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 Joan Weston, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Affiliated, Women’s Studies Program
Contact Information
Phone: (740) 593-1309
Fax: (740) 593-0671
Office: 306 Lindley Hall
E-mail:weston@ohio.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology from University of California, Santa Barbara
B.S. from University of Alabama
Biography
Though trained as a sociologist, her fields of inquiry are interdisciplinary and include cultural sociology, critical race studies, gender studies and the globalization of everyday social life. Her research focuses on family narratives of place, home, insecurity, and the ordinary everyday interactions of African American children and their parents. She was co-principal investigator on the African American Presence in the Ohio River Valley Oral History Project in which she organized and conducted workshops on oral history methodology and recorded numerous interviews with African Americans living in rural areas and small towns cross the Ohio River Valley.
Research and Special Interest
Her current scholarship focuses on Wal-Mart, democratization, and rural consumer culture in the global new south. This research examines black resistance to state sanctioned racial oppression and the impact of this resistance on the local retail industry in small towns in the Alabama Black Belt. She is the daughter of landless tenant farmers who moved to Chicago in the Post-WWII area and continues to travel back to the family plantation quarter each summer for the 4th of July homecoming celebration. Her article, published in Culture (2007) and entitled "Visualizing the Hipster: Photoblogs and Grassroots Cultural Production in the Midwest," provides an ethnographic account of this annual celebration that takes place on the Rogers Plantation Estate. She is currently working on an article "Jim Crow Collusive Alignments: Framing and Making Sense of an African American Childhood Beyond the Boundaries of Blackness." This paper is based on her ethnographic research on African American childhood in a multi-racial community.
Courses Taught
AAS 106 Introduction to African American Studies
AAS 345 Black Women and the American Experience
AAS 346 Black Men and Masculinity
AAS 380
Community Development and the African American Experience
AAS 440 Black Childhood in the United States
AAS 540
Black Childhood in the United States
AAS 482 Race, Class, Gender and the African American Family
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