Harmony D. Newman
Professional Biography
Current:
Visiting Assistant Professor at Frankin & Marshall College
Previous:
2011-2012 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Orleans
2010-2012 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Tulane University
Education
2010 Ph.D. in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
2008 Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate, Vanderbilt University
2007 M.A. in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
2003 B.A. in Sociology, Centenary College of Louisiana
Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors Thesis*
*winner of Southern Sociological Society’s Odum Award
Research Interests
Sociology of Gender, Health and Illness, Social Movements, Marriage and Family, Qualitative Methods
Grants & Awards
2012 ASA/SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award, $500
2008-2009 Social Science Dissertation Fellowship, Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies and
College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, $20,000
2008-2009 Dissertation Fellowship, Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies, $5000
2008 Canadian Studies Research Grant, Vanderbilt University, $500
2008 Pedagogy Fellowship, Center for Ethics, Vanderbilt University, $500
2007 Dissertation Enhancement Grant, Graduate School, Vanderbilt University, $2000
2007 Center for Ethics Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, $1200
2004-2007 Marion T. Loftin Graduate Research Awards, Department of Sociology,
Vanderbilt University, $850
2004-2009 Travel Grant to Sociology conference, Graduate School, Vanderbilt University,
$500/conference, $2500 total
2003-2008 College of Arts and Science, Teaching Assistantship, Vanderbilt University,
$14,500-16,500/year for 5 years
2003-2008 Marion T. Loftin Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University,
$4000/year for 5 years, $20,000 total
2003 Student Summer Research Grant, Centenary College of Louisiana, $2500
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2008 Newman, Harmony D. and Emily Tanner-Smith. “Married Persons’ Subjective Class
Identification: The Role of Individual Gender Ideologies from 1972 to 2002.” Gender Issues
25(2):114-140.
2008 McCammon, Holly, Soma Chaudhuri, Lyndi Hewitt, Courtney Sanders Muse, Harmony D.
Newman, Carrie Lee Smith, and Teresa M. Terrell. “Becoming Full Citizens: The U.S.
Women's Jury Rights Campaigns, the Pace of Reform, and Strategic Adaptation.” American
Journal of Sociology 113(4): 1104-1147.
* Honorable Mention for the 2009 Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section Outstanding Paper Award.
2007 McCammon, Holly, Courtney Sanders Muse, Harmony D. Newman, and Teresa A. Terrell.
“Movement Framing and Discursive Opportunity Structures: The Political Successes of the U.S.
Women’s Jury Movements.” American Sociological Review 72(5): 725-749.
*Finalist for the 2008 Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section Outstanding Paper Award.
*Reprinted in 2009 in Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, Dynamics, and Impact, 2nd edition, edited by Dave Snow and Doug McAdam by Oxford University Press.
Book Reviews
2011 Newman, Harmony D. Review of Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head
Home, by Pamela Stone. University of California Press, 2007. In Work and Occupations: An International Sociological Journal 38(4): 514-516.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
2011 Packard, Joshua and Harmony D. Newman. Instructor’s Resource Manual to Accompany
Social Problems: Readings with Four Questions, 4th Edition by Joel Charon and Lee Vigilant.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Presentations
Recent Presentations:
2012 Newman, Harmony D. and Laura Carpenter. “Embodied Activism without Bodies? Analysis of Embodiment in the Breastfeeding and Male Circumcision Movements.” American Sociological Association. Denver, CO (accepted)
2009 Newman, Harmony D. “International Comparison of Breastfeeding Framing Strategies.” Southern Sociological Society. Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA
2009 Newman, Harmony D. “Medicalized Motherhood and the Breastfeeding Experience.” Sociologists for Women in Society. Annual Winter Meeting. Savannah, GA
2007 Newman, Harmony D. “Institutional Constructions of Risk: An Analysis of Breastfeeding Discourses.” Sociologists for Women in Society. Annual Summer Meeting. New York, NY
Course Information
FALL:
SOC 100 C&D: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 220: Social Psychology
