| STEVEN TEPPER | ||
| Ph.D. Princeton University | ||
| TITLE: | Associate Professor, Associate Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy |
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| OFFICE: | 203C Garland Hall Curb Center at Vanderbilt | |
| EMAIL: | steven.j.tepper@vanderbilt.edu | |
| PHONE: | 615-322-7516 | |
| CV: | StevenTepperCV.pdf | |
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED
COURSES TAUGHT
Politics of Culture
Creativity, Innovation and Society
Sociology of Culture: Audiences
and Consumption
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural Policy
Sociology of Culture
Creativity
Social and Cultural Conflict
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Symbolic Politics and Protest over Television in America
A National Study of Artistic Careers and Training (funded by the Surdna Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Houston Endowment, the Cleveland Foundation, the Barr Foundation and the Education Foundation of America).
A National Study of Creativity and Higher Education (funded by the Teagle Foundation in collaboration with co-principal investigator Richard Pitt).
Social Change and University Commencement Speakers (1945-2000)
Cultural Consumption Patterns Among College Students: New Forms of Distinction
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2010. Not Here, Not Now, Not That: Protesting Art and Culture in America. University of Chicago Press.
2009. "Creativity Narratives Among College Students: Sociability and Everyday Creativity" with Mark Pachucki and Jennifer Lena. Sociological Quarterly 50:4.
2009. "Stop the Beat: Quiet Regulation and Cultural Conflict." Sociological Forum 24:2, 276-306.
2009. "Pathways to Exploration in a Digital Age" with Eszter Hargittai. Poetics; Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 37: 227-249.
2007. Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life, co-edited with Bill Ivey. New York: Routledge Press.
2006. "Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?," with Bill Ivey. The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, Vol. 52, Issue 37, Page B6.
2006. "Taking the Measure of the Creative Campus" Peer Review, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Spring 2006.
2006. Book Review: Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective by Victoria Alexander and Marilyn Reuschemeyer, in Contemporary Sociology: A Jounal of Reviews, Volume 35, Number 6, pp. 593-595 (3).
2005. "Why public funding of the arts needs to find a new frontier" Wealth Management, Spring 2005.
2004. "The Creative Campus: Who's Number One?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 51, No. 6.
2004. "Setting Agendas and Designing Alternatives: Policy Making and the Strategic Role of Meetings." Review of Policy Research, Vol. 21, No. 4.
2002. "Creative Assets and the Changing Economy." Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Vol. 32, No. 2, 159-166.
2000. "Foreign Objects in Familiar Spaces: The Public's Response to Art-in-Architecture." International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 6, No. 2, 283-316.
2000. "Fiction Reading in : Explaining the Gender Gap?" Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, Vol. 27, No. 4, 255-275.
1999. "Groups or Gatherings: Predicting Voter Turnout in 19th Century American Cities," with Jason Kaufman. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 10, No. 4, 299-322.
