Education

Degrees

Certifications

Employment

Teaching

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ohio Wesleyan University

Oberlin College

Montana State University

University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point

University of Wisconsin—Madison

Research

Publications

2016. "Primer-Prime: Re-Reading The Diamond Age." Reading Matters @IPRH. http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/programs/readingmatters.html.

2013. "(De)Naturalizing Citizenship: Reviewing Civics & Exploring Ideologies." States, Power, and Societies. 18(3): 20.

2011. Review of Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich edited by Marc Hertogh (2009). Law & Society Review. 45(1): 225-227.

2008. Review of Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970's by Sam Binkley (2007). Contemporary Sociology. 37(5): 454-455.

2006. Review of A Matter of Opinion by Victor S. Navasky (2005). The Montana Professor. 16(2): 37-38.

2005. Review of Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary by Keith Edgerton (2004). The Montana Professor. 16(1): 31-32.

2001. "The Legal Environment of Entrepreneurship: Observations on the Legitimation of Venture Finance in Silicon Valley." Pp. 349-382 in The Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Industries, edited by Claudia Bird Schoonhoven & Elaine Romanelli. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (With Mark C. Suchman and Clifford A. Westfall.)

1995. Review of Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment by Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence, III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw (1993). Quarterly Journal of Speech. 81: 136-138. (With Marouf Hasian.)

Presentations

2017. "Grading Academic Freedom." Presented at the annual Amber Buckley-Shaklee Graduate Student Conference, April 14-15, Urbana, IL.

2017. Faculty Guest for AmnesTea regarding Hate Speech, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom, April 13, Champaign, IL.

2016. "Modeling Academic Freedom." Presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 17-20, Chicago, IL.

2016. "Whither the MUSE?" Poster presented at the annual Faculty Summer Institute, May 24, Champaign, IL.

2015. "(The Prequel to) Pathways Between Panic and Panacea: (Distantly Reading) The Discourse of Educational Technologies." Presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 12-15, Baltimore, MD.

2015. "Cumulative and Collaborative Wiki Work for an Introductory Course." Presented at the Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Academy, October 2, Champaign, IL.

2015. "Wikis: Whence & Whither?" Presented at the annual Faculty Summer Institute, May 27-29, Champaign, IL.

2013. "Public Science and the Evolution of Anti-Evolution Discourse." Presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 21-24, Chicago, IL.

2006. "Censorship-Sensors and the Chaining of Socio-Legal Problems." Presented at the biannual Midwest Law and Society Retreat, September 15-16, Madison, WI.

2006. "Negotiating Science in Law's Shadow: The Evolution of the Anti-Evolution Movement." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, July 6-9, Baltimore, MD.

2005. "Framing the Communications Decency Act(s)." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, June 2-5, Las Vegas, NV.

2005. "Practicing Sociolegal Theory as Claims-Making." Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, April 7-10, Portland, OR.

2005. "Mapping Silence: Using Multi-Dimensional Scaling Techniques to Study Censorship and Academic Freedom Discourses." Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, April 7-10, Portland, OR.

2004. "Constructing Censorship as An Infrastructural Public Problem." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 13-15, San Francisco, CA.

2004. "Legal Consciousness in the Free Software/Open Source Movement: A Preliminary Inquiry." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, May 27-30, Chicago, IL.

2004. "Semiotic Isolation: Toward a Network Theory of Censorship." Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, April 15-18, San Francisco, CA.

2003. "CIVE-Keying: (In)Validating Signs of Public Problems." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, June 5-8, Pittsburgh, PA.

2000. "Venturing Forth into the Mis/Adventures of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, May 26-29, Miami Beach, FL.

2000. "Early and Late Canons in Law & Society Research." Presented at the Institute for Legal Studies, Madison, WI.

1999. "The Legal Environment of Entrepreneurship." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, May 26-30, Chicago, IL. (With Mark C. Suchman and Clifford A. Westfall.)

1999. "Framing Censorship: Interactions with Symbolic Power." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, May 26-30, Chicago, IL.

1998. "Law & Society's 'Loose Canon'." Presented in roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 21-25, San Francisco, CA.

1998. "Law & Society's 'Loose Canons': How Many 'Theres' Are There There?" Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, June 4-7, Aspen, CO. (With Mark C. Suchman and Clifford A. Westfall.)

1998. "Intellectual Property as Our Common Heritage." Presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, June 4-7, Aspen, CO.

Service & Professional Affiliations

Interests

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Sociology of Education
Science & Technology Studies, Sociology of Cyberspace
Social Theory, Sociology of Knowledge, History of Sociology
Law & Society, Sociology of Law, Theories of Justice
Social Movements, Social Problems

References

References are available upon request.

Last revised 2017.09.29