Teal Rothschild

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Teal Rothschild, Ph.D. Chair Department of Anthropology+Sociology and Professor of Sociology

Contact Information

(401) 254-3059trothschild@rwu.edu CAS 132

Education

B.A. Bard College
M.A., Ph.D. New School of Social Research

Dr. Rothschild is an historical sociologist whose research has always focused on the intersections of social movements, activism,  and identity. Rothschild鈥檚 interests surround the larger questions of how movements shape individuals and groups both within movements and beyond, with specific attention to issues of racialization, privilege, power, discourse, victimization, and representation in a variety of contexts within the United States. More recent social movements she has studied include: Redneck Revolt, Gun Violence Prevention Activism, and The Day Without An Immigrant Protests of 2006.

Currently, Rothschild is engaging in a new United States-based national ethnographic and interview-based project focusing on the projection of activism on to librarians, with attention to how librarians make sense of this themselves.

Selected Publications

image of book cover, An Ethnography of Gun Violence Prevention Activists: 鈥渨e are thinking people, by Dr. Teal Rothschild(2022) Catherine Simpson Bueker, Teal Rothschild.Global by the Seaside鈥. Contexts. American Sociological Association Journal. Spring 2022, Volume 21, Number 2, pp. 24-29

(2019) 鈥淢ultiplicity in movements: the case for Redneck Revolt.鈥 Contexts. American Sociological Association Journal. Summer 2019, Volume 18, Number 3, pp.57-59.

(2018): An Ethnography of Gun Violence Prevention Activists: 鈥渨e are thinking people鈥. Lexington Books.

(2018)  Introduction to Sociology: An Adaption of Open Stax's Introduction to Sociology 2 edition. 2018. 

(2011) An Immigrant, Not a Worker: Depiction of the 2006 鈥楧ay Without an Immigrant鈥 Protests in Printed Media of the United States. Journal of Media Sociology. 3 (1-4): 77-89.

(2010) Racialized Masculinity and Discourses of Victimization: A Comparison of the Mythopoetic Men鈥檚 Movement and the Militia of Montana. Advances in Gender Research, 13 (1).

Selected Presentations

(2016). 鈥淎n Informal Discussion Roundtable: Tightrope Walking: Role of Researcher and Activist in Ethnographic Studies of Social Movements鈥, American Sociological Association. Seattle, Washington.

(2010). 鈥淎nti-immigrant sentiment and dehumanization: Representations of The Day without an Immigrant Protests鈥 in Investigating Countermovement Dynamics. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Boston: Massachusetts.

Selected Interviews Quoted In

Iqbal, Mawa. 鈥淟eft Wing Groups Take Up Arms in Name of Abolitionist John Brown.鈥 Flatlands.  Kansasic City Public Television 19, Inc. Kansas City PBS, July 23, 2020. 

Seymart, Thomas. 鈥淐oronavirus, violences polici猫res, Trump... Aux Etats-Unis, la gauche radicale s'arme aussi鈥 Euronews.fr. 

Courses Taught

SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 201 Social Stratification
SOC 220 Sociological Perspectives on Race
SOC 260 Sociological Imagination
SOC 316 Sociology of Gender
SOC 330 Globalization and Identity
SOC 340 Comparative Immigration
SOC 350 Comparative Social Movements and Social Change
SOC 460 Senior Seminar

Professional Service

American Sociological Association Member 1994-present

ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements: mentor to graduate students

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