Curriculum Vitae

Lynn Smith-Lovin

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348A Soc/Psych Building
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 660-5786 (office)
919-436-1033 (home)

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Education

PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1978

MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1976

BA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1973

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Robert L. Wilson Professor of Sociology, 2004 - present

: Affiliated Faculty, Duke Interdiscipnary Initiative in Social Psychology, 2003 - present

: Professor, Sociology, Fall 2003-present

: Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies, Fall 2003-present

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: Professor, Department of Sociology, 7/91-8/03

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, 7/88-7/91

: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, 7/87-7/88

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Sociology, 7/82-7/88

: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, 1/79-7/82

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime Achievements in Sociological Social Psychology, Section on Social Psychology. American Sociological Association, 2006
Lifetime Achievement Award, Sociologu of Emotions, American Sociological Association, 2005, August, 2005
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

Recent Grant Support

Interpreting Events in Arabic Cultures: Affective Dyanmics, Office of Naval Research, DoD, N00014-09-1-0556, 2009/01-2010/09.
"Research Experience for Undergraduates;" Supplement to "Collabora, National Science Foundation, SES 0609573, 2005/12-2009/02.
Collaborative Research: Examining the Relationship between Identity, Injustice, and Emotion, National Science Foundation, SES 0520055, 2005/10-2009/02.
"Niches and Networks: Exploring the Co-evolution of Voluntary Groups and Social Networks", National Science Foundation, BCS 0527671, 2005/09-2008/02.
"Niches and Networks: Studying the Co-evolution of Voluntary Groups and Social Networks--Supplement", National Science Foundation, BCS-0527671, 2005/08-2007/08.

Selected Recent Invited Talks: 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; "Networks, Identity and Emotion: Toward an Ecology of Identity", Cooley-Mead Address, American Sociological Association meetings, 2006; “Network Formation, Maintenance, and Dissolution.”, Conference on Networks in Context: The Interpenetration of Social Networks and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, 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, Town Hall Meeting with Norm Bradburn, SBE Director, NSF, American Sociological ASsociation, August, 2002; 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 lecture, "An Ecology of Identities", Theory Workshop, University of Iowa, October, 2001; Invited lecture, "Social Networks and Group Processes", Society for Experimental Social Psychologists, October, 2001; Invited panelist, "Sociologists as Expert Witnesses", American Sociological Association, August, 2001; Presidential Address, "Core Concepts and Common Ground", Southern Sociological Society, April, 1999

Doctoral Theses Directed: Gerald W. Mollenhorst, (Spring 2009); Stephen Nelson, (Defended, University of Arizona, August)

Publications (listed separately)

Last modified: 2009/10/27