Jennifer Jordan
Associate Professor of Sociology
Office: Bolton Hall 732
Phone: (414) 229-5074
E-mail: jajordan@uwm.edu
Office Hours: M 1:30-3:30pm, on-line, and by appointment
Degree:
Ph.D. University of California-San Diego 2000
Research Interests:
Urban sociology, sociology of culture, Europe, Germany, collective memory, theory
Teaching Interests:
Theory, urban sociology, sociology of culture, collective memory
Course Syllabi (SOCIOL)
495: Seminar in International Urban Sociology: Space and Place: The City and Memory (pdf-35k)
Recent Publications:
Jennifer A. Jordan. "Violence, Memory, and Politics: Recent Work on Memorials in Berlin and Beyond" (Review Essay). Journal of Urban History (Forthcoming).
Jennifer A. Jordan. "The Heirloom Tomato as Cultural Object: Investigating Taste and Space" Sociologia Ruralis 47:1 (January 2007), 20-41.
Jennifer Jordan. Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2006).
Jennifer Jordan. "A Matter of Time: The Importance of Examining Collective Memory in Historical Perspective in Postwar Berlin." Journal of Historical Sociology 18:2 (March-June 2005), 37-71.
Jennifer Jordan. "Collective Memory and Locality in Global Cities", in Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age, Patrice Petro and Linda Krause, eds. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2003), 31-48.
Rick Biernacki and Jennifer Jordan. "The Place of Space in the Study of the Social", In The Social in Question: New Bearings in History and the Social Sciences, Patrick Joyce, ed. (London: Routledge, 2002), 133-150.
