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: "Production and Producers of Lifestyles: Fields of Classical and Popular Music in the United States"; Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Sonderheft 51, 2011. "What is Sociological about Music?" (with William G. Roy); Annual Review of Sociology, 2010. "All That Jazz: The Success of Jazz Musicians in Three Metropolitan Areas" (with Diogo L. Pinheiro); Poetics, 2009. "Legitimacy as a Social Process" (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, 1825-1922" (with Frank Dobbin); American Sociological Review, 2000.
Upcoming Publications:
"Music Festivals as Transnational Scenes: The Case of Progressive Rock in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries"
Selected Courses
- SOC 221: Culture and Society
- SOC 343: Mass Media and Social Influences
- SOC 443S: Sociology of Music
- SOC 560: Sociology of Culture
- SOC 561: Sociology of the Arts
- SOC 562: Sociology of Mass Media
Additional Info:
Editor-in-Chief, Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture,the Media and the Arts (with Susanne Janssen of Erasmus University Rotterdam)