Lyn Spillman

Associate Professor of Sociology
(PhD, University of California, Berkeley)
737 Flanner
574-631-8067
email: lspillma@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~lspillma/

Geographic focus: Australia, United States, settler nations

Thematic interests: Cultural sociology; social theory; economic sociology; comparative historical sociology; qualitative methods; political sociology.

Current research: Trade Associations and Economic Governance

Selected publications:“A Special Camaraderie with Colleagues: Business Associations and Cultural Production for Economic Action,” in Isaac Reed and Jeff Alexander, eds., Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology. Yale Series in Cultural Sociology (Paradigm Press, forthcoming); “Texts, Bodies, and the Memory of Bloody Sunday” (with Brian Conway) Symbolic Interaction 30, 1 (2007); “Cultural Sociology at the Crossroads of the Discipline” (with Mark Jacobs) Poetics 33, 1 (2005); “Nations,” (with Russell Faeges), in Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff, eds., The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology (Duke University Press, 2005); “Causal Reasoning, Historical Logic, and Sociological Explanation,” in Jeff Alexander, Gary Marx, and Christine Williams, eds., Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in the Sociological Thought of Neil J. Smelser (University of California Press, 2004); “Enriching Exchange: Cultural Dimensions of Markets,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58 (1999); “When Do Collective Memories Last? Founding Moments in the United States and Australia,” in Jeffry K. Olick, ed., States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (Duke University Press, 2003);  “‘Neither the Same Nation Nor Different Nations’: Constitutional Conventions in the United States and Australia,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 38 (1996).

Public Use Data Set: “National Business Associations, United States, 2003.” Dataset, Codebook, and Project Description. Principal Investigator. Special Collaborators: Rui Gao, Xiahong Xu, Brian Miller, and Georgian Schiopu. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan. No. 4333 (2005).