Curriculum Vitae

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CURRENT POSITION

July 1994-present	Professor, University of California, Berkeley
	Department of Sociology/Boalt Hall School of Law

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

January 1993-June 1994	Doris Stevens Chair of Women’s Studies
	Princeton University
July 1986-January 1993	Professor, University of California, Berkeley
	Department of Sociology and
	Boalt Hall School of Law
July 1976-July 1986	Assistant, Associate and Full Professor
	University of California, San Diego

 

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

2003	Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award
1998	Open Society Institute Individual Project Fellowship
1997	Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997	National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
1996	Dubious Conceptions selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
1995	Elected to Sociological Research Association (membership limited to 150 active members.)
1994	Testimony solicited on teenage pregnancy, The White House
1993	Chosen as one of three sociologists to meet with President Clinton to discuss “issues confronting the nation.”
1992	Chosen to give the Katz-Newcombe lectures, University of Michigan.
1992	Chosen to give the Katz-Newcombe lectures, University of Michigan.
1990	Commonwealth Fund, Grant
1988	Spencer Foundation, Grant
1987	Ford Foundation, Grant
1986	Invited to Center for Advanced Study for the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto
1985	John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1985	Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Charles Horton
	Cooley Award. (Awarded to Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood.)
1984	Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood nominated for Pulitzer Prize.
1984	Warren College, UCSD, Distinguished Teaching Award.
1979	American Sociological Association. Jessie Bernard Award, Honorable Mention.(Awarded to Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept.)

 

SELECTED JOURNALISM AND REVIEWS

“The Long Road To Roe” (Review of David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade), New York Times Book Review, February 20, 1994

“Explaining Sex to Juries” (Review of Richard Green, Sexual Science and the Law), New York Times Book Review, January 31, 1993

“She’s Come to You For An Abortion”, Harpers, November, 1992

 

SELECTED LECTURES AND PAPERS

“Clashing Goals,” Los Angeles Conference on Pregnant and Parenting Teens, sponsored by Public Counsel, October 1998.

“Incentives: Social Policy and Ethical Considerations,” Incentives Project Working Summit, March 1998.

“Does Pregnancy Trap Girls in Poverty? Does Poverty Trap Girls in Pregnancy?”, California Wellness Foundation and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, October 1997.

“The Myth of Teenage Pregnancy,” Second Annual Teenage Parenting Issues Conference, California State University, Chico, April 1997.

“The Sexuality of Young Americans”, National Academy of Sciences, Woods Hole, September 1994.

“The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy”, Harvard Divinity School, June 1994.

 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

1995-1997	Consultant, Women’s Health Collaborative, Berkeley, CA
1993	Amicus brief, ACLU
Reviewer	American Journal of Sociology; Social Forces;
	Signs:A Journal of Women; Social Problems;
	Demography; Studies in Family Planning;
	Journal of American Statistical Association;
	American Sociological Review; Law and Society Review;
	Sociological Theory
Reviewer	University of California Press, Yale University Press,
	University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press.
Reviewer	National Institute of Child Health and Human
	Development
Reviewer	National Science Foundation
Reviewer	National Research Council (Assembly of Life Sciences)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/BOOKS

2005 (Forthcoming)	The Hidden Sexual Revolution, W.W. Norton, fall 2005
1996	Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of the Teenage Pregnancy Crisis,    Harvard University Press
1984	Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, University of California Press.
1975	Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept, University of California Press.  (A second edition, with a new introduction, was published in 1991.)

 

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Salsa Dancing in the Social Sciences.  Manuscript on the history and current practice of research methodologies in the social sciences.  (Manuscript drafted; chapters available upon request.)

“When did Numbers Change Gender?” Scholarly manuscript on the social location of “objectivity” and quantification at the University of Chicago, 1895-1927.

 

SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

“Sex, Social Hygiene and the Double-Edged Sword of Social Reform,” Theory and Society 27: 601-634, 1998.

“Does Liberalism Cause Sex?” (with Jane Mauldon), The American Prospect, Winter 1996.

“The Effects of Sex Education on Contraceptive Behavior” (with Jane Mauldon), Family Planning Perspectives, March 1996.

Introduction to Jean O’Barr Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community Through Women’s Studies (University of North Carolina Press), 1994.

“Should Public Policy Be Aimed at Preventing Teenage Pregnancy?” in MaryAnn Mason and Eileen Gambrill (eds.) Debating Children’s Lives, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), 1994.

"Dubious Conceptions," American Prospect, Spring, 1991.

"The War Between the Women," Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 16, No. 3, May, 1984.

"The Meaning of Life," in Callahan and Callahan (eds.), Abortion: Understanding Differences, Plenum, 1984.

"Abortion in the 19th Century: A Domestic Technology," in J. Zimmerman (ed.), The Technological Woman, Praeger, 1983.

"Contraceptive Use in Social Context," in Ethical Values in Human Reproductive Technology, H. Holmes, ed., National Science Foundation, 1980.

"Contraceptive Risk-Taking and Abortion," Studies in Family Planning, vol. 8, no. 8, August, 1977.

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