Profile
Robin Wagner-Pacifici is a 好色先生 Professor Emerita affiliated with the Department of聽 at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of a number of books, most recently 聽(好色先生 of Chicago Press, 2017) and聽. Her forthcoming book, Scenes and Their Senses: Close Reading as Theory and Method will be published by the 好色先生 of Chicago Press in 2027.
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Degrees Held
BA 1976, Brown 好色先生
PhD 1983, 好色先生 of Pennsylvania
Recent Publications
BOOKS:
Scenes and Their Senses, forthcoming, The 好色先生 of Chicago Press
, The 好色先生 of Chicago Press, 2017
, The 好色先生 of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Honorable Mention, 2006 Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, Best Book Award
- Author-Meets-Critics Session, American Sociological Association 2007 Annual Meeting
- Meet the Author Session, European Sociological Association 2007 Annual Meeting
, Cambridge 好色先生 Press, 2000.
- Winner, 2001 Culture Section of the American Sociological Association Best Book Award
Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia Versus MOVE.聽 The 好色先生 of Chicago Press, 1994.
The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama.聽 The 好色先生 of Chicago Press, 1986.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
鈥淭emplates of Eventful Action in Social Networks鈥 (with Ronald Breiger) solicited chapter for The Handbook of Culture and Social Networks, Edward Elgar Press, Eds. Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop. Forthcoming, 2024.
鈥淪ocial Networks and Social Categories,鈥 (with Ronald Breiger) solicited for Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (Second Edition), Eds. John McLevey, Peter J. Carrington, and John Scott. October, 2023.
鈥淩edefinire la memoria come evento: dai passati controversi agli 鈥渆venti inquieti,鈥 in Sociologia della memoria: verso un鈥檈cologia del passato, Eds. Anna Lisa Tota, Lia Luchetti, Trever Hagen, Carocci editore, 2018.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
鈥淐old War by Default鈥 Invited comments on Special Issue on 鈥淲hat Was the Cold War,鈥 Social Science History Edited by Ioana Sendroiu and Mitchell Stevens, Forthcoming 2025.
鈥淎nti-Charismatic Authority: Joe Biden鈥檚 Approximation of the Ideal Type,鈥 Politics and Society, Vol. 52, Issue 2, 2024. First published online: 2023 .
鈥淐limate Change as an Event鈥 (co-authored with Iddo Tavory) for Special Issue on 鈥淭oward a Cultural Sociology of Disasters,鈥 Poetics, Vol. 93, Part A, August 2022.
鈥淗abermas au Starbucks: Clients, oisifs et tra卯nards dans le tiers-lieu capitaliste鈥 solicited article for Special Issue on 鈥淟es espaces publics et leurs ind茅sirables: interactions, institutions, politiques,鈥 Politiques sociales, (N.1-2) 2021, 27-53.
鈥淲hat is an Event and Are We in One?鈥 solicited article for Special Issue on 鈥淪ociology After COVID-19: Critical Disaster Studies,鈥 Sociologica, Volume 15, No. 1, May 2021.
"," (co-authored with E. Colin Ruggero) solicited article for Special Issue on 鈥淭ime and Movement: Approaching Temporalities in Understanding Contention,鈥 Social Movement Studies, May, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2018.1474096
鈥,鈥 (co-authored with Ronald Breiger and John Mohr) solicited article for Special Issue of Poetics, 鈥淔ormalizing Culture鈥 co-edited by Achim Edelmann and John Mohr, 68 (2018) 104-119.
听鈥,鈥 (co-authored with Iddo Tavory), solicited article for Special Issue on 2016 U.S. Presidential election, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, DOI 10.1057/s41290-017-0036-8, October 2017. Reprinted (Chapter 2) in Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Eds. Jason L. Mast and Jeffrey C. Alexander, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
Co-Editor (co-authored with John Mohr and Ronald Breiger), Special Issue of Big Data and Society, 鈥淐onceiving the Social with Big Data: A Symposium of Social and Cultural Scientists,鈥 Vol. 2 (2), December 2015 an Introductory Essay (co-authored with John Mohr and Ronald Breiger): 鈥.鈥
鈥溾 (co-authored with John Mohr and Ronald Breiger), Big Data and Society, 鈥淐onceiving the Social with Big Data: A Symposium of Social and Cultural Scientists,鈥 Vol. 2(2), December, 2015.
鈥,鈥 co-authored with John W. Mohr, Ronald L. Breiger, and Petko Bogdanov , special issue: 鈥淭opic Modeling and Text Analysis: New Possibilities Linking Computer Scientists with Researchers in the Humanities and the Social Sciences,鈥 Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media, and the Arts, December 2013.
鈥,鈥 co-authored with Meredith Hall, Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 38, 2012.
鈥,鈥 American Journal of Sociology, Volume 115:5 March, 2010.
鈥,鈥 invited response essay, Sociological Forum, Volume 24, Issue 3 September, 2009.
鈥,鈥 Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, "Killing States: Lethal Decisions/Final Judgments." Edited by Austin Sarat and Jennifer Culbert, 107:3 Summer 2008.
Media
"" talk at The New School for Social Research, June 25, 2020.
Quoted in "," WVIK, May 11, 2020.
Featured in "," Research Matters, October 15, 2019.
Featured in "," Research Matters, April 6, 2017.
Research Interests
Political sociology, analysis of historical events and interstitial moments in social and political, and military contexts, sociology of culture. Methodological approaches include political semiosis, discourse analysis, hermeneutics.