Current Position
2005-Present Assistant Professor, Temple University, Department of Sociology.
2004-2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Temple University, Department of Sociology.
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Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, Sociology, 2004. Dissertation: "Art in the Public Square: Democracy and the Associational Life of Culture in America." Committee: Sarah Corse (Chair), Sharon Hays, Bethany Bryson, and Howard Singerman. Qualifying exams in Culture and Political Sociology both passed with distinction.
M.A., University of Virginia, English, certification in American Studies, 1999. Thesis: "The Art Institution in the Age of Hyper-Reproduction." Advisors: Alan Howard, John Bunch.
B.A., magna cum laude, James Madison University, English/Religious Studies, 1996.
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Research Interests
Art and Arts Controversies; Cultural Policy; Feminism in Film; Popular Culture and Social Inequalities; Political Sociology; Social Theory.
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Teaching Interests
Sociology of Culture; Popular Culture; Gender & Sexuality; Sociological Theory; Sociology of Art and Literature.
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Awards & Honors
2008-2009 Regional Humanities Fellow, Penn Humanities Center.
2007-2008 Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities at Temple.
2007 Summer Research Award, Temple University.
2005-2006 Iris and Gene Rotberg Award, Center for the Humanities at Temple.
2002-2004 Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
2003-2004 Dissertation Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of Virginia.
2002 Outstanding Graduate Colleague Fellowship, Sociology Department, University of Virginia.
2002 Course Improvement Award, University of Virginia.
2001-2002 TA Development Grant (with Sharon Hays), University of Virginia.
2001 2nd Place, Graduate Research Exhibition, University of Virginia.
2001 Outstanding TA Award, Sociology Department, University of Virginia.
2001 Graduate Teaching Award, University of Virginia.
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Publications
In Progress
Kidd, Dustin. Legislating Creativity: The Intersection of Art and Politics. Book manuscript under review..
Kidd, Dustin and Christina Jackson. "DuBois and the Art of Propaganda." Article manuscript in progress.

Peer Reviewed
Kidd, Dustin. 2007. "Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture." The Journal of Popular Culture 40: 70-90.
Kidd, Dustin. 2004. "Sexual Politics in the Defense of Art." Research in Political Sociology 13, special edition on The Politics of Change: Sexuality, Gender, and Aging: 79-112.

Report
Kidd, Dustin, Joanne Cohoon and Simonetta Liuti. "Women's Participation in Physics Higher Education: The Leaky Pipeline Revisited." Research report GAPUSE (Gendered Attrition from Physics in the United States and Europe). Published online at http://faculty.virginia.edu/gapuse/.

Editor
Co-editor, with Jennifer Geddes, Wilson Brisset, and Kevin Seidel. The Hedgehog Review, special issue on "The Fate of the Arts." Summer 2004.

Invited Commentary
Kidd, Dustin. 2006. "Art for Politics: Reflections on the Whitney Biennial." Afterimage 34: 6-8.
Kidd, Dustin. 2006. "Closed and Open-Form Approaches to Social Theory: A Pedagogical Rejoinder to Sanderson." Perspectives 28: 5-6.
Kidd, Dustin. 2006. "Rethinking the Culture Wars Concept." Culture 20.
Kidd, Dustin. 2005. "Confronting Consolidation." Afterimage 33: 10-11.
Kidd, Dustin. 2004. "Art and Contemporary Culture." The Hedgehog Review 6: 98-105.
Kidd, Dustin. 2003. "Mapplethorpe and the New Obscenity." Afterimage 30: 6-7.
Kidd, Dustin. 2003. "Concrete and Brick Walls: Report From the Symbolic Boundaries Research Network Online Conference, February 10th-14th, 2003." Culture 17.

Book Reviews
Kidd, Dustin. Forthcoming. Rembrandt, by Georg Simmel. Humanity and Society.
Kidd, Dustin. 2008. Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era: Text and Readings, edited by Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles. Teaching Sociology 36: 163-165.
Kidd, Dustin. 2003. Creative Destruction, by Tyler Cowen. The Hedgehog Review 5: 103-108.
Kidd, Dustin. 2003. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, by Jean Bethke Elshtain. Insight 8:9.
Kidd, Dustin. 2002. Privatising Culture, by Chin-tao Wu. Insight 7:9.

Teaching Publications
Kidd, Dustin. 2005. "The Open Letter Essay in Social Theory." The Southern Sociologist 37:11-13.
Kidd, Dustin. 2005. "Content Analysis in Popular Culture: Using Schudson's 5-Dimensions of Culture." Mass Media Syllabi Set. American Sociological Association.
Kidd, Dustin. 2005. "Sociology of Popular Culture" (course syllabus). Sociology of Culture Syllabi Set. American Sociological Association.
Kidd, Dustin. 2004. "Review of Henry Giroux's Teachers as Intellectuals," Teaching Concerns, Fall.
Kidd, Dustin. 2003. "MY TAKE: Instructive Criticism," Teaching Concerns, Spring.
Kidd, Dustin. 2002. "Review of Donald Bligh's What's the Use of Lectures?" Teaching Concerns, Spring.
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Presentations
Research Presentations
Center for the Humanities at Temple, Philadelphia, February 2008. "Guerrilla Girls: Art and Politics, Then and Now."
Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, New Haven, February 2008. "Guerrilla Girls, Guerrilla Art, Guerrilla Politics."
American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 2007. "Homeless at Home: DuBois and the Black Artist in America."
American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007. "Witness for the Arts."
Art History Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, February 2007. "Witness for the Arts."
Association of Black Sociologists, Montreal, August 2006. Panel member, "Presenting the National Science Foundation's Advancing Graduate Education and the Professoriate in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences."
Association of Black Sociologists, Montreal, August 2006. "DuBois and the Art of Propaganda." Co-authored with Christina Jackson.
Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood, April 2006. "From Social Structure to Cultural Structure."
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 2006. "After Mapplethorpe: What You Should Know About the Arts Today." Invited by the Temple Alumni Foundation as part of the Temple on the Road series.
Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, February 2006. "The Double Matrix of Popular Culture."
Center for the Humanities at Temple, Philadelphia, February 2006. Respondent to a presentation by Janet Wolff called "Groundless Beauty: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty."
Center for the Humanities at Temple, Philadelphia, November 2005. "From Art to Politics and Back Again."
American Sociological Society, Philadelphia, August 2005. "The Transformative Role of Arts Controversies."
Eastern Sociological Society, Washington, DC, April 2005. "Film, Gender, and Social Transformation: Negotiating Audience Size and Message Strength."
American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004. "Democracy and Public Culture in America."
Fulbright Summer Institute, New York University, July 2004. Panel presider, session on "Postmodernism in American Film and Literature."
Eastern Sociological Society, New York, February 2004. "Cultural Policy Research and Democratic Effects."
Social Theory, Politics & the Arts, Columbus, October 2003. "Democracy, Culture, and the Associational Life of Art."
American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003. "Successes and Limitations in the Democratization of Art."
American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003. "Women's Participation in Higher Education in the Physical Sciences." Co-authored with Joanne Cohoon and Simonetta Liuti.
Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, March 2003. "Sexual Politics in the Defense of Art."
Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, February 2003. "The National Endowment for the Arts as an Experiment in the Democratization of Art."
Southern Sociological Society, Baltimore, March 2002. "Negotiating Collective Identities."
Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, February 2002. "Expansion in Art."
Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, February 2001. "Harry Potter and Cultural Potency."
American Sociological Association, Washington, August 2000. "The Other America On-Line; Prison Activism and the Web."

Teaching Presentations
Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 2007. "Teaching with DuBois."
American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006. "Teaching the Sociology of Culture."
Temple University, Philadelphia, July 2005. "Preparing for Conference Presentations," a workshop for graduate students.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, March 2004. "Gender in the Classroom. "
Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, March 2003. "Becoming Tomorrow's Professor Today: Lessons from a New Teacher. "
Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia, April-December 2002. "Tomorrow's Professor Today: Certification for Future Faculty, " a workshop series for advanced graduate students.
August Teaching Workshops of the Teaching Resource Center, University of Virginia, 2000, 2001, 2002. "Difficult Classroom Situations," and "Teaching the First Days of Class."

Media Commentary
Interviewed on KYW News Radio (online communities), Inside Magazine (scientific reports of the Y-chromosomes demise), and WebMD (online communities).
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Teaching Experience
Courses at Temple University
Introductory Sociology (Spring 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2008). Course size: 100 students.
Popular Culture (Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007). Upper-level elective. Course size: 30 students.
Development of Sociological Thought (Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008). Required course for majors. Course size: 30 students.
Contemporary Social Theory (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008). Required course for graduate students. Course size: 10 students.
American Ethnicity (Fall 2004; Spring 2005). Fulfills race requirement. Course size: 30-50 students.

Courses at the University of Virginia (adjunct lecturer)
American Society & Popular Culture; Social Inequality; Introductory Sociology; University Internship Program, Summer Seminar.

Pedagogical Training
In an effort to improve my skills as an instructor, I have participated in the following workshops:
Effective Teaching in Larger Lectures (March 2006). Temple University.
The Knapsack Institute (June 2005). Held at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, this 3-day workshop emphasized the ways that issues of gender, race, sexual orientation and disability status can be used to transform college curricula.
Blackboard Training (August 2004). Two workshops on the basic and intermediate use of the Blackboard system for course design and preparation. Temple University.
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Service
Professional Service
Memberships:
American Sociological Association (Section on the Sociology of Culture; Theory Section; Sexualities Section; Teaching and Learning Section)
Eastern Sociological Society
Popular Culture Association
American Studies Association
Chair of the ASA Theory Section's Shils-Coleman Graduate Student Prize awards committee, 2006-2007.
Co-editor, with Erika Summers-Effler and Omar Lizardo. Perspectives, the newsletter of the Theory Section of the ASA, 2006-Present.
Taskforce on the Status of the MA, ASA, 2005-Present. Subcommittee chair of interdisciplinary MAs, 2005-2006; subcommittee chair of MA profiles, 2006-2007.
Committee on Graduate Students, Eastern Sociological Society, 2005-2006.
Occasional Reviewer, Sociological Forum.
Occasional Reviewer, The Sociological Quarterly.
Occasional Reviewer, Sociology Compass.
Sociology Advisory Board, Sage Publications.
Reviewer, McGraw-Hill.
Alumni Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia.

Service at Temple University
Search Committee for the 2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Humanities at Temple, 2008.
Search Committee for an LGBT Studies position for the Women's Studies Program at Temple, 2008.
Executive Committee, Temple University, Department of Sociology. 2006-2007.
Candidacy Research Paper Review Committee, Temple University, Department of Sociology. 2007.
Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies, Temple University. 2006-Present.
Affiliated Faculty, American Studies, Temple University. 2006-Present.
Affiliated Faculty, Disability Studies. 2007-Present.
Mentor, Summer Research Opportunities Program of the National Science Foundation's Advancing Graduate Education and the Professoriate in the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Graduate School, 2006.
Promotions Committee, Temple University, Department of Sociology. 2005-2006.
Graduate Admissions Committee, Temple University, Department of Sociology. 2006.
Half-Baked Ideas/Student Conference, Organizing Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, 2007-2008.
Grader, Qualifying Examination in Gender, Temple University, Department of Sociology, graduate program. 2005-2006.
Grader, Qualifying Exam in Political Sociology, Department of Sociology, graduate program. 2007.
Graduate Teaching Awards Committee, ATTIC (teaching center at Temple University), 2005.
Dissertation Committees: I currently serve as a reader on three dissertation committees. Nadine Sullivan is studying the marriage equality movement in New Jersey; Debra Tupe is studying mothers of disabled children in Cuba; Allison Watts is studying the ways that female athletes negotiate gender and sexuality stereotypes in the construction and performance of their identities.

Community Service
Board of Directors, Spiral Q Community Puppet Theater, Philadelphia, 2006-Present. Chair of the Board Recruitment and Leadership Development Committee.