FACULTY

Héctor Carrillo, Sociology/Gender Studies
hector@northwestern.edu
Héctor Carrillo (Ph.D., Public Health, Berkeley) is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Gender Studies Program.  He is interested generally in issues of health, biomedicine, and sexuality for Mexican and Latino/a immigrant populations.  He is the author of The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association.  He currently investigates the intersections of sexuality, migration, and heath among Mexican gay and bisexual men who have relocated to California.  In collaboration with co-investigators in Mexico, Dr. Carrillo is also investigating the meanings associated with adult male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy among Mexican immigrant men and their female and male sexual partners. Dr. Carrillo has recently initiated a new study, in collaboration with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, of the influence of spatial mobility on late testing and access to medical and HIV prevention services among Latino/a migrants in California. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, among other agencies.

Jeannette Colyvas, Human Development and Social Policy
j-colyvas@northwestern.edu
Jeannette Colyvas (Ph.D., Education, Stanford) is assistant professor of learning and organizational change at the School of Education and Social Policy. Her current research addresses university-industry relations, scientist collaboration networks, and the development and commercialization of academic research, particularly with respect to the biotech industry.  She is interested in organizations and entrepreneurship, comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing, and the study of networks. Professor Colyvas teaches the course Tools for Organizational Analysis at Northwestern and while at Stanford co-taught graduate courses on the nonprofit sector with Professor Walter W. Powell. Her published work has appeared in the journals Management Science and Research in Organizational Behavior.

Penelope Deutscher, Philosophy
p-deutscher@northwestern.edu
Penelope Deutscher (Ph.D., Philosophy, New South Wales) is Professor of Philosophy and specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary French philosophy and philosophy of gender. Other areas of special interest include theories of genealogy and biopolitics (Nietzsche, Foucault, Agamben).  Her main publications include Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy  (Routledge, 1997); A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell, 2002), How to Read Derrida  (Granta/Norton, 2006), and The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Cambridge, 2008).

Steven Epstein, Sociology
s-epstein@northwestern.edu
Steven Epstein (Ph.D., Sociology, Berkeley) is the John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Sociology. In relation to science studies, he is interested in the politics of biomedical knowledge production; the relation between social movements, scientific institutions, and the state; and gender, sexuality, and race in the life sciences. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (California, 1996) and Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (Chicago, 2007).  He serves on the editorial board of the journal Social Studies of Science, and he has served on the council of the Society for Social Studies of Science. He is a past director of the Science Studies Program at UCSD.

Wendy Espeland, Sociology
wne741@northwestern.edu
Wendy Espeland (Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago) is Associate Professor of Sociology.  She works in the areas of organizations, culture, and law. Her book, The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality and Identity in the American Southwest (Chicago, 1998) was awarded the Best Book Prize by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, the Rachel Carson Award from the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration. She is currently writing a book about the effects of commensuration, the process of translating qualities into quantities. In it she investigates how media rankings have influenced higher education, how efforts to measure homosexuality have shaped gay and lesbian politics, and the commensurative practices necessary in order to transform air pollution into a commodity that is traded on futures markets.

Gary Fine, Sociology
g-fine@northwestern.edu
Gary Fine (Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard), Professor of Sociology, studies social psychology, sociology of culture, sociology of science, qualitative sociology, social theory, and collective behavior.  His current research has three distinct streams.  As an ethnographer, he is currently examining the multiple social worlds of chess as a leisure and competitive activity, examining the role of technological change and changes in global-political politics (e.g., the breakup of the Soviet Union) on chess as a community.  His most recent publication is Authors of the Storm: Meteorology and the Culture of Prediction (Chicago, 2007).  Second, he is interested in the development of reputations of individuals with “difficult reputations” by means of reputational entrepreneurs, work published in Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept and Controversial (Chicago, 2001).  His current research on reputations deals with reputations and memories of the American left and right during the 1935-1955 period, including McCarthy era and the way that Adolf Hitler is remembered in the United States. His final stream of research involves the interpretation of rumor and contemporary legend, particularly political and economic rumors. His most recent book in this area is Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America (California, 2001).

Carol A. Heimer, Sociology
c-heimer@northwestern.edu
Carol A. Heimer (Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago) is Professor of Sociology and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation.  She has written on risk and insurance (Reactive Risk and Rational Action), organization theory (Organization Theory and Project Management, co-authored with Stinchcombe), the sociology of law and the sociology of medicine (For the Sake of the Children, co-authored with Staffen, winner of both the theory and medical sociology prizes of the American Sociological Association). A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching, she usually teaches courses on law, medicine, and qualitative methods, with occasional forays in to topics such as the sociology of moral experience.  Heimer is currently writing a book from her NSF-funded comparative study of the role of law in medicine.  The Legal Transformation of Medicine will be grounded in ethnographic work and interviews on the use of rules (broadly conceived) in HIV/AIDS clinics in the US, Uganda, South Africa, and Thailand.

Lawrence Lipking, English
llipking@northwestern.edu
Lawrence Lipking (Ph.D., English, Cornell), Professor Emeritus of English, teaches and studies eighteenth-century literature, Romanticism, and poetry in many times and languages. He is the author of The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (1970), The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers (Chicago, 1981), which won the Christian Gauss Award, Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition (Chicago, 1988), and Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author (Harvard, 1998).  An editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996 he won the MLA William Riley Parker prize for “The Genius of the Shore: Lycidas, Adamastor, and the Poetics of Nationalism.” His current research project is a study of relations between imagination and science during the Scientific Revolution.

Grégoire Mallard, Sociology
g-mallard@northwestern.edu
Grégoire Mallard (Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton) is Assistant Professor of Sociology.  He is currently working on a book manuscript, titled “The Atomic Confederacy: Europe's Quest for Nuclear Weapons and the Making of the New World Order.” He has recently co-edited Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science, published by Routledge. He has also published articles in the sociology of science, and more precisely, on peer evaluation and fairness in a context of epistemological pluralism (coauthored with Michèle Lamont) in the American Sociological Review, Research Evaluation and Science, Technology and Human Values; as well as on knowledge practices in the humanities in the American Sociological Review.

Yarí Pérez Marín, Spanish and Portuguese
yperezmarin@northwestern.edu
Yarí Pérez Marín (Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, Brown) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.  She specializes in colonial Latin American literature and culture and her research and teaching interests include Caribbean literature, history of science and film studies.  She has received awards from the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and has been a fellow-in-residence at the John Carter Brown Library.  In her upcoming book project, Evolving Epistemologies and New World Medical Writings, 1565-1592, she examines texts written in Spain and colonial Mexico in which American nature takes center stage in the ongoing feud between Renaissance humanism and experiential modes of knowledge-production. Her analysis makes a case for the incorporation of scientific writing into current discussions on early modern historiography and literature.