CURRICULUM VITAE

(Chronological)

Carol Rambo  (Formerly Carol Rambo Ronai ) 

University of Memphis

Sociology Department  

Associate Professor

 

DEGREES

DEGREE

DISCIPLINE

INSTITUTION

YEAR

Ph.D.

Sociology

University of Florida

1993

MA.

Sociology

University of South Florida

1987

BA.

Sociology

University of South Florida

1986

 

EXPERIENCE

RANK/POSITION

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION

INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION

PERIOD

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology

University of Memphis

1999-present

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

University of Memphis

1993-1999

Research Coordinator

Department of Nursing

University of Florida, Shands teaching Hospital

1991-1992

Teaching Assistant

Department of Sociology

University of Florida

1989-1992

Research Coordinator

Department of Urban and Regional Research

University of Florida

1989-1991

Research Assistant

Department of Sociology

University of Florida

1988-1989

Teaching Assistant

Department of Sociology

University of Florida

1988-1990

Teaching Assistant

Department of Sociology

University of South Florida

1986-1987

Statistics Tutor

Department of Sociology

University of South Florida

1986-1987

 

HONORS/AWARDS

HONOR/AWARD

INSTITUTION/COMPANY/ORGANIZATION

YEAR

Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award

Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research.

2007

W. RUSSELL SMITH TEACHING AWARD ($500)

University of Memphis

2005

Faculty Research Grant ($4,000)

University of Memphis

1997-98

Herbert Blumer Award

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

1993

Dissertation Fellowship for the Sciences and Humanities ($7,000)

The Graduate School, University of Florida

1993

Eugene Weinstein Memorial Award ($300)

Department of Sociology, University of South Florida

1987

Alpha Kappa Delta

National Sociological Honors Society

1989

Psi Chi

National Psychology Honors Society

1985

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

SUBJECT (indicate Undergraduate (U), Graduate (G), Other)

INSTITUTION

(G) Seminar in Sociological Social Psychology

(G) Qualitative Methods

University of Memphis

University of Memphis

(G) Theory Seminar

University of Memphis

(G) Theories of Deviance

University of Memphis

(U) Individual and Society

(U) Sociology of Deviant Behavior

University of Memphis

University of Memphis

(U) Rise of Sociological Theory

University of Memphis

(U) Contemporary Sociological Theory

University of Memphis

(U) Social Psychology

University of Memphis

(U) Introduction to Sociology

University of Memphis and University of Florida

(U) Social Problems

University of Florida

 

 

STUDENT ADVISING/MENTORING:     (Use Appendix B to elaborate on advising/mentoring role as needed)

Students involved in scholarly (research, creative) activities directly supervised (committees chaired).

Graduates (number):    Undergraduate                           ,  Masters                              ,  Doctoral                             , Postdoctoral                      

Name

Year of graduation (anticipated)

Claudette Boyd  (University College, Chair)

1996

Lisa Price (University College, Chair)

1999

Mary Nel Trautner (Publication)

2000

Robyn Kirkwood (University College Project, Chair)

2004

Naketa Edney (Independent Research Project)

2004

Anjuli Gustofson (Honors Thesis, Chair)

2004

Jeremy Car (University College Project, Chair)

2005

Christine Robinson  (Publication)

1994

Greta Weinzinger (Chair, thesis  committee)

1995

Angela Erickson (Chair, thesis committee)

1996

Andreanna Clay (Publication, thesis committee)

1997

Rebecca Reitzes (Thesis committee)

1997

Rabecca Cross (Chair, thesis Committee/Publication)

1997

Earl Wright (Chair, thesis Committee/Publication)

1997

Gina Cordell (Chair, thesis Committee/Publication)

1997

Laura Kelley (Conference Paper/thesis committee)

1997

Cece Reinhart (Thesis committee)

1998

Claire Porter (Thesis committee)

1999         

Gina Yeager (Chair, thesis committee)

2000

Brian Kolodzigski (Thesis committee)

2000

Desiree Robertson (thesis committee)

2005

Anjuli Gustofson (Senior Thesis, Honors, Chair)

2005

Jeremy Carr (University College, Chair)

2005

Sara Renee Presley (Publication, 2 Conference papers)

2006

Victoria Brown (Chair, thesis committee, 2 Conference papers)

2007

Kinberly Lumm (Chair, thesis committee)

2008

Gerise Guy (Chair, thesis committee)

2006

Don Mynatt (Conference Paper/Publication)

2008

Alison Cody (Conference Paper)

2007

William Barton (Chair, thesis committee)

2008

Tiffanie Grier (Chair, thesis committee, conference paper)

2008

Dale Anderson (Chair, thesis committee, Conference paper)

2006

 

Erica Dallas (Thesis Committee)

2007

Christi Barger (Chair, thesis committee)

2008

Alicia Golston (Thesis Committee)

2008

LaShundra Lewis (Chair, Masters of Liberal Studies Project)

2007

John Pruit (Chair, thesis committee).

2008

     

RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP/CREATIVE ACTIVITIES:  

 


 

PUBLICATIONS (authors, title, reference) include material in press and accepted for publication.

 

Edited Book:

 

Ronai, C. R., Zsembik, B., and Feagin, J.R.  (1997). Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium.  New York: Routledge.

 

Refereed journal publications (include book chapters):

 

Rambo, C. and Tiffanie Grier.  (Forthcoming 2008) “The Future of Symbolic Interaction, Peaking and Collapsing the Matrix.”  Studies in Symbolic Interaction.

 

Rambo, C. (2007, forthcoing).  “Sketching as Autoethnographic Practice,” in Symbolic Interaction, 30 (4).

 

Rambo, C. (2007). “Handing IRB an Unloaded Gun,” in Qualitative Inquiry,  13 (3):353-367

 

Rambo, C., Presley, S., and Mynatt, D.  (2006) “Claiming the Bodies of Exotic Dancers: At Play with the ProblematicDiscourse of Commodification,” in Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body, edited by Waskul, D. and Vannini, P.  London:  Ashgate Publications.

 

Rambo, C.  (2005).  “Impressions of Grandmother: An Autoethnographic Portrait,” in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography , 34 (5) 560-585.

 

Rambo, C.  (2005).“Sketching Carolyn Ellis, Purple Diva of Autoethnography,” in Studies in Symbolic Interaction 28 (1) 3-14.

 

Cordell, G. and Ronai, C.R.  (1999). “Narrative Resistance in the Discourse of Overweight Women,” in Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, edited by Sobal, J and Maurer, M.  New York:  Aldine de Gryuter.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1999). “Wrestling with Derrida’s Mimesis: The Next Night Sous Rature.”  Qualitative Inquiry, 5 (1).

               

Ronai, C.R. (1998).  “Sketching with Derrida: An Ethnography of a Researcher/Dancer.”  Qualitative Inquiry, 4 (3).

                               

Ronai, C. R. and R. Cross  (1998).  “Dancing with Identity: Narrative Resistance in the Discourse of Male and Female Striptease Dancers.”  Deviant Behavior, 18 (2).

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1997).  “On Loving and Hating my Mentally Retarded Mother.”  Mental Retardation, 35 (6).

 

Ronai, C. R.  (1996).  “My Mother is Mentally Retarded,” in Composing Ethnography , edited by Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner. Newbury Park, CA:  Altimira Press, Sage Publications.

 

Ronai, C. R.  (1995).  “Multiple Reflections of Childhood Sex Abuse: An Argument for a Layered Account.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 23 (4).

                               

Ronai, C. R.  (1994).  “Narrative Resistance to Deviance:  Identity Management Among Strip-tease Dancers.”  Perspectives on Social Problems, (6).

 

Ronai, C. R.  (1992).  “Separating Aging from Old Age: The Aging Table Dancer.”  Journal of Aging Studies, 6 (4).

                               

Ronai, C. R.  (1992).  “The Reflexive Self Through Narrative: A Night in the Life of an Exotic Dancer/Researcher,” in Investigating Subjectivity: Research on Lived Experience, edited by Carolyn Ellis and Michael Flaherty.  Newbury CA:  SAGE.

               

Ronai, C. R.  (1989).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer.”  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 18 (3).

       

Book reviews: 

 

Rambo, C.  (2006).  “Me, Myself, and The Ethnographic I,” one part of a three way review symposium on The Ethnographic I, by Carolyn Ellis, in Symbolic Interaction, 29, (2) 271-276.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1999).  Reconcilable Differences: Confronting  Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism , by Lynn S. Chancer.  Reviewed for Contemporary Sociology, 28 (4)  p.418-419.

 

Non-refereed publications:

 

Rambo, C.  (2004).  “The Tacit Norm of Silence,” in SWS Network News: The Newsletter for Women in Society, Winter, Vol. XXI, (1).

 

Ronai, C.R. and Trautner, M.N. (2000).  “Table Dancing” in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, edited by Clifton D. Bryant.  Great Britain:  Taylor and Francis.

 

Ronai, C. R., Feagin, J.R. and Zsembik, B.  (1997).  “Living with Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium,” in Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium, edited by Ronai, C. R., Zsembik, B., and Feagin, J. R.  New York:  Routledge.

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1997).  “Discursive Constraint in the Narrated Identities of Childhood Sex Abuse Survivors,” in Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium, edited by Ronai, C.R., Zsembik, B., and Feagin, J.R.  New York: Routledge.

 

Reprints:

 

Ronai, C.R. and R. Cross  (2005).  “Dancing with Identity: Narrative Resistance in the Discourse of Male and Female Striptease Dancers,” reprinted in Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective, ninth edition, edited by Rubington, E and Weinberg, M.S.  Boston, MA:  Allyn & Bacon.

 

Ronai, C.R. and C. Ellis (2004).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer, “ reprinted in Boundaries: for Courses in Deviance and Crime, edited by Bradley R.E. Wright and Ralph B. McNeal, Jr.  Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.  www.boundariesreader.com

 

Ronai, C.R. and R. Cross  (2003).  “Dancing with Identity: Narrative Resistance in the Discourse of Male and Female Striptease Dancers,” reprinted in The Cultural Study of Work, edited by Douglas Harper and Helene M. Lawson.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

 

Ronai, C.R. (2003). “On Loving and Hating my Mentally Retarded Mother,” reprinted as “Sobre mi amor y odio a mi madre don retraso mental,” in Siglo Cero, Madrid, vol. 207, p 41-58.

 

Ronai, C.R. (2003).  “Separating Aging from Old Age: The Case of the table Dancer,” reprinted in Inner Lives and Social Worlds: Readings in Social Psychology, edited by  Holstein, J and Gubrium J.   London: Oxford Press.

 

 Ronai, C.R.  (2002). “Wrestling with Derrida’s Mimesis: The Next Night Sous Rature,” reprinted in The Qualitative Inquiry Reader.  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage Publications.

 

Ronai, C.R. and R. Cross  (2002).  “Dancing with Identity: Narrative Resistance in the Discourse of Male and Female Striptease Dancers,” reprinted in Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective, eighth edition, edited by Rubington, E and Weinberg, M.S.  Boston, MA:  Allyn & Bacon.

 

Ronai, C.R. (2001). “Wrestling with Derrida’s Mimesis: The Next Night Sous Rature,” reprinted in The American Tradition in

        Qualitative Research, vol. 3, edited by Denzin, N. and Lincoln, Y.S.   Newbury Park, CA:  Sage Publications.

 

Ronai, C.R. and C. Ellis (2001).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer,” in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Criminal Justice, edited by Wright, R.E. and McNeal, R.B. Jr.  Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing. 

 

Ronai, C.R. and C. Ellis (2001).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer,” reprinted in Extreme Methods: Innovative Approaches to Social Science Research, edited by Miller, J. M. and Tewksbury, R.   Boston, MA:  Allyn & Bacon.

 

Ronai, C.R. and C. Ellis (2001).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer, “ reprinted in Investigating Deviance: An Anthology, edited by Jacobs, B.A.  Roxbury Press .

 

Ronai, C.R. (2000).  “Separating Aging from Old Age: The Case of the table Dancer,” reprinted in Aging and Everyday Life, edited by Gubrium, J. and Holstein, J.   Malden, MA: Blackwell.

 

Ronai, C.R. and C. Ellis (2000).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer, “ reprinted in Constructions of Deviance, third edition, edited by Adler, P and Adler, P.  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1999). “On Loving and Hating my Mentally Retarded Mother,” reprinted in klik:Maandblad, a dutch magazine on issues of the mentally disabled.

 

Ronai, C.R. and C. Ellis (1996).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer, “ reprinted in Constructions of Deviance, second edition, edited by Adler, P. and Adler, P.  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1996).   “Multiple Reflections of Childhood Sex Abuse: An Argument for a Layered Account,” reprinted in Private Sociology: Unsparing Reflections, Uncommon Gains, edited by Arthur B. Shostak.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage. 

 

Ronai, C.R. and C. Ellis (1993).  “Turn-ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer,” reprinted in Constructions of Deviance, first edition, edited by Adler, P. and Adler, P.  Belemont, CA:  Wadsworth.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS:

       

                Conferences:

 

Rambo, C. (2007).  International Congress of Qualitative Session Chair for a session entitled, “Showcase: Studies Using Cutting-Edge Methods of Qualitative Inquiry."  Presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, New York, NY, August. 

 

Rambo, C. (2007). Chaired a session entitled, “Symbolic Interaction and Performance Autoethnography,” at the annual Couch/Stone Symposium, Urbana, IL, May.

 

Rambo, C.  (2007).  ‘Second Generation’ Autoethnographers Respond to ‘First Generation,’” panel discussion for the Third Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May.

 

Rambo, C. (2006).  “Giving the Institutional Review Board an Unloaded Gun.”   Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meetings, Montreal, Canada, August.

 

Rambo, C., Mynatt, D., Presley, S., Cody, A., and Brown, V.  (2006.) “Testing Exotic Dancer’s Hypotheses Regarding Researchers,” presented at the annual Couch/Stone Symposium, Athens, GA, February.

 

Rambo, C.  (2005).  Chaired a session entitled, “Representing Women’s Lived Experiences,” for the First Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May.

 

Rambo, C.  (2005).  “Handing IRB an Unloaded Gun.”  Presented at the First Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May.

 

Rambo, C.  (2004).  “Sketching as Ethnography.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, San Francisco, CA, August.

 

Rambo, C.  (2003).  “Sketching Carolyn Ellis, Purple Diva of Autoethnography.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the National Communications Association, Miami, FL, November.

 

Rambo, C.  (2003).  “Impressions of Grandmother.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, Atlanta, GA, August.

 

Cooper, L and C.R. Ronai. (2002).  “Constraint and Resistance in the Narrated Identities of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Cultural Production of Silence.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, Chicago, IL, August. 

 

Ronai, C.R. (1998).  “Growing up with a Mentally Retarded Mother: A Portrait of Ambiguity.”  An invited presentation to the  

         Institute for Basic Research, Staten Island, NY, October 16.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1998). “Figure Sketching with Derrida: An Ethnographic Adventure of an Exotic Dancer/Researcher.”  Presented at the

        annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, San Francisco, CA, August.        

 

Ronai, C. R.  (1994).  “Researcher as Sex Object.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Criminological Society, Miami, FL, November.

 

Ronai, C. R.  (1994).  “Interpreting Legitimacy and Authority: Surviving and the Research Act.”  Presented at the Gregory Stone Symposium, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Urbana, IL, May.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1993).  “Patriarchy and Hegemony in Sexual Child Abuse and Scientific Writing Formats.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Miami, FL, August.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1993).  “An Argument for a Layered Account: Recalling Childhood Sex Abuse.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Miami, Fl, August.

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1993).  “Biographical Identity Work of Table Dancers: Resisting the Deviant Label.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Chattanooga, TN, April.

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1991).  “A Night in the Life of an Exotic Dancer/Researcher.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA, April.

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1990).  “The Case of the Aging Table Dancer: An Alternative to the Life-Course Approach to Aging.”  Presented at the Gregory Stone Symposium, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, St.Petersburg Beach, Fl, January.

 

Ronai, C. R. and Ellis, C.  (1988).  “Working on our Emotions:  Exploring Sex and Grief Through Introspective Narrative.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August.

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1987).  “Interactional Strategies of the Stripper.”  Presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Nashville, TN, March. 

 

                Other (universities/industry):

 

Rambo, C. (2005).  “Having a Parent with Intellectual Disability: The Role of Intervention,” presented at Family Services Inc. Conference “Champions of Change.” Southee Centre, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia, October 17-20. http://www.nswfamilyservices.asn.au/Main/Training_Conferences/FS2005Conference.htm

 

Rambo, C. with Presley, S.  (2004).  “Claiming the Bodies of Exotic Dancers: At Play with the Problematic Discourse of Commodification.”  Presented at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Symposium on “Commodification of the Body,” August.

 

Ronai, C.R. (1998).  “The Children of Mentally Retarded Mothers.”  Guest of CBS New’s “Public Eye on America with Bryant Gumbel,” aired September 16.

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1998).  “When you are your Parent’s Parent.” Guest of Jaine Rodack, UT Medical Group Radio Show, April 26.

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1998).  “The Child of the Mentally Retarded Parent: Refocusing .”  Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Conference of Care givers for the Mentally Handicapped, (March).

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1995). “Recalling Childhood Sex Abuse: One Story.”  Presented at the Women’s Action Coalition, “Take Back the Night Rally,” (April).

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1995).  “Generation X.”  Interviewed by Jovita Moore for Channel 5 News for a three day series, Memphis, TN,  (August).

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1994).  “Speaking out on Rape.”  Interviewed by Channel 5 News, Memphis, TN, (July).

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1994).  “The Sex Industry in the South.”  Interviewed by Channel 13 News, Memphis, TN, (September).

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1992).  “Counterfeit Intimacy in the Sex Industry.”  Interviewed by Eyewitness Evening News, Channel 13, for a five- minute human interest segment featuring my research.  Tampa, Fl, (February).

 

Ronai, C.R.  (1990).   “The Unique Needs of the Elderly Handicapped.” Interviewed for the “Voice of the Handicapped Show,” WLUS, Gainesville, FL,  (April).

 

Additionally, I have been featured on the cover of Follia De Sao Paulo, Revista, a Brazillian Sunday News Magazine, and interviewed and cited by  The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Village Voice, Texas Monthly, and many other publications over the years.

 

 

       

SUPPORT:   If more than one person is involved, indicate your role (e.g., PI, CO-PI, consultant) and percent of effort on

INTERNAL

SOURCE

AMOUNT

PERIOD

Faculty Research Grant

University of Memphis

$4,000

1997-1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERVICE: 

 

 

 

UNIVERSITY

COMMITTEE/ACTIVITY (if Chair, add [C])

PERIOD

 

Department

Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology

1993-present

 

 

Faculty Search Committee

1998, 2001

 

 

Chair Search Committee

1998-2000

 

 

Faculty Search Committee

2000-2001

 

 

Tenure and Promotions/Review Committees

1999-present

 

 

 

2 Tenure and Promotions/Review Committees [C]

2004-2005

 

 

Tenure and Promotions/Review Committee [C]

2005-2006

 

 

Chair Search Committee [C]

2005-2006

 

 

Chair Search Committee [Co-Chair]

2006-2007

 

 

Graduate Committee [C]

2005-2006

 

 

Chair Search Committee [Co-chair]

2006-2007

 

College/School

Faculty Rep. to the Graduate Council for the College of Arts and Sciences

2005-2006

 

University

Faculty Senate

1996-1997

 

 

Faculty Sponsor, S’FUN (Science Fiction and Fantasy University Network)

1996-2001

 

 

Faculty Sponsor, WAC (Women’s Action Coalition)

1995, 98-01

OTHER Society/Organization/Journal

 

COMMITTEE/EDITORIAL BOARD/OFFICE (if Chair, add [C])

 

PERIOD

 

Symbolic Interaction

Editor

2007-2011

 

Soc. For the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Executive Board

2007-2011

 

Soc. For the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Publications Committee

2007-2011

 

Soc. for Study of Symbolic Inter affiliate of the National Communication Association.  

Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award Committee

2007

 

Soc. for Study of Symbolic Inter.  

 

 

 

Herbert Blumer Award Committee, [C]

1998

 

 

 

Herbert Blumer Award Committee

1997

 

 

 

1994

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

Social Problems

Reviewer

2004-present

 

Gender and Society

Reviewer

2004-present

 

Cultural Studies

 

 

Reviewer

2001

 

Symbolic Interaction

Reviewer

1995-present

 

Jr. Of Contemp. Ethnography

Reviewer

1994-present

 

 

Jr. Of Qualitative Inquiry

Reviewer

1994-present

 

 

 

Sociological Quarterly

Reviewer

1993-1995

 

Sexualities

Reviewer

1993-present

 

Qualitative Sociology

Reviewer

2000, 2004

 

Mental Retardation

Reviewer

1998-present

 

 

Consulting Editor

1999-present

 

 

Editorial Staff

2000-2001

 

Sage Publications

Reviewer

1993-present

 

John Wiley & Sons

Reviewer

1997

 

Altimira Press

Reviewer

1997, 2004

 

Wadsworth Publishing

Reviewer

1998

 

 

Routledge

Reviewer

1998

 

Global Pub/St.Martins Press

Reviewer

2003

 

Rowman and Littlefield Pub.

Reviewer

2003