KAREN CAMPBELL
Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1985
TITLE:  Associate Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, College of Arts & Science
OFFICE:   317 Garland Hall
EMAIL:   karen.e.campbell@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-7533
CV: KarenCampbellCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

"Interpersonal Networks Among Urban Neighbors." With Barrett A. Lee. National Science Foundation, 1987-1990.

"How Women Won the Vote: The Political Successes of the State Suffrage Movements, 1866-1920." With Holly McCammon, 1996-1999.

Mentoring Award, Margaret Cunninggim Women's Center, Vanderbilt University, 1998.

Fellow of the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center, Vanderbilt University, 1998-1999 & 2004-2005.

Winner (with Holly McCammon), Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, 1998 (from Carrie Chapman Catt Center at Iowa State University).

Affirmative Action Award, Vanderbilt University, 1998.

Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Science, 1999.

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  Introduction to Sociology
  Women and Work in the U.S.
   (First year seminar)
  Introduction to Social Research
  Research Practicum
  Women and Public Policy in America

GRADUATE:

  Survey Seminar on Social Stratification
  Teaching Workshop


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gender Inequality
Occupations and Professions
Social Networks

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Women's entry into the professions in the US, 1880-1920
Effects of region, rurality, and religion on US gender role
Gender and social support networks
Popular explanations of gender inequality
State regulation of nurse practitioners

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Karen E. Campbell and Holly J. McCammon. 2005. "Elizabeth Blackwell's Heirs: Women as Physicians in the United States, 1880-1920." Work and Occupations 32:290-318.

Holly J. McCammon and Karen E. Campbell. 2002. "'Allies on the Road to Victory:' Coalition Formation between the Suffragists and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union." Mobilization 7:231-251.

Daniel B. Cornfield, Karen E. Campbell, and Holly J. McCammon, eds. 2001. Working in Restructured Workplaces: Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work. Sage Publications.

Holly J. McCammon and Karen E. Campbell. 2001. "How Women Won the Vote in the West: The Political Successes of the State Suffrage Movements, 1866-1919." Gender & Society 15:55-82.

Barrett A. Lee and Karen E. Campbell. 1998. "Neighbor Networks of Blacks and Whites." Pp. 119-146 in Barry Wellman (ed.), Networks in the Global Village. Boulder: Westview Press.