Bruce Barry



Bruce Barry

Professor of Management & Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

Bruce Barry is Professor of Management and Sociology at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches courses on ethics, negotiation, business and society, and the sociology of media and technology.  His research on behavior at work, including power, conflict, justice, and negotiation, has appeared in many scholarly journals and volumes. He also writes about business ethics, workplace rights, and public policy issues at the intersection of business and society. His recent book is Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace (Berrett-Koehler, 2007).  He is also co-author of three books on negotiation (published by McGraw Hill/Irwin) that are used in courses at universities worldwide.

Barry is a past president of the International Association for Conflict Management, and a past chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. He is an associate editor at Business Ethics Quarterly and serves on the editorial boards of Work and Occupations, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.  Barry lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is president of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, and is a contributing writer and blogger for the Nashville Scene (a weekly alternative newspaper).

http://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/About/faculty-research/f_profile.cfm?id=80

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Dan Cornfield



Dan CornfieldProfessor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

As a sociology professor, I write and teach about work, employment, labor, and immigration themes.  My work has addressed the rise, decline, and revitalization of labor movements, career mobility and the American Dream, immigrant incorporation in new destination cities such as Nashville, and social inequality in urban service economies.  I am presently working on a book project, with the generous support of the Curb Center, on artistic workers and the American Dream.  This project, based on interviews with over 70 Nashville music professionals, examines the interplay between individual inspiration and aspiration, labor market opportunity, and the role of entrepreneurship and occupational associations in the pursuit of career mobility by artistic workers.

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/sociology/VDOS_People_DanCornfield.shtml  
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Caroline Lee



Caroline LeeAssistant Professor of Sociology 
Lafayette College

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Anthropology & Sociology Department at Lafayette College.  My research explores how civic engagement and deliberative democracy initiatives impact local political cultures and social movement activity. I am currently working on projects on the public deliberation industry and the democratic potential of new technologies. In collaboration with Elizabeth Long Lingo of the Curb Center, I have been engaged in analyzing the 2008 National Performing Arts Conference as an attempt to develop a collective action agenda through deliberative processes. My article in the American Journal of Sociology on public resistance to the formalization of deliberation won the 2008 Outstanding Article Award from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association.  
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Jennifer C. Lena



Jennifer C. LenaAssistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

I was born in Rhode Island in 1974, the fortunate daughter of two passionate and skilled educators who cultivated in me an interest in social justice and culture.  I graduated with a B.A. in English and Sociology-Anthropology from Colgate University in 1996.  I matriculated into a graduate program in Sociology, and received my Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003.  I am a multi-method sociologist, whose case material draws from music, art and other cultural media.   I have especially preferred problems which involve the dynamics of innovation and diffusion, and of racial and aesthetic "authenticity".   I have published articles in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Poetics, Radical Society, among other journals.   I currently serve in administrative positions in the Social Science History Association, the American Sociological Association, and am on the Editorial Board of Social Forces.  I am an occasional reviewer for at least a dozen journals, three publishers, the National Science Foundation, and other grantors.  

My main professional webpage is here: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/lenajc/home and from it interested visitors can access syllabi of courses I have taught, my full C.V. and resources for scholars and students of hip-hop culture. 
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Richard Lloyd



Richard LloydAssistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

I am Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. My first book, Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City (Routledge 2006), describes the interactions between contemporary artists, the neighborhoods they live in, and elements of the new urban economy such as entertainment and design industries. In addition, I have published popular and scholarly articles on Southern rock music, contemporary art, the economy of tourism, globalization and the “creative city,” “new urbanist” civic design, and Max Weber’s social theory. My current research focuses on the ecology of cultural production in Nashville TN, and on new strategies of downtown residential development in Sunbelt cities and Nashville particularly. I have accepted invitations to speak at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Boston College, Vassar College, and the Amsterdam School of Social Research, amongst others. I serve on the boards of The American Journal of Sociology and City and Community; I was formerly Culture Editor of Contexts.

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/sociology/VDOS_People_RichardLloyd.shtml  

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Michael Lounsbury



Michael LounsburyProfessor of Business
University of Alberta

Michael Lounsbury is the Alex Hamilton Professor of Business in the Department of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business where he is the Director of the Technology Commercialization Centre as well as the MBA Technology Commercialization program.  He also holds a joint appointment at the National Institute for Nanotechnology.  His research focuses on the cultural dynamics of organizing, entrepreneurship, and the emergence of new industries and practices.  Professor Lounsbury serves on a number of editorial boards and is extensively published in premier peer reviewed journals. In addition, he is Co-Editor of Organization Studies, a major international journal published by Sage, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Research in the Sociology of Organizations. His Ph.D. is from Northwestern University and before coming to the University of Alberta, he was the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University.  
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Andrew Taylor



Andrew TaylorDirector of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business

I'm the Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration (www.bolzcenter.org), an MBA degree program and research center in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. I write, teach, and speak about business and management issues in arts and cultural management, with special emphasis on operating models and the implications of communications technology on how we create, produce, promote, support, and steward the arts. I have also served as a consultant to arts organizations and cultural initiatives throughout the U.S. and Canada, including the International Society for the Performing Arts, American Ballet Theatre, the Center for Arts and Culture, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Closer to home, I helped develop the budget pro forma and operating plan for the $205-million Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin. I'm currently the president of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (www.artsadministration.org), an international association of degree-granting programs in arts and cultural management, research, and policy, as well as a consulting editor for The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. Since July 2003, I have written a weblog on the business of arts and culture, "The Artful Manager," hosted by ArtsJournal.com (www.artfulmanager.com).  
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Richard N. Pitt



Richard N. PittAssistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

Dr. Richard N. Pitt is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. As a sociologist, his research interests lie in four principal areas: education, gender, family, and sociology of religion. His work focuses on the maintenance of presumably oppositional identities, such as gay Christians, secularly-employed clergy, house-husbands, and cross-discipline double majors. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Pitt has coauthored Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority in American Schools (Harvard University Press) and has published articles on men's gender-role ideology and religious-sexual identity conflicts. He is co-PI (with Professor Steven Tepper) on a Teagle Foundation funded project on double majoring. Current projects related to that research include analyzing the institutional correlates with double majors and the impact of multiple majoring on students’ breadth in liberal arts course completion. Dr. Pitt is also writing a book which uses a series of more than 100 in-depth interviews with aspiring, licensed, and ordained African-American ministers to examine how these men and women negotiate their pursuit of “the call to ministry” with the educational deficiences, gender discrimination, and constrained labor market that threatens both the legitimacy and the pursuit of those callings. In addition to his Curb Center affiliation, Dr. Pitt is also affiliated with the Gender and Women’s Studies and Jewish Studies departments.