Carrie Yang Costello
Associate Professor of Sociology
Office: Bolton Hall 722
Phone: (414) 229-6942
E-mail: costello@uwm.edu
Vitae: pdf - 25k
Office Hours: F 10:00-12noon and by appointment
Degree:
B.A., Yale College 1986
J.D., Harvard Law School 1990
M.A., University of California, Berkeley 1994
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1999
Research Interests:
I do research in the areas of identity, family, culture, sexuality and the body. I am currently involved in research on work/family conflicts and identity dissonance, and on the development of teratology (literally, "the study of monsters;" practically, the subspecialty of medicine dealing with "birth defects").
Teaching Interests:
I am currently teaching courses on sex and gender, sexuality and the body.
Course Syllabi (SOCIOL)
928: Sociology of the Body (pdf-28k)
255: Sociology of Sexuality (pdf-40k)
Recent Publications:
Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender and Success at Professional Schools. 2005. Vanderbilt University Press.
"Changing Clothes: Gender Inequality and Professional Socialization." 2004. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 16(2): pp. 138-155.
"Cosmetic Genital Surgery Performed upon Children." 2004. Robert Perrucci, Kathleen Ferraro, JoAnn Miller, Paula C. Rodriguez Rust, eds., Solutions: Agenda for Social Justice 2004. Tenn.: Society for the Study of Social Problems: pp. 81-86.
The Sociology of Gender and Work: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. (editor) 2002. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
"Comment: Limits of Biological Determinism." Coauthored with Eleanor M. Miller. 2001. American Sociological Review, 66(4): pp. 592-8.
"Schooled by the Classroom: The (Re)Production of Social Stratification and Professional School Settings," 2001. Eric Margolis, ed., The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education, Routledge: pp. 43-59.
"Conceiving Identity: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Parents Consider their Children's Sexual Identities," 1997. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 24(3): pp. 63-89.
