September 2023
CURRICULUM VITAE
MARTIN ORR
Department of Sociology (208) 426-3414
Boise State University morr@boisestate.edu
1910 University Drive boisestate.edu/sociology
Boise, ID 83725
EDUCATION:
September 1984 to University of Oregon
December 1992 Eugene, Oregon 97403
Awarded M.S. in Sociology, December 1987
Awarded Ph.D. in Sociology, December 1992
Dissertation: “Social Change and Metatheoretical
Shift in Sociological Analyses of Ethnicity”
September 1980 to Eastern Washington University
June 1984 Cheney, Washington 99004
Awarded B.A. June 1984
Major: Sociology; Minors: Philosophy and Music
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION: Social Inequality, Social Theory, Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Media, Social Movements
POSITIONS HELD:
August 2017 to present Professor
Department of Sociology
Boise State University
January 2020 to Acting Chair
June 2020 Department of Sociology
Boise State University
August 2002 to August 2017 Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Boise State University
POSITIONS HELD (Continued):
July 2006 to July 2010, Chair
October 2012 Department of Sociology
to July 2016 Boise State University
August 1998 to Assistant Professor
August 2002 Department of Sociology
Boise State University
August 1995 to Visiting Assistant Professor
August 1998 Department of Sociology
Boise State University
January 1995 to Junior Research Associate
July 1995 Social Science Research Center
Boise State University
August 1994 to Special Lecturer and Research Associate
May 1995 Department of Sociology and
Division of Continuing Education
Boise State University
September 1993 to Instructor
December 1993 Division of Social Sciences
Big Bend Community College
March 1993 to Instructor
June 1993 Department of Sociology
University of Oregon
January 1993 to Instructor
June 1993 Department of Sociology
Western Oregon State College
March 1991 to Instructor
June 1991 Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Southern Oregon State College
September 1988 to Graduate Instructor
December 1992 Department of Sociology
University of Oregon
COURSES TAUGHT: Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Anthropology, Social Problems, Introduction to Ethnic Studies, Theories of Society, Sociological Theory I & II, Elementary Social Statistics, Social Inequality, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of the Family, Juvenile Delinquency, Political Sociology, Radical Sociology, Introduction to Social
Research, Sociology of Work, Social Change, Social Psychology, Sociology of Knowledge and Science, Sociology of Peace and War, Social Issues and Movements, Progressive Social Movements, Media and Society, and Senior Seminar.
PUBLICATIONS:
2023 (Forthcoming) “Does the Phrase ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Matter?” with M R.X. Dentith and Ginna Husting. Society.
2019 “Media Marginalization of Racial Minorities:
‘Conspiracy Theorists’ in U.S. Ghettos and on the ‘Arab Street,’” with Ginna Husting. Chapter in Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, ed. by Joseph Uscinski. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.)
2018 “Clearing up Some Conceptual Confusions about Conspiracy Theory Theorizing,” with M R. X. Dentith. Chapter in Dentith’s Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously, Rowman & Littlefield).
2018 “Secrecy and Conspiracy,” with M R. X. Dentith. Episteme 15(4):433-450.
2017 “Clearing up some Conceptual Confusions about Conspiracy Theory Theorizing,” with M R. X. Dentith. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 1: 9-16.
2017 “Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge.” Chapter in An Introduction to Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: A CriticalPerspective, by Berch Berberoglu. (UK: Routledge).
2015 “‘Conspiracy Theorists’ on the ‘Arab Street’: Examining the use of ‘Conspiracy’in The New York Times,” with Ginna Husting. The Blue Review. https://thebluereview.org/ conspiracy-theory-arab-street-nyt/
PUBLICATIONS (Continued):
2014 “The Global Capitalist Crisis and the End of Empire.” In The Global Capitalist Crisis and Its Aftermath: The Causes and Consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-2009, ed. Berch Berberoglu, 293-307. (Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2014).
2013 Idaho Fish Consumption Rate Recommended Sample and Questions, Prepared for the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, with Eric Lindquist and David Eberle.
2012 Entries on “Capital Flight,” “Debt Crisis,” and “The Great Recession” The Encyclopedia of Globalization, ed. George Ritzer. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
2011 “The Global Capitalist Crisis and the End of Neoliberal Capitalist Globalization.” In Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis: The World Economy in Transition, ed. Berch Berberoglu, 145-161. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2011).
2010 “The Failure of Neoliberal Globalization and the End of Empire.” In Globalization in the Twenty-First Century: Labor, Capital, and the State on a World Scale, ed. Berch Berberoglu, 177-197. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2009 Review of Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva. Econews: The Newsletter of the Northcoast Environmental Center 39, 3 (April 2009): 13.
2007 “Dangerous Machinery: ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion,” with Ginna Husting. Symbolic Interaction, 30, 2 (2007): 127-150.
2007 “The Failure of Globalization and the End of Empire: Neoliberalism, Imperialism, and the Rise of the Anti-Globalization Movement.” International Review of Modern Sociology, 33, Special Issue (2007):105-122.
2006 “Don’t bank on natural gas, oil.”
Op-ed in The Idaho Statesman
PUBLICATIONS (Continued):
2005 “The Struggle Against Globalization and Imperialism: An Analysis of the Worldwide Protests against the WTO.” In Globalization and Change: The Origins, Development, and Transformation of Global Capitalism, ed. Berch Berberoglu, 105-121. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
2003 “Racism, Imperialism, and Human Rights”
Op-ed in The Idaho Statesman
2000 “The Paradigmatic Underpinnings and the Categorical Structure of Sociology, 1973-1994: An Explanation for and Documentation of Metatheoretical Shift.” The Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 25, 2 (1999): 127-156.
1999 “A Short History of the Emergence of the ‘Lone Superpower’: Implications for Exploitation, Repression, and Resistance.” Nature, Society, and Thought, 11, 4 (1998):421-435.
1999 “‘Classless’ Society” prepared for the encyclopedic Racial and Ethnic Relations in America. Chris Moose, Senior Editor, Salem Press.
1998 Review of Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe by Rogers Brubaker. Social Forces 76 (March 1998): 1138-40.
1997 “Sociological Analyses of Race and Ethnicity Since the
1950s: A Sociology of Sociology Explanation for
Metatheoretical Shift.” Sociological Focus 30 (February 1997):31-47.
1995 “The National Question and the Struggle Against
British Imperialism in Northern Ireland.” In The National Question: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Self-Determination in the 20th Century, ed. Berch Berberoglu, 158-179. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
1991 Review of Social Interest and Categorical Structure: Conceptions of History and Social Change, by Jeffers Chertok. Critical Sociology
17 (Summer 1990):119-122.
PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:
February 2022 Some Even Fear Calling it “Conspiracy Theory”: A response to Wood,” with and M R. X. Dentith and Ginna Husting, presented at the 1st International Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory, held online.
March 2020 “From U.S. Ghettos to the ‘Arab Street’: Race and the ‘Conspiracy Theorist,’” with Ginna Husting and M R. X. Dentith, paper accepted for presentation at the Conspiracy Theory Conference, University of Miami, Florida.
August 2016 “Conspiracies and Secrecy: An Exercise in Social Epistemology,” with Matthew R. X. Dentith, presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington.
August 2016 “Vocabularies of Motive and ‘Conspiracy Theorists’,” with Ginna Husting, accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Seattle, Washington.
July 2016 “Conspiracy Baiting in the War on Terror,” with Ginna Husting, accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the International Sociological Association, Vienna, Austria.
April 2016 “Conspiracy Theory Theories: A Sociology of Knowledge Account,” with Ginna Husting, presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California.
April 2015 “The Fix is In: ‘Conspiracy Theories’ in Sports,” with Ginna Husting, presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Long Beach, California.
March 2015 “From U.S. Ghettos to the ‘Arab Street’: Race and the ‘Conspiracy Theorist,’” with Ginna Husting, presented at the Conspiracy Theory Conference, University of Miami, Florida.
March 2014 “‘Conspiracy Theorists’, Right and Left: Deflecting Critiques of Power,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon
PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Continued):
March 2011 Organizer of “Resistence in an Age of Decline: Obstacles and Opportunities,” session at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington
March 2011 “The ‘Great Recession’as Class Warfare: ‘Never let a Crisis go to Waste,’” accepted for presentation the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington
April 2010 “The ‘Great Recession’: A Class Analysis,” accepted for presentation the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California
April 2009 “The Contradictions of Neoliberal Globalization,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California.
April 2008 “Imperialist Rivalry at the End of the Age of Oil: A Class Analysis,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon
April 2008 Organizer of “The Contradictions of Empire: The End of the New American Century,” session at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon
March 2007 “Power, Resistance, and the Development of Sociology,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California
March 2007 Organizer of “Power, Resistance & the Future of Sociology,” session at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California
April 2006 “A Sociology of Peak Oil: Causes, Consequences, and the Future,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Universal City, California
April 2005 “Corporate Media as a Social Problem: Lessons and Findings from Adademics, Journalists, and Activists,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon
PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Continued):
April 2005 “Media Activism as Public Sociology: An Account from Idaho,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon
April 2004 “The Uses of ‘Conspiracy Theory’” (with Ginna Husting), presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California
April 2003 “Social Movements and the Development of Mass Media,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Pasadena, California
August 2001 “The WTO, Seattle, and the Struggle Against Global Capitalism,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California
April 2001 “Social Protest Against The World Trade Organization: Understanding the Relationship Between Power and Opposition,” presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Reno, Nevada
March 2001 Organizer of “The WTO and the Battle in Seattle,” session at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California
March 2000 “Political Orientation and Student Evaluation of Sociology,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California
March 2000 Discussant at “Author Meets Critics” session addressing the Third Edition of William Domhoff’s Who Rules America?, at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California
October 1999 “A Short History of the ‘Lone Superpower’: Implications for Exploitation, Repression, and Resistance,” presented at the Nature, Society, and Thought conference, Reno, Nevada
PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Continued):
April 1999 Organizer of “Connecting the Micro and the Macro:
The Relationship Between Social Interaction and Social Structure,” session at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon
April 1999 Organizer of “Building Connections: Community
Colleges and the Four-year Institution,” session at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon
October 1997 “Simulating Science” (with Steven Patrick, Boise State University), presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Study of Science, Tucson, Arizona
April 1997 Organizer of “Class, Ideology and Knowledge:
Historical Materialist Approaches to the Sociology of
Knowledge and Science,” session at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California
April 1997 “Toward a Sociology of Social Science: A Content Analysis of the Criminal Justice Abstracts,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California
April 1997 “Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Northern Ireland as a Test Case,” presented at the annual meeting of the
Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California
August 1996 “Sociological Analyses of Race and Ethnicity Since the 1950s: A Sociology of Sociology Explanation for Metatheoretical Shift,” accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York.
April 1996 “Theories of Ethnicity and Class: Evaluating the Salience of Class Analysis,” presented at the annual
meeting of the Western Social Science Association,
Reno, Nevada.
March 1996 “The Paradigmatic Underpinnings and the Categorical Structure of Sociology, 1973-1994: An Explanation for and Documentation of Metatheoretical Shift,” presented
at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological
Association, Seattle, Washington.
PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Continued):
March 1996 “Dispelling the Relevance of Personal Responsibility to
Sociological Analysis: Cannibalism as Deviance and
Conformity,” presented at the annual meeting of the
Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington.
April 1995 “A Critical Evaluation of Alternative Approaches to the Problem of Intellectual Diversity: Toward a Sociology
of the Sociology of Sociology,” presented at the annual
meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association,
San Francisco, California.
April 1993 “Sociological Analyses of Ethnicity, 1950-1990:
A Sociology of Sociology Explanation,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological
Association, Portland, Oregon.
October 1991 Discussant at “Author Meets Critics” session addressing Social Interest and Categorical Structure: Conceptions of History and Social
Change, by Jeffers Chertok, at the annual meeting of the Washington State Sociological Association, Walla Walla, Washington.
April 1991 “Materialist Theories of Ethnic Stratification and Their Applicability to Northern Ireland,” presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Irvine, California.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
July 2020 to President
to present Idaho Federation of Teachers
February 2017 Outside Reviewer
to present Philosophy of the Social Sciences
March 2011 Outside Reviewer
to present The Sociological Quarterly
May 2016 Vice president
to May 2022 American Federation of Teachers, Local 3537
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (continued):
June 2020 Outside Reviewer for Promotion Application
March 2016 Membership Committee
May 2018 Pacific Sociological Association
May 2016 President
to May 2018 American Federation of Teachers, Local 3537
March 2016 Membership Committee Co-chair
to April 2017 Pacific Sociological Association
November 2006 to 2008 Program Committee
April 2008 Pacific Sociological Association
November 2003 to 2004 Program Committee
April 2004 Pacific Sociological Association
August 1997 to Outside Reviewer
May 2005 Teaching Sociology
December 1993 to Outside Reviewer
May 2004 Critical Sociology
April 2001 to Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching
April 2004 Pacific Sociological Association
May 1999 to Coordinating Editor
May 2003 The Pacific Sociologist
November 2000 to 2002 Program Committee
April 2002 Pacific Sociological Association
November 1999 to 2001 Program Committee
April 2001 Pacific Sociological Association
August 1997 to Membership Committee Chair
August 1999 Pacific Sociological Association
June 1999 Reviewed Why Sociology? by Robert J. Brym and
John Lie, for Harcourt Brace
May 1996 to Co-Editor
May 1999 The Pacific Sociologist
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (continued):
August 1995 to Membership Committee
April 1999 Pacific Sociological Association
May 1998 Reviewed Imperialism, War, and Political Turmoil in the Middle East by Berch Berberoglu, for SUNY Press
June 1997 Reviewed Social Problems: A Sociological Approach
by J. John Palen, for McGraw-Hill
August 1994 to Section Recruitment Committee
August 1995 American Sociological Association
January 1987 to Member Editorial Collective
December 1992 Critical Sociology
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
August 2017 to Labor Studies Minor
present Director
August 2022 to Promotion and Tenure Committee Chair
present College of Arts and Sciences
November 2012 to Environmental Studies Program, Faculty Affiliate
present Boise State University
August 2019 to Curriculum Committee
May 2021 College of Arts and Sciences
August 2019 to Past president
August 2020 Faculty Senate
August 2018 to President
August 2019 Faculty Senate
August 2017 to Vice president
August 2018 Faculty Senate
August 2015 to Faculty Senate
August 2019 Boise State University
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Continued):
September 1999 to Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board
May 2020 Boise State University
September 2016 to Promotion and Tenure Committee
December 2016 College of Arts and Sciences
Boise State University
September 2015 to Foundational Studies Program Council
May 2016 Boise State University
January 2016 to Faculty 180 Advisory Committee
February 2016 Boise State University
August 2015 to Consulting for Campus Climate Survey
September 2015 Boise State University
January 2013 to Department Liasion to the
July 2015 Concurrent Enrollment Program
Boise State University
August 2015 to Search Committee
September 2015 Office of the Vice-Provost
Boise State University
September 2014 to Curriculum Committee Chair
May 2015 College of Arts and Sciences
September 2014 to Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
May 2015 Boise State University
October 2014 Facilitator for Discussion of the film “Dear White People”
Cultural Center, Boise State University
April 2013 to Office of Instructional Technology, Faculty Liason
May 2014 College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs
November 2013 University Adjunct Policy Focus Group
Boise State University
October 2010 to Promotion and Tenure Committee
November 2010 College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Continued):
March 2010 “Racism 101: Causes and Consequences,”
lecture for Facing Race, presented by the
Cultural Center
July 2009 “Local Responses to Global Crisis:
Lessons for the ‘Great Recession’”
Guest Lecture for “Investigate Boise,”
Classroom in the City Program
February 2009 “Climate and Energy: Two Birds with One Stone,” lecture for Focus the Nation.
December 2008 Speech for Hunger Sleepout
Volunteer Services Board
May 2002 to Mexican American Studies Conference
May 2008 Chair, Organizing Committee
January 2008 “A Social History of Climate Change: Lessons for an Alternative Future,” lecture for Focus the Nation.
May 2007 Faculty Advisor
November 2007 “Race and Colonialism” presented to the Political Science Club and the Model UN.
November 2007 “Hunger in Global Perspective,” presented for the Volunteer Services Board’s Hunger Banquet.
April 2007 “Reverse Discrimination: Fact or Fiction?” presented in the Student Union Building, as part of the Cultural Center’s “White Privilege” lecture series.
March 2007 Co-organizer of lecture by Nation correspondent Christian Parenti
October 2006 Workshop on Mountains Beyond Mountains, sponsored by the University’s Common Reading Program
May 2004 to Chair, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board
October 2006 Boise State University
September 2001 to Campus Greens
May 2006 Faculty Advisor
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Continued):
February 2006 Workshop: “Media Activism”
Idaho Progressive Student Alliance
Progressive Advocacy Training
Boise State University
September 2002 to Publications Board
May 2005 Boise State University
February 2005 Workshop: “Media Activism”
Idaho Progressive Student Alliance
Progressive Advocacy Training
Boise State University
November 2004 Panelist for Speak Up Forum on Racism and Immigration, Cultural Center, Boise State University
November 2004 Speech for 2004 Hunger Banquet, Volunteer Services Board, Boise State University
December 2003 to Promotion and Tenure Policy Review Task Force
March 2004 College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs
December 2003 “Progressive Social Movements and Mass Media”
Point of View Conference, Boise State University
November 2003 to Course Management System Advisory Committee
December 2003 Boise State University
June 1996 to Website Developer and Administrator
September 2003 Sociology Department
August 2000 to Faculty Senator
May 2003 Boise State University
February 2003 Workshop: “Independent Media”
Idaho Progressive Student Alliance
Progressive Advocacy Training
Boise State University
February 2003 Panelist: “War of Ideas: Framing the Student Debate on Iraq, Terrorism, and US Policy”
Boise State University
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Continued):
April 1998 to Sociology Club
May 2002 Faculty Advisor
March 2002 Moderator for Panel “Traditional Connections to the Land versus Nontraditional Development Practices”
First Nations Conference, Boise State University
October 2001 Panel Discussion on Terrorism
Boise State University
March 2001 Organizer of “Dismantling Racism” panel
at the Mexican American Studies Conference
February 2001 “Utilizing Leadership for Social Causes,” with Leo Morales, at Leadership Quest
March 2000 Panelist for Discussion of the WTO and Globalization
Idaho Progressive Student Alliance
January 2000 Panelist for Discussion of Free Speech on Campus
Martin Luther King, Jr./Human Rights Week
January 2000 Selection Committee
to May 2002 Phi Kappa Phi Wallace G. Kay Essay Competition
August 2000 Core Curriculum Committee
to May 2001 Boise State University
October 1998 to Affirmative Action Committee
August 2000 Boise State University
September 1998 to Awards Committee
May 1999 College of Social Science and Public Affairs
November 1998 Lecture in conjunction with the Boise State University Sociology Club’s “Conspiracy Theory Week”
January 1998 Panel discussion and workshop on Globalization and Human Rights sponsored by the student ACLU Club and by Feminist Empowerment in conjunction with Martin Luther King, Jr./ Human Rights Week
October 1996 Participated in a Student Programs Board
panel discussion on Environmental Responsibility
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Continued):
January 1996 Guest Editorial in the Idaho Statesman for Boise
State University’s Martin Luther King, Jr./Human Rights Week
September 1990 to Graduate Student Representative to
June 1991 the Staff Development Committee
University of Oregon
September 1987 to Graduate Student Representative to
June 1988 the Curriculum Committee
University of Oregon
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
April 2020 Interviewed for an article on COVID and politics
The Idaho Statesman
March 2020 Presentation on Social Organization for Community Reads
Ada County Library
March 2020 Interviewed for an article on the safety of agricultural workers and unionization
Magic Valley Times-News
May 2019 Interviewed for an article on Unions and “Right to Work”
The Idaho Statesman
June 2016 Speech at the Sixth Annual Community Progressive
United Vision for Idaho
January 2016 Interviewed for an Article on Poverty and Food Insecurity The Idaho Statesman
January 2016 Interviewed for an Article on International Volunteerism
The Arbiter
July 2015 Interviewed on Conspiracy Theories in Sports
The Podcaster’s Guide to the Conspiracy
November 2014 Interviewed for a story on Social Media
KIVI-TV
COMMUNITY SERVICE (Continued):
June 2014 Interviewed for an Article on Labor Unions
The Idaho Statesman.
April 2013 “Local Media and Coverage of the State Legislature,” presentation for United Vision for Idaho’s Liquid Forum Series.
October 2011 Radio interview on labor unions and the Occupy movement by KTRP.
June 2011 “Teaching Social Inequality,” workshop presented at the Idaho Human Rights Education Center’s Summer Institute for K-12 teachers
May 2011 “Media and How Unions are Framed in Contemporary Society,” workshop for United Vision for Idaho’s Community Progressive Workshops UVI
March 2011 Interview for story on Idaho education policy by KTVB
February 2011 Discussant of the anti-union proposals before the Idaho and Wisconsin legislatures on IPTV’s Idaho Reports.
March 2010 Interviewed for story on student protests against tuition increases in California by KBSU
February 2010 Interviewed for story on feminism by the Arbiter
July 2009 Speech to Healthcare Rally
Boise City Hall
March 2009 Interviewed for story on the recession by KTVB
December 2008 Appearance on “The Idaho Freedom Forum,” hosted by Gene Dellago for the ACLU of Idaho
on Treasure Valley Community Television
December 2008 Panelist/Facilitator for Media Justice Summit
Fund for Idaho
January 2008 “Concentration in the Media,” lecture for Leadership Boise, at the offices of Idaho Public Television, a presentation of the Boise Chamber of Commerce
COMMUNITY SERVICE (Continued):
March 2007 Interviewed Nation correspondent Christian Parenti as guest host of “Peace Talks,” a presentation of the Idaho Peace Coalition, on Treasure Valley Community Television
February 2007 Appearance on “Conversations,” hosted by Peter Lutze, on Treasure Valley Community Television
November 2006 Panelist for “Nuclear Nonproliferation,” a presentation at the Boise Public Library, sponsored by Snake River Alliance
July 2006 Appearance on “Conversations,” hosted by Peter Lutze on Treasure Valley Community Television
March 2006 Panelist on discussion of the film “Why we fight,” at the Flicks, a presentation of Treasure Valley Community Television
January 2006 Panelist on Media for Leadership Boise, at the offices of the Idaho Statesman, a presentation of the Boise Chamber of Commerce
November 2002 to Editorial Collective
May 2005 Idaho Independent Media Center
August 2002 to Executive Director
May 2005 The Idaho Media Project
November 2003 Guest on “Uneasy Listening”
Boise State University Student Radio
October 2003 Guest on “Conversations”
Treasure Valley Public Access Television
June 2003 Workshop on Social Problems
Court Appointed Special Advocate Program
April 2003 Guest Lectures for Tobin Walton
Eagle High School
February 2003 Panelist: “The War against Iraq”
Northwest Nazarene University
COMMUNITY SERVICE (Continued):
January 2003 Moderator: “How Others See Us: U.S. Propaganda vs. Reality,” Snake River Alliance Community Dinner
January 2003 “Racism, Imperialism, and Human Rights”
Martin Luther King/Human Rights Week
October 2002 to Teach-ins on the War against Terror
December 2002 Boise State University
November 2002 “A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: Implications for the Workplace”
Multicultural Workforce Fall Training Conference
Boise Federal Women’s Program
January 2002 to Program Director
November 2002 The Idaho Media Project
April 2000 to Alliance for Dismantling Racism
May 2002
March 2002 Faciliator for discussion of the film “Long Night’s Journey into Day”
First Presbyterian Church
September 2001 Guest Lecture on the Vietnam War
Albertson College of Idaho
September 2001 “Message Development & Media: Learn How to Make News Happen”
Workshop for the Idaho Women’s Network
October 2000 “Families and Parenting: Diversity and Change”
Workshop for the Idaho Inclusiveness Symposium
March 2000 to Associate Director
January 2002 The Idaho Media Project
April 2000 to Workshop Committee
October 2000 Idaho Inclusiveness Coalition
November 1999 Policy Development Committee
to August 2000 Treasure Valley Public Access Television
April 1999 Speech to the Boise Chapter of Anti-Racist Action
HONORS AND AWARDS:
May 2011 Honored Faculty Member
By Boise State Top-10 Scholar Alexandra Ornelas
March 2005 University Foundation Scholar Award for Teaching Finalist
December 2004 Nominated for ASBSU
Outstanding Faculty Award
November 2003 Nominated for ASBSU
Outstanding Faculty Award
March 2001 Faculty Research Grant
College of Social Science and Public Affairs
April 2000 Outstanding Community Service Award
BSU Volunteer Services Board
March 2000 Nominated for ASBSU
Outstanding Faculty Award
April 1999 Multi-Ethnic Board Award
of Recognition for Assistance to
Minority Students
September 1991 State of Oregon Laurel Award
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:
Current Supervisor: Sharon Paterson
Department of Sociology
Boise State University
sharonpaterson@boisestate.edu
Previous Supervisors:
Arthur Scarritt, Past Chair
Department of Sociology
Boise State University
ascarritt@boisestate.edu
Tony Roark, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Academic Leadership, former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Boise State University
troark@boisestate.edu
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES (continued):
Shelton Woods, Professor of History
Former Interim Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, Boise State University
swoods@boisestate.edu
Melissa Lavitt, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University; Former Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, Boise State University
women@iupui.edu
Other colleagues: Berch Berberoglu
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
University of Nevada – Reno
berchb@unr.edu
M R.X. Dentith
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Beijing National University
m.dentith@episto.org
Virginia Husting
Professor Emerita of Sociology
Boise State University
ghusting@boisestate.edu