JENNIFER LENA
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2003
TITLE:   Assistant Professor
OFFICE:  321C Garland Hall
EMAIL:   jennifer.c.lena@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-8539
WEBSITE:  http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/
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HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

Elected Secretary-Treasurer, Sociology of Culture section, American Sociological Association, 2008-2010

Neufeld, Jonathan, Jennifer C. Lena, Joy Calico, and Gabriela Lena Frank. Incubation Group: Music in the Americas. Vanderbilt University, Center for the Americas, 2007-2008

Research Scholar Grant. Vanderbilt. Universiy, Arts and Sciences, Spring 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University & Fellow, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2007-2008

Vanderbilt University Discovery Infrastructure Grant. Spatial Analysis Research Lab (SARL): An Advanced Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing Facility. With Steven A. Wernke, Francisco Estrada Belli, William R. Fowler, and Pierre R. Colas. $44,528.24

Summer Research Grant for "Festival City." Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, May-August 2006

Inaugural resident Young Scholar, Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Hip Hop America: Roots, Rhythm and Rage," 2000

Fellow, Insitute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University 1999-2001

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  Sociology of Culture II: Production and Institutions
  Introduction to Sociology
  The Sociology of Hip Hop and Rap Music
  Popular Culture Dynamics

GRADUATE:

  Survey Seminar in Cultural Sociology


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology of Culture
Social Networks
Race
Organizations and Institutions
Sociology of Religion

CURRENT PROJECTS

"Mark Pachucki (Harvard), Jennifer Lena and Steven Tepper, "Creative Campus Project."

"Lena, Jennifer C. "Tradition and Commerce at Nashville's Country Music Festical."

"Richard A. Peterson and Jennifer C. Lena. "Classification of Music Types and Trajectories."

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Lena, Jennifer C. and Richard Peterson. October 2008. "Types and Trajectories of Music Genres." American Sociological Review.

Lena, Jennifer C. 2008. "Voyeurism and Resistance in Rap Music Videos." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Vol 5 (3): 264-279.

Lena, Jennifer C. and Daniel B. Cornfield. 2008. "Immigrant Arts Participation in Nashville." Pp. 147-169 in Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life. ed. by William Ivey and Steven Tepper. New York: Routledge

Lena, Jennifer C. 2007. "Measures of Diversity: Lessons from Rap Music, 1979-1995." Studi Culturali. Vol. 1: 137-160.

Lena, Jennifer C. 2006. "Social Context and Musical Content: Rap Music, 1979-1995." Social Forces. Vol. 85 (1): 479-495.

Lena, Jennifer C. 2004. "Meaning and Membership: Samples in Rap Music, 1979 to 1995." Poetics. Vol. 32, No. 3-4, 297-310.