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Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
612-626-1863 tgowan@umn.edu
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BA Honors, First Class, American Studies, University of Manchester, England,
1991
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, March 2003.
Dissertation: Sin, Sickness, and the System: Discursive Constructions of Male
Homelessness in San Francisco and St. Louis
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University of Manchester Simon Fellow 2003-05
University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of Sociology 2005-present
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Gowan, Teresa. 2009. “New Hobos or Neoromantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography
Beyond the Neoliberal Disconnect.” Qualitative Sociology 32/3.
(Forthcoming.)
Gowan, Teresa. “What's Social Capital Got to Do with It?: Explaining Male
Unemployment in the St. Louis Ghetto.” Forthcoming in Critical
Sociology.
Gowan, Teresa. 2009. "Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and
Urban Ecology of Homelessness." (Book review). Forthcoming in
Contemporary Sociology.
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Gowan, Teresa. 2008. “Road Dogs and Loners: Family Relationships among
Homeless Men.” Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 37/2:130-132.
Gowan, Teresa. 2002. “The Nexus,” translated into Portuguese in Crime, Direito
e Sociedade, Discursos Sediciosos Nº13. Co-edição: Instituto de Carioca
de Criminologia.
Gowan, Teresa. 2002. “The Nexus: Homelessness and Incarceration in Two
American Cities” Ethnography 3/4:500-535.
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Gowan, Teresa. 2001. “San Francisco’s Homeless Recyclers.” Berkeley Journal
of Sociology, Volume 45:105-113.
Burawoy, Michael, Joseph A. Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Millie Thayer,
Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steve H. Lopez, Seán Ó
Riain, and Millie Thayer. 2000. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections
and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. Berkeley, CA:University of
California Press.
Gowan, Teresa. 2000. “Excavating ‘Globalization’ from Street Level: Homeless
Men Recycle Their Pasts.” Pp. 74-105 in Global Ethnography: Forces,
Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World, Burawoy, Blum
and George, et al. Berkeley, CA:University of California Press.
“Homeless Scavengers in San Francisco’s Underground Economy.” Chapter 1 of
Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change, edited by Amy S.
Wharton. London: Mayfield, 1998.
Gowan, Teresa. 1997. “American Untouchables: Homeless Scavengers in the
Informal Economy.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
17(3/4):159-190.
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"Towards an Ethnographic Model of Discourse Analysis"
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CLA Student Board Outstanding Professor Award, 2008
University of Manchester Simon Research Fellowship 2003-5
UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, Gertrude Jaeger Prize for Best Graduate
Student Paper, 2002.
UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship 2001-2
UC Berkeley Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-2000
UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, Departmental Fellowship, 1996-97
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Labor Studies Section, Harry
Braverman Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, 1996.
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“Don’t Look Down!” Ethnographic Insights from Role Play in St. Louis “Hot
Sets,” Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, 2008, Minneapolis, MN.
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“New Hobos or Neoromantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography beyond the Neoliberal
Disconnect,” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 2007,
Boston, MA.
"Symbolic Violence and American Homelessness," Thematic Session on Violence
and the State. European Association of Social Anthropologists Annual
Meetings 2006, Bristol, United Kingdom.
“Punishment, Pathology, and Politics: Defining Homelessness in the United
States,” Department of Sociology, University of Maynooth, Republic of
Ireland, April 2005.
“Sin, Sickness, and the System: Discourse and Survival Among San Francisco’s
Homeless Subcultures,” Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster,
November 2004.
“Punishment, Pathology, and Politics: Defining Homelessness in the United
States.” Regional Spotlight Session on Homelessness in San Francisco
(Organizer and panelist). American Sociological Association Annual
Meetings, 2004.
"Is the Great Tramp Scare Best Seen As a Case of Moral Panic?" Research
Design Institute, University of Manchester May 6 2004.
“Class, Subculture, and Discourse in Homeless Encampments.” Thematic Session
on Class and Culture. American Sociological Association Annual Meetings
2003.
“Locked Up, Locked Out: Male Marginality in the Contemporary United States.”
Regular Session on Prisons and Prisoners. American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings 2002.
“The Revolving Door Between the Street and the Prison: How Incarceration
Leads to Homelessness and Back Again.” Session on Law and Society.
Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meetings 2000.
“Excavating ‘Globalization’ from Street Level, or, Homelessness, from Science to
Ideology.” Regular Session on Community and Urban Sociology.
American Sociological Association Annual Meetings 1998.
“Working the Streets: Earning Strategies of the Poor and Marginalized.”
Organizer and discussant. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual
Meetings 1998.
“Contesting ‘Homelessness’.” Regular Session on Culture and Identity. American
Sociological Association Annual Meetings 1996.
“American Untouchables: Homeless Scavengers in the Informal Economy.”
Regular Session on the Informal Economy. American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings 1995.
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“Statistics of the Street and Songs of the Open Road.” “Machinations: Behind
The Scenes Of Writing And Politics,” Stanford, March 1995.
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Social Problems
Consume This!
Hard Times and Bad Behavior
Advanced Qualitative Methods
(Graduate Course)
Cities and Social Change
Ethnographic Practicum (Graduate
Course)
Social Theory
G R A D (co-chair)
U A T E S T U D E N T Dan
C Winchester
O M M I T T E E S
Sarah Whetstone
Vania Brightman (co-chair)
Andrew Johnson
Erika Busse
Kristen Haltinner
Danielle Docka
Meg Krausch
Rachael Kulick
Andria Strano
Raphi Rechitsky
Jennifer Kotting (geography)
Arturo Baiocchi
Tom Wolfe (anthropology).
2005-6 Hiring Committee
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2006-7 SRI Committee
2007-8 PT&S Committee
2008-9 Graduate Committee
Leader of ongoing Ethnography Workshop
Participant in the following ongoing college-level initiatives:
Urban Studies Program (Executive Board)
World Cities Project
Music and Sound Studies Collaborative