Curriculum Vitae Dr. John Bryce Merrill

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1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. John Bryce Merrill Assistant Professor Indiana University South Bend Department of Sociology and Anthropology 1700 Mishawaka Ave South Bend, IN Education Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder, Department of Sociology. December 2008 Dissertation Title: Making it, not Making it: Creating Music in Everyday Life. Dissertation Committee: Leslie Irvine (chair), Janet Jacobs, Joseph Kotarba, Kira Hall, and Isaac Reed. M.A. University of South Florida, Department of Sociology, Tampa, Florida. April Master s thesis: Disillusioning Dissolution: An Ethnographic Autopsy of a Disbanded Social Movement Organization. B.S. Northland College, Department of Sociology, Ashland, Wisconsin. May 1999 Magna Cum Laude. Capstone Project: Lens Ethnography: Focusing on Aesthetics and Interaction in Public Places. Professional Interests Research: Sociology of Music and Art; Community Studies; Culture, Technology and Everyday Life; Visual Ethnography. Teaching: Theory; Social Psychology; Qualitative Methods; Sociology of Music; Technology; and Culture. Teaching Positions Fall 2009: Introduction to Sociology (two sections) IUSB. Introduction to Sociological Theory IUSB. Previous: Introduction to Sociology (CU-Boulder; USF; Regis University): Nine sections Self and Society (CU-Boulder): Five Sections Social Problems (CU-Boulder; USF): Four Sections Social Conflict and Values (CU-Boulder): One section Merrill CV 1

2 Publications Refereed Articles 2010 John Bryce Merrill. Music to Remember Me By: Technologies of Memory in Home Music Recording. Forthcoming in Symbolic Interaction, Spring, 33(1) Jason Boardman, Liam Downey, James S. Jackson, J. Bryce Merrill, Jarron Saint Onge, and David R. Williams. Proximate Industrial Activity and Psychological Distress: The interactive and interpretive roles of gender, work, and family statuses. Population and Environment, 30(1). Authors in alphabetical order John Bryce Merrill. Stories of Narrative: On Social Scientific Uses of Narrative in Multiple Disciplines. Colorado Research in Linguistics 20(1). Books 2010 Christopher Schneider, Robert Gardner, and John Bryce Merrill. Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Special Issue on Music, editors. Forthcoming, Emerald Press. Book Chapters 2010 John Bryce Merrill. Music and (Inter)Action in Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Special Issue on Music, edited by Christopher Schneider, Robert Gardner, and John Bryce Merrill. Emerald Press John Bryce Merrill. Making it, not Making it: Creating Music in Everyday Life in Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches edited by Phillip Vannini. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Additional 2008 John Bryce Merrill and Joseph D. Grobelny. Brain, Self, and Society: An instructive review of two books on music and the brain. Review essay in Symbolic Interaction 31(4) John Bryce Merrill. Him: Remembering the Person. Invited essay in Symbolic Interaction 30(4) John Bryce Merrill, Phillip Vannini, and Patrick Williams. Organizing Couch Stone. Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Notes. Vol 34 (3) John Bryce Merrill. The UnScene: Paradoxes in Home Recording. November feature article in Popmatters.com. Retrievable at popmatters.com/pm/features/article/50752/theunscene/ 2004 James C. Cavendish, Jessica Barber, Penny Blackwell, Muriel Cook, Beth Eschenfelder, Terry Johnson, Jennie Lai, Ana Melgar, J. Bryce Merrill, Virgie Peters. Campus Climate Survey: A Report on the Attitudes and Experiences of Faculty and Staff. Executive Merrill CV 2

3 In Progress summary for the Provosts Office at the University of South Florida. Brigid McAuliffe and John Bryce Merrill. Telling Memories of Cardamom: Working the space between New Media Art, Ethnography, and Documentary. Chapter and visual ethnography in progress for proposed book on popularizing research, edited by Phillip Vannini for Sage Press. Spencer Cahill (posthumous), John Bryce Merrill, Sara Crawley, Sharla Alegria, and W.R. Force. Social Theory: A Promiscuous Approach. Book proposal under review at Oxford and Routledge Presses. John Bryce Merrill. Fixing Songs: Home Recording as Technique of Self-Therapy. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Qualitative Inquiry. Presentations 2007 Ethnography and Social Memory Invited presentation with Emmanuel David at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Sociology in Progress Series Music to Remember Me By: Technologies of Memory in Home Music Recording. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. New York, NY Him: Remembering the Person. Presentation at the 2007 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Champaign, Il A Discussion of the Research Strategies and Theoretical Implications of Leslie Irvine s If you Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with Animals. Invited lecture at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Graduate Forum Series, Boulder, Co. On the Technological Means of Musical Production. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood, CA Narrating Inequality on a Sports Talk Radio Show. Invited lecture at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Sociology in Progress Series, Boulder, Co When in Rome: Narrating Identity, Community, and Inequality on a Sports Talk Radio Show. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. San Francisco, CA Reconstructing and Reconsidering the Radical Empowerment Center: An Ethnographic Autopsy. Couch-Stone Symposium, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Tempe, Az. Service Merrill CV 3

4 2009 Publications Committee. Symbolic Interaction. Term Reviewer. Symbolic Interaction Current Invited research talk, Lessons from Qualitative Research on Music, Department of Sociology, Regis University. Honor s thesis advisory committee; Rachel Ptaszek, Department of Sociology, CU- Boulder. Undergraduate mentor for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate program (CU-Boulder) for underrepresented, low-income, or first-generation college students. Invited presentation, Creating and Maintaining a Teaching Portfolio. Graduate Professional Socialization seminar. Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder Organizer, Session on New Studies in Symbolic Interaction. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Boston, MA. Manuscript review of Symbols, Selves, and Social Realities by Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine. Oxford University Press. Submission reviewer for Culture Language and Social Practice Conference. Culture, Language, and Social Practice graduate certificate program, University of Colorado- Boulder. Undergraduate Internship Supervisor at CU-Boulder for Tasia Vandervegt at Free Speech Television, Boulder, Co Member, Development Committee: Graduate Certificate Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice. Supervised by Dr. Kira Hall. Manuscript review of Social Problems by Joel Best. Norton, Co-Planner and Co-Organizer with the Graduate Student Research Collective. Couch- Stone Symposium, Society of for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. University of Colorado-Boulder, Department of Sociology. Goffman s Model of Context: Deciphering Frame Analysis. Organizer and Moderator of an invited lecture by Thomas Scheff with Discussants Gary Alan Fine and Dan Miller, Couch-Stone Symposium, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Boulder, Co Organizer, Session on New Empirical Studies. Discussant. Couch-Stone Symposium, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Vancouver, British Columbia. Graduate Committee Representative: Graduate Student Association. Department of Sociology. University of Colorado-Boulder. Merrill CV 4

5 Member, Graduate Student Research Collective: Department of Sociology. University of Colorado-Boulder Founder, Everything Social, Graduate Student Research and Professional Socialization series. Department of Sociology. University of South Florida Graduate student member, Computer Steering Committee, College of Arts and Sciences. University of South Florida Graduate Committee Representative. Department of Sociology. University of South Florida. Teaching Enhancement Activities 2009 Classroom Climate and Civility IUSB: University Center for Excellence in Teaching (UCET) OnCourse. IUSB: UCET Creating a Teaching Portfolio. University of South Florida. Leading Effective Classroom Discussions. University of South Florida Using Questions to Learn: Two Essential Skills for Promoting Active Learning. University of South Florida. Fostering Positive Student-Faculty Relationships in the Classroom. University of South Florida. Research Positions 2002 Research Assistant to James Cavendish, Principal Investigator for the University of South Florida Campus Climate Survey: Office of the Provost. Clean, coded, analyzed, and summarized quantitative data taken from the Campus Climate Survey Research Assistant to Jennifer Friedman, Department of Sociology, University of South Florida. Analyzed qualitative interviews of men at a methadone clinic. Awards and Honors 2007 Graduate Part Time Instructor Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder Residence Life Teaching Award. Nominated by an honors student at the University of Colorado-Boulder for teaching and mentoring excellence High Pass on Theory Comprehensive Exams, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder. Merrill CV 5

6 2003 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper from the Theory division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Mayme Stewart Razkowski Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences. Northland College Major-Merit Field Award in Sociology. Northland College. Grants and Funding 2006 Dissertation Expense Grant. Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder. $ Couch-Stone Symposium Conference Planning Grant. Funded by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. $5000. Student Event Funding for the Couch-Stone Symposium. Funded by the Coordinated Administrative Funding Committee of behalf of the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs. $2000. Professional Affiliations American Sociological Association: Theory, Social Psychology, and Culture Sections Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Additional Activities: 2009 Volunteer organizer for Girls Rock Denver, an organization that hosts an annual Girls Rock Camp in Denver Colorado Fundraising assistant for Denver Kickstand, an organization supporting music and the arts in Denver public schools Invited radio interview on dissertation research on women and home recording. Radio AM 1190, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Volunteer, English Tutor: Intercambio De Communidades. Boulder, Colorado. Additional Employment 2001 Associate Program Director, Escambia River Outward Bound School, 420 Tedder Rd, Century, FL Education Coordinator and Teacher of English, Social Studies, Life Management Skills, and Outdoor Education (Grades 6-12, General and Exceptional Student Education) at Escambia River Outward Bound School, 420 Tedder Rd, Century, FL Merrill CV 6

7 References Leslie Irvine, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder, 219 Ketchum Hall, UCB 327, Boulder, CO Phone: Janet Jacobs, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Ketchum Hall 215-A, Boulder, CO Phone: Joseph Kotarba, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Houston, 450 Phillip Hoffman Hall, University of Houston, Houston, TX Donileen R. Loseke, Department of Sociology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CPR 229, Tampa, FL Phone: Merrill CV 7