RICHARD PITT
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2003
TITLE:   Assistant Professor
OFFICE:   311 Garland Hall
EMAIL  r.pitt@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:  615-322-7530
CV:  RichardPittCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

"Double Majors: Identities, Impacts, and Influences" Teagle Foundation; 12/01/2007-11/30/2010, $194,724 (with Steven Tepper,
Co-PI)

UA Dean's Summer Research Fellowship, University of Arizona, 2002

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, National Research Council. 1999-2002

UA College of SBS Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2002

UA Department of Sociology Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2002

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  Schools and Society
  Racial and Ethic Minorities in the US
  Gender in Society
  Families and Households
  Sociology of Religion

GRADUATE:

  Contemporary Theory
  Sociology of Education


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology of Education: Impacts of higher education on human capital accumulation, undergraduate and graduate admissions processes
Sociology of Gender: Men's gender role ideology, household labor parrticipation, sexuality
Sociology of Religion: Religious callings and vocational choice, identity/status dissonance
Sociology of Psychology: Identity work, role accumulation, identity conflict

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

"Living Single": The Effects of Men's Bachelorhood on Household Labor Participation
Occupational Conditioning, Labor Orientations, and Men's Household Labor Participation
"A Stutter and A Stick": The Call to Professional and Para-Professional Ministry". Book Manuscript
"Why Majors Matter: The Production of Human Capital Surpluses and Labor Market Inequality"

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Pitt, Richard N., and Elizabeth Borland. (forthcoming) "Bachelorhood and Men's Traditional Gender Role Ideology." Journal of Men's Studies

Pitt, Richard N., (forthcoming) "Still Looking for My Jonathan: Gay Black Men's Management of Religious and Sexual Identity Conflicts." Journal of Homosexuality

Pitt, Richard. 2006. "Downlow Mountain? De/Stigmatizing Bisexuality Through Pitying and Pejorative Discourses in Popular Media." Journal of Men's Studies. 14: 257-261.

Arum, Richard with Irenee Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennifer Thompson, Sandra Way. 2003. Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority in American Schools Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Program Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2007-2008.

Board of Directors, American Men's Studies Association, 2006 - present.

Organizer, Regular Session on Masculinities, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2006.

Committee on the Status of Students, Southern Society, 2005-2007.

Presider, Sessions on Jobs, Organizations, and Professions, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2004 and 2005.