2017- Instructor of Sociology Tennessee Tech University Cookeville, TN PhD in Sociology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA

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1 BETSIE GARNER PO Box EMPLOYMENT of Sociology EDUCATION 2017 PhD in Sociology 2013 MA in Sociology 2011 BA in Sociology with Highest Honors Emory University RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Qualitative Research Methods Culture Gender Family Community The Rural-Urban Continuum Place Work Religion Regionalism PUBLICATIONS 2018 The Distinctive South and the Invisible North: Why Urban Ethnography Needs Regional Sociology 2017 Perfectly Positioned : The Blurring of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Boundaries in a Southern Community 2016 Naturalizing Gender through Childhood Socialization Messages in a Zoo Co-authored with David Grazian Winner of the 2017 Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals and Society Section of ASA 2015 Mundane Mommies and Doting Daddies: Gendered Parenting and Family Museum Visits Sociology Compass 12(6): e12589 The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 672(1): Social Psychology Quarterly 79(3): Qualitative Sociology 38(3):

2 PAPERS IN PROGRESS 2018 Urban Progressivism and Southern Hospitality: How Comparison Cases Reveal Shared Processes of Community Attachment Co-authored with Sarah Zelner In preparation 2018 All Are Welcome? Southern Hospitality and the Politics of Belonging In preparation 2018 Warm and Friendly Churches: Southern Hospitality, Christian Hospitality, and the Institutional Maintenance of Local Congregations In preparation FELLOWSHIPS AND FUNDING 2018 Learning About Learning Travel Funding 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Gertrude and Otto Pollak ASA Travel Award 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012 Gertrude and Otto Pollak Summer Research Fellowship 2015 Dissertation Research Fellowship 2011 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship 2011 Charles Elias Shepard Scholarship for Graduate Study Emory University 2008, 2007 Lettie Pate Whitehead Scholarship Emory University $1,000 $1,290 total $15,000 total $6,500 $250,000+ $10,570 $1,436 total HONORS AND AWARDS 2017 Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals and Society Section of ASA 2017 Sociology PhD Dissertation Defended with Distinction 2016 School of Arts and Sciences Dean s Scholar Emory College Honors Program in Sociology Emory College Dean s List

3 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2018 All Are Welcome? Southern Hospitality and the Politics of Belonging Mid-South Sociological Association Annual Conference 2018 Warm and Friendly Churches: Southern Hospitality, Christian Hospitality, and the Institutional Maintenance of Local Congregations 2018 Perfectly Positioned : The Blurring of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Boundaries in a Southern Community Atlanta Studies Symposium 2018 Warm and Friendly Churches: Southern Hospitality, Christian Hospitality, and the Institutional Maintenance of Local Congregations 2017 The Hospitable South: Religion, Politics, and Belonging in a Southern Community 2016 The Hospitable South: Cultural Myth and Religious Practice in a Southern Community Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting 2016 Perfectly Positioned : The Blurring of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Boundaries in a Southern Community The New Rural-Urban Interface Conference 2016 The Hospitable South: Cultural Myth and Religious Practice in a Southern Community 2016 Urban Progressivism and Southern Hospitality: How Ecology and Morality Inform the Framing of Community Identity 2015 Street Level: Reconsidering Urban Sociology s Regional Bias With Observations from Metro Atlanta s Rockdale County 2015 Down Here: Family Life and Southern Culture in Rockdale County, Georgia Birmingham, AL New Orleans, LA Greenville, SC Seattle, WA Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA

4 2014 Only Natural: Families and the Social Construction of Gender in a City Zoo 2014 Mundane Mommies and Doting Daddies: Family-Oriented Consumption and Gendered Parenting in Philadelphia Museums Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting 2013 Mundane Mommies and Doting Daddies: Family-Oriented Consumption and Gendered Parenting in Philadelphia Museums 2012 The Career Ladder and the Baby Cradle: College Seniors, Gender, and Work-Family Issues Inaugural Meeting of the Work and Family Researchers Network San Francisco, CA Baltimore, MD New York, NY New York, NY CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS 2018 All Are Welcome? Southern Hospitality and the Politics of Belonging Wake Up Wednesday 2018 All Are Welcome? Southern Hospitality and the Politics of Belonging Faculty Development Fellowship 2018 Questions of Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South Panelist for a Center Stage event coordinated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2017 Perfectly Positioned : The Blurring of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Boundaries in a Southern Community Author Q&A video conference for Sarah Zelner 2016 The Hospitable South: Cultural Myth and Religious Practice in a Southern Community Urban Ethnography Workshop 2014 Only Natural: Families and the Social Construction of Gender in a City Zoo Family and Gender Workshop United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

5 2013 Mundane Mommies and Doting Daddies: Family- Oriented Consumption and Gendered Parenting in Philadelphia Museums Urban Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series 2012 Family Field Trips: Philadelphia Museums and the Construction of Family Time Urban Space and Public Life in Philadelphia: A Spotlight on Local Urban Fieldwork in Penn s Doctoral Program in Sociology TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2018 Summer 2018 Spring 2018 Fall 2017 Spring 2014 Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Sociology of Media and Popular Culture The Family Sociology of Media and Popular Culture Asian Americans in Contemporary Society

6 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Inclusive Excellence Academic Learning Community 2018 Faculty Development Fellowship United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO 2018 Camp QEP Learning About Learning Academic Learning Community AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association Southern Sociological Society Mid-South Sociological Association Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society MEDIA APPEARANCES 2018 Interview on America s Declining Fertility Rate Stonecom Radio 2018 Interview on Ethics in Government Stonecom Radio 2017 Faculty Fresh Face: Betsie Garner blogs.tntech.edu/rightnow 2017 Animals and Society Award for Distinguished Scholarship Animals and Society Section Newsletter 2013 Hipster Hobbies: Cashing in on Ancient Skills Katrina Bishop for CNBC.com 2013 Goodbye Tablets, Hello Taxidermy: How Hipsters are Ditching Modern Hobbies to Learn Trendy Ancient Skills Like Stuffing Dead Animals Catherine Townsend for Dailymail.co.uk SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 2018 Reviewer for Journal of Creative Inquiry 2016 Reviewer for Qualitative Sociology

7 Reviewer for Gender & Society Mentor to Incoming Sociology Graduate Students at the University of Pennsylvania Communications Committee for the Work and Family Researchers Network SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT Faculty Mentor to Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society Faculty Mentor to Student Majors in Sociology 2018 Recruitment Volunteer at the 54 th American Legion Boys State 2018 Participant in the Tennessee Transfer Pathways Review 2017 Founding of the Sociology and Political Science Department Faculty Book Club 2017 Collaborator on the General Education Assessment for SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC Volunteer at Rockdale CASA, Inc. Conyers, GA 2015, 2016, 2017 Volunteer at Rockdale Emergency Relief Smart Lunch, Smart Kid Program Conyers, GA Volunteer at Family Promise of NewRock Conyers, GA 2015, 2016 Volunteer at the Rockdale Coalition Day of Connections Conyers, GA Volunteer at Fugees Family, Inc. Scottdale, GA 2008 Intern at the Jefferson County Juvenile Court Dandridge, TN REFERENCES David Grazian Randall Collins Robin Leidner