Faculty Books
Wendy Griswold
Professor
Bergen Evans Professor of Humanities
1810 Chicago Avenue, Room 227
Phone: (847) 491-2701
w-griswold@northwestern.edu
Office Hours:
Thursday 2:00-3:30 pm or
Email to make an appointment
Areas of Interest
Cultural Sociology
Sociology of Literature
Urban Representations
Biography
Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology and Bergen Evans professor in the Humanities, affiliated with Comparative Literary Studies, English, and Communications, holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has previously taught there and at the University of Chicago.
Her research and teaching interests include: cultural sociology; sociological approaches to literature, art and religion; regionalism, urban representations, and the culture of place; and comparative studies of reading practices.
She is currently finishing a book on the Federal Writers' Project, preparing the fourth edition of Cultures and Societies in a Changing World, and beginning research on reading practices and media use in the Arab World.
Professor Griswold directs the Culture and Society Workshop at the Alice Berline Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Courses Taught
Soc 101: Freshman Seminar Syllabus
Soc 420: Sociology of Culture Syllabus
Soc 476: Special Topics: Research Methods for the Sociology of Culture Syllabus
Soc 576: Workshop Culture and Society Syllabus
Books
Cultures and Societies in a Changing World
Pine Forge, 2008
Regionalism and the Reading Class
Chicago Press, 2008
Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria
Princeton Press, 2000
Publications
Readers as Audiences
(with Elizabeth Lenaghan and Michelle Naffziger),
Handbook of Media Audiences; Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2011
Glamour and Honor: Going Online and Reading in West African Culture
(with Erin Metz McDonnell and Terence McDonnell),
Information Technologies & International Development, 2006
Wired and Well Read
(with Nathan Wright), Society Online:The Internet in Context; Sage Publications, 2004
William Henry Exum Award
The intent of this prize is to honor the memory of William Henry Exum, a member of the Department of Sociology and the African American Studies Department, who died in 1986 at the age of 37. Exum was concerned with the quality of writing and research analysis in student papers. He was also interested in racial problems facing minority youths in higher education. This award was established as a means of continuing his goals of breaking barriers for all minorities.
The award submission deadline is April 27, 2012. All interested students should submit a 15-20 page paper, typed and double-spaced, on a topic dealing with race and ethnicity. Students are not limited to a sociological approach in preparing their submissions, nor is the award limited to sociology or social science majors.
The paper should include a cover sheet with the student's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, year in school, and major.
Three copies of the essay must be submitted by the announced deadline to the Exum Award - Department of Sociology, 1810 Chicago Ave., Evanston Campus or one copy by email to sociol@northwestern.edu.
This award is open to all undergraduate students from all disciplines.
Upcoming Events
COLLOQUIUM: Myra Marx Ferree, Sociology, University of WI-Madison
May 17, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop
May 17, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
