CURRICULUM VITAE, 2014 Teresa R Gowan IDENTIFYING INFORMATION Academic Rank Associate Professor in Department Of Sociology Graduate Faculty Appointment in CLA Education Degree Institution Date Degree Granted B.A. Manchester 1991 American Studies Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2003 Sociology Dissertation: Sin, Sickness, and the System: Discursive Constructions of Male Homelessness in San Francisco and St. Louis. Adviser: Michael Burawoy. Positions/Employment University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Associate Professor of Sociology 1 2012 to the present University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Assistant Professor 2005-2011 University of Manchester Simon Fellowship 2003-2005 HONORS AND AWARDS FOR RESEARCH/CREATIVE WORK, TEACHING, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, AND SERVICE University of Minnesota Arthur Red Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, CLA Spring 2010 Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Fall 2009 Sociology Department Faculty Mentoring Award 2009 CLA Student Board Outstanding Professor Award 2008 Other Sources Co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2011. Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011. University of Manchester Simon Research Fellowship, 2003-5. UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, Gertrude Jaeger Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, 2002. UC Berkeley Chancellor s Dissertation Fellowship 2001-2 UC Berkeley Dean s Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-2000
UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, Departmental Fellowship, 1996-97 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Labor Studies Section, Harry Braverman Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, 1996. RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CREATIVE WORK Grants and Contracts, University of Minnesota Publications Imagine Award, $5000 Fall 2013 Imagine Award, $5000 Fall 2010 Imagine Award, $3000 Fall 2008 Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies Fall 2009 Grant-in-Aid, $30,311 May 2009 Books or Monographs Teresa Gowan, 2010. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Burawoy, Michael, Joe Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steve Lopez, Sean O Riain, and Millie Thayer. 2000. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Refereed Journal Articles Gowan, Teresa. 2013. Thinking Neoliberalism, Gender, Justice. The Scholar & Feminist Online. Special Issue on Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations edited by Elizabeth Bernstein and Janet R. Jakobsen. (11.1-11.2). http://sfonline.barnard.edu/genderjustice-and-neoliberal-transformations/thinking-neoliberalism-gender-justice/ Gowan, Teresa and Sarah Whetstone. 2012. Making the Criminal Addict: Subjectivity and Social Control in a Strong-Arm Rehab Punishment and Society 14(1). Gowan, Teresa, Sarah Whetstone, and Tanja Andic. 2012 Addiction, Agency, and the Politics of Self-control: Doing Harm Reduction in a Heroin Users Group. Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012): 1251 1260. Gowan, Teresa. 2011. What's Social Capital Got to Do with It?: The Ambiguous (and Overstated) Relationship between Social Capital and Ghetto Underemployment. Critical Sociology. Vol 37:1. Gowan, Teresa. 2009. New Hobos or Neoromantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography Beyond the Neoliberal Disconnect. Qualitative Sociology 32(3):231-257 Gowan, Teresa. 2002. The Nexus: Homelessness and Incarceration in Two American Cities. Ethnography 3(4): 500-535. (Translated into Portuguese in Crime, Direito e Sociedade, Discursos Sediciosos Nº13. Coedição: Instituto de Carioca de Criminologia.) Gowan, Teresa. 2001. The Homeless Recyclers of San Francisco. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 45:105-113. 2
Gowan, Teresa. 1997. American Untouchables: Homeless Scavengers in San Francisco s Underground Economy. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17(3/4):159-190. 2006. Reprinted in Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change, 3 rd Edition, edited by Amy S. Wharton. New York: McGraw-Hill. Book Chapters Gowan, Teresa, and Rachel Slocum. Practicing Plenitude in the Aude: Artisanal Production, Communal Provisioning and Anti-Capitalist Critique in South-West France. In Practicing Plenitude, edited by Juliet B. Schor (Yale University Press, 2014). Gowan, Teresa, and Jack Atmore. 2012. Into the Light: Evangelical Rehab and the Seduction of New Life. In Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 14: Sociology of Addiction, edited by Julie Netherland (Bingley, UK: Emerald Books). Sarah Whetstone and Teresa Gowan. 2011. Diagnosing the Criminal Addict: Biochemistry in the Service of the State, in Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 12: Sociology of Diagnosis, ed. P. J. McGann and David J. Hutson (Bingley, UK: Emerald Books). Gowan, Teresa. 2000. Excavating Globalization from Street Level: Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts. Pp. 74-105 in Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World, Burawoy, Michael, Joe Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steve Lopez, Sean O Riain, and Millie Thayer. Berkeley, CA:University of California Press. Gowan, Teresa and Seán O Riain. 2000. Preface: At Home with the Global Ethnographer. Pp. ix-xv in Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World, by Burawoy, Blum and George, et al. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Reviews of Books Gowan, Teresa. 2009. Review of Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness, by Randall Amster, Contemporary Sociology 38/5:417-419. Gowan, Teresa. 2008. Review of Road Dogs and Loners: Family Relationships among Homeless Men, by Timothy D. Pippert, Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 37/2:130-132. Recent Presentations Invited Presentations at Professional Meetings, Conferences, etc. Keynote presentation at Syracuse University Graduate Student Conference, March 2013. Invited Seminar on Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations at Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York, September 2012. Author meets Critics: Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Denver, 2012. Practicing "Plenitude" in the Aude: Artisanal Production, Communal Provisioning and Anti-Capitalist critique in South-West France, Thematic Session: Beyond Consumerism: The Emergence of Sustainable Consumption Cultures. American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Denver, 2012. 3
Hustler, Convert, Scavenger, Thief: The Criminalization of US Street Informality in Transnational Perspective, Conference: Urban Revolutions in the Age of Global Urbanism, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2012. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, Annual Ann Lucas Lecture at San José State University Justice Studies Department, April 2011 (Author meets critics format.) The Alchemy of Culture and Structure in Homeless San Francisco Thematic Session: Culture and Poverty. American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, 2010. "Images of Addiction and the Self: Treatment Implications." Guest lecture at Edina Chemical Health Network, Minneapolis, 2010. Author Meets Critics: Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. Midwest Sociological Society Meetings, Chicago, 2010. Contributed Papers Presented at Professional Meetings, Conferences, etc. Drugs, Desire, and the Holy Spirit: Inside Christian Rehab (with student Zachary Binsfeld). Midwest Sociological Society Meetings, 2010, Chicago. "One Family under a Higher Power: Rehabilitation and the Whitewashing of Race." (with student Kristin M. Haltinner) Midwest Sociological Society Meetings, 2009, Des Moines. Notions of the Addict : Discursive Constructions of Addiction in Therapeutic Communities and Harm Reduction Programs (with students Sarah Whetstone & Tanja Andic). Midwest Sociological Society Meetings 2009, Des Moines. Don t Look Down! Ethnographic Insights from Role Play in St. Louis Hot Sets, Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, Minneapolis, 2009. New Hobos or Neoromantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography beyond the Neoliberal Disconnect, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Boston, 2009. "Symbolic Violence and American Homelessness," Thematic Session on Violence and the State. European Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Meetings, Bristol, 2006. TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT University of Minnesota Courses, Seminars, and Instructional Units Taught Soc 3451: Cities and Social Change Soc 3701: Social Theory Soc 3003: Social Problems HSEM 3050: Hard Times and Bad Behavior Soc 3415: Consume This! Soc 8890: Advanced Qualitative Methods (Graduate) Soc 8890: Ethnographic Practicum (Graduate) Soc 8890: Discourse Analysis Soc 8701: Sociological Theory Soc 8901: Comparative Marginalities and Poverty Management Curriculum Development Developed the above courses. Urban Studies Program development, 2009-14 4
Faculty Development Activities regarding teaching Early Career Teaching Program (ECTP), 2005-6 Graduate Student Activities Doctoral Students Advised Sarah Whetstone (co-chair) Vania Brightman (co-chair) Kyle Green (co-chair) Madison Van Oort (co-chair) Myrl Beam (American Studies) (co-chair) Tanja Andic (chair) Carolyn Fraker (chair) Erin Hoekstra (co-chair) Yagmur Karayaka (chair) Doctoral Committees Served on Erika Busse Arturo Baiocchi Dan Winchester Kristin Haltinner Megan Krausch Andria Strano Scott Demuth Rachel Grewell Jack Delehanty David Forrest (political science) Sian Butler (geography) Elliott Leffler (theater) Graduate Student Development Activities Leader of Sociology Department s monthly Ethnography Workshop, 2006-10. SERVICE AND PUBLIC OUTREACH Service to the Discipline/Profession/Interdisciplinary Area(s) Editorships/Journal Reviewer Experience Reviewer for American Journal of Sociology (2006-7, 2010), Social Problems (2005), Sociological Review (2005-6), Critical Sociology (2009-10), Cultural Sociology (2007-8), Qualitative Sociology (2009, 2011), Sociological Quarterly (2008-9), Contemporary Sociology, (2008-10), Service to the University/College/Department Collegiate Service and Intercollegiate Service Urban Studies Program (Chair of the Advisory Board 2009-12, Member of the Advisory Board 2012-14) Member of IAS World Cities Collaborative Member of IAS Music and Sound Studies Collaborative 5
Department Service 2005-6 Hiring Committee 2006-7 SRI Committee 2007-8 PT&S Committee 2008-10 Graduate Committee 2010-11 Undergraduate Committee Leader of ongoing monthly Ethnography Workshop, 2006-10 2012-13 SRI Committee 2013-14 Awards Committee Public and Other Service Community Service Activities Faculty Liason and Consultant with Heading Home Hennepin 2008-14. Faculty Liason for the HECUA Urban Studies Program, 2005-14. Workshop Leader, Edina Chemical Health Network, Minneapolis, 2010. Faculty Liason for the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, 2007-10. Workshop Leader, Next Door Homeless Shelter, San Francisco, 2006. Collaborative Researcher, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, 1995-2010. 6