CURRICULUM VITAE
Fall 2000
NAME
Gilbert Zicklin
EDUCATION
1977
1969
1963
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Davis.
M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Davis.
B.A. Columbia College, New York, New York.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1980-present
Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Montclair State
University.
1978-1980
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Vermont.
1972-1978
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maine,
Orono.
AREAS OF TEACHING
Sociology of sexuality
Sociology of family
Senior research project
Honors: 20th century civilization
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Changing attitudes toward same-sex relationships
Conceptualizing sexual diversity
Legal decision-making and public opinion
‘The vulnerable child’ as a politically consequential trope
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Countercultural Communes: A Sociological Perspective. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1983.
Book Chapters:
Legal Trials and Tribulations on the Road to Same-Sex Marriage, in On the Road to
Same-Sex Marriage, R. P. Cabaj and D.W. Purcell, eds., San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.
Media, Science and Sexual Ideology: The Promotion of Sexual Stability, in A Queer
World, Martin Duberman, ed., New York: NYU Press, 1997.
Deconstructing Legal Rationality: The Case of Gay and Lesbian Family Relationships, in
Families and the Law, L. McIntyre & M. Sussman, eds., New York: The Haworth Press, 1995.
Braverman and Deskilling: The Question of Numerical Control Operators, in The Social
Effects of Computers, Dean Harper, ed., Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 1990.
Articles and Essays:
Numerical Control Machining and the Issue of Deskilling: An Empirical View, Work and
Occupations. 14(3) August 1987.
Review essay in SIGNS, Volume 27, Number 4. Summer 2002.
PAPERS PRESENTED
Invited Papers:
A Same-Sex Dad in the Academic World: Blending New Roles, Eastern Sociological
Society Meetings, March 2003, New York, NY.
Sexual Orientations: Procrustean Beds (with David Schwartz), Association of Gay and
Lesbian Psychiatrists, Annual Convention, April 1996, New York, NY.
Media Responses to Theories of Sexual Orientation: Placing Limitations on Complexity,
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), CUNY Graduate Center, April 1994, New York, NY.
Domestic Partnership and the Gay/Lesbian Movement's Pursuit of Justice and Equality,
Sociologists' Lesbian and Gay Caucus, American Sociological Association Meetings, August 1991,
Cincinnati, OH.
Refereed Papers:
Sexual Identity: Truth and Consequences, American Sociological Association Annual
Meetings, August, 1998, San Francisco, CA.
The Uses of Sexual Identity: Self-Awareness or Social Discipline, American
Psychological Association, Division 39 Spring Meeting, February 1997, Denver, CO.
Biology of Sexual Orientation: The Promotion of Sexual Stability, Society for the Study
of Social Problems Meetings, August 1994, Los Angeles, CA.
Positioning Perversion: A Cross-Discipline Approach, Symposium at American
Psychological Association Annual Meetings, August 1994, Los Angeles, CA.
Rebiologizing Sexual Orientation: A Critical Approach, Society for the Study of Social
Problems Meetings, August 1992, Pittsburgh, PA.
Social Constructionist Approaches to Sexual Identity, Roundtable, American Sociological
Association Meetings, August 1990, Washington, D.C.
GRANTS
Developing a Module on the Sociology of Technology for an Introductory Sociology Course.
Department of Higher Education (DHE), New Jersey Humanities Grant Program, 1989-90.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Discussant:
Session on “Synthesizing Psychoanalytic and Social Movement Theory”, Eastern
Sociological Society Meetings, March 1996, Boston, MA.
Session on “The Sociology of Lesbians and Gay Men,” American Sociological Society
Meetings, August 1995, Washington, DC.
Chair:
“Parent Pending: Strategies for Creating Families”, Relatively Speaking: A Conference
on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Families, New York University, May 1997, New York, NY.
“Biology, Psychoanalysis and Sexual Orientation: Recent Empirical Research in Relation
to Theory and Practice,” American Psychological Association Meetings, [Division 39], August 1993,
Toronto, Canada.
Committees:
Council member, Section on Sexualities, American Sociological Association, 1997-1999.
Co-Chair and co-founder, (with Steven Seidman) Section on Sexualities, American
Sociological Associaiton, 1996-1997.
Board member, National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Science and Technical
Professionals (NOGLSTP), 1993-1997.
Chair, Committee on Status of Homosexuals (COSH), Standing Committee of the
American Sociological Association, 1989-92.
Member, COSH, American Sociological Association, 1986-89.
Chair, Sociologists Lesbian and Gay Caucus, 1988-89.
Editorial board member:
Sociological Perspectives, 1999-present
Reviewer:
Reviewed manuscripts, Sexualities, 1999-2000.
Reviewed manuscripts, Sociological Focus, 1993-94.
Reviewed manuscripts, Work and Occupations, 1989-90.
Reviewed manuscripts, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1989-1993.
Newsletter editor:
Editor, Sociologists' Lesbian and Gay Caucus Newsletter, 1991.