MARGARET ANN HAGERMAN Department of Sociology Mississippi State University 213 Bowen Hall P.O. Box C Mississippi State, MS 39762 Tel: (662) 325-0217 Email: mah1125@msstate.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2014 present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Affiliate Faculty of the Program of African American Studies Affiliate Faculty of the Program of Gender Studies Mississippi State University 2011 2014 Lecturer, Human Development and Family Studies University of Wisconsin Madison EDUCATION Ph.D. 2014 Sociology, Emory University Dissertation White Kids and Race: An Ethnographic Study of White Racial Socialization, Privilege, and the (Re)Production of Racial Ideology in Affluent Families Committee: Amanda Lewis (chair), Tyrone Forman, Heather Johnson, William Corsaro, Irene Browne M.A. 2006 Sociology, Lehigh University Thesis Kids Voices: Children s Perspectives On Participating in Social Research B.A. 2004 English, Economics (minor), Lehigh University 2003 English, King s College London RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Children and Youth; Ethnography; Families; Privilege; Qualitative Methods; Race and Class Inequality; Racial Socialization; Social Reproduction of Ideology; Sociology of Education
PUBLICATIONS Hagerman, Margaret Ann. Forthcoming. The Celebrity Thing : Using Photographs of Celebrities in Child-Centered, Ethnographic Interviews with White Kids about Race. Pp. x-x in Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Vol. 22, Researching Kids and Teens: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations, edited by I. E. Castro, M. Swauger, and B. Harger. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. 2016. White Racial Socialization: Progressive Fathers on Raising Anti-racist Children. Journal of Marriage and Family. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(issn)1741-3737/earlyview Hagerman, Margaret Ann. 2016. Reproducing and Reworking Colorblind Racial Ideology: Acknowledging Children s Agency in the White Habitus. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(1):58-71. Lewis, Amanda E. and Margaret Ann Hagerman. 2016. Using Ethnography and Interviews to Study Color-blind Racial Ideology. Pp. 157-171 in The Myth of Racial Color Blindness: Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact, edited by H. A. Neville, M. E. Gallardo, and D. W. Sue. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. 2014. White Families and Race: Colour-blind and Colourconscious Approaches to White Racial Socialization. Ethnic and Racial Studies 37 (14):2598-2614. Hagerman, Margaret Ann & Eric D. Vivier. 2014. Ignorance and Outrage: White Families (Don t) Talk About Race. Pp. 73-78 in Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong, edited by K. Fasching-Varner, R. Reynolds, K. Albert, and L. Martin (Eds.) Boston: Sense Publishers. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. 2010. I Like Being Intervieeeeeeewed! : Children s Perspectives on Participating in Social Research. Pp. 61-101 in Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Vol. 13, Children and Youth Speak for Themselves, edited by H.B. Johnson. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. WORK IN PROGRESS The Racial Politics of Parenting: White Children, Privilege, and the Reproduction of Racism [Under Contract with NYU Press] Racism and White Kids: From Middle Childhood to Adolescence Children and Youth on Race: A review of research on youth perspectives on race (with Madison Hinton, graduate student) 2
Talking about race is like talking about sex : Patterns in racial and sexual learning within white families (with Sarah E. Pellegrine, graduate student) Racialized School Discipline: Does Discretion Lead to Racial Disparity? (with David May) Mississippi School Choice Project (with Courtney Heath, undergraduate student) HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS Competitive Travel Grant. Office of Research and Economic Development and the College of Arts & Sciences, Mississippi State University, August 2016. ($1000) Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, April 2016. Office of Research and Economic Development, Undergraduate Research Program, Hands-On Qualitative Data Analysis Training, Mississippi State University, 2015. ($2000) Office of Research and Economic Development, Cross College Research Grant for Increasing the Enrollment Rate of Under-Represented Students and Women in Graduate Studies in Behavioral and Social Science Disciplines at MSU through Undergraduate Research Experiences Co-PI with Mabel Okojie and Sang Joon Lee. ($2000) Dr. Brenda Pfaehler Teaching Award of Excellence, presented by the Center for Educational Opportunity, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013. Dissertation Thesis Grant, Competitive Professional Development Research Funds, Emory University, Emory Laney Graduate School. ($4200) Dissertation Thesis Grant, Midwest Family Socialization Project, Race and Difference Initiative Student Seed Grant, Emory University. ($2129) Research Grant, Youth Identity Project, Amanda Lewis, Margaret Hagerman and Michelle Manno. Emory College Instrumentation, Bridge, Instruction, and Seed (IBIS) Funding Program. ($3125) Student Travel Grant, Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association. ($200) RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS Hagerman, Margaret Ann. October 27, 2016. Sleepovers, Water Ballet, and Head Lice: How White Kids Construct Racial Meaning with Peers. Anthropology Afternoon Lecture Series. Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures. Mississippi State University, MS. 3
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS (cont.) Hagerman, Margaret Ann. August 22, 2016. White Affluent Fathers on Raising White Children. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. April 14, 2016. White Youth on Race: From Middle Childhood to Adolescence. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. Atlanta, GA. Hagerman, Margaret Ann and David May. February 25, 2016. Racialized School Discipline: Layers of Discretion. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association. Jackson, MS. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. August 25, 2015. How White Kids Talk about Race When Adults Aren t Around. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Society. Chicago, IL. Hagerman, Margaret Ann and Elizabeth C. Alexander. March 27, 2015. Before Contact: The Role of Modern Racial Attitudes in Facilitating and Inhibiting Whites Interracial Contact. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. New Orleans, LA. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. February 23, 2015. Experiences from the Field. Informal invited talk presented to Amanda E. Lewis s Chicago Area Study Graduate Seminar. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. August 13, 2013. White Racial Socialization and the Ideological Maintenance of White Privilege. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Society. New York City, NY. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. February 25, 2012. Racial Progressives and American Dream Skeptics: Children Challenging the Grammar of Race and Class. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA. Hagerman, Margaret Ann and Heather Beth Johnson. August 18, 2011. ASA Policy Workshop on Ethical Challenges in Health and Educational Research on Children. Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV. Hagerman, Margaret Ann and Michelle Manno. August 16, 2010. Two Princes at the Altar and An Infant in the House: Property Rights versus Person Rights. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. August 1, 2008. I like being INTERVIEEEEEWED : Kids Perspectives on Participating in Social Research. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA. 4
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS (cont.) Johnson, Heather Beth and Margaret Ann Hagerman. August 13, 2006. Kids Talk about Class Divides: Privileged Children s Perspectives on Social Class Inequality. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada. Johnson, Heather Beth and Margaret Ann Hagerman. August 16, 2005. Beliefs about Social Class Inequality: Affluent Children s Perspectives. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. September 9, 2005. Hurricane Katrina Forum, Representative for Heather Beth Johnson. Race, Class, and Katrina. Lehigh University, PA. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. November 21, 2005. Beliefs about Social Class Inequality. Research Symposium Panelist. Lehigh University, PA. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Spring 2013 Research Assistant, Tyrone Forman, Department of Sociology, Emory University 2010-2012 Research Assistant, Amanda Lewis, Youth Identity Project Department of Sociology, Emory University Spring 2010 Research Assistant, Barbara Woodhouse, A World Fit For Children Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, Emory University Law School 2009-2010 Project Coordinator, Khaya Clark, Children s Social Attitudes Study Department of Sociology, Emory University Summer 2008 Research Assistant, Anthony Orum, Ethnic Communities Study University of Illinois, Chicago TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate Faculty Department of Sociology 2014-present Mississippi State University Lecturer Human Development and Family Studies 2011 2014 University of Wisconsin-Madison Instructor Department of Sociology 2009 2010 Emory University 5
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (cont.) Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology 2008 2009 Emory University Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology 2007 2008 University of Illinois, Chicago Lecturer Department of Liberal Arts, Sociology 2006 2007 Northern Virginia Community College Teacher Robert E. Lee High School 2006 2007 English Department Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia Teaching Assistant Department of Anthropology and Sociology 2005 2006 Lehigh University COURSES TAUGHT Development of Black Children and Families: Research and Policy (HDFS, UW) Family and Community Influences on the Child (HDFS, UW) Family Perspectives in Policy-making (HDFS, UW) Inequality and America s Children (SOC, Emory) Introduction to Sociology (LA, Northern VA Community College) Qualitative Methods (Graduate course, SOC, MSU) Race and Families in the United States (HDFS, UW) Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SOC, MSU) Seminar on Race and Ethnicity (Graduate course, SOC, MSU) Sociology of Children and Youth (Graduate and Undergraduate course, SOC, MSU; Emory) Sociology of Education (Graduate and Undergraduate course, SOC, MSU) Sociology of Families; Marriage and Family (SOC, MSU) MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Sociological Association, 2005-present Section on Children and Youth Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Eastern Sociological Society, 2012-2014 Southern Sociological Society, 2014-present 6
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Critical Race Studies Group. Member, Mississippi State University, 2016-present. Race in America Today Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, 2015-present. Shackhouls Honors College Diversity Initiative, Member, Mississippi State University, 2015- present. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. October 21, 2015. Evidence of the White Savior Genre. Presentation for Maroon Edition Panel, Measures of a Man. Mississippi State University, MS. Hagerman, Margaret Ann. September 9, 2015. 10 Years Since Katrina: State of Children and Schools in New Orleans. Presentation for African American Studies Panel, When the Levees Broke Film Screening. Mississippi State University, MS. Selection Committee for the 2015 Symposium on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870. Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Shackhouls Honors College. Mississippi State University, 2014-2015. Textbook Adoption Ad Hoc Committee, Member, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, 2015. Annual AAS Civil Rights Tour, Coordinator, Program in African American Studies, Mississippi State University, 2014-2016. Undergraduate Curriculum and Policies Committee, Member, Mississippi State University, 2014-2016. Loftin Committee, Member, Mississippi State University, 2014-present; Chair 2015-2017. Preliminary Examination Committee: Stratification, Member, Mississippi State University, 2014-present. Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Program in African American Studies. Member, Mississippi State University, 2014. Race and Difference Initiative, Graduate Student Member, Emory University, 2009-2014. 7
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Occasional Reviewer for Ethnic Racial Studies, Journal of Family Studies, Sociological Inquiry, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Perspectives, and Gender and Society. Presider for Contemporary Interracial Connections and Relationships at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, March 27, 2015. Publications Committee Member, Section on Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association, 2008-2010 Newsletter Editor, Section on Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association, 2008-2010 Council Member, Student Representative, Section on Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association, 2007-2009 RESEARCH IN THE MEDIA Measuring the Impact of Poverty in Education August 8, 2016. Education Dive. http://www.educationdive.com/news/measuring-the-impact-of-poverty-in-education/423321/ Racism in America: Donald Trump, Social Media Giving Teenagers a Reason To Share Racial Slurs? June 4, 2016. International Business Times. http://www.ibtimes.com/racism-americadonald-trump-social-media-giving-teenagers-reason-share-racial-slurs-2377697 MSU Radio Interview. 10 Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina event organized by African American Studies, Mississippi State University. September 8, 2015. Hand-in-Hand : Poverty + Education Keep State in Last Place. July 29, 2015. Jackson Free Press. http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/jul/29/hand-hand-poverty-education-keepstate-last-place/ 8
REFERENCES Amanda Lewis Associate Professor of African American Studies Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois, Chicagoaelewis@uic.edu Tyrone Forman Professor of African American Studies and Sociology Vice Provost for Diversity and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor University of Illinois, Chicago tyforman@uic.edu Heather Johnson Associate Professor of Sociology Lehigh University hbj2@lehigh.edu 9