STEVEN TEPPER
Ph.D. Princeton University
TITLE:   Assistant Professor, Associate
Director, Curb Center for Art,
Enterprise and Public Policy
OFFICE:   204 Alumni Hall
203A Garland Hall
EMAIL:   steven.j.tepper@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-7513
CV: StevenTepperCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

COURSES TAUGHT

  Cultural Wars
  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

Cultural Conflict in 75 American Cities
Social Change and University Commencement Speakers in the - - 1945-2000
Innovation in American Theatre
Cultural Participation in (co-editing a book with Bill Ivey)
Cultural Consumption Patterns Among College Students

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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 PublicÕs 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.