| TERENCE MCDONNELL | ||
| Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2009 | ||
| TITLE: | Assistant Professor |
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| OFFICE: | 220G Garland Hall Curb Center (1207 18th Avenue South, Office 138) |
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| EMAIL: | terence.e.mcdonnell@vanderbilt.edu | |
| PHONE: | 615-322-1763; 615-936-7981 (Curb) | |
| CV: | TerenceMcDonnellCV.pdf | |
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED
Outstanding Article Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems Theory Division, "Erasing the Brown Scare: Referential Afterlife and the Power of Memory Templates." 2009
Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, American Sociological Association, Sexualities Section, 2008.
Sociologists AIDS Network Student Paper Award, "Cultural Objects as Objects; Materialty, Urban Space, and the Interpretation of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana" 2008
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Sociology section, "AIDS Streetscapes." 2005
Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences., 2003
COURSES TAUGHT
UNDERGRADUATE:
Introduction to Sociology
Art in Everyday Life
Ways of Seeing: Media, Representation, and the Sociology of Knowledge
GRADUATE:
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Culture, Art, Media
Materiality
Theory
AIDS & Public Health
Gender & Sexuality
Movements & Mobilization
Qualitative Methods
CURRENT PROJECTS
AIDS Streetscapes: A Social Iconography of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana
"Why do well funded, well-researched, international AIDS media campaigns fail to engender changes in sexual behavior? To understand how communication is disrupted I create a social iconography of AIDS campaigns: a study of the social practices, interactions, and contexts around representations of AIDS in Accra. By adopting a mixed-method approach (which includes ethnography, interviews, focus groups, photographic domumentation, and content analysis) my research improves on single campaign, "small-n," pre-test/post-test evaluations that characterize health communication research. This research attends to meaning of every stage of communication, from production to circulation and reception, articulating new mechanisms that explain the cultural power of AIDS campaigns.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
McDonnell, Terrence E. Forthcoming. "Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the Interpretation of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana." The American Journal of Sociology
McDonnell, Terence E. 2008. "The (re)Presentation of an Epidemic in Everyday Life." Social Psychology Quarterly 71(4):321-323.
Fine, Gary Alan and Terence McDonnell. 2007. "Erasing the Brown Scare: Referential Afterlife and the Power of Memory Templates." Social Problems 54(2):170-187.
Griswold, Wendy, Erin Metz McDonnell, and Terence E. McDonnell. 2007. "Glamour and Honor: Going Online and Reading in West African Culture." Information Technology and International Development 3(4):37-52.
Griswold, Wendy, Terry McDonnell, and Nathan Wright. 2005. "Readers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century." Annual Review of Sociology 31:127-141.
