. program assessment committee, Spring 2002 - Spring 2005; Fall 2013 current. Social Science Assessment Committee, Spring 2002. College of Arts and Letters Undergraduate Programs Committee, 1999-2005. Chair, College of Arts and Letters Undergraduate Programs Committee, Spring 2002 Spring 2005. University Undergraduate Programs Committee, Spring 2002 Spring 2005.. Undergraduate Advisor for Sociology majors and minors, Fall 2000 Spring 2006. AKD Faculty Advisor, 2002-2004. University Faculty Senate, 2003-2004, 2004-2005. Dean s Faculty Advisory Committee, Spring 2004 - Spring 2006. Sociology representative to College of Arts & Letters Faculty Assembly, Fall 2004 - present. Graduate director in Sociology, Fall 2005 Spring 2007. College of Arts & Letters Graduate Programs Committee, Fall 2005 Spring 2007. College of Arts & Letters Dean Search Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Media, Culture, and social theory B.A. program development committee Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Undergraduate Advisor for Sociology majors and minors Fall 2008 Fall 2012.. College of Arts & Letters Undergraduate Programs Committee Fall 2008 Spring 2012. College of Arts & Letters Representative on General Education Curriculum Committee, Foundations of Society and Human Behavior, Fall 2008 Spring 2009.
Member of University General Education Curriculum Committee, Fall 2009 current. College of Arts & Letters Undergraduate Programs Committee Chair, Fall 2009 Spring 2011. University Undergraduate Programs Committee, Fall 2009 Spring 2011. UUPC representative to committee for establishing university course syllabus guidelines, Fall 2009. Sociology Department curriculum committee, Fall 2006 present. College representative on university QEP committee Fall 2011 current. College assessment committee Spring 2012 and Fall 2012. Associate Chair, Sociology Department, Summer 2013 present. Courses Taught at FAU SYG 1000 Introduction to Sociology SYA 4010 Sociological Theory SYA 4015 Contemporary Social Theory SYP 4110 Self & Society SYD 4800 Gender & Society SYD 4814 Gender, Power, and Relationships SYP 4400 Social Change SYO 4410 Sociology of Mental Health SYO 4530 Class, Status, and Power SYP 4420 Sociology of Consumption SYA 6215 Seminar in Social Theory SYO 6535 Seminar in Social Stratification SYP 6035 Seminar in Microsociology SYD 6215 Seminar in Contemporary Social Theory SYD 6934 Private Lives, Public Context Professional Associations American Sociological Association Eastern Sociological Association Southern Sociological Society