FORMAL EDUCATION

BA

1973

Journalism (with honors), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Honors paper: "Candidate Images in the 1972 Presidential Election: A Content Analysis of Evaluative Attribution Words in TIME and NEWSWEEK."

MA

1976

Communications Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Individual Political Participation: The Effects of Social Structure and Communication Behavior."

PhD

1978

Sociology/Social Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Settings and Scenarios: The Impact of Behavior Settings on the Affective Dynamics of Interpersonal Action."

EMPLOYMENT

1/79-7/82

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

7/82-7/88

Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

7/87-7/88

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

7/88-7/91

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

7/91-8/03

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Fall 2003-present

Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies, Duke University.

Fall 2003-present

Professor, Sociology, Duke University.

2003 - present

Affiliated Faculty, Duke Interdiscipnary Initiative in Social Psychology, Duke University.

2004 - present

Robert L. Wilson Professor of Sociology, Duke University.

ACADEMIC HONORS

Lifetime Achievement Award, Sociologu of Emotions, American Sociological Association, 2005.
Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime Achievements in Sociological Social Psychology, Section on Social Psychology. American Sociological Association, 2006.
Robert L. Wilson Professor of Arts and Sciences, May, 2004.
Outstanding Teacher Award, Mortor Board National Senior Honor Society, 1999.
Morris K. Udall Fellow, 1992-3.
Howard W. Odum Award, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, 1977.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES:

Co-organizer, Research Advances in Affect Control Theory conference, April, 2012,
, Steering Committee, Markets and Management Studies, 2011-2013,
Member, Vaisey T&P Review Committee,
, Editorial Board, Small Group Research, 2011 - present,
, Chair, Dean Search Committee, April 1020 - January 2011,
Chair, Graduate Policy Committee, Spring, 2010,
Chair, Provost's Academic Program Committee, Spring 2010,
Chair, Graduate Policy Committee, Fall 2009-SPring 2010,
, DART, Spring-Fall 2009,
, UPC (ex officio), 2007-present,
, Academic Affairs subcommittee of the Board of Trustees (ex officio), 2007-present,
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Masters Programs,
Member, Thompson Writing Program Advisory Board, 2008 - present,
, Undergraduate Program and Awards,
, Executive Committee,
, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair Professor Selection Committee, Member 2007-2009; Chair 08-09,
Member, Faculty, Graduate and Professional Schools Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 2007-2009,
Chair, ASA Section on the Sociology of Emotions, Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, August 08- August 09,
Participant, ONR Workshop on Social Science Contributions to Defense, May, 2008,
Member, University Prioities Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2009,
, DIISP Laboratory Steering Committee, 2008 - present,
Member, Faculty, Graduate and Professional Schools Affairs Committee, Fall 2007-present,
Member, University Priorities Committee, Fall 2007-present,
, Public Sociology: Discussions with the Press about our article "Social Isolation in America" ASR June 2006.,
Member, President's Council on Women, 2006 - 2008,
Member, Executive Council of the Graduate Faculty, 2006 - 2008,
Member (Chair, Fall 2007-present), Academic Programs Committee, 2006 - 2010,
Member, Executive Committee, 2006 - 2007,
Member, SSRI Steering Committee, 2006,
Chair, Sociology Department Recruitment Committee, Fall 2005,
Member, Committee on Faculty Fellows Program, SSRI, 2005,
Member, Factuly Fellows Program Selection Committee, SSRI, Spring 2005,
Member, Sociology Department Recruitment Committee, 2005-06,
Member, American Sociological Association Program Committee, 2005 - 2006,
Member, Executive Committee, 2003-2005,
Co-convenor, Women's Faculty Network Steering Committee, 2007 - present,
Chair, Sociology Recruitment Committee, 2004-5,
Member, ASA Section on Sociology of Emotion, Best Article Award Committee, 2004-5,
Member, American Sociological Association Council, 2004,
Member, Graduate Program Committee, 2003-04,
Director of Graduate Studies, U of Arizona Department of Sociology, 2001 - 2003,
Member, Social and Behavioral Sciences Dean Search Committee, 2001-2,
Member, Social & Behavioral Science Research Institute Board, 2000-2,
Chair (a position distinct from Department Head at the U of Arizona), Department of Sociology Faculty, 1999-2000,
Member, Special 2nd Year Review Committee, Fall 1999,
Member, Special Promotion & Tenure Committee, Women’s Studies, Fall, 1999,
Human Subjects Officer, Department of Sociology, 1993-2002,
Member, Special Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Business, 1993,
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1993-95 (Chair, 1995),
Member and Chair, Recruitment Committee, 1991-3, 95-7, 99-2001; Chair 91, 99, 00,
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 1990-1, 1993-5, 1998-2003,
Executive Board Member, Cornell Women's Studies Program, 1989-1990,
Member, Executive Committee, 1988-90, 1991-2, 1997-99, 2001-3,
Member, Cornell College of Arts and Science Admissions Committee, Spring 1988,
Member, University Research and Productive Scholarship Committee, 1982-85,
Member, Carolina Scholars Selection Committee, 1982,
Representative, Faculty Senate, 1980-83,
Member, University Women's Studies Committee, 1979-1986,

EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Major Editorial Responsibilities:,
Editorial Board, Social Forces, 2002-2005,
Editorial Board, Annual Review of Sociology, 2001-2004,
Associate Editor, Self and Identity, 2000-2003,
Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 2000-2003,
Co-Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1997-2000,
Special Issue Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1995,
Deputy Editor, American Sociological Review, 1993-1996,
Associate Editor, Motivation and Emotion, 1989-1992,
Special Issue Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1989,
Editorial Board, Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives (ASA Section on Social Psychology volume), 1989-1993,
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 1988-1990,
Deputy Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1987-1992,
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1984-1986,
Editorial Board, Sociological Methods and Research, 1979-1984,

PROFESSIONAL DUTIES:

Member, Southern Sociological Society Program Committee, 1982, 1996
Member, National Institute of Health Special Review Panel on Availability of Child Care and Women's Work, 1985
Member, Society of Experimental Social Psychologists (membership by invitation), 1985-present
Member, Graduate Fellowship Evaluation Panel, National Research Council, 1987-1990
Chair, Southern Sociological Society Publication Committee, 1987-90
Member, Program Committee, ASA Section on Emotions, 1988-90
Chair, Nominations Committee, ASA Section on Social Psychology, 1989-90
Member, Council, ASA Section on Social Psychology, 1989-91
Member, ASA Nominations Committee, 1989-90
Chair, Program Committee, ASA Section on Sociology of Emotion, 1990
Chair, Cooley-Mead Award Committee, ASA Section on Social Psychology, 1990-91, 1997-98 (Member 1991-92, 1993-9
Member, Nominations Committee, ASA Section on Social Psychology, 1990-91
Member, National Science Foundation Panel, Sociology Program, 1990-92
Member, Council, ASA Section on the Sociology of Emotions, 1991-93
Membership Chair, ASA Section on Emotions, 1993-94
Member, Executive Council, Southern Sociological Society, 1994-2002
Member, General Social Survey Board of Overseers, 1994-2001
Chair, ASA Section on the Sociology of Emotions, 1993-95
President, Southern Sociological Society, 1998-99
Chair, ASA Section on Social Psychology, 1999-2000
Member, Committee on Sections, American Sociological Association, 2000-2003
Council, American Sociological Association, 2000-2003

CONSULTING:

Member, Educational Testing Service, Sociology Test Committee, 1996-2000,
Member, Information Subcommittee, SC State Health and Human Services Finance Commission, 1986,
Expert witness for the plaintiffs, in Eirhart and EEOC v. Libbey-Owens-Ford Co., 1/83-1/85,
Expert witness for the plaintiffs, in Romasanta v. United Airlines, 7/82-1/83,

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

Smith-Lovin, L., and D.R. Heise. 1988. Analyzing Social Interaction: Research Advances in Affect Control Theory. Gordon and Breach, (Reprinted from a double special issue of Journal of Mathematical Sociology.)

"Emotion and affect in the social psychology of inequality." (Steven Foy, Robert Freeland, Andrew Miles, Kimberly B. Rogers) In Edward Lawler, Jane McLeod and Michael Schwalbe.(ed). Social Psychology of Inequality Springer 2012 .

"Answering the call for asociological perspective on the mutlilevel social construction of emotion" (Kimberly B. Rogers) Emotion Review 4:3:1-20 ( 2012).

"The Many Faces of Identity" (Timothy J. Owens and Dawn T. Robinson) Annual Review of Sociology 36:477-499 2010 .

"The Social Psychologies of Emotion: A Bridge That Is Not Too Far" (Piotr Winkleman) Social Psychology Quarterly 73:4:327-332 2010 .

"Models and Marginals: Using Survey Data to Study Social Networks." (Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashears) American Sociological Review 74:3:670-81 August 2009 .

"Why Do Nominal Characteristics Acquire Status Value? A Minimal Explanation for Status Construction" (Noah Mark and Cecilia Ridgeway) American Journal of Sociology 115:3:832-862 November 2009 .

"Status, power and emotion: Commentary" In Jody Clay-Warner and Dawn T. Robinson.(ed). Social Structure and Emotion :13-20 Academic Press 2008 .

"Loosening the ties that bind" (Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashears) Contexts 2008 .

"To thine own self be true? Social structural sources of self, situated identity and emotion." In Jeffery Chin and Jacobson Cardell.(ed). Within the Social World: Essays in Social Psychology Allyn & Bacon/Longman 2008 .

"Social Isolation" (Jeffery A. Smith and Miller McPherson) In Harry Reis and Susan Sprecher.(ed). Encyclopedia of Human Relationships 2008 .

"Do we need a public sociology? It depends on what you mean by 'sociology'" In Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Mizra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, Douglas L. Anderton and Michael Burawoy.(ed). Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century University of California Press 2007 .

" The strength of weak identities: Social structural sources of self, situated identity and emotional experience" Social Psychology Quarterly Cooley-Mead Award Address June, 2007 .

"Social Networks" (with Miller McPherson) In Lonnie R. Sherrod.(ed). Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 2006 .

"Affect Control Theory" (Dawn T. Robinson) In Peter J. Burke.(ed). Contemporary Social Psychological Theories :137-64 Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 2006 .

"Affect Control Theory" (Dawn T. Robinson and Allison Wisecup) In Jan E. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner.(ed). Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions :179-202 Springer 2006 .

"Sociology of Emotions" (Allison Wisecup, Dawn T. Robinson and Lynn Smith-Lovin) In Dennis L. Peck and Clifton D. Bryant.(ed). Handbook of 21st Century Sociology :106-115 Sage Publications 2006 .

"Control Theories of Identity, Action and Emotion." (Dawn T. Robinson) In Kent A. McClelland and Thomas J. Fararo.(ed). Purpose, Meaning and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology :163-188 Palgrave MacMillan 2006 .

"Social isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decdes" (Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears) American Sociological Review 71:3:353-375 June, 2006 .

“Affect Control Theory.” In George Ritzer.(ed). Handbook of Social Theory Sage December, 2005 .

"Gender Identity Recognition and Task Performance" (Allison Wisecup and Miller McPherson) In Shane Thye and Edward Lawler.(ed). Advances in Group Processes: Social Identification in Groups 22:177-201 Elsevier Ltd 2005 .

"Physiological Measures of Theoretical Concepts: Some Ideas for Linking Deflection and Emotion to Physical Responses During Interaction" (with Dawn T. Robinson and Christabel L. Rogalin) Advances in Group Processes ( 2004).

“Self, Identity and Interaction in an Ecology of Identities.” In Burke, Peter J., Owens, Tim J., Thoits, Peggy A and Serpe, Richard.(ed). Advances in Identity Theory and Research :167-178 New York: Kluwer/Plenum 2003 .

“Cohesion and Membership Duration: Linking Groups, Relations and Individuals in an Ecology of Affiliation.” (with Miller McPherson) Advances in Group Processes 2002 .

“Measuring interruptions: Strucutral versus contextual approaches.” (with Dina G. Okamoto and Lisa Rashotte) Social Psychology Quarterly 65:38-55 2002 .

“Getting a Laugh: A Look at Humor in Task Group Discussions” (with Dawn Robinson) Social Forces 80:1:123-58 2001 .

“Changing the Subject: Gender, Status and the Dynamics of Topic Transitions” (with Dina Okamoto) American Sociological Review 66:852-73 2001 .

"Defining the Situation: Emotional Display and Construals about Crime" (with Olga Tsoudis) Sociological Spectrum 21 2001 .

“Role-identities, action and emotion: parallel processing and the production of mixed emotions” In Kashima, Y., Foddy, M. and Platow M..(ed). Self and Identity: Personal, Social, and Symbolic :125-144 New York: Erlbaum 2001 .

“Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks.” (with Miller McPherson and James Cook) Annual Review of Sociology :27:415-44 2001 .

“Social psychology.” In Judith Blau.(ed). Blackwell Companion to Sociology Malden, Mass.: Blackwell ( 2000).

“Simplicity, uncertainty and the power of generative theories.” Contemporary Sociology 29:2:300-5 2000 .

“Core concepts and common ground: The relational basis of our discipline.” Social Forces 79:1-23 ( 1999).

“Emotion display as a strategy for identity negotiation” (with Dawn Robinson) Motivation and Emotion 23:2:73-104 ( 1999).

"Gender and interaction" (with Cecilia Ridgeway) In in Janet S. Chafetz.(ed). Handbook on the Sociology of Gender :. 247-74 New York: Plenum ( 1999).

“Sociology of emotions.” In David Levinson, James Ponzetti and Peter Jorgensen.(ed). Encyclopedia of Human Emotions New York: Macmillan. ( 1999).

“Interaction in the gender system: Theory and research” (with Cecilia Ridgeway) Annual Review of Sociology 25:191-216 ( 1999).

“How Bad Was It? Identity and Emotion Display in Mock Jury Deliberations” (with Olga Tsoudis) Social Forces 77:695-722 ( 1998).

“Emotion Management as Emotional Labor.” In Dan Clawson.(ed). Required Reading: Sociology’s Most Influential Books Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press ( 1998).

"A Comparative Ecology of Five Nations." (with J. Miller McPherson) In Glenn R. Carroll.(ed). Ecological Models of Organizations. :. 85-110 Ballinger ( 1998).

“Who Benefits from Being Bold: The Interactive Effects of Task Cues and Status Characteristics on Influence in Mock Jury Groups” (with Lisa Slattery Rashotte) Advances in Group Processes 14 JAI Press. ( 1997).

"Alternative Routes: A Social Network Perspective on Gender and Careers" (with Hermina Ibarra) In Cary Cooper and Susan Jackson.(ed). Creating Tomorrow’s Organizations :359-84 New York: Wiley ( 1997).

“Gender, Children and Social Contact: The Effects of Childrearing for Men and Women” (with Allison Munch and Miller McPherson) American Sociological Review 62:509-520 ( 1997).

“Gender and Social Interaction” (with Cecilia Ridgeway) ). Social Psychology Quarterly 59:173-5 ( 1996).

"Sex and Race Heterogeneity in Face-to-Face Groups" (with Bruce Mayhew, Miller McPherson and Tom Rotolo) Social Forces 74:15-52 ( 1995).

"The Sociology of Affect and Emotion." In Karen Cook, Gary Fine and James House.(ed). Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology :118-48 Boston: Allyn and Bacon ( 1995).

"Structure, Culture and Interaction: A Comparison of Affect Control Theory and Expectations States Theory" (with Cecilia Ridgeway) Advances in Group Processes 11 JAI Press ( 1994).

"Heinous Crime or Unfortunate Accident: Emotion Displays and Reactions to Vignettes of Criminal Confessions" (with Dawn T. Robinson and Olga Tsoudis) Social Forces 73:175-90 ( 1994).

"You Are Who You Know: A Network Perspective on Gender" (with Miller McPherson) In Paula England.(ed). Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. :pp 223-41 New York: Aldine ( 1993).

“An affect control analysis of two religious subcultures.” (With William T. Douglas) In D. Franks and V. Gecas.(ed). Social Perspectives on Emotion :.217-247 New York: JAI Press ( 1992).

“Selective interaction as a strategy for identity maintenance: An affect control model.” (with Dawn Robinson) Social Psychology Quarterly 55:1:12-28 ( 1992).

"An Affect Control View of Cognition and Emotion." In Judy Howard and Peter Callero.(ed). Self and Society: A Social Cognition Approach :143-69 Cambridge University Press ( 1992).

"Gender and Conversational Dynamics" (with Dawn Robinson) In Cecilia Ridgeway.(ed). Gender and Interaction :122-56 Springer-Verlag ( 1992).

Researching Social Life (Edited version reprinted in G. Nigel Gilbert) London: Sage ( 1992).

"The Timing of Interruptions in Group Discussions" (with Dawn Robinson) In Edward J. Lawler, Cecilia Ridgeway, Henry Walker and Barry Markovsky.(ed). Advances in Group Processes :45-74 JAI Press Vol. 7 ( 1990).

"Emotion as Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Identity: An Affect Control Model." In T.D. Kemper.(ed). Research Agendas in Emotions, :238-270 New York: SUNY Press ( 1990).

"Interruptions in Group Discussions: The Effects of Gender and Group Composition." (with Charles J. Brody) American Sociological Review 54:424-35 ( 1989).

"Affect, Sentiment and Emotion." Social Psychology Quarterly 52:5-9 ( 1989).

"Impressions from Events." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 13:1-2:35-70 ( 1987).

"The Affective Control of Events within Settings." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 13:1-2:71-102 ( 1987).

"Homophily in Voluntary Organizations." (with J. Miller McPherson) American Sociological Review 52:370-79 ( 1987).

"Affect Control Theory: An Assessment." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 13:1-2:171-92 ( 1987).

"Homophily in Voluntary Organizations." (with J. Miller McPherson) American Sociological Review 52:370-79 ( 1987).

"Sex Segregation in Voluntary Associations." (with J. Miller McPherson) American Sociological Review 51:61-79 ( 1986).

"Status and Participation in Six-person Groups: A Test of Skvoretz' Comparative Status Model." (with John V. Skvoretz and Charlotte G. Hudson) Social Forces 64:992-1005 ( 1986).

"Scaling the Prestige, Authority, and Income Potential of College Curricula." (with Kenneth L. Wilson) Social Science Research 12:159-186 ( 1983).

"Women and Weak Ties: Differences by Sex in the Size of Voluntary Organizations." (with J. Miller McPherson) American Journal of Sociology 87:883-904 ( 1982).

"Fertility and Patterns of Labor Force Participation among Married Women." (with Ann R. Tickamyer) Social Biology 28:81-95 ( 1982).

"A Structural Equation Model of Impression Formation." (with David R. Heise) In Chapter 10 in N. Hirschberg and L. Humphries.(ed). Multivariate Methods in the Social Sciences New York: L. Erlbaum ( 1982).

"Models of Women's Work and Fertility" (with Ann R. Tickamyer) American Sociological Review 47:461-66 ( 1982).

"Impressions of Goodness, Powerfulness and Liveliness from Discerned Social Events." (with David R. Heise) Social Psychology Quarterly 44:93-106 ( 1981).

"On the Practical Value of Causal Modeling: Educational Attainment and the Measurement of Conceptual Variables." (with Kenneth L. Wilson) ) Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 16:547-65 ( 1980).

"Behavioral Settings and Impressions Formed from Social Scenarios." Social Psychology Quarterly 42:31-42 ( 1979).

"Individual Political Participation: The Effects of Social Structure and Communication Behavior." Pacific Sociological Review 22:23-50 ( 1979).

"Nonrecursive Models of Labor Force Participation, Fertility Behavior and Sex Role Attitudes." (with Ann R. Tickamyer) American Sociological Review 43:541-56 ( 1978).

"The Changing Front Page of the New York Times." (with C. Ogan, I. Plymale, W. Turpin and D. Shaw) Journalism Quarterly 52:340-44 ( 1976).

"The Young Moderns: Correlates of Communication Behavior among Appalachian (U.S.) College Students." (with Michael E. Bishop) Der Anteil Der Massenmediem Bei Der Herausbildung Des Besussteinss In Der Sich Wanderlunden Welt :215-24 Leipzig, D.D.R.: Karl Marx Universtat ( 1974).

Podcast Thomson Reuters "Sciencewatch" August 2010 .

"Foreword" for The Sociology of Emotions by Jonathan H. Turner and Jan E. Stets. Stanford University Press. 2005 .

"Introduction of Karen S. Cook: Recipient of the 2004 Cooley-Mead Award." Social Psychology Quarterly 68:1:1-3 2005 .

“Introduction to special issue on the state of sociological social psychology at the millennium.” (with Linda Molm) Social Psychology Quarterly 63:4:281-3 ( 2000).

“Introduction: David R. Heise, Cooley-Mead Award Winner.” Social Psychology Quarterly 62:1:1-3 ( 1999).

"Eliminating Choice: Reply to Folbre." (with Miller McPherson) In Paula England.(ed). In Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory Aldine ( 1993).

"Some Disintegrating Thoughts on Structure and Agency: Reply to Molm." (with Miller McPherson) In Paula England.(ed). In Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory Aldine ( 1993).

"Introduction: Joseph Berger, Cooley-Mead Award Winner." Social Psychology Quarterly 55:1:1-4 ( 1992).

Review of Neil MacKinnon, Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control (SUNY, 1994) Social Forces 75:1489-91 ( 1997).

Review of Michael Lewis and Jeannette M. Haviland, Handbook of Emotions (New York: Guilford, 1993) Contemporary Sociology 24:298-300 ( 1995).

Review of Frank Mott, The Employment Revolution. (MIT Press, 1982) Social Forces 63:302-3 ( 1984).

Review of M. Szinovacz, Women's Retirement: Policy Implications of Recent Research, Vol. 6. Sage Yearbooks in Women's Policy Studies. (Beverly Hills: Sage,), Sex Roles ( 1982).

Review of M. Szinovacz, Women's Retirement: Policy Implications of Recent Research, Vol. 6. Sage Yearbooks in Women's Policy Studies. (Beverly Hills: Sage,), Sex Roles ( 1982).

Review of M. Rokeach, Understanding Human Values, Individual and Societal. Social Forces 59:1330-32 ( 1981).

Review of J.H. Scanzoni, Life Styles and Childbearing (New York: Free Press, 1975), and D. Gill, Illegitimacy, Sexuality and the Status of Women. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977) American Journal of Sociology 86:227-31 ( 1980).

Review of M. Richmond-Abbott, The American Woman: Her Past, Her Present and Her Future. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston) Sex Roles 6:879-81 ( 1976).

Interpreting Events in Arabic Cultures: International Data Collection and Simulation, Office of Naval Research, N00014-09-1-0556 $2197788, 2011/01-2013/09.      

Collaborative Research: Examining Emotional Reactions to Standards of Justice., National Science Foundation $62487, 2010/06-2012/01.      

Interpreting and Responding to Events in Arab Cultures: Affective Dynamics, Office of Naval Research $153000, 2010/01-2010/09.      

Interpreting Events in Arabic Cultures: Affective Dyanmics, Office of Naval Research, DoD, Jen'nan Read, $518677, 2009/01-2010/09.      

Emotional Reactions to Over-Reward (Jody Clay-Warner and Dawn T. RObinson) Social Psychology Quarterly.

Book manuscript, Identity, Interaction and Emotion (Dawn T. Robinson)

Book manuscript, Networks and Niches in an Ecology of Affiliation (Miller McPherson)

"Social Distance in America: Homophily among Confidants in Sex, Education, Age and Religion." (Miller McPherson and Jeff A. Smith) Received R&R from ASR..

ASA Thematic Session on "Conflicting Notions of Human Persons in Sociology,", Chicago, IL, August, 2011.
Impression Change in Arabic- and English-Speakers, Chantilly VA, February 2011.
Author Meets Critics session on Ruef's new book, Princeton Department of Sociology, April 2011.
"Surveying Cultural Knowledge: An Affect Control Approach to Generative Value Systems", Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Values and Values Change in Islamic Countries , Cairo, Egypt, May 16-18, 2010.
Research Examining Emotional Reactions to Over-Reward, UNC Social Psychology Lecture Series, February 1, 2010.
"Theoretical Bases for Cultural Training Models", Workshop on Cultural Education and Training: Developing Intercultural Adaptability in the Warfighter. Human, Social, Culture, and Behavior Modeling Program (Office of the Secretary of Defense), the Office of Naval Research, the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, and the U.S. Army Research Institute., November 3-4, 2009.
"Sociological Perspectives on Emotion", Northwestern, November 13-15, 2009.
Social Embeddedness and Human Development: The Source of "Self", Carolina Consortium on Human Development, January 28, 2008.
"Social distance in America: Changing patterns of racial, religious and educational connection", Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, April 20, 2007.
"Social distance in America: Changing patterns of racial, religious and educational connection", University of Texas, Austin, April 27, 2007.
Mixed Emotions: The Structure of Situations, Conference on Social Structure and Emotion, University of Georgia, April 5-7, 2006.
“Network Formation, Maintenance, and Dissolution.”, Conference on Networks in Context: The Interpenetration of Social Networks and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
"Networks, Identity and Emotion: Toward an Ecology of Identity", Cooley-Mead Address, American Sociological Association meetings, 2006.
"New Theoretical Developments in Identity and Emotion", American Sociological Association, Invited Panel for Social Psychology Section, August 14, 2005.
"Cultural Change and Family Values: Using Affective Meanings to Model Behavioral Change", National Institute of Health, Washington, DC, June 13, 2005.
"Maintaining the identities of others: The social aspects of identity control", Alpha Kappa Delta Honorary Society Lecture, University of Akron, April 22, 2005.
"Identity and Emotion", Invited Panel on Theoretical Progress in the Sociology of Emotion, August, 2004.
"The Value of Formal Theory", American Sociological Association Theory Section Invited Panel, August 2003.
"The Managed Heart: 20 Years Later", American Sociological Association Invited Panel, August 2003.
Invited panelist, Section on Theory, American Sociological Association meetings, August 2003.
Invited paper, Session on the 25th Anniversary of Hochschild's "The Managed Heart", American Sociological Association, August 2003.
Discussant, Population Association of America meetings, May 2003.
Organizer and presider, Special Session in Memory of Peter Blau, Southern Sociological Society meetings, March 2003.
Invited paper, Conference on Social Connectedness and Public Activism, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, May, 2002.
Invited paper, Presidential Plenary Session, "Gender: Identity and Group Processes", Southern Sociological Society, April, 2002.
Invited panelist, Town Hall Meeting with Norm Bradburn, SBE Director, NSF, American Sociological ASsociation, August, 2002.
Discussant, Section on Social Psychology paper session, American Sociological Association meetings, August 2002.
Coorganizer, Conference on Affect Control Theory: Findings and Research Directions, Highland Beach, FL, May 17-20, 2002.
Invited Paper, Conference on Social Connectedness and Public Activism, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, May 2002.
Invited Presidential Plenary Presentation, Southern Sociological Society, April 2002.
Paper presentation, International Society for Study of Social Networks, February 2002.
Invited lecture, "Social Networks and Group Processes", Society for Experimental Social Psychologists, October, 2001.
Invited lecture, "An Ecology of Identities", Theory Workshop, University of Iowa, October, 2001.
Invited panelist, "Sociologists as Expert Witnesses", American Sociological Association, August, 2001.
Paper presentation, Society for Experimental Social Psychologists, October 2001.
Invited Presentation, Theory Workshop, University of Iowa, October 2001.
Participant, Panel on Sociologists as Expert Witnesses, American Sociological Association meetings, 2001.
Participant, Town meeting with Norman Bradburn, Director SBE Division, NSF, American Sociological Association meetings, 2000.
Moderator, Invited panel, American Sociological Association meetings, 2000.
Presidential Address, "Core Concepts and Common Ground", Southern Sociological Society, April, 1999.
Moderator, Invited panel, American Sociological Association meetings, 1999.
Presidential Address, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1999.
Invited Panelist, American Sociological Association meetings, 1998.
Invited Panelist, American Sociological Association, 1998.
Invited Panelist, Souther Sociological Society, 1998.
Invited Paper, Group Processes Conference, 1998.
Invited Panelist, American Sociological Association, 1998.
Bruce Mayhew Memorial Lecture, University of South Carolina, April 1997.
Invited Paper, American Sociological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1997.
Poster Session, Southern Sociological Society, 1997.
Discussant, Social Psychology Session, Southern Sociological Society, 1997.
Paper, Group Processes Conference, 1996.
Chair's hour, ASA Section on the Sociology of Emotions, ASA Meetings, 1996.
Session Organizer, ASA Meetings, 1995.
Discussant, Group Processes Session, ASA meetings, 1995.
Paper, Group Processes Preconference, 1994.
Roundtable, ASA meetings, 1994.
Roundtable, ASA meetings, 1993.
Invited Paper, Groups and Organizations Seminar, Carnegie-Mellon University, April 1992.
Invited Panel Presentation, American Sociological Association meetings, 1992.
Paper, American Sociological Society meetings, 1992.
Paper, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1992.
Award presentation, Cooley-Mead Award, ASA Section on Social Psychology, American Sociological Society meetings, 1991.
Paper, Session on Symbolic Interaction, SSS meetings, 1991.
Paper, Group Processes Session, ASA meetings, 1991.
Panel Member, Workshop on Sociologists as Expert Witness, ASA meetings, 1991.
paper, Sunbelt Social Network meetings, 1991.
Discussant, Social Psychology Plenary Panel, ASA meetings, 1990.
Roundtable, ASA meetings, 1990.
Paper, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1990.
Invited paper, Stone Symposium on the Sociology of Subjectivity, January 1990.
Paper, Sunbelt Social Network meetings, 1990.
Organizer, Session on Identity and Emotion, Southern Sociological Society, 1990.
Panelist, Computer Use in Teaching Sociology, ASA meetings, 1989.
Roundtable, Generating Emotions with a Personal Computer, Emotions Sect., ASA meetings, 1989.
Organizer, Commemorative Panel on Structural Sociology in Honor of Bruce Mayhew, Southern Sociological Society, 1989.
Invited paper, ASA Conference on Self and Society, Seattle, WA, July 29-31, 1988.
Discussant, Session on Cognitive Sociology, ASA meetings, 1988.
Workshop, "The Sociologist as Expert Witness," ASA meetings, 1988.
Discussant, Session on Social Psychology, Southern Sociological Society, 1988.
Invited paper, Section on Sociology of Emotions, ASA meetings, Chicago, 1987.
Roundtable Organizer for Occupations and Organizations section, ASA meetings, 1987.
Session Organizer for Social Psychology section, Southern Sociological Society, 1987.
Roundtable Organizer, ASA meetings, 1986.
Paper, Sunbelt Network Conference, 1986.
Paper, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1986.
Discussant, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1986.
Invited lecture, Yale University Program for the Study of Non-Profit Organizations, November 1985.
Roundtable Organizer, ASA meetings, 1985.
Session Organizer for Quantitative Methods session, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1985.
Paper, American Sociological Association meetings, 1984.
Papers, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1984.
Paper, Southeastern Association for Public Opinion Research, 1983.
Discussant, Methodology Session, Southern Sociological Society, 1983.
Panel member, "Qualitative vs. Quantitative Methods: Is There a Qualitative Difference", Southern Sociological Society, 1983.
Invited paper, Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, 1982.
Paper, American Sociological Association meetings, 1982.
Organizer, Paper, session on Demography: Fertility Research, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1982.
Presider, Sex Roles, Southern Sociological Society, 1981.
Paper, American Sociological Association meetings, 1980.
Paper, Southern Sociological Association meetings, 1980.
Presider, Trends in Social Psychology, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1980.
Discussant, Session on Theory Construction, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1979.
Paper, Southern Sociological Society meetings, 1979.
Paper, American Sociological Association meetings, 1978.
Paper, Population Association of America meetings, 1977.
Participant, Workshop on Policy Implications of Research on the Value and Costs of Children, Eighth Summer Seminar in Population, East-West Population Institute, Honolulu, HI and Seoul, KOREA, 1976.
Paper, Association for Educators in Journalism meetings, Washington D.C. (Winner, student paper award), 1976.
Paper presented, at the Workshop on Psychosocial Issues in Fertility, Population Association of America meetings, 1976.
Paper presented, at the International Association for Mass Communication Research meetings, Leipzig, D.D.R., 1974.