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Biography
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Joshua Gamson
Professor: Sociology
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Joshua Gamson received his B.A. from Swarthmore College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches Sociology of Culture, Sex and Sexualities, Television Culture, Sociology of Education, and Fieldwork in Sociology.
His research and teaching focus on the sociology of culture, with an emphasis on contemporary Western commercial culture and mass media; social movements, especially on cultural aspects of contemporary movements; on participant-observation methodology and techniques, particularly as applied in urban settings; and on the history, theory, and sociology of sexuality.
He is the author of Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (California, 1994); Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (Chicago, 1998), winner of book awards from the American Sociological Association and the Society for Cinema Studies; and The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The Seventies in San Francisco (Henry Holt, 2005), winner of the Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. His published work also includes studies of sex scandals (Critical Studies in Media Communication and Social Problems), popular culture and gay and lesbian people (Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies), sexualities and qualitative research (Handbook of Qualitative Research), the political pitfalls in the pursuit of media visibility (Sexualities) exclusion processes in sex/gender movements (Gender & Society), organizational aspects of collective identity construction (Sociological Forum), and dilemmas in identity-based movements (Social Problems). He has also written for magazines such as The Nation and The American Prospect.
Publications
http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/ug/sociology/faculty/publications/index.html
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5217
Fax: (415) 422-5671
Email: gamson@usfca.edu
Office: Kalmanovitz Hall, 259
Office Hours: Will resume in Fall 2009.
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