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Education
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B.A. Political Science, Yale University, 1/1982
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Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley, 1/1993
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 01/01/1994-01/01/2004
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Nina Eliasoph's areas of specialization include: U.S. politics and political culture, ethnography, nonprofit sector, language and interaction, classical and contemporary social and political theory, politics of private life.
Funded Research
Contracts and Grants Awarded
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The Dynamic of Civic Engagement (National Science Foundation), Chris Weare, Paul Lichterman, Nina Eliasoph, $125,000, 09/01/2007-08/31/2010
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"Connecting Affordable Housing and Green Neighborhoods in Los Angeles: how organizations link issues (John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Faculty F), Nina Eliasoph, $10,000, 2009-2010
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Building a Meaningful Interdisciplinary Agenda for Civic Engagement Research (USC, Center for Religion and Civic Culture), Nina Eliasoph, Chris Weare, Juliet Musso, Ann Crigler, $35,000, 10/01/2005-07/01/2007
Publications
Book
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Eliasoph, N. Grassroots Politics and Volunteers in Global Perspective. Cambridge: Polity Press.
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Eliasoph, N.
(2009).
The Empowerment Project: how good ideas can turn inside out in American youth volunteer programs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Eliasoph, N. S. Ethnographies of Civil Society Around the World. Ethnographies of Civil Society Around the World.
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Eliasoph, N. S.
(1998).
Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Book Chapter
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Eliasoph, N., Lichterman, P.
(2009).
Making Things Political. NY: Routledge Press.
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Eliasoph, N.
(2009).
Rendre publique l’intimité et mesurer le ‘travail de volontariat:’ L’enchevêtrement d’horizons moraux dans un programme d’engagement civique pour la jeunesse aux Etats-Unis, in "Qu’est-ce que le care? Souci de soi, sensibilité, responsabilité. Paris: L'Harmattan.
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Eliasoph, N. S.
(2007).
Lo sforzo nella creazione di Comunità, Natura, Intimità: Astrazioni sul Sapere Locale.". FrancoAngeli: In Nome di Chi? Partecipazione e rappresentanza nelle mobilitazioni locali (In Whose Name? Participation and Representation in Local Collective Action), Tommaso Vitale, editor.
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Eliasoph, N. S.
(2007).
"Beyond the Politics of Denunciation: cultural sociology as the ‘sociology for the meantime.’" in Cultural Sociology and the Democratic Imperative, Jeffrey Alexander and Isaac Reed, editors. Cultural Sociology and the Democratic Imperative, Paradigm Press.
Journal Article
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Eliasoph, N.
(2009).
Top-Down Civic Projects Are Not Grassroots Associations: how the differences matter in everyday life. Voluntas: the international journal of voluntary and nonprofit organizations.
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Eliasoph, N., Lo, J.
(2008).
Inside Hybrid Organizations: an ethnographic investigation. Academy of Management Journal.
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Eliasoph, N. S.
(2003).
"Culture in Interaction." (Co-authored with Paul Lichterman). American Journal of Sociology. American Journal of Sociology.
Vol. 18, pp. 4735-4794.
Advisement
Other Advisement or Time Devoted to Students
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started interdisciplinary reading group on time and narrative in everyday practice in organizations, 2007-
New Courses Developed
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La démocratie participative, Université de Lyon, short course, 05/10/2009-05/26/2009
Teaching Innovations and Multimedia Teaching
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visiting workshops on ethnographic methods, 05/01/2004-
Honors and Awards
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National Science Foundation Grant , 9/1/2007-8/31/2008
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