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Sociology Faculty Listing
Manolo Guzmán
Associate Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences Division Chair
email
212-517-0616
Degrees
Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York
M.A., Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
B.A., University of Detroit
Professor Guzmán received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a sociologist specializing in the study of gender and sexuality. His work focuses on the social organization of eroticism and its relationship to the categories of race, class, gender and the nation. His book, Gay Hegemony/Latino Homosexualities, and other articles explore the intersection of race and sexuality in the development of systems of same-sex sexuality in both the United States and Puerto Rico.
Prior to his work as an academic, Professor Guzmán was a psychotherapist and youth advocate at New York City’s Hetrick-Martin Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth, the home of the first high school for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered students.
Recent Publications:
Guzmán, M. (2011, June 2) De Ricky Martin a la Nación. Claridad, Suplemento En Rojo, p.21
Guzmán, M. & Sperling, R. (2009) “Knock-Knock: ReVisioning Family and Home.” The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services: issues in Practice, Policy & Research, 21, 115-133.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Intersectionality,” Guest lecture presented at Fordham University, New York City, April 2011.
“Who Knew? Corporations are People,” Organizer, A discussion of Citizens United vs. FEC with Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels and Former New York State Secretary of State Honorable Randy A. Daniels. Marymount Manhattan College, New York City, November 2009.
“Racial Homoeroticism,” paper presented at Psychoanalysis and Society, a one-day symposium. American Sociological Association, New York City, August 2007.
“Esto Está Pero Muy Queer,” paper presented at Behind the Rainbow: Queer Easter Symposium 2007, sponsored by the Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies. Mexico City, April 2007.
Erin O'Connor
Assistant Professor of Sociology
email
(212) 774-4846
Degrees
Ph.D., New School for Social Research
M.A., New School for Social Research
Honors, B.A.,Michigan State University
Professor O’Connor earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the New School for Social Research in 2009. Her dissertation, “HOTSHOP: An Ethnography of Embodied Knowledge in Glassblowing”, which drew from three years of ethnographic research in a glassblowing studio, analyzes the relations between the body, imagination, work practices, materiality, knowledge and culture. She is currently editing this manuscript for book publication, specifically theorizing how contemporary artisanship facilitates the production of self within a consumer economy.
Recent Publications:
(forthcoming) "Conflict and Consensus-Building in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research." Co-Authored with Diana Rhoten and Ingrid Erikson.
2009 "The Act of Collaborative Creation and the Art of Integrative Creativity: Originality, Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Science." Co-Authored with Diana Rhoten. Thesis Eleven (96(1)).
2007 “The Centripetal Force of Expression: Drawing Embodied Histories into Glassblowing.” Qualitative Sociology Review, "Ethnographies of Artistic Work," Edited by Howard Becker and Marie Buscatto.
2007 “Hot Glass: The Calorific Imagination of Practice in Glassblowing.” In Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett (eds.), Practicing Culture. London: Routledge.
2007 “Embodied Knowledge in Glassblowing: meaning and the struggle towards proficiency (modified reprint).” In Chris Shilling (ed.), Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects, The Sociological Review Monograph.
2006 “Glassblowing Tools: Extending the Body towards Practical Knowledge and Informing a Social World.” Qualitative Sociology, 29(2).
2005 “Embodied Knowledge: Meaning and the Struggle Towards Proficiency in Glassblowing.” Ethnography 6(2).
Michelle Ronda
Assistant Professor of Sociology
email
212-774-4843
Degrees
Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York
M.Phil.Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2003
M.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1993
B.A. Queens College, City University of New York, 1989
Professor Ronda has long-standing interests in deviance, criminal justice, public policy and the methods of social research. Her dissertation examined the impact of neoliberal political forces on people working within low-income urban neighborhoods struggling for social change in a New York City neighborhood. Her research focused on the difficulties that emerge when inequalities of gender, race, ethnicity, wealth and power are obscured by efforts at “community empowerment” and how these efforts engender exhaustion among the very people they are meant to inspire.
Professor Ronda has acted as principal investigator on many social program evaluations, working closely with nonprofits, local residents and governmental agencies on programs ranging from efforts to address youth violence, youth substance abuse, improve children’s educational experiences and train community residents to advocate for health care in underserved communities. She is the Faculty Advisor to the Bedford Hills College Program Club.
Rebecca L. Sperling
Associate Professor of Social Work/Sociology
Coordinator of the Social Work Program
email
212-774-4844
Degrees
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.S.W., Columbia University
B.A., California State University at Los Angeles
Professor Sperling is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology and the Coordinator of the Social Work sequence at Marymount Manhattan College. She earned her M.S.W. and Ph.D. from the Columbia University School of Social Work where she taught graduate level courses in addition to teaching a doctoral level practice course. At Marymount, Dr. Sperling developed and oversees the Minor in Social Work. Her teaching and clinical work are both grounded in systems theory, a firm belief in people’s strengths and the centrality of listening to people tell their stories. She also teaches elective courses in the Sociology curriculum and in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
In over twenty years as a practitioner, Dr. Sperling has been a clinical supervisor in out-patient hospital, community and school- based settings. She has run programs in the Lower East Side and at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City that focused on the treatment of alcohol and substance abuse, improvement of mental health and crisis intervention for individuals and families. She has acted as Civilian Co-Coordinator of Parenting Programs at the Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional Facility. Professor Sperling also maintains a private practice in New York City. Her areas of professional knowledge and interest include: diversity, mental health, prison systems, women’s studies, human development, substance abuse, oral history and pedagogy.
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