GEMMA MANGIONE WORK: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, TEACHERS COLLEGE 525 W. 120 TH STREET BOX 78B NEW YORK, NY 10027 PHONE: +001 212.678.4023 E-MAIL: GMMANGIONE@U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU EDUCATION, Ph.D., Sociology, 2016 Dissertation: Making Sense of Things: Access and The Therapeutic Turn in Museum Gardens and Galleries Committee: Wendy Griswold (chair); Charles Camic; Steven Epstein; Wendy Espeland; Carol Heimer Field Exam Concentrations, 2012: Culture, Art, Science, Knowledge Master of Arts, Sociology, 2011 Modacult: Center for Economics and Culture, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Visiting Student, Spring 2012, Medill School of Journalism Bachelor of Science, Journalism, 2007, awarded cum laude; Kappa Tau Alpha Double major, with department honors, in Art History ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Lecturer, Columbia University Teacher s College Arts Administration Program, 2016-present AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Culture; Health and Illness; Disability; Art; Organizations; Work and Occupations; Body & Embodiment; Knowledge; Research Methods PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES Mangione, Gemma. Forthcoming. The Art and Nature of Health: A Study of Therapeutic Practice in Museums. Sociology of Health & Illness. Mangione, Gemma. 2016. Making Sense of Things: Constructing Aesthetic Experience in Museum Gardens and Galleries. Museum & Society 14(1): 33-51. Griswold, Wendy, Gemma Mangione and Terence E. McDonnell. 2013. Objects, Words and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality into Cultural Analysis. Qualitative Sociology 36(4): 343-364. Lead article in special issue, Reassembling Ethnography: Actor-Network Theory and Sociology Mangione, Gemma. 2013. Access to What?: Alzheimer s Disease and Esthetic Sense-Making in the Contemporary Art Museum. Poetics 41(1): 27-47. Gemma Mangione, Curriculum Vitae, February 2017: Page 1
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS Region and Renown: The Chicago Imagists and Artworld Boundaries First author, with Gary Alan Fine REVIEWS, COMMENTARY, AND OTHER WRITINGS A Field Guide to Materiality for Cultural Sociologists. With Terence E. McDonnell. Summer 2016 American Sociological Association (ASA) Sociology of Culture Newsletter 28(2): 19-22 Review of Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display, by Peggy Levitt. Society 53(3): 333-336. Excerpted in the Winter 2016 American Sociological Association (ASA) Sociology of Culture Newsletter 28(1): 7; 17-18 On Sociology, Museums, and the Senses. June 7, 2016. Intentional Museum Blog, Randi Korn & Associates. Available online: https://intentionalmuseum.com/2016/06/07/on-sociology-museums-andthe-senses/ Thinking Intentionally about Sociology and Evaluation. June 24, 2015. Intentional Museum Blog, Randi Korn & Associates. Available online: http://intentionalmuseum.com/2015/06/24/thinkingintentionally-about-sociology-and-evaluation/ GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS American Association of University Women American (Dissertation) Fellowship ($20,000), 2015 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($38,000 award alternate), 2015 Maurice J. and Fay B. Karpf Peace Prize Award ($2,500), 2016 Sociology Fieldwork Extension Fellowship ($5,600), Department of Sociology, 2014 MacArthur Foundation Collaborative Research Grant ($1,250), Department of Sociology, 2012 MacArthur Foundation Collaborative Research Grant ($1,222), Department of Sociology, 2011 Graduate Research Grant ($3,000), The Graduate School, 2013 Mellon Fellowship in Rhetoric and Public Culture ($1000), The Graduate School, 2009 University Fellowship, The Graduate School, 2009-2014 CONFERENCE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS Adaptive Expertise: Or, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Work 41 st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, 2016 Gemma Mangione, Curriculum Vitae, February 2017: Page 2
International Perspectives on Access to Culture Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA 2016 Invited panel moderator and discussant The Social Value of Nature 40 th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, MD, 2015 Panel co-organizer (with Hillary Angelo, University of Santa Cruz) and presenter To Show or To Use?: Examining the Means and Ends of Museum Collection Objects Culture Section Roundtables: Special Roundtable on Materiality 2015 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Inequality, Legitimacy, Practice: Applications of Sociological Research for Cultural Arts Accessibility Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2015 I See With My Fingers: Making Sense in Museums Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology 10 th Anniversary Conference, April 2014 Whither the Object in Art and Science?: Toward a Theory of Material Aesthetics 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY Theorizing Materiality Panel, Theory Section That s Not What We Do Here: Professional Identity and Valuing the Therapeutic in Museums University of Notre Dame Culture Workshop, March 2013: Invited Presentation The Space Between Picassos and Petunias: Culture and the Social Construction of Therapy 37th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, BC, 2012 Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality into Cultural Analysis 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, CO with Wendy Griswold () Sociology of Culture Main Session, Sociology of Culture Section Framing Art Through Experience: Granting Art Museum Access to Alzheimer s Patients 2011 Chicago Ethnography Conference, South Bend, Indiana 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV The Art and Science of Healing: Granting Museum Access to Alzheimer s Patients 35th Annual Social Science History Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2010 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor of Record Columbia University, Arts Administration Program Master s Thesis Seminar (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Arts in Context (Fall 2016) Access & the Arts (Spring 2017): Gemma Mangione, Curriculum Vitae, February 2017: Page 3
, Department of Sociology 2 nd -Year Paper Writing Seminar (Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2015), Twice selected among upper-level graduate students to lead course on sociological analysis and research for graduate students developing their masters theses Received Department of Sociology s Robert F. Winch Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer, 2013 and Honorable Mention for the same award, 2015 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology Sociological Theory (Winter 2013, Spring 2013), Received Honorable Mention for Department of Sociology s Robert F. Winch Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2013 Gender and Society (Fall 2010, Winter 2012) Received Honorable Mention for Department of Sociology s Robert F. Winch Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2012 Introduction to Sociology (Spring 2010) Other Teaching Experience Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Teaching Assistant Fellow, 2012 Competitive fellowship awarded to 20 graduate student teachers across the university Participated in weekly training workshops for best practices in university teaching Designed and led two training workshops for new teaching assistants in fall 2012 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Institute for Policy Research, Research Assistant, Spring - Fall 2011 Steven Epstein, ; Laura Mamo, UC San Francisco Sexualizing Cancer: What Happens When Sexual Politics Meets Biomedicine? Conducted meta-analyses of biomedical literature on six oncoviruses, Research Assistant, Winter 2011 Karrie Ann Snyder The Road to Adulthood: How Do Young Adults Make Health and Fertility-Related Decisions? Conducted 30 interviews about health and fertility-related decision-making, Research Assistant, Summer 2010 Wendy Griswold Culture and Society in a Changing World, 4 th ed. Contributor to chapters discussing collective representations and organizations PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE Gemma Mangione, Curriculum Vitae, February 2017: Page 4
Service to the Discipline Student Representative, American Sociological Association: Culture Section, 2016-2018 Body and Embodiment Section, 2015-2016 Reviewer for American Sociological Review, Poetics Sociology Department Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 2009 2013 Culture and Society Workshop Student Coordinator, 2012 2013 External Service Featured speaker, National Art Education Association Peer-to-Peer Initiative, May 13, 2015 Member, American Horticultural Therapy Association Research Awards Committee, 2012 2014 Membership in Professional Organizations American Sociological Association (since 2009) Social Science History Association (since 2010) American Alliance of Museums (since 2013) American Association of University Women (since 2015) Visitor Studies Association (since 2013) OTHER PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Randi Korn & Associates, Freelance Evaluator (2014-2015); Research Fellow (2015-2016); Consulting Analyst (2016-Present) Conduct interviews with student, stakeholder, and visitor audiences served by firm clients Evaluate program outcomes and strategy through data analysis and report writing Contribute to firm meetings, professional development, and public writings Whitney Museum of American Art, Assistant to Public Programs, 2007 2009 Oversaw development, coordination, and budgeting of outreach programs for older adults Assisted in the creation, administration, and implementation of all public programs Directed and supervised research projects for Education Department interns FOREIGN LANGUAGES Advanced Italian written, oral and reading proficiency Intermediate Spanish reading proficiency REFERENCES (ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL) Wendy Griswold Department of Sociology Steven Epstein Department of Sociology 1810 Chicago Avenue 1810 Chicago Avenue Evanston, IL 60208 Evanston, IL 60208 (847) 491-2701 (847) 491-5536 w-griswold@northwestern.edu s-epstein@northwestern.edu Gemma Mangione, Curriculum Vitae, February 2017: Page 5
Carol A. Heimer Department of Sociology 1810 Chicago Avenue 525 West 120 th Street Evanston, IL 60208 New York, NY 10027 Jennifer C. Lena Program in Arts Administration Columbia University, Teachers College (847) 491-7480 (212) 678-3271 c-heimer@northwestern.edu jcl42@tc.columbia.edu Stephanie Downey Kathryn Potts Randi Korn & Associates Whitney Museum of American Art 2417B Mount Vernon Avenue 99 Gansevoort Street Alexandria, VA 22301 New York, NY 10014 (703) 548-4078 (212) 570-7714 downey@randikorn.com kathryn_potts@whitney.org Gemma Mangione, Curriculum Vitae, February 2017: Page 6