HAREL SHAPIRA Department of Sociology 305 East 23 rd Street Austin, TX 78712 Phone: 512.232.8075 Fax: 512.471.1748 Email: hshapira@austin.utexas.edu Academic Appointments 2013 - Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Faculty Research Associate Population Research Center, Faculty Affiliate American Studies Department, 2011-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University Education 2010 PhD, Columbia University, Sociology, [With Distinction] Winner of the Robert Merton Dissertation Prize 2005 MA, Columbia University, Sociology 2001 BA, The University of Chicago, Sociology, [With Honors] Book Manuscripts 2013 Shapira, Harel. Waiting for José: The Minutemen s Pursuit of America. Princeton University Press. (2 nd Edition, with new afterward, published in 2017) Winner of the Southwest Book Award Under Contract Carlson, Jennifer, Shapira, Harel, and Goss, Kristin. [Eds.] International Handbook on Gun Studies. Routledge.
Vitae Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (*indicates graduate co-author) Forthcoming Shapira, Harel, Katherine Jensen*, and Ken-Hou Lin. Trends and Patterns of Concealed Handgun License Applications: A Multi-State Analysis. Social Currents. 2013 Shapira, Harel. 2013. The Border: Infrastructure of the Global. Public Culture, 25(2). 2013 Shapira, Harel. From the Nativist s Point of View: How Ethnography Can Enrich Our Understanding of Political Identity. Sociological Quarterly, 54(1). Book Chapters 2013 Calhoun, Craig, Richard Sennett and Harel Shapira. Infrastructures of the Urban. Pubic Culture, 25(2). 2012 Manza, Jeff, and Harel Shapira. 2012. Social Structure, In The Sociology Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination. Pearson Press. 2012 Jasso, Guillermina, and Harel Shapira. Immigration, In The Sociology Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination. Pearson Press. Book Reviews 2016 Shapira, Harel. Review of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization by Nancy Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Contemporary Sociology, 45(3). 2011 Shapira, Harel. Review of, Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America by William Garriott, E-Mesfirica. 8(2). 2010 Shapira, Harel. Review of, Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands by Katherine Benoton-Cohen, Contemporary Sociology 39(1). Other Writings 2017 Shapira, Harel. Arlie Hochschild: An Interview. Public Culture, 29(3). 2016 Shapira, Harel Looking Inward, Across the Border. Metropolitiques. 2014 Shapira, Harel. Ill-Concealed Prejudice Op-Ed in the Nytimes. 11/4/14. 2
2013 Shapira, Harel. Local Knowledge In Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends. The Guggenheim Museum. 2005 Jordan Crandrall, Asaf Bayat, Susan Buck-Morris, and Harel Shapira (Eds.) 2005. Underfire: The Organization and Representation of Violence. Amsterdam: Witte de With. Grants, Awards & Fellowships 2016 Carnegie Fellow, The Andrew Carnegie Foundation 2016 Macatee Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, UT-Austin 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation 2015 Academic Enrichment Fund, College of Liberal Arts, UT-Austin 2015 Summer Research Assignment (Summer 2015), College of Liberal Arts, UT- Austin 2014 Population Research Center, UT-Austin 2013 Fellow, C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, The 2012 Young Leaders Fellow, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt 2007 Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation 2002-8 Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellowship, Columbia University Invited Presentations (*indicates graduate co-author) Vitae 2017 It s Just a Tool : Risk Perception Among Gun Owners, Strategy meeting on public perceptions of risk of guns, Joyce Foundation, Chicago, IL. 2017 The Right to Kill: Guns, Justifiable Homicide, and the Future of American Democracy, Keynote Address at Sites of Resistance conference, Tulane University. 2017 To Tell The Truth: What Constitutes Validity -- and Whose Validity -- in Qualitative Research, Invited Panel, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA. 2017 It s Just a Tool : How Gun Owners Justify their Guns, (With Samantha Simon*) Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA. 2016 Civilized Violence: On the Etiquette of Gun Ownership, Harvard University. 2016 Civilized Violence: Lessons from Gun Schools, Wake Forest University. 3
Vitae 2015 From the Nativist s Point of View: On the Limits of Ideology and Potentials of Ethnography to Enrich Our Understanding of Political Behavior. Collective Behavior and Social Movements Mini-Conference, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Il. 2014 Patrolling the Border: Militias, Police, and a Region s Most Vulnerable. Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. 2014 Waiting for José, The Society, Politics, and Culture Workshop, Boston University. 2013 Waiting for José, Conference on Border and Boundaries, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Stockholm University. 2012 The Day Chris Simcox Stopped Being Popular: A Cautionary Tale about the Perils of Organizing the People. Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, New York, NY. 2011 Public Sociology and the Challenges of Studying Controversial Topics. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV. 2011 Waiting for José, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 2010 Waiting for José. Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University. 2006 Movement Under Conditions of Globalization. Symposium on Crossing Borders, Columbia University. Teaching Introduction to the Study of Society Politics, Power, and Society Graduate Courses Field and Observational Methods New York University Introduction to Sociology (With Jeff Manza) Politics, Power, and Society Columbia University Ethnography and the African American Experience (With Sudhir Venkatesh) 4
The Sociological Imagination Vitae PhD Student Committees Service Student Discipline Level Catherine Carter Architecture Abd Thatcher Combs Sociology 3 rd year Corey McZeal Sociology Abd Samantha Simon Sociology 3 rd year Mario Venegas Sociology 3 rd year Reviewer: Princeton University Press, Ethnography, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Sociological Theory, Public Culture, Mobilization, Journal of Hate Studies, Journal of the Pacific Sociological Association, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Departmental: Committee on Undergraduate Studies, UT Austin. Faculty Junior Search. 100 th Anniversary Panning Committee Professional service: Session Chair: Guns: Sociological Approaches to an American Problem, Special Invited Session, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 2015, Chicago, Il. Report for ASA Presidential Committee on Campus Carry, 2017. Organizer, The Craft of Ethnography Workshop, A joint initiative of Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Texas at Austin. Co-Organizer, Belonging Today Workshop, Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU 5