Lynette Spillman

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.

Lynette Patrice Spillman
Alma materAustralian National University (B.A.)
University of California-Berkeley (PhD)
Known forcultural sociology, economic sociology, political sociology
AwardsVivana Zelizer Award, Clifford Geertz Award
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsUniversity of Notre Dame
Academic advisorsNeil Smelser, Ann Swidler

Career

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.[2] 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".[3]

Contributions to political sociology

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."[1] 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."[4] 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

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"[9] 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."[10]

Personal life

Spillman is married to fellow sociologist Russell Faeges.[11]

Selected bibliography
  • 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).

References
  1. "Lynette Spillman // Department of Sociology // University of Notre Dame". sociology.nd.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  2. Lynette Spillman (18 June 2014). "CURRICULUM VITAE" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  3. "CCS Anniversary Conference ~ Advancing Cultural Sociology ~ Spring 2014 | Center for Cultural Sociology". ccs.research.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  4. "Nation and Commemoration - Lyn Spillman". www3.nd.edu. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  5. "Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia by Lynette P. Spillman | 9780521574044 | Hardcover | Barnes & Noble". barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  6. "American Sociological Association: Section on Culture Past Award Recipients". Archived from the original on April 25, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. "American Sociological Association: Economic Sociology Awards Recipient History". Archived from the original on July 10, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. "American Sociological Association: Economic Sociology Awards". Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations, Spillman. press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  10. Spillman, Lyn (30 August 2012). Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations: Lyn Spillman: 9780226769578: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 978-0226769578.
  11. Spillman, L. (2012). Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226769554. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
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