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THOMAS MEDVETZ Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego 401 Social Sciences Building 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92103-0533 510.717.8666 (cell) 858-534.4753 (fax) tmedvetz@ucsd.edu tom.medvetz@gmail.com http://tommedvetz.net http://sociology.ucsd.edu/faculty/bio/medvetz.shtml Academic appointments education _______________________________________ ________________________________________ – PhD University of California, Berkeley, Sociology Assistant Professor Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego - Postdoctoral Associate Institute for the Social Sciences Cornell University MA University of California, Berkeley, Sociology AB Franklin & Marshall College, Sociology & English, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, honors distinction for Sociology, BOOK ____________________________________________ Thomas Medvetz. . Think Tanks in America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Reviewed in Forbes, LSE Review of Books, Public Books, Social Forces, Think Tank Watch Author-meets-critics sessions Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Articles & BOOK chapters ____________________________________________ 2012 Thomas Medvetz. . “Murky Power: ‘Think Tanks’ as Boundary Organizations.” Pp. - in David Courpasson, Damon Golsorkhi, and Jeffrey J. Sallaz, eds. Rethinking Forms of Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets. Bradford, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Thomas Medvetz. . “‘Scholar as Sitting Duck’: The Cronon Affair and the Buffer Zone in American Public Debate.” Public Culture (): -. 2011 Neil Gross, Thomas Medvetz, and Rupert Russell. . “The Contemporary American Conservative Movement.” Annual Review of Sociology : -. 1 2010 Thomas Medvetz. . “‘Public Policy is Like a Having a Vaudeville Act’: Languages of Duty and Difference Among Think Tank-Affiliated Policy Experts.” Qualitative Sociology (): . Thomas Medvetz. . “Terra Obscura: Vers une Théorie des Think Tanks Américains.” [“Terra Obscura: Toward a Theory of American Think Tanks.”] Pp. - in Yann Bérard and Renaud Crespin, eds. Aux Frontières de L’expertise: Dialogues Entre Saviors et Pouvoirs. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2009 Thomas Medvetz. . “Les think tanks aux États-Unis: L’émergence d’un sous-espace de production des savoirs.” [“Think Tanks in the United States: The Emergence of a Subspace of Knowledge Production.”] Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales -: -. 2006 Thomas Medvetz. . “The Strength of Weekly Ties: Relations of Material and Symbolic Exchange in the Conservative Movement.” Politics & Society (): -. Other writing (Civic outreach, book Reviews, encyclopedia entries, interviews, &tC.) ____________________________________________ 2013 Medvetz, Thomas. . “Think Tanks in America.” VOX POP: Newsletter of Political Organizations and Parties (): -. 2012 Medvetz, Thomas. . “Think Tanks and the Rise of Savvy Policy Entrepreneurs.” SSN Key Findings. Scholars Strategy Network. December. <http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/ sites/default/files/ssn_key_findings_medvetz_on_think_tanks.pdf>. Popp Berman, Elizabeth and Thomas Medvetz. . “Interview of Think Tanks in America author Tom Medvetz.” SKATology: Newsletter of the ASA Section on Science, Knowledge & Technology. Fall: -. <http://www.monicajcasper.com/uploads//////fall__ skatology_newsletter.pdf>. 2011 Thomas Medvetz. . “Junior Theorists’ Symposium, .” Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section (): -. 2010 Thomas Medvetz. . “Think Tanks.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer, ed. Blackwell Reference Online <http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com>. 2008 Thomas Medvetz. . “Beyond Credit and Blame.” Political Sociology: States, Power, and Societies. ASA Political Sociology Section Newsletter. (): -. 2 Reprinted as Thomas Medvetz. . “Hope For Change in Public Debate?” San Diego Union-Tribune. December . <http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib//news_ lzemedvetz.html> Thomas Medvetz. . “Think Tanks as an Emergent Field.” New York: Social Science Research Council. <http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/AABA-B-DE-AFACCCEC/>. 2007 Thomas Medvetz. . Review of Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise, by Andrew Rich. Journal of Politics (): -. 2004 Gretchen Purser, Ofer Sharone, and Amy Schalet (with Theresa Gowan and Thomas Medvetz). . Berkeley’s Betrayal: Wages and Working Conditions at Cal. Excerpted in Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, and Richard P. Appelbaum, eds. . Introduction to Sociology. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, th edition. fellowships & Honors ____________________________________________ - - - - - - - Hellman Fellow, University of California, San Diego Outstanding Professor Award, UCSD Panhellenic Council Hellman Fellow, University of California, San Diego University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Conference Grant National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, Award SES, Principal investigator: Jerome Karabel Social Science Research Council, Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector Dissertation Fellowship Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Summer Grant University of California, Berkeley, Dean’s Fellowship University of California, Berkeley, Departmental fellowship, Department of Sociology Phi Beta Kappa, Franklin & Marshall College Keipner Prize in Sociology, Franklin & Marshall College, Awarded to one student in senior class Dana Scholar, Presidential Scholar, Franklin & Marshall College work in progress ____________________________________________ Thomas Medvetz. “The Merits of Marginality: Think Tanks, Conservative Intellectuals, and the Liberal Academy.” For inclusion in Neil Gross and Solon J. Simmons, eds. Professors and Their Politics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Thomas Medvetz and Juraj Medzihorsky. “The Advisory Tower: Educational and Career Pathways of American ‘Policy Experts.’” In progress. 3 invited presentations ____________________________________________ “Indistinction: Rethinking the Think Tank.” Department of Sociology Colloquium Series. University of California, Davis. May , . “The Crystallization of the Space of Think Tanks: Technocrats and Activist-Experts in the American Field of Expertise.” Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) seminar, Stanford University, August , Department of Political Science Seminar Series, Johns Hopkins University, September , Departmental Seminar series, Boston College, March , “What is a Think Tank?: On the New Forms of Intellectual Engagement.” Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference. Department of Sociology. University of California, San Diego. April , . “Terra Obscura: ‘Think Tanks’ in the U.S. Field of Power.” Junior Theorists Symposium. Theory Section of the American Sociological Association. Harvard University. July , . “Hybrid Intellectuals: Think Tanks and Public Policy Experts in the United States.” L'expertise comme objet flou: Déplacemnts d'objets et nouvelles perspectives de recherche dans les sciences du politique. Sciences Po Rennes. March -, . “From Deprivation to Dependency: Think Tanks in the American Welfare Debate, -.” Contentious Knowledge Theme Project Colloquium Series. Institute for the Social Sciences. Cornell University. February , . “Hybrid Intellectuals: Think tanks and Public Policy Experts in the United States.” Department of Science & Technology Studies Colloquium Series. Cornell University. January , . “Think Tanks in America: Four Avenues of Theory and their Connections.” Knowledge in Contention: Social Movements and the Politics of Science. Institute for the Social Sciences. Cornell University. October -, . “The Transformation of U.S. Think Tanks, to today.” Power in Thought and Practice: Years of C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite. Columbia University. April , . “How Do Think Tanks Think About Their Own Success and Failure?” Redefining Progress (Oakland, CA think tank). December , . “Think Tanks, Framing, and the Conservative Movement.” Redefining Progress (Oakland, CA think tank). October , . “Babies, Guns, and Taxes: Notes on the Structure and Logic of the American Conservative Movement.” Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy. University of California, San Francisco. September , . Conference presentations ____________________________________________ 4 “Author Meets Critics: Think Tanks in America, by Thomas Medvetz.” Panelists: Corey Johnson, Gerard Toal, Jamie Peck, and Kevin Ward. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. April -, . Discussant. “Experts and Expert Knowledge in Transnational Fields.” International Studies Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA. April -, . “Author-Meets-Critics: Thomas Medvetz, Think Tanks in America.” Panelists: S.M. Amadae, Andrew Jewett, Neil Gross. Lisa Stampnitzky. Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Vancouver, BC. November -, . “The Crystallization of the Space of Think Tanks: Technocrats and Activist-Experts in the American Field of Expertise.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Vancouver, BC. November -, . Discussant. “Political Culture” session. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Denver, CO. August -, . “The Species Between Fields: On the Generative and Referential Aspects of Social Theory.” Occupy Bourdieu: Un Colloque International Autour de la Pensée de Pierre Bourdieu. Université de Montréal. March , . “The Crystallization of the Space of Think Tanks: Technocrats and ‘Activist-Experts’ in the American Field of Expertise.” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. New York, NY. February -, . “The Contemporary American Conservative Movement.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Boston, MA. November -, . Discussant. “Rightward Tendencies: Making Sense of Conservatism in the Age of Obama.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV. August -, . “‘Indistinction’: Think Tanks, Murky Organizations, and Power.” th EGOS (European Group of Organizational Studies) Colloquium. Lisbon, Portugal. July -, . Moderator. Panel discussion with Claude Fischer, Michael Schudson, and Margaret Talbot. th UCSD Culture Conference. “Meaning and Media: Getting Sociology Across in the Public Sphere.” University of California, San Diego. May , . “From Deprivation to Dependency: Think Tanks in the American Welfare Debate, -.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Boston, MA. August -, . Moderator and discussant. “Frames and Framing Processes in Diffusion.” Workshop on Contentious Knowledge and the Diffusion of Social Protest. Institute for the Social Sciences. Cornell University. November -, . “The Double Movement: Growing Boundedness and Dependence Among U.S. Think Tanks, to Today.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Minneapolis, MN. November -, . “Hybrid Intellectuals: Toward a Social Praxeology of Think Tank Experts.” Practicing Pierre Bourdieu: In the Field and Across Disciplines. University of Michigan. September -, . 5 “Merchants of Expertise: Think Tanks and Intellectuals in the U.S. Field of Power.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montreal, QC. August -, . “The Strength of Weekly Ties: Institutional and Ideological Cohesion in the Conservative Movement.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. August -, . “Taking Bourdieu into the (Interstitial) Field: Think Tanks, Intellectuals, and Politics in the U.S.” Putting Pierre Bourdieu to Work : A Working Conference. University of California, Berkeley. May -, . Panelist. “The Virtues of Voluntarism and Nonprofit Organizations: Arguments in American Social Policy and Politics.” Social Science Research Council Capstone Conference on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector. Florence, Italy. March -, . “Merchants of Expertise: The Transformation of American Think Tanks, -.” Social Science Research Council, Indiana University, and Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Fellows’ Workshop. Los Angeles, CA. November -, . “The Transformation of American Think Tanks: Three Lessons for Students of Advocacy.” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. April -, . MEDIA (citations available upon request) ____________________________________________ Print Chronicle of Philanthropy, Washington Post Electronic Blogotariat, Bookforum, Campaign for the American Reader, Cato@Liberty, Crooked Timber, Forbes.com, LSE Review of Books, The New Faculty Majority, On Think Tanks, Price of Data, Public Books, Think Tank Watch, Wonkblog Professional activities & Memberships ____________________________________________ Association memberships American Sociological Association (ASA), – International Studies Association (ISA), – Social Science History Association (SSHA), – Scholars Strategy Network (SSN), – ASA section activities - Nominating Committee, Theory Section Co-organizer with Claire Laurier Decoteau, Theory Section Roundtables Faculty mentor, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) mentoring committee Co-organizer with Michal Pagis, Junior Theorist Symposium, Theory Section 6 Selection committee, Shils-Coleman award for best graduate student paper, Theory Section Conference & workshop organizing Co-organized with Michal Pagis. Junior Theorists Symposium. Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Theory section. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. August , . Conservative Movements Workshop series. Department of Sociology. University of California, San Diego. -. Co-organized with Amy Binder, Mary Blair-Loy, John Evans, and Kwai Ng. th UCSD Culture Conference. “Meaning and Media: Getting Sociology Across in the Public Sphere.” University of California, San Diego. May , . Reviewer American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, Ethnography, Oxford University Press, Poetics, Policy & Politics, Polity Press, Princeton University Press, Qualitative Sociology, Sage Publications, Science and Public Policy, Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Sociological Theory, The Sociological Quarterly, University of Chicago Press Other Guest blogger, OrgTheory <http://orgtheory.wordpress.com>. September-November . Working group member, Social Science Research Council (SSRC). “Think Tanks: Knowledge, Governance and the Public Sphere.” - Member, Berkeley Labor Research Group. - Editorial collective. Berkeley Journal of Sociology. - Department & university service ____________________________________________ Graduate admissions committee, Department of Sociology, UCSD, - Organizer, Conservative Movements Workshop, Department of Sociology, UCSD, - Committee member, Culture & Society Workshop, Department of Sociology, UCSD, - Graduate program curriculum committee, Department of Sociology, UCSD, - Teaching & advising ____________________________________________ Graduate seminars Independent studies (graduate supervisor) Power & Reflexivity in Pierre Bourdieu (Winter ) Sociology of organizations (Winter ) Sociology of culture (Spring , ) Sociology of knowledge (Fall ) Pierre Bourdieu (Spring ) Culture & politics (Spring ) Undergraduate classes Classical theory (Winter , ) Field research methods (Spring , ) Political sociology (Fall , Winter , Spring , ) Social change (Fall ) 7 Sociology of culture (Fall , Winter , , ) Other teaching & advising activities Graduate student instructor, University of California, Berkeley, - (four semesters) Teaching assistant, Center for Talented Youth (CTY), Johns Hopkins University, Summer Faculty mentor, Revelle College “Next Step” Program, UCSD, Winter-Spring Graduate student committees ____________________________________________ Dissertation Field exam David Kadanoff (Sociology, ongoing) Laura Pecenco (Sociology, ongoing) Aaron Marquette (Sociology, ongoing) Jennifer Nations (Sociology, ongoing) Ellis Dillon (Sociology, ) Aaron Marquette (Sociology, ) Non-sociology David White (Department of Visual Arts, st year review, ) Joe Yorty (Department of Visual Arts, st year review, ) References ____________________________________________ Available upon request Last updated: April 8
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