Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter

Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, the volume I co-edited with Asia Friedman, is now available in hard cover and digital editions (soft cover forthcoming in Spring 2024)! The book abstract (different from the blurb posted below), all chapter abstracts, and contributor bios are available on the promotional site I designed for the book, Read More

Featured in Washington Post Article

Excited to have my research and experience spotlighted, alongside the advocacy work of NPOAS and Flat Closure Now, in this Washington Post article on mastectomy and aesthetic flat closure by journalist Fran Kritz. READ FULL ARTICLE Flat closure has always been an option, but Anne Marie Champagne, a PhD student at Yale whose research is Read More

Appointed to NPOAS Advisory Council

I am honored and excited to announce that I have been appointed to the Advisory Council of NPOAS, a nonprofit advocating for the right to optimal aesthetic outcomes – surgical closures – for BC patients who choose to live flat after mastectomy. I look forward to sharing both my sociocultural expertise and personal experience to Read More

Body and Embodiment in Society (Syllabus)

Body & embodiment in society Syllabus by Anne Marie Champagne  While home sick and waiting for delayed COVID PCR test results, I finished designing, from scratch, the first draft of my syllabus for “Body and Embodiment in Society,” which I envision teaching as an upper-level college seminar. I go heavy on the reading (80-120 pages Read More

Theory of an Art Market Scandal

This month our inaugural guest edited special issue, on the cultural sociology of reading, went to print.  We are now working with Lisa McCormick (University of Edinburgh) on the second issue in our guest curated series, a special issue on the cultural sociology of music and art, forthcoming early 2022, and we are pleased to Read More

NEW IN PRINT – AJCS Vol 9.2 – The Cultural Sociology of Reading

The latest issue of AJCS is now available online and in print! AJCS Volume 9, issue 2, June 2021 Special issue on the Cultural Sociology of Reading Issue editors: María Angélica Thumala Olave & Jeffrey C. Alexander Managing Editor: Anne Marie Champagne 7 articles in this issue: 1. Exploring the sacrality of reading as a Read More