Curriculum Vitae ALEXANDRA KOWALSKI Assistant Professor Sociology and Social Anthropology Central European University, Budapest Visiting Fellow Institute for Public Knowledge New York University Permanent Mailing Address: 132 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 kowalskia@ceu.hu Tel: 917 741 8266 (US permanent resident) AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND INTEREST Historical and Comparative Sociology, Political Sociology, State Theory Cultural Sociology, Culture and Globalization Social Theory, Epistemology of the Social Sciences EDUCATION New York University Ph.D., Sociology. 2007. Thesis: From Cathedrals to Teaspoons: the General Inventory and the Cultural Wealth of the French Nation. Advisor : Craig Calhoun. M.A., Sociology. 2002. Sorbonne-Paris IV M.A., Philosophy (major in epistemology of the social sciences). 1994. Advisor : Raymond Boudon. High honors. B.A., Philosophy. High honors. 1993. Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm Universität (Bonn, Germany) Highest honors for course work toward the Master s degree (ERASMUS fellow). 1993-1994. Lycée Charles Poncet (Cluses, France) Baccalauréat. Highest honors. 1990. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2013 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU 2008-present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) 1
2010 Visiting scholar, Department of Art History and Communication, McGill University, Montréal 2005-2008 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) 2000-2005 Instructor, Sociology Department, New York University 2002, 2003 Graduate Assistant, Core Curriculum, New York University 2002 Fellow, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France 2001-2002 Fellow, Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Culture of the French Government 1998-1999 Assistant to the Director, La Maison Française, New York University TEACHING* AND ADVISING Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University 2014-2015 Knowledge, Expertise and the State (MA and PhD) Cultural Heritage Policy (Cultural Heritage MA program) 2005-present Contemporary Social Theory (mandatory, MA) 2005-present Sociology of the State (MA and PhD) 2008-present Cultural Goods: history, institutions, practices (MA, PhD) 2005-2007 Classical Sociological Theory (mandatory, MA) 2005-2007 Macro-Sociology (mandatory, PhD) 2005, 2006 Cultural Policy: Historical and Critical Perspectives (MA and PhD) Department of Public Policy, Central European University 2009-present Cultural Goods: history, institutions, practices (MA, PhD) Department of Sociology, New York University 2000, 2003, 2004 Introduction to Sociology (undergraduate) 2001, 2004 Introduction to Sociology (undergraduate, as TA) 2002 Antiquity and the 19th Century (Core curriculum, undergrad, TA) *courses fully designed and taught unless indicated otherwise Advising Main advisor to doctoral students Aleksandra Lis (2007-2012), Mariya Ivancheva (2008- present), Jana Tsoneva (2013-present). Thesis committee: Anca Simionca (2007-2012). Advisor to MA students working on a thesis: 4 to 12 yearly since 2005. 2
PUBLICATIONS 2013. Studying Sexuality and the Self through Stories and Comparison Sage Research Methods Cases Series (forthcoming, with Monika Krause). 2013. Reflexive Habits: Dating and Rationalised Conduct in New York and Berlin The Sociological Review (with Monika Krause). 2012. The nation, rescaled: Theorizing the decentralization of collective memory in contemporary France Comparative Studies in Society and History 54:2. 2011. When cultural accumulation became global practice: UNESCO s 1972 Convention on World Heritage in Bandelj N. and Wherry F., The Cultural Wealth of Nations, Stanford University Press. 2007. State Power as Field Work: Culture and Practice in the French Survey of Historic Landmarks, in Sennett R. and Calhoun C., Practicing Culture, London/New York: Routledge. 2005. «L Inventaire Malraux: une conquête administrative et culturelle», Présence d André Malraux, Special issue «André Malraux et l Inventaire Général». Reviews 2014. Heritage: International Governance Perspectives. A review essay on D. Barthel s Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability; Bendix, F. Regina, Aditya Eggert and Arnika Peselmann, Heritage Regimes and the State; and Francioni, Francesco and James Gordley (eds.) Enforcing International Cultural Heritage Law. (Forthcoming, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale) 2013. Chiara Bortolotto (ed.), Le Patrimoine culturel immatériel (2011) (Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale) Translations 2005. Ruth Horowitz. «Pratique et contrôle disciplinaire de la médecine aux Etats-Unis: Quelle protection pour le public?» Revue Française des Affaires Sociales 59(1) :271-302. (Full translation from English into French) 2004. Sherry Ortner, «Subjectivité et critique culturelle», Awal Revue d Etudes Berbères No 31. (Full translation from English into French) 2003. Henri Lefebvre, Space and the State in Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones and Gordon MacLeod eds., State/Space: A Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. (Lead author, collective translation from the French) 2002. Craig Calhoun, «Les transformations institutionnelles des sciences sociales 3
américaines,» in Johan Heilbron, Remi Lenoir et Gisèle Sapiro, eds., Pour une histoire des sciences sociales, Paris: Fayard. (Full translation from English into French) WORK IN PROGRESS Under review ANT, power, critique: On Reconsidering Symbolic Boundaries, and Crossing Them, Sociological Theory. In progress Regimes of Justification: Exceptionalism in the use of TRIPS and GATS (with Nitsan Chorev) Putting Idiom in the Repertoire of Cultural Sociology: the Study and Comparison of the Symbolic Grammars of Nationalism Birth of the Cultural Leviathan: The Case of the Public Museum at the Turn of the 19 th Century The Birth of Heritage: History and the Politics of Space in Post-War France (book manuscript) INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES 2012 Revisiting Bourdieu s work through the circulation lens: Exchange theory of culture or cultural theory of exchange? Conference Cultures of Circulation, org. Melissa Aronczyck, Carleton University/NYU. 2010 The Field of Heritage after WWII: Formation and Growth. V4 Summer University, Anthropology Department, University of Warsaw. Urban development and leaking black boxes: ambiguous mobilization, unfinished conservation, and disputed identity in the "Jewish district" of Budapest, 2000-2009. Workshop Media and Urban Life, Université du Québec à Montréal/ McGill University. 2009 A History of Cultural Objects and Emergence of the Knowledge Society. Seminar Culture as Resource, org. Imre Szeman, SUN program, CEU, Budapest. Socio-genesis of the World Heritage Convention. Workshop The Cultural Wealth of Nations, org. Fred Wherry and Nina Bandelj, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 4
Collecting and economic crisis. Round table on Cultural policy in times of economic crisis, org. Dragan Klaic, CEU, Budapest. 2008 Identity of Facades. Screening of two short films about ancient architecture and its restoration in Budapest (films made with Pedro Lange and Lazsló Muntean). The Urban Workshop, CEU, Budapest. 2005 Cultural Capitalization and the Nation-State: case and concept in sociological theory. First meeting of the Junior Theorists Symposium, Theory Section, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia. 2004 Cultural Capitalization in Historical Perspective: the Case of Surveys of Cultural Property. Putting Bourdieu to Work: A Working Conference, org. Loic Wacquant and Craig Calhoun, The New School, New York. CONFERENCE PAPERS 2013. Birth of the Cultural Leviathan: On the Social Sources of States Interest in Cultural Commodities in the Early Modern Period. SSHA Annual Meeting, Chicago. 2013 Cultural Property : a Case of Primitive Accumulation? Round table on Global Heritage, org. Vaughn Schmutz and Michael Elliott, Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, Boston. (March 2013) 2013 Putting Idiom in the Repertoire of Cultural Sociology: Toward the Study and Comparison of Symbolic Grammars. Mini-conference on Comparative Cultural Sociology, ESS, Boston. (March 2013) 2012 Inheritance as Inscription: Catalogues, Registries, and Surveys in the Making of Heritage. Conference Rethinking Heritage, Anthropology Department, The New School, New York. 2010 Heritage and the city (session organizer). Sociology of Art Section, International Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenbsurg. 2009 The State and the Arts (session organizer and chair). Section Culture de l American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco. Heritage at the Cross-roads (co-organizer with J.L. Fabiani and session chair) International Institute of Sociology World Congress, Yerevan. 2008 When cultural accumulation became global practice: the UNESCO Convention on World Heritage as a historical turning point. Session Constructing the Cultural Wealth of Nations. International Sociological Association annual meeting, Barcelone. 5
Unemployment reduction programs in Poland: an actor-network analysis (with Aleksandra Lis), International Sociological Association annual meeting, Barcelone. 2007 Rescaling the nation: the impact of state decentralization on French policies of historic preservation. Section Sociology of Globalization de l American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York. 2006 The Field of State Power: Culture on the Ground of Historic Preservation. Session ordinaire de la Section Culture, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Montréal. 2004 French Monuments and their Fragments: the State production of Cultural Difference in the Age of Heritage. Session Nations and Nationalism after the Cultural Turn, Section Culture, American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco. 2003 The Nation s New Clothes: the Social Movement of Cultural Workers against the GATT and the Reinvention of Frenchness. Workshop Culture and Institutions, New York University. 2001 The Cultural Development Turn: French Cultural Policy in a MultipolarWorld, 1965-1982. Conference Researching Culture, University of North London. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2009 Central European University, Faculty Research Grant. 2005 New York University, Sociology Department, Best student paper. 2005 New York University, Dean s Dissertation Fellowship. 2001-2004 New York University, Full Scholarship Awarded for Academic Merit. 2002 Camargo Foundation, Research Fellow. 2001 French Ministry of Culture, Department of Research, Fellow. 2000 Council for European Studies, Columbia University, Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. 1993 Erasmus Fellowship for Studies Abroad (E.U.). SERVICE To the Department (Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University) 6
Director, MA program, 2011-2012. Director, doctoral program, 2009-2010. Website and IT Faculty Coordinator, 2007-2010 et 2011-2012. Member, Recruiting committee for M.A. et Ph.D students, 2005-2010 et 2012. Member, Doctoral Committee, 2007-2010. Co-producer and organizer, departmental seminar (invited lectures), 2006-2010. Member, selection committee, post-doctoral position, 2010. Co-organizer, student photo competition, 2008. Co-organizer, conference Ethnicity and Ethnic Strife, CEU/Cornell U./U. of Michigan. To the University (Central European University) Board member, MA curriculum in Cultural Heritage Studies, 2012-present. Member, committee on Equal Opportunity, 2009-present. Member, recruiting committee, Institute of Advanced Studies, 2011-2012. Organizer, seminar on academic job markets for PhD students, 2010. Co-organizer, conference on Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences, 2010-2011. Organizer and coordinator, training program in sociological theory for professors from Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Curriculum Resource Center, 2007-2011. Member, recruiting committee, assistant prof. position in sexuality and gender theory, Gender Department, 2009. Member, steering committee, MA curriculum in Cultural Policy, Department of Public Policy, 2008. Member, faculty committee for the accreditation of CEU by the US board of Education, 2008. To the Profession Regular reviewer of culture/heritage books for Social Anthropology. Session Organizer, Sociology of Art Section, International Sociological Association annual meeting, Gothenburg, 2011. 7
Session organizer and chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, 2009. Session co-organizer and chair, Heritage at the Cross-roads, International Institute of Sociology World Congress, Yerevan, 2009. Occasional reader of article submissions: American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Social Forces. Occasional reader of book manuscripts: Routledge, Cambridge University Press. Member, American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, Eastern Sociological Society. 8