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          Sociologist Spillman named chair of ASA’s Section on Culture

          
            
              
                
                Published: August 22, 2007
              

              
                Author: Shannon  Roddel
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Lyn Spillman, associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, was inaugurated as chair of the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Culture at the groups annual meeting this month.

Spillman specializes in cultural sociology, social theory and economic, political and comparative historical sociology.She is the author ofNation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia,editor ofCultural Sociology,and has authored numerous 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.

A graduate of the Australian National University, Spillman earned her masters and doctoral degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.

Founded in 1905, the ASA is a nonprofit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.The associations second-largest section with membership of more than 1,100, the Section on the Sociology of Culture encourages the organized interchange of ideas and research and considers material products, ideas and symbolic means and their relation to social behavior.

Contact: Lyn Spillman, 574-631-8067, spillman.1@nd.edu

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