ACADEMIC WRITING & PROJECTS

WRITING   ACADEMIC   CREATIVE   OTHER

BOOKS

Champagne, Anne Marie and Asia Friedman (eds). (Forthcoming 2023) Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter. UK: Bristol University Press.

CHAPTERS

Champagne, Anne Marie and Asia Friedman. (Forthcoming 2023) “Introduction: Between Meaning and Matter.” In Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, edited by A.M. Champagne and A. Friedman. UK: Bristol University Press.

Champagne, Anne Marie. (Forthcoming 2023) “Toward a Strong Cultural Sociology of the Body and Embodiment.” In Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, edited by A.M. Champagne and A. Friedman. UK: Bristol University Press.

ARTICLES

Champagne, Anne Marie. (Under review). “Femininity as Positive Proclamation: From the Subjugation of ‘Achievement’ to Affective Affirmation.” Journal of Femininities, Special Issue on The Importance of Femininities (forthcoming).

Champagne, Anne Marie. (In progress). “Soma, Sense, Self: Marx, Weber, and Merleau-Ponty at play in the fields of Hans Joas’s theory of creative action.”

Champagne, Anne Marie. (In progress). “Ambivalence and the Lyrical Self: An Aesthetic Theory of Meaning-making.”

“Champagne, Anne Marie. (In progress). “Aesthetic Power in Social Life.”

“Champagne, Anne Marie. (In progress). “Mastectomy, Materiality and Meaning: A Sociological Enquiry into the Iconicity of the Beautiful and the Sublime.”

“Champagne, Anne Marie. (In progress). “The Conceit of Interpretation.”

“Champagne, Anne Marie. (In progress). “Civil Masculinity.”

PRESENTATIONS & WORKING PAPERS

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2024. “Marx and Weber at Play in the Fields of Hans Joas’s Creative Action Theory.” Paper presentation. American Sociological Association 2024 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Section on History of Sociology and Social Thought Session: The Continued Relevance of both Marx and Weber for Contemporary Sociology, forthcoming August 2024.

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2018. “Beauty and the Breast: Mastectomy, Materiality and the Iconicity of Gender Identity.” Peer reviewed original paper presented at the American Sociological Association 2018 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Regular session: Culture and Identity. August 14, 2018. (Earlier versions of this paper were workshopped on January 26, 2018, at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, and April 19, 2018, at the New Directions Conference, Dept. of Sociology, University of Edinburgh.)

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2018. “(un)Bearable Flatness: Gender Surface/Depth and the Reenchantment of the Mastectomized Body.” Invited talk, American University of Paris, Gender, Sexuality and Society Program, April 27, 2018.

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2016. “The Iconicity of the Breast: (En)gendering Material Meaning after Mastectomy.” Peer reviewed paper presented at the American Sociological Association 2016 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Section on Sociology of Culture Refereed Roundtable Session. (FULL TEXT)

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2016. “Gender Dramas: Mastectomy, Iconic Power, and the Mise-en-Scène of the Body.” Eastern Sociological Society 2016 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Power and the Body Mini-Conference Session. March 18, 2016.

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2015. “Flat-chested: Refiguring the Cultural Lex of Sex and Gender after Mastectomy.” Center for Cultural Sociology workshop, Yale University, Apr 17, 2015.

ESSAYS & OTHER WRITING

forthcoming

GUEST BLOGS

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2016. “Thinking about Gender Surface/Depth, Iconicity, and What Breasts Have Got to Do With It.” ASA Section on Body and Embodiment Blogs. (http://sectionbodyembodiment.weebly.com/blog/thinking-about-gender-surfacedepth-iconicity-and-what-breasts-have-got-to-do-with-it)

hard copy >> Thinking About Gender Surface/Depth

Champagne, Anne Marie. 2007. “Tanya Preminger: Mater Nostra.” Art on Wry. (http://artonwry.blogspot.com/2007/12/tanya-preminger-mater-nostra.html)

hard copy >> Champagne - 2007 - Tanya Preminger: Mater Nostra
other locations >> www.tanyapreminger.com

PROJECT MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH ASSISTANCE

Project Organization and Management:

CST mini-conference in Trento, Italy, October 18-19, 2021.

CST mini-conference in Brno, Czech Republic, July 2, 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19.)

Civil Sphere Theory Working Group. The CSTWG project involves more than a hundred social scientists and social theorists from around the world who see themselves as an emerging intellectual-cum-moral network aimed at transforming global social science. In addition to the working group, we have formed an international steering committee, and are planning conferences during the summers of 2020 (in Brno, Czech Republic) and 2022 (in Adelaide, Australia), twinning with the official “mid-term” and “World Congress” meetings of the Theory Section of the International Sociological Association.

The Indian Civil Sphere conference and book project. Editors: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, Connecticut, Suryakant Waghmore, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

The Civil Sphere and Populism conference and book project. Organizers: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, Connecticut, Giuseppe Sciortino, University of Trento, Italy, and Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, Illinois.

Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere conference and book project. Editors: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, Connecticut, Trevor Stack, University of Aberdeen, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Civil Sphere in East Asia conference and book project. Editors: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, Connecticut, David A. Palmer, The University of Hong Kong, Sunwoong Park, Korea National University of Education, Agnes Shuk-mei Ku, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Civil Sphere in Latin America conference and book project. Editors: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, Connecticut, Carlo Tognato, Universidad Nacional de Columbia, Bogota.

Research assistance:

Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2019) What Makes a Social Crisis?: The Societalization of Social Problems. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. (www.politybooks.com)

Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2018) “The Societalization of Social Problems: Church Pedophilia, Phone Hacking, and the Financial Crisis.” American Sociological Review. (FULL TEXT)

Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2017) The Drama of Social Life. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. (www.wiley.com)

Alexander, J. C. (2017) “Seizing the stage: social performances from Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King, and Black Lives Matter Today.” Sociologias 19(44):198-246. (FULL TEXT)

CREDITS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, & CITATIONS

Guhin, J., Calarco, J. M., & Miller-Idriss, C. (2020, August 29). Whatever Happened to Socialization?. SocArXiv Papers. (FULL TEXT)

Broch, Trygve B. (2020) A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life. London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. (www.palgrave.com)

Stingl, Alexander I. (2020) Care, Power, Information: For the Love of BluesCollarship in the Age of Digital Culture, Bioeconomy, and (Post-)Trumpism. UK: Routledge. (www.routledge.com)

Morgan, Marcus. (2020) “Why Meaning-Making Matters: The case of the UK Government’s Covid-19 response.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8(3). (FULL TEXT)

Karakeya, Yağmur. (2020) “The Conquest of hearts: the central role of Ottoman nostalgia within contemporary Turkish populism.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8(2):125-157. (FULL TEXT)

Woods, Eric Taylor. (2019) “The anatomy of memory politics: a formalist analysis of Tate Britain’s ‘Artist and Empire’ and the struggle over Britain’s imperial past.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology: 1-26. (FULL TEXT)

Norton, Matthew. (2018) “Meaning on the move: synthesizing cognitive and systems concepts of culture.” AJCS:1-28. (FULL TEXT)

Mast, Jason L. (2017) “Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election.” AJCS 5(3):460-480. (FULL TEXT)

Coelho, M. C. (2016) “Family and Work: ‘Having it all’.” In Anais do Congresso Brasileiro de Estudos Organizacionais.(FULL TEXT)

McDonnell, Terence E. (2016) Best laid plans: Cultural entropy and the unraveling of AIDS media campaigns. IL:University of Chicago Press. (press.uchicago.edu)

Cortese Coelho, M. (2015) “‘We have many extremely competent women who end up not being seen’: A Case-Study of Gender Equality Perception in a Norwegian Company in Brazil.” (FULL TEXT)

Deffa, O. J. (2015) Making (Up) A Difference: Misconceptions About Genderlects. Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München. (www.amazon.de)