Joshua Wakeham Department of Criminal Justice Farrah Hall 416 PO Box 870320, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 jcwakeham@ua.edu Cell Phone: 617-272-6941 Fax: 205-348-7178 Education Ph. D., Sociology, Harvard November 2012 Dissertation: Managing in the Face of Ambiguity and Uncertainty: The Problems of Interpretation and Coordination in Juvenile Justice Organizations Committee: Michèle Lamont, Orlando Patterson, Susan Silbey (MIT), and Christopher Winship (Chair) A.M., Sociology, Harvard May 2010 Thesis: Agreeing What to Do, But Not Why: Sentencing in a Juvenile Justice System Committee: Susan Silbey (MIT), Bruce Western, and Christopher Winship B.A., Sociology (Highest Honors) and Asian Studies, Williams College June 2002 Honors Thesis: From Saving the Wayward to Treating the Disturbed: The Social Transformation of Berkshire Farm Advisers: Robert Jackall and James Nolan Teaching Experience of Alabama, Department of Criminal Justice, August 2014 to Present Assistant Professor o Criminal Justice 240, Juvenile Delinquency, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015 o Sociology 490/Criminal Justice 490, Organizational Failures and Disasters, Fall 2015 o Criminal Justice 540, Seminar in Juvenile Delinquency, Fall 2014 Harvard, Department of Sociology, January 2007 to June 2014 Lecturer o Sociology 143: Building Just Institutions and Creating Moral Communities, Fall 2012, Fall 2013 o Sociology 98: Occupations and Work in a Bureaucratized World, Spring 2014 o Sociology 114: Organizational Failures and Disasters: Leadership in Crisis, Spring 2013, Spring 2014
o Sociology 95: Research for Non-profits, Spring 2013 Teaching Fellow, Sociology 209: Graduate Seminar in Qualitative Methods with Professor Orlando Patterson, Spring 2011 Instructor, Sociology 97: Tutorial in Sociological Theory, Fall 2008, Spring 2009; Spring 2010 Head Teaching Fellow, United States in the World 24/Sociology 19: Reinventing Boston with Professors Christopher Winship and David Luberoff, Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010 Instructor, Sociology 99s: Workshop for Senior Thesis Writers, Fall 2008 Head Teaching Fellow, Sociology 179/Crime and Criminal Justice 103: Crime, Justice, and the American Legal System with Professor Anthony Braga, Fall 2007 Teaching Fellow, Sociology 19: Reinventing Boston with Professors Christopher Winship and David Luberoff, Spring 2007 Research and Teaching Interests Juvenile Justice, Social Services, Law and Society, Crime and Deviance, Organizations, Justice and Morality, Micro-Sociology, Knowledge and Cognition, Decision-Making and Sense-Making, Ethnography and Qualitative Methods, Social Theory, Pragmatism Publications Non-refereed Wakeham, Joshua. 2015. Uncertainty: History of the Concept for International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition. Wakeham, Joshua. Forthcoming. Navigating Rocky Choices with Practical Wisdom in Dilemmas of Education. Harvard School of Education Press. Papers Under Review Wakeham, Joshua. Agreeing What to Do, But Not Why: Competing Institutional Logics in Juvenile Justice Sentencing Wakeham, Joshua. Bullshit as a Problem of Social Epistemology Working Papers Wakeham, Joshua. Organizing StreetSafe: The Limits of Sensemaking in a Gang Intervention Program Wakeham, Joshua. A Pragmatist Theory of Collective Action Wakeham, Joshua. Pragmatic Justice in Juvenile Sentencing
Book Reviews Review of The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine Newman. The Hedgehog Review, Spring 2013. Presentations Taking Bullshit Seriously: Problem of Social Epistemology.American Sociological Association s Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, August 2015 Bullshit as a Problem of Social Epistemology. Mid-South Sociological Association s Annual Conference, Mobile, AL November 2014 Organizing StreetSafe: The Limits of Sensemaking in a Gang Intervention Program. American Sociological Association s Annual Conference, New York, NY, August 2013 Rethinking Organizational Cognition. Eastern Sociological Society s Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 2013. Agreeing What to Do, But Not Why: Sentencing in a Juvenile Justice System. American Sociological Association s Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011. A Problem of Coherence and Evidence: Pragmatism and the Nature of Organizational Knowledge. American Sociological Association s Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011. Doubt and the Possibility of Creative Action: How Sociology Can Benefit from Pragmatism, and Vice- Versa. Inter-Ivy/Aage Sorensen Memorial Conferece, Cambridge, MA, April 2011. Agreeing What to Do, But Not Why: Sentencing in a Juvenile Justice System. Eastern Sociological Society s Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 2010. Research Experience 2010-2014 Research Fellow with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School Project: Conducting ethnographic research at StreetSafe Boston as part of a larger program evaluation. StreetSafe Boston is a gang violence intervention program where different groups of professionals work together to intervene in street violence and provide gang members with greater access to services. 2008-2010 Organizational Ethnography in Juvenile Justice System
Project: Participant observation of the closed door sentencing meetings of several regional offices for a state-wide juvenile justice system. 2007 Graduate Student Research Assistant for Prudence Carter Project: Ethnographic research and in-depth group interviews for project on race, ethnicity, gender, and cultural integration in a Boston public high school. 2006 Graduate Student Research Assistant for Michèle Lamont Project: Literature review for project on grant dispersal decision-making (How Professors Think) in the social sciences and humanities. Fellowships and Awards Harvard College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard, 2011-2012 Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Doctoral Research Award, 2010-2011 Center for American Politics, Harvard, Summer Research Award, Summer 2010 Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston/Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Summer Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School, Summer 2008 Graduate Student Fellowship, 2005-2009 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Spring 2008 for Reinventing Boston and Fall 2008 for Sociological Theory Robert Friedrichs Prize in Sociology, Williams College, 2002 Highest Honors for Senior Thesis in Sociology From Saving the Wayward to Treating the Disturbed: The Social Transformation of Berkshire Farm, Williams College 2002 Service 2015-Present Undergraduate Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, of Alabama Community Outreach Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, of Alabama Faculty Search Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, of Alabama
Master s Thesis Adviser. Student: Thomas Harbison, Department of Criminal Justice, of Alabama 2014-2015 Graduate Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, of Alabama Community Outreach Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, of Alabama 2010-2011 Senior Thesis Adviser, Department of Sociology, Harvard 2009-2010 President of the Graduate Student Organization, Department of Sociology, Harvard Coordinated Graduate Student Organization meetings and activities; helped Graduate Student Organization become financially solvent; worked with faculty and staff to improve graduate student experience within the department. 2008-2009 Professional Development Coordinator, Department of Sociology, Harvard Organized professional development events and materials for graduate students 2008-2009 Senior Thesis Adviser, Department of Social Studies, Harvard 2008 Co-author, Teaching Fellows Handbook, Department of Sociology, Harvard Professional and Scholarly Activities -Member, American Sociological Association, 2008-Present (Sections: Organization, Occupations, and Work; Cultural Sociology; Crime, Law, and Deviance; Theory) -Member, Eastern Sociological Society, 2010-Present -Member, Mid-South Sociological Association, 2014-Present -Reviewer, Sociological Methods & Research, Sociological Theory -Member, of Alabama Juvenile Justice Working Group (Youth Services Institute)