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Marshall A. Taylor Curriculum Vitae May 2015 University of Notre Dame Department of Sociology 844 Flanner Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556
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Phone: (615) 406-0843 E-mail:
[email protected] www.nd.academia.edu/MarshallTaylor www.github.com/Marshall-Soc
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. Student, Sociology, University of Notre Dame M.A., Sociology, The University of Memphis Thesis Title: “Markers of Performance: Emotion Marking and Sacral Bonds in White Supremacist Discourse” Committee: Carol Rambo (Chair), Zandria Robinson, Seth Abrutyn Overall GPA: 4.00 (4.00 Scale) B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University Minor: Writing Overall GPA: 3.87 (4.00 Scale)
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Cultural Sociology Language and Deliberation Natural Language Processing
Political Sociology/Social Movements Sociological Theory Computational Sociology
PUBLICATIONS
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Taylor, Marshall A. and Carol Rambo. 2013. “White Shame, White Pride: Emotional Cultures, Feeling Rules, and Emotion Exemplars in White Supremacist Movement Music.” International Journal of Crime, Criminal Justice, and Law 8(1-2):107-34.
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Grier, Tiffanie, Carol Rambo, and Marshall A. Taylor. 2014. “‘What Are You?’: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project.” Deviant Behavior 35(12): 1006-1022.
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Papers Under Review
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Taylor, Marshall A. “The Cultural Logic of Whiteness: Symbolic Boundaries, White Racial Framing, and White Supremacist Discourse.”
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Taylor, Marshall A. and Dustin Stoltz. “Affording Contention with Objects: Symbolic Manipulation, Enunciation, and the Material Development of Protest Objects.”
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Abrutyn, Seth, Justin Van Ness, and Marshall A. Taylor. “Agency, Crises, and the Qualitative Transformation of Institutional Spheres: Eisenstadt, Entrepreneurship, and Sociocultural Evolution.”
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Taylor, Marshall A. “Negative Campaigning and the Political Public Self: Identity Availability, Partisan Narratives, and Discursive Fields.”
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Taylor, Marshall A. “Framing Strategies, Discursive Fields, and White Power Music: Using Structural Topic Models to Analyze White Supremacist Movement Discourse.”
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Stoltz, Dustin and Marshall A. Taylor. “Paying with Change: Money, Materiality, and Illiquidity as Protest.”
! RESEARCH EXPERIENCE !
2014-Present Research Collaborator, Study on Future-Oriented Discourses in Rio+20 and People’s Summit Documents Primary Investigator: Ann Mische, Ph.D. Responsibilities: Assisting with development of document corpus, exploring and utilizing automated textual analytic strategies and technologies, assisting with research design strategies
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2014-Present Research Collaborator, Study of Small Money as Political Protest Responsibilities: Generating original theoretical framework; operationalizing, processing and analyzing data using computational text analysis and traditional statistical methods
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Primary Investigator, Study on Emotional Cultures and Meaning Structures in White Supremacist Music Lyrics Responsibilities: Using traditional and automated text analysis to examine the cognitive and emotive dimensions of white supremacist music lyrics
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2013-2014
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2012-2014
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Research Collaborator, Study on Political Entrepreneurship and Sociocultural Evolution Primary Investigator: Seth Abrutyn, Ph.D. Responsibilities: Aiding in theory construction and editing Research Collaborator, Qualitative Content Analysis of the Emotional Language in Internet Postings Related to Suicide Primary Investigators: Anna Mueller, Ph.D. and Seth Abrutyn, Ph.D. Responsibilities: Assisting in collecting, coding, and analyzing data Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Memphis Supervisor: Carol Rambo, Ph.D. Responsibilities: Conducting content analyses on journal article abstracts; conducting literature reviews on substance abuse and cultural trauma Primary Investigator, Study on Cultural Branding, Fandom, and Taste Culture Project Supervisor: Paul Fischer, Ph.D. Responsibilities: Conducting content analyses using triangulated data from a case study's film and music projects to investigate how marketing firms use cultural branding models to negotiate the relationship between consumers’ lived experiences and cultural producers’ branded identity
! HONORS AND AWARDS ! 2015 Kellogg Institute Professionalization Grant, University of Notre Dame: $621.33 ! 2014 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Notre Dame ! 2014
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College of Arts and Sciences Travel Enrichment Award, The University of Memphis: $500
Winner, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis: $300 award Paper Title: “Heavy Metal Subcultures and Suicide Risk: A Qualitative Investigation” Student Government Association Travel Grant, The University of Memphis: $925 Inducted Member, Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society Graduate Tuition Scholarship, The University of Memphis
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Scholars Day Poster Award, 2nd Place in the College of Mass Communication, Middle Tennessee State University: $150 award Undergraduate Research Experience and Creative Activity Award, Middle Tennessee State University: $800 research grant
2010-2012
Inducted Member, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Middle Tennessee State University
2008-2012
Tennessee HOPE Lottery Scholarship, Middle Tennessee State University: $4,000 per year
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PRESENTATIONS * Indicates presentation given by co-author
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“The Cultural Logic of Whiteness: Symbolic Boundaries, White Racial Framing, and White Supremacist Discourse.” Paper to be presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL. “Mapping Political Futures: Discourses of Sustainability in the Rio+20 Debates” (with Ann Mische and Leslie MacColman). Paper to be presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL. “Paying with Change: Money, Materiality, and Illiquidity as Protest” (with Dustin S. Stoltz). Paper to be presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, MD. * “‘What Are You?’ Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project” (with Tiffanie Grier and Carol Rambo). Paper presented at the meetings of the Southern Demographic Association, Memphis, TN. * “Pride, Shame, and the Social Bond: Exploring Emotional Cultures in White Supremacist Music” (with Carol Rambo). Paper presented at the Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Champaign, IL. “Melodic Meanings and Meaningful Methods: A Holistic Approach to the Qualitative Analysis of Music Lyrics and other Cultural Texts.” Paper presented at the meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, NC. “White Masculinity and the Social Bond: An Analysis of Emotions and Cognitions in White Supremacist Music.” Paper presented at the winter meetings for Sociologists for Women in Society, Nashville, TN. !4
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“The Rob Zombie Brand: Collision at the Intersection of Cultural Branding, Fandom, and Identity.” Poster presented at the Middle Tennessee State University Scholars Day, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. “The Rob Zombie Brand: Collision at the Intersection of Cultural Branding, Fandom, and Identity.” Poster presented at the Middle Tennessee State University, College of Mass Communication Scholars Day, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
! INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS ! 2015
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“Futures in Contention: Projecting Sustainability in the Rio+20 Debates” (with Ann Mische and Leslie MacColman). Presentation given on University of Notre Dame Prospective Student Visit Day, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. “The Rise of Labeling Theory: Lemert and Becker.” Lecture given in Sociology of Deviant Behavior class, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. “I am What You Label Me: The Rise of Societal Reaction Theory.” Lecture given in Sociology of Deviant Behavior class, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE * Indicates full class lectures given (see “invited lectures” above for corresponding presentation)
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TA in Sociology of Deviant Behavior and Contemporary Sociological Theory TA in Social Statistics and Sociology of Deviant Behavior* TA in Sociology of Deviant Behavior* and Contemporary Sociological Theory TA in Sociology of Deviant Behavior Assistant instructor for the percussion section of the Wilson Central High School Marching Wildcats (Lebanon, TN)
! PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE/INTERNSHIPS ! Fall 2015 Graduate Student Coordinator, University of Notre Dame Culture Workshop ! 2014-Present Occasional Reviewer: Symbolic Interaction, Mobilization ! !5
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Member, Sociology Mural Committee, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis Committee Chair: Wanda Rushing, Professor of Sociology, The University of Memphis Marketing Associate, The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence, Colorado State University Synchronization Licensing Intern, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Nashville, TN Supervisor: David Sharp Responsibilities: Entering data, performing archival research using company’s dataset, drafting Canadian synchronization licenses, assisting individuals with copyright and licensing questions/concerns, cleaning up data files, performing general clerical duties
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Proficient in R (programming language/environment for statistical analysis); Atlas.ti (qualitative data analysis software); NVivo (qualitative data analysis software); Stata (statistical analysis software); SPSS (statistical analysis software); Catpac II, Oresme, ThoughtView (neural network software); and Microsoft Office products Satisfied Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) requirements for conducting social/behavioral research with human subjects Journalist, All About Jazz (music/culture electronic publication) Responsibilities: Planning, arranging, and conducting telephone interviews; transcribing interviews; publishing articles and reviews
! PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS !
2013-Present American Sociological Association Sections: Culture; Collective Behavior/Social Movements; Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity; Theory
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Sociologists for Women in Society Southern Sociological Society
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REFERENCES
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Ann Mische, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Sociology Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame 111 Hesburgh Center Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: (574) 631-7760
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Lyn Spillman, Ph.D. Professor Department of Sociology University of Notre Dame 737 Flanner Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: (574) 631-8067
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Terence E. McDonnell, Ph.D. Kellogg Assistant Professor Department of Sociology University of Notre Dame 742 Flanner Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: (574) 631-7599
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Carol Rambo, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Sociology The University of Memphis Clement Hall, Room 225 Memphis, TN 38152 Phone: (901) 678-2611
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Seth Abrutyn, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Sociology The University of Memphis Clement Hall, Room 305 Memphis, TN 38152 Phone: (901) 678-3031
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