Jennifer Pierce

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American Studies 204 Scott Hall 3231 72 Pleasant St. S.E.

Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations

Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action. Pierce, Jennifer, Author, 2012. Link
Queer Twin Cities. Pierce, Jennifer, Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, Co-Author, 2010.
Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History. Pierce, Jennifer, M.J. Maynes and third author Barbara Laslett, Cornell University Press, Co-Author, 2008.
Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Pierce, Jennifer, Hokulani Aikau and Karla Erickson, University of Minnesota Press, Co-Author, 2007.
Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. Pierce, Jennifer, Rose Brewer, Mary Lou Fellows, Shirley Garner, Amy Kaminsky, and Naomi Schemen, New York University Press, 2000.
Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms. Pierce, Jennifer, University of Californial Press, 1995.
Karla Erickson (2005). “Farewell to the Organization Man: The Feminization of Loyalty in High-End and Low-End Service Work.“. Ethnography, 6,3, 283-313.

book project: Working in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women's Movement, and the New Economy

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
Director: Undergraduate Studies, Department of American Studies , 2006 - 2009
Chair: Lora Romero Book Award Committee, American Studies Association , 2005 - 2006
Faculty Chair, Committee on the Press for the University of Minnesota Press: 2003 - 2006
Chair, Max Weber Distinguished Book Award Committee: American Sociological Association, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section , 2004
Director, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota: 2002 - 2004
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota: 2000 - 2002
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
Chair, Distinguished Article Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section: 2001

Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate, Professional and Post-Baccalaureate Education, 2012
Sabbatical Supplement, College of LIberal Arts, "Working in the Ivory Basement: Clerical Workers, the Women's Movement, and the New Economy, 2012 - 2013
Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residential Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy, , April 2006 - May 2006
Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, University of Minnesota. “Feminist Generations,“, January 2004 - May 2004
Law School Admissions Council Grant, “Racial Climates in Law Schools“ with Wendy Leo Moore., May 2003 - June 2004
Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1998 - 1999
Faculty Mentor Award, Sociology Department, University of Minnesota, 1995
American Sociological Association Disseration Award, Sex and Gender Section, 1991

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 8298 - Workers in the Global Economy
AmSt 8299 - Ethnography
AmSt 1902 - In Pursuit of Fairness: The History of Affirmative Action in 20th Century America
AMST 8920 - Personal Narratives in Interdisciplinary Research