Crystal Fleming
Ph.D. 2011, Harvard
Crystal.Fleming@stonybrook.edu
Areas of Interest
Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Sociology, Collective Memory, Qualitative Methods, Sociological Theory and Comparative Sociology
Bio
As a cultural sociologist, my research is concerned with understanding how individuals interpret and respond to racism and discrimination. At the heart of my work is an interest in reducing group boundaries and revealing the conditions and mechanisms that promote inter-ethnic solidarity, empathy and cooperation.
Related interests include ethnoracial identification, collective memories of ethnoracial conflict (including slavery and colonization) and variations in the cultural repertoires that shape individuals' expectations for inter-group relations and fairness across different national settings. In short, I investigate how ethnoracial identities and boundaries influence the ways individuals interpret their everyday experiences and the manner in which they define a "just" society.
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Recent Publications
2012. “White Cruelty or Republican Sins? Competing Frames of Stigma Reversal in French Commemorations of Slavery”, Ethnic and Racial Studies (35:3), pp. 448-505.
2012. “Varieties of Responses to Stigmatization: Macro, Meso, and Micro Dimensions.” (with Michèle Lamont and Jessica Welburn). Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 9(1): 43-49.
2012 “African Americans Respond to Stigmatization: The Meanings and Salience of Confronting, Deflecting Conflict, Educating the Ignorant and „Managing The Self..” (with Michèle Lamont and Jessica Welburn). Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(3): 400-417.2011.
2011 “The Educational Experiences of Caribbeans in France”, pp. 79-98 in Kassie Freeman, Ethan Johnson and Kelvin Shawn Sealey (Eds.), Education in the Black Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge.
2011. "Academic Conferences and the Making of Philosophical Knowledge" (with Neil Gross), in Camic, Charles, Neil Gross and Michèle Lamont (Eds.) Social Knowledge in the Making, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2007. "Black Cultural Capitalists: African American Elites and the Organization of the Arts in Early Twentieth-Century Boston" (with Lorraine Roses), Poetics (356), pp. 368-387.
2005. "Everyday Anti-Racism: Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the African-American Elite and Working Class" (with Michèle Lamont), The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race (2:1), pp. 29-43.
News & Events
| May 2013 | |
| •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor |
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| April 2013 | |
| • Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards |
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| March 2013 | |
| • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th |
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| February 2013 | |
| • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th |
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| January 2013 | |
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• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant |
Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356, tel.: +1 (631) 632-7700
