Department of Sociology
University of Notre Dame
810 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Cultural Sociology, Social Theory, Economic Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Political Sociology.
Cultural Sociology, Economic Sociology.
Lyn Spillman’s research and teaching interests are grounded in cultural sociology and extend to social theory, economic sociology, comparative historical sociology, and political sociology She is author of Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and editor of Cultural Sociology (Blackwell, 2002), as well as articles and chapters on cultural theory, theories of nationalism, collective memory, and causal reasoning. Her current research, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, investigates the ways trade associations invest economic action with meaning. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and her B.A. with first class honours in philosophy and sociology from the Australian National University.
Cultural Sociology. Editor. Malden MA and London: Blackwell, 2002.
Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Chapter 5, “Making Nations Meaningful in the United States and Australia,” reprinted in Athena Leoussi and Steven Grosby, eds. Nationality and Nationalism. London: I. B. Taurus, forthcoming.)
“Culture,” in George Ritzer, ed. Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden MA: Blackwell, forthcoming.
”Texts, Bodies, and the Memory of Bloody Sunday.” With Brian Conway. Symbolic Interaction, forthcoming.
”A Special Camaraderie with Colleagues: Business Associations and Cultural Production for Economic Action.” In Jeff Alexander and Isaac Reed, eds. Culture in the World: Morals, Actions and Institutions. Yale Series in Cultural Sociology. Boulder CO: Paradigm Press, forthcoming.
“Cultural Sociology at the Crossroads of the Discipline.” With Mark Jacobs. Poetics 33(2005): 1-14.
”Nations.” With Russell Faeges. Pp. 409-37 in Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff, eds. The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005.
”Causal Reasoning, Historical Logic, and Sociological Explanation.” Pp. 216-34 in Jeff Alexander, Gary Marx, and Christine Williams, eds. Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in the Sociological Thought of Neil J. Smelser. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
"Australian Nationalism," in Alexander Motyl, ed. Encyclopedia of Nationalism, vol. 2. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001.
“Enriching Exchange: Cultural Dimensions of Markets.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 58 (1999): 1041-1071.
"When Do Collective Memories Last? Founding Moments in the United States and Australia." Social Science History 22 (1998): 445-77. Reprinted pp. 161-92 in Jeffrey K. Olick, ed., States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.
"How are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Social Structure." Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Special Issue, "Recent Advances in Theory and Research in Social Structure," 22(1996): 31-45. Reprinted pp. 63-83 in Sing C. Chew and J. David Knottnerus, eds. Structure, Culture, and History: Recent Issues in Social Theory Boulder CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
"'Neither the Same Nation Nor Different Nations': Constitutional Conventions in the United States and Australia." Comparative Studies in Society and History 38 (1996): 149-81.
"Culture, Social Structure, and Discursive Fields." Current Perspectives in Social Theory 15 (1995): 129-54.
"Imagining Community and Hoping For Recognition: Bicentennial Celebrations in 1976 and 1988." Qualitative Sociology 17 (1994): 3-28.
Co-editor, with Mark Jacobs. Special issue “Cultural Sociology and Sociological Publics.” Poetics 33(1) Spring 2005.
“National Business Associations, United States, 2003.” Dataset, Codebook, and Project Description. Principal Investigator. Special Collaborators: Rui Gao, Xiahong Xu, Brian Miller, and Georgian Schiopu. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, 2005. Supported by ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline No. 6846 and Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame.
Culture and Societies in a Changing World. 2 nd ed. Wendy Griswold. Teaching Sociology 33(1) 2005: 111-112.
Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. Barry Schwartz. American Journal of Sociology 107 (2001): 843.
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. K.S. Inglis. Australian Journal of Political Science 35 (2000): 152-53.
Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States. Sarah M. Corse. Contemporary Sociology 27 (1998): 279-280.
Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation. Karen A. Cerulo. Contemporary Sociology 26 (1997): 244-45.
The Construction of Social Reality. John R. Searle. Contemporary Sociology 25 (1996): 57-58.
Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States, and International Migration Gary P. Freeman and James Jupp, eds. Contemporary Sociology 23 (1994): 270-71.