Faculty

Office: 326 Manchester Hall
Telephone: (860) 486-3049
E-Mail: nancy.naples@uconn.edu

Biographical Statement:

Dr. Naples teaches courses on sociology of gender; qualitative methodology; gender, politics, and the state; women's activism and globalization; and feminist theory. By using a variety of research methods including ethnography, discourse analysis, archival research, and comparative research, she interrogates the relationship between the state, market, other social institutions and citizenship to determine how social actors are affected by, and resisting extra-local economic and political structures and policies. She has explored the historical construction and implementation of welfare, immigration, rural economic development, and community control policies. She has also examined how members of low income and working class urban and rural communities respond to, reshape, and resist externally imposed policies and state-sponsored programs. She has also conducted research on programs designed to enhance access to justice for crime victims with disabilities and survivors of childhood sexual assault. She is currently working on a book that investigates the link between global economic change, social policy, and community-based social restructuring in the rural US. Her current research is on sexual citizenship in comparative perspective. She served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society (2004) and has held elected office in the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Eastern Sociological Society, the Pacific Sociological Association, and the American Sociological Association. She is currently serving as President of SSSP (2007-2008).

Education:

PhD, Graduate Center , CUNY Ph.D. 1988

Selected Publications:

2003 Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research by Nancy A. Naples. New York : Routledge .

2002 Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics , eds. Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai. New York : Routledge .

1998 Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty by Nancy A. Naples. New York : Routledge . Awarded Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Race, Class, and Gender Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award 2000. Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1999.