Professor of Sociology
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Dr. Naples teaches courses on sociology of gender; qualitative methodology; gender, politics, and the state; women’s activism and globalization; and feminist theory. By using a variety of research methods including ethnography, discourse analysis, archival research, and comparative research, she interrogates the relationship between the state, market, other social institutions and citizenship to determine how social actors are affected by, and resist extra-local economic and political structures and policies. She has explored the historical construction and implementation of welfare, immigration, rural economic development, and community control policies. She has also examined how members of low income and working class urban and rural communities respond to, reshape, and resist externally imposed policies and state-sponsored programs. She has also conducted research on programs designed to enhance access to justice for crime victims with disabilities and survivors of childhood sexual assault. She is currently working on a book that investigates the link between global economic change, social policy, and community-based social restructuring in the rural US. Her current research is on sexual citizenship in comparative perspective. She served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society in 1994 and has held elected office in the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Eastern Sociological Society, the Pacific Sociological Association, and the American Sociological Association.
(Description taken from Dr. Naples’ website.)
Public Lecture
Sexual Citizenship, LGBT Activism, and International Politics
Wednesday, March 22nd, 5-7 pm, Devlin 101
Seminars
Queering Social Movements
Thursday, March 23rd
Readings:
- Phelan, Shane. 2001. "Strangers among 'Us': Secondary Marginalization and "LGBT" Politics" and "Queering Citizenship." Pp. 115-161 in Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbians, and Dilemmas of Citizenship. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
- King, Katie. 2002. "'There Are No Lesbians Here': Lesbianisms, Feminisms, and Global Gay Formations." Pp. 33-45 in in Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the After life of Colonialism, ed. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV. NY: New York University Press.
A Feminist Critique of Social Movements as a Disciplinary Frame
Friday, March 24th
Readings:
- Gluck, Sherna Berger, with Maylei Blackwell, Sharon Cotrell, and Karen S. Harper. 1998. "Whose Feminism, Whose History? Reflections on Excavating the History of (the) U.S. Women's Movement(s)." Pp. 31-56 in Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender, ed. Nancy A. Naples. NY: Routledge.
- Sasson-Levy, Orna, and Tamar Rapoport. 2003. "Body, Gender, and Knowledge in Protest Movements." Gender & Society 17(3):379-403.
- Hennessy, Rosemary. 2000. "Identity, Need, and the Making of Revolutionary Love," Pp. 202-232 in Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism. NY: Routledge.