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Lynette Patrice Spillman (born 3 July 1957) is a sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, and a Faculty Fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, as well as the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.[1] She is particularly known for the application of cultural sociology to the sub-fields of political sociology and economic sociology.
Lynette Patrice Spillman | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Australian National University (B.A.) University of California-Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | cultural sociology, economic sociology, political sociology |
| Awards | Vivana Zelizer Award, Clifford Geertz Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | University of Notre Dame |
| Academic advisors | Neil Smelser, Ann Swidler |
Having completed a BA in sociology and philosophy at the Australian National University in 1982, Lynette Spillman received her MA in 1986 and PhD in 1991 from the University of California-Berkeley, both in sociology.[2] Her doctoral dissertation at Berkeley was titled: Recognition, Integration and the Mobilization of National Identity: Centennials and Bicentennials in the United States and Australia. It later became her first book: Nation and commemoration: creating national identities in the United States and Australia. In 1983 she received a Fulbright award and in 2001 she was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
In 2014, Spillman was a keynote speaker at Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology special conference on "Advancing Cultural Sociology".[3]
Spillman's dissertation and first book published in 1997, Nation and commemoration, "examines meaning-making in politics. It traces the emergence of national identities in two similar “new nations” by comparing ritual and symbol in centennial and bicentennial commemorations."[1] Prominent Berkeley cultural sociologist Ann Swidler describes the work as "pathbreaking" with how it convincingly describes how "two similar nations [Australia and the USA] end up with divergent images of national identity."[4] The work was reviewed in several scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, International Affairs and the Journal of Intercultural Studies.[5]
Spillman's 2012 publication Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations won both the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology[6] and the Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology for 2013.[7] The selection committee for the Zelizer Award included Frank Dobbin (Chair), Stephanie Mudge and Frederick Wherry.[8] The selection committee for the Douglas Award included Timothy Dowd (Chair), Claudio Benzecry, and Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi. Economic sociologist Nina Bandelj states that "This is a path-breaking study of American trade associations that significantly enriches our understanding of contemporary economic life."[9] and Yale sociologist Frederick Wherry argues that "Solidarity in Strategy breaks new ground in the discussion of the cultures of capitalism"[9] Prominent Cornell economic sociologist, Richard Swedberg, considers this work "important because it brings attention to a phenomenon in U.S. life...in a theoretically innovative way that suggests a new - and more sociological - way of looking at the way capitalism operates."[10]
Spillman is married to fellow sociologist Russell Faeges.[11]
- Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
- Cultural Sociology (Editor) (Malden MA and London: Blackwell, 2002)
- Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
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