Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements

Contributors

Contributors ROBERT D. BENFORD is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Southern Illinois University. His published works on framing processes and other social constructionist issues associated with social movements, nuclear politics, war museums, and environmental controversies have appeared in journals such as the Annual Review of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, The Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Inquiry, Peace Review, and Mobilization. He serves as editor of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and Twayne Publishers’ “Social Movements Past and Present” series. MICHAEL F. BROWN is the James N. Lambert professor of anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College. He is the author, most recently, of The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Harvard 1997). His earlier books include War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon (with Eduardo Fernández) (California, 1991), and Tsewa’s Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society (Smithsonian Institution, 1986). JOSEPH E. DAVIS is program director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and research assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. His articles have appeared in academic journals such as Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Policy History, and The Hedgehog Review, as well as in more popular publications. He is author of a book on the theoretical foundations of anticultism and editor of Identity and Social Change (Transaction 2000). 275 GARY ALAN FINE is professor of sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of many books, including Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay (with Ralph Rosnow; Elsevier 1976) and Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends (Tennessee 1992). His recent work on racial rumors appears in Rumor in Black and White (with Patricia Turner; California 1998). His most recent work on reputations is Difficult Reputations: How We Remember the Evil, the Inept, and the Controversial (Chicago 2001). JAMES DAVISON HUNTER is the William R. Kenan professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil (Basic Books 2000), Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America’s Culture War (Free Press 1994), Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (Basic Books 1991), and Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation (Chicago 1987). His numerous articles have appeared in a wide variety of academic and opinion journals. JAMES L. NOLAN JR. is assistant professor of sociology at Williams College. He is the author of The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century’s End (NYU Press 1998), and Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement (Princeton University Press 2001). He is also the editor of The American Culture Wars: Current Contests and Future Prospects (Virginia 1996) FRANCESCA POLLETTA is assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. Her articles on culture and social movements have appeared in Social Problems, Theory and Society, Sociological Forum, Law and Society Review, Mobilization, and Social Text. She is currently completing Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Experiments in Radical Democracy from Pre-War Pacifism to the Present. With Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, she is coeditor of a collection of essays entitled Passions and Politics: Emotions in Social Movements (Chicago 2001). JOHN STEADMAN RICE is a sociologist and associate professor in the Watson School of Education at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington . He is the author of A Disease of One’s Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction, and the Emergence of Co-Dependency (Transaction 1996). His 276 CONTRIBUTORS articles have appeared in journals such as Sociological Quarterly and Religion and the Social Order. He is currently at work on a book on the rise of the therapeutic school. BESS ROTHENBERG is a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Virginia. In addition to her research on the definitional politics of the battered women’s movement, she is currently a Fulbright scholar writing a dissertation on cross-cultural understandings of the nation. JEFFERY D. TATUM, for many years a practicing attorney, is currently a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Virginia and an associate fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture . His dissertation explores the cultural politics of the right-to-die movement in America. JOSHUA J. YATES is a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Virginia. He is author, with James Davison Hunter...