Paul Lopes

• BA University of California, Berkeley 1980
• MS University of Wisconsin, Madison 1985
• PhD University of California, Berkeley 1994

Teaching Positions

• Smith College, 2004-2005
• Mount Holyoke College, 2002-2004
• Tufts University, 1994-2002
• University of San Francisco, 1993-1994
• University of California, Berkeley, 1992
   

Courses

• Media and Modern Society
• American Popular Culture
• Cultural Sociology
• Social Experience in Mass Culture
• Introduction to Sociology
• Self and Society
• Mass Media Research
• Sociology of Socio-Political Movements
• Senior Project Seminars in Sociology and Mass Media

• Cultural sociology
• Media studies
• Popular culture
• American studies
• Sociology of art
• Social inequality
• Race and ethnicity

Rebellion and transition in "art worlds"

Books:

• Art Rebels: Class, Race and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese (Princeton, June 2019)
  
• Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book (Temple, 2009)
  
• The Rise of a Jazz Art World (Cambridge, 2002)

Selected articles and chapters:

• "The Power of Hyphen-Nationalism: Martin Scorsese's Sojourn from Italian American to White-Ethnic American." Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 23/5 (2017)
• “The Heroic Age of American Avant-Garde Art.” Theory and Society 44/3 (May 2015)
• "Strategies of Rebellion in the Heroic Age of the American Comic Book" in International Journal on the Arts in Society 2/2 (2007)
• "Culture and Stigma: Popular Culture and the Case of the Comic Book" in Sociological Forum (Fall 2006)
• "Signifying Deviance and Transgression: Jazz in the Popular Imagination" in American Behavioral Scientist (July 2005)
• "Pierre Bourdieu's Fields of Cultural Production: A Case Study of Jazz" in Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
• "Innovation and Diversity in the Popular Music Industry, 1969-1990" in American Sociological Review (Feb. 1992)

Special journal issues:

• Guest co-editor with Mary Durfee of the special issue "The Social Diffusion of Ideas and Things," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Nov. 1999)

Book reviews:

• American Journal of Sociology; American Ethnologist; Contemporary Sociology

Director of Communications and Media Studies Program, Tufts University 1994-2001

Annenberg Scholar, Annenberg School for Communication - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Fall 1997