CHARLES S. VARANO. Professor Department of Sociology California State University, Sacramento

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1 CHARLES S. VARANO Professor Department of Sociology California State University, Sacramento Education Ph.D., Sociology M.A., Sociology B.A., Sociology University of California, San Diego September 1994 University of California, San Diego June 1983 San Diego State University June 1981 Current Research Interests Areas of Focus: Sociology of Inequality and Class Sociology of Organizations, Work and Occupations Sociology of Education Urban Sociology Research Interests: Analysis of how death and injury among workers is framed in the United States, tentative book title, Without Dignity: Death and Injury Among Workers in the United States. (Data collection stage) Designing research project on teamwork among health care providers in multiple hospital units. (Research design stage) Content analysis of Pacific Sociological Association Presidential addresses from 1930 to (Working paper for submission to Sociological Perspectives)

2 Publications 2014 Conflicted Health Care: Professionalism and Caring in an Urban Hospital. Coauthored with Ester C. Apesoa-Varano, Nashville:Vanderbilt University Press, Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Entry in Vicki Smith (ed) Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia. New York: Sage Publications, Inc, Book Review, Why the Garden Club Couldn t Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt. By Sean Safford, Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, Contemporary Sociology, Nov. 2009, vol. 38: pp Book Review, Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community. By Dimitra Doukas, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Contemporary Sociology, 33, 3, Nurses and Labor Activism in the United States: The Role of Class, Gender, and Ideology. Co-authored with Ester C. Apesoa-Varano. Special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order on Justice for Workers in the Global Economy, v.31, n.3, Book Review, Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown. By Robert Bruno, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, American Journal of Sociology, March 2000 (105:5), pp Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership, State University of New York Press "Worker Ownership in a Steel Town" in Working Papers in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, Referee/Reviewer Activity 2011 Article reviewed for Sociological Perspectives, January, Article reviewed for Sociological Perspectives, May, Article review for Sociological Perspectives, October, Article review for Sociological Perspectives, July, Article review for Sociological Perspectives, November, Article review for Sociological Perspectives, August, Article review for Sociological Perspectives, May, Article review for Sociological Perspectives, March, Article review for American Sociological Review, November, Article review for Sociological Perspectives, September, 2008.

3 2007 Article review for Sociological Perspectives, November, Review of book manuscript Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks, Roweman and Littlefield 2005 Article review for Ethnic Studies Review, November, Reviews of book manuscript for publication by Roxbury Publishing, Los Angeles, April, September, Review of book manuscript for publication by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Review of new book edition project Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World for publication by Pine Forge Press Review of book project for publication with McGraw-Hill, October, Article review for Sociological Perspectives. Papers Presented 2011 Helping Students Understand Privilege: An Overlooked Dimension of Social Inequalities. Paper presented at the California Sociological Association Meetings, Berkeley, California, November 4-5, The Dilemma of Unionization Among Medical Practitioners in a Hospital. Co-authored paper (with Carolina Apesoa-Varano) presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, San Diego, California, April 8-11, PSA Presidential Addresses: Knowledge and Discourse over 70 Years. Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Hollywood, California, April 20-23, An Analysis of PSA Presidential Addresses. Paper presented with Dean Dorn at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco, California, April 15-18, The Moral Economy of Capitalism in the United States. Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Pasadena, California, April 3-6, The Moral Economy: How Americans Reason about Capitalism. Paper presented at the California Sociological Association Meetings, Riverside, California, October 18-19, Nurses, Teachers, and Labor Activism in the United States. Paper presented with Ester C. Apesoa-Varano, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Vancouver, Canada, April 19, 2002.

4 2001 Author in Author Meets Critics session on Forced Choices, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, March 31, Workers by Day, Owners by Night. Paper presented for the California Sociological Association Meetings, Berkeley, California, October 29-30, If The Mill Goes, So Does This Town: Quiescence and Protest under Deindustrialization. Paper presented for the graduate colloquium series, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, December 4, Conferences/Colloquiums 2011 Session organizer, Teaching Social Inequalities. California Sociological Association, Berkeley, California, November 4-5, Session organizer, Sociology and Social Class. Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California, April 8-11, Department Colloquium, Class Size and Pedagogy. Discussant, April 16, Session organizer, Workers and Work in Health Care. Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California, April 8-11, Session organizer, Social Inequalities. California Sociological Association, Berkeley, California, November 13-14, Session organizer, Popular Critiques of Capitalism. Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California, March 29 - April 1, Session organizer, Inequality and Opportunity in California. California Sociological Association annual meetings, Riverside, California, November 10-11, Conference organizer, California Sociological Association annual meetings, Sacramento, California, October, Co-sponsor of Labor Conference, Democracy and Divisions in the House of Labor. University Union, CSU Sacramento, September 28, Session organizer, Education and Inequality. Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon, April 7-10, Session organizer, Ethnography and Social Theory. California Sociological Association Meetings, Berkeley, California, November 7, What is Sociology and Why Study It. Presentation for Freshman Welcome Day,

5 California State University, Sacramento, May 3, Co-sponsor of colloquium by Dr. M. M. Shale, Awareness of HIV/AIDS and Differences by Gender in Lesotho. California State University, Sacramento, February 5, Co-organizer with Dean Joseph F. Sheley of special lecture by Congressman John Lewis, California State University, Sacramento, January 11, Co-organizer, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Colloquium on Capital Punishment, California State University, Sacramento, October, Session organizer, Author Meets Critics: Valerie Jenness on Hate Crimes, Hate Crime Legislation, and Community Responses to Hate-Motivated Violence. Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Vancouver, Canada, April 19, Roundtable discussant, Is Sacramento the Next L.A.? The College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Colloquium Series, California State University, Sacramento, December 3, Lunch panel organizer, California Sociological Association, October 20, Worker Ownership in America: Forced Choices Class, Community, and Worker Ownership. Presentation to The Renaissance Society, California State University, Sacramento, April 27, st 1999 Session organizer, Work in the 21 Century and University-Community Relationships. California Sociological Association Meetings, October 29-30, Department representative at Sociology Assessment Workshop, San Diego State University, April 22-23, Co-presenter, Regional Course Project, American Association for Higher Education conference, San Diego, California, January 23, Discussant, Panel on Education and The Family, MiraCosta College, San Diego, California, September 30, Awards 2004 Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies The 2000 Pacific Sociological Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship for

6 Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership. New York: SUNY Press, Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership. New York: SUNY Press, Research Experience 2013-present 2012-present 2011-present 2011-present 2004-present 2000-present Data collection on how death and injury among workers is framed using historical documents and mass media. Designing research project on teamwork among health care providers in various hospital units. Analysis of relationship of professionalism and caring among five health care occupations in an urban hospital. (Conflicted Health Care: Professionalism and Caring in an Urban Hospital. Vanderbilt University Press). Analysis of healthcare professionals in a major hospital and their views toward unionization. (Working paper). Content analysis of Pacific Sociological Association Presidential addresses from 1930 to present. (Working paper). Analysis of public attitudes and moral reasoning on capitalism and stratification in the United States; relationship to class, gender, ethnicity. (Unpublished paper) Data collection on labor activism among nurses; analytical emphasis on relationship of professional ideology and client status to unionism ( Nurses & Labor Activism in the U.S.: The Role of Class, Gender, & Ideology. With Ester C. Apesoa-Varano, Social Justice Vol. 31, No. 3, (2004) Completed an ethnographic field study in a community where workers became employee-owners through an employee stock ownership plan. Lived in the town and conducted extensive interviewing and observation, demographic analysis, and historical research through library archives and secondary sources Research Assistant to Professor Jacqueline Wiseman, UCSD. Data collection and review of literature on friendship, attitudes toward friendship and interpersonal relations Conducted interviews and qualitative analysis of the Libertarian party; emphasis on membership recruitment and ideology of members. In conjunction with master's study Proposed research design for observation and analysis of formal and informal

7 organizational structure of a janitorial firm. Conducted preliminary interviews with management and executive personnel. Professional Associations/University Service 2014-Present Member, College Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, CSUS 2014-Present Department representative, Faculty Senate 2011-Present Chair, Department Curriculum Committee SSIS representative to Graduate Council, CSUS 2010-Present Chair, Department Human Subjects Committee Editorial Board Member, Sociological Perspectives Professional Leave Committee, CSUS President, California Sociological Association Member, College Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, CSUS President Elect, California Sociological Association Chair, Committee on Publications (elected) Pacific Sociological Association 2003-Present Director, Labor Studies Program, California State University, Sacramento Chair, College Curriculum Committee, California State University, Sacramento 1999-Present Member, Pacific Sociological Association 1999-Present Member, California Sociological Association Chair, Scholarship Awards Committee member, Pacific Sociological Association Scholarship Awards Committee member, Pacific Sociological Association Vice-President North, California Sociological Association Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento, 1998 to present: Class and Inequality; Urban Life and Problems; Work and Occupations; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Popular Culture; Ethnic and Race Relations; Urban Sociology (graduate seminar); Social Stratification (graduate seminar). Lecturer in Sociology, San Diego State University, 1996 to 1998: Introductory Sociology; Social Organization; Sociology of Workers, Managers and Bureaucracy; Introduction to Social Science Research. Lecturer in Sociology, MiraCosta College, 1990 to 1998: Introduction to Sociology; Social Problems; Ethnic and Race Relations, Social Psychology. Lecturer in Sociology, San Diego Mesa College, , 1995 to 1998: Social Problems; Introduction to Sociology. Lecturer in Sociology, University of California Riverside, 1995: American Society; Sociology of Economic Organizations. Lecturer in Sociology, San Diego City College, 1995: Introduction to Sociology.

8 Lecturer in Urban Studies and Planning, University of California, San Diego, Summer/Fall 1990: Urban American Society; The City and Social Theory. Lecturer in Communications, University of California, San Diego, Summer, 1989: Introduction to Communications. Lecturer in Sociology, University of California, San Diego, Summer 1988, 1989, 1990: American Society: Social Structure and Culture. Instructor, Muir Writing Program, University of California, San Diego, 1988: Analytical Writing; Rhetoric and Text. Courses qualified to teach (syllabi available upon request): Social Stratification and Inequality; Community and Urban Sociology; Sociology of Organizations, Work, and Labor Relations; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Popular Culture; Social Problems; Race and Ethnic Relations; American Society; Social Organization; American Labor History; Qualitative Research Methods; Self and Society.

JOSHUA GERALD LEPREE

JOSHUA GERALD LEPREE University of Colorado-Boulder, Department of Sociology 195 Ketchum, 327 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0327 (305) 484-1065 Joshua.LePree@colorado.edu http://sociology.colorado.edu/people/lepree-josh