Faculty
S.L. Crawley
Professor
CONTACT
Office: CPR 223
Phone: (813) 974-0977
Email
BIO
S. L. Crawley (Ph.D., 2002, University of Florida) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at the 哔咔漫画. Dr. Crawley鈥檚 areas of interest include embodiment (gender/sexualities/race/class) theories, queer and feminist theories, epistemology and qualitative methods, social psychology and sociology of sport, focusing on productions of identity and social impacts on the physical body. S has published articles in Sociological Theory, Gender & Society, The Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Hypatia, Cultural Studies 鈫愨啋 Critical Methodologies, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, The American Sociologist, as well as in several academic handbooks and has co-authored a book, Gendering Bodies (Rowman & Littlefield 2008), which extends existing theories of gender performativity via interactionism to demonstrate the social impacts of gender on physical bodies in such everyday settings as work, sports and sexuality. Some of S鈥檚 work has been translated into Russian and Ukrainian. S鈥檚 current interests involve queer/feminist and comparative epistemological approaches to empirical social science, American pragmatism, New Materialisms, and interventions to traditional methods. Among various other service on editorial boards and for academic organizations, S was recently the Chair (2019-2021) of the American Sociological Association鈥檚 section on Sex & Gender, the largest section of ASA, and the Chair of ASA鈥檚 Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee, 2021.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2002
PRESENTATIONS
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