Timothy J. Dowd
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Telephone: 404-727-6259
FAX: 404-727-7532
E-MAIL: tdowd@emory.edu
OFFICE: 231 Tarbutton Hall
Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
Degree: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996
General Research Area: Music; Media; Culture; Formal Organizations; Work and Industry
Current Research:
Selected Publications: "Legitimacy as a Social Process" (co-author with Cathryn Johnson and Cecilia Ridgeway), Annual Review of Sociology, 2006. "Concentration and Diversity Revisited: Production Logics and the U.S. Mainstream Recording Market, 1940 to 1990," Social Forces, 2004. "Structural Power and the Construction of Markets: The Case of Rhythm and Blues," Comparative Social Research, 2003. "The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825 to 1922" (co-author with Frank Dobbin), American Sociological Review, 2000.
Upcoming Publications:
Music, Culture, Society (co-author with Marco Santoro), In process for Pine Forge Press, 2010.
"What is Sociological about Music?" (co-author with William Roy), Forthcoming in Annual Review of Sociology, 2010.
"All That Jazz: The Success of Jazz Musicians in Three Metropolitan Areas" (co-author with Diogo Pinheiro), Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media, and the Arts, 2009.
Selected Courses