USC College Department of Sociology
 

Nina Eliasoph
Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact Information
Office: KAP 352
Phone: (213) 740-3533
E-mail: eliasoph@email.usc.edu

 

Education

  • B.A. Political Science, Yale University, 1/1982
  • Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley, 1/1993

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

  • 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
  • The Dynamic of Civic Engagement (National Science Foundation), Chris Weare, Paul Lichterman, Nina Eliasoph, $125,000, 09/01/2007-08/31/2010  

Publications

Book
  • Eliasoph, N. Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down: youth programs in an era of government outsourcing.
  • Eliasoph, N. S. Ethnographies of Civil Society Around the World. Ethnographies of Civil Society Around the World.
  • Eliasoph, N. S. (1998). Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Book Chapter
  • Eliasoph, N., Lichterman, P. (2008). Making Things Political. NY: Routledge Press.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Eliasoph, N., Lo, J. (2008). Inside Hybrid Organizations: an ethnographic investigation. Academy of Management Journal.
  • 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.

Honors and Awards

  • National Science Foundation Grant , 9/1/2007-8/31/2008  
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