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American sociologist
Lynette Patrice Spillman
(born
c.
1960) is a
sociologist
and professor of
sociology
at the
University of Notre Dame
, and a Faculty Fellow of the
Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
, as well as the Center for Cultural Sociology,
Yale University
.
[1]
She is particularly known for the application of
cultural sociology
to the sub-fields of
political sociology
and
economic sociology
.
Career
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Having completed a BA in sociology and philosophy at the
Australian National University
in 1982, Lynette Spillman received her
MA
in 1986 and PhD in 1991 from the
University of California-Berkeley
, both in sociology.
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Her doctoral dissertation at Berkeley was titled:
Recognition, Integration and the Mobilization of National Identity: Centennials and Bicentennials in the United States and Australia
. It later became her first book:
Nation and commemoration: creating national identities in the United States and Australia
. In 1983 she received a
Fulbright
award and in 2001 she was a recipient of the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
.
In 2014, Spillman was a keynote speaker at Yale's
Center for Cultural Sociology
special conference on
"Advancing Cultural Sociology"
.
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Contributions to political sociology
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Spillman's dissertation and first book published in 1997,
Nation and commemoration
, "examines meaning-making in politics. It traces the emergence of national identities in two similar “new nations” by comparing ritual and symbol in centennial and bicentennial commemorations."
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Prominent Berkeley cultural sociologist
Ann Swidler
describes the work as "pathbreaking" with how it convincingly describes how "two similar nations [Australia and the USA] end up with divergent images of national identity."
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The work was reviewed in several scholarly journals, including the
American Journal of Sociology
,
Social Forces
, International Affairs and the Journal of Intercultural Studies.
[5]
Contributions to economic sociology
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Spillman's 2012 publication
Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations
won both the
Mary Douglas
Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology
[6]
and the
Viviana Zelizer
Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology for 2013.
[7]
The selection committee for the Zelizer Award included
Frank Dobbin
(Chair),
Stephanie Mudge
and
Frederick Wherry
.
[8]
The selection committee for the Douglas Award included
Timothy Dowd
(Chair),
Claudio Benzecry
, and
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
. Economic sociologist
Nina Bandelj
states that "This is a path-breaking study of American trade associations that significantly enriches our understanding of contemporary economic life."
[9]
and Yale sociologist Frederick Wherry argues that "Solidarity in Strategy breaks new ground in the discussion of the cultures of capitalism"
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Prominent Cornell economic sociologist,
Richard Swedberg
, considers this work "important because it brings attention to a phenomenon in U.S. life...in a theoretically innovative way that suggests a new - and more sociological - way of looking at the way capitalism operates."
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Personal life
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Spillman is married to fellow sociologist
Russell Faeges
.
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Selected bibliography
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- Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
- Cultural Sociology (Editor) (Malden MA and London: Blackwell, 2002)
- Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
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