Celia C. Winkler
Ph.D., University of Oregon
celia.winkler@umontana.edu
Social Science 323
406-243-5843
Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 12:40-2:00;
and by appointment
Emphasis:
Gender, Family, Political Sociology, Feminist Theory
Current Project:
Investigating the effect of progressive spiritual discourse on social policy creation, with focus on social citizenship: inclusion and marginalization, recognition and redistribution.
Selected Scholarly Work:
"From Conditional Reconstruction to Disappearance: Deadbeat Dads, Christian Fatherhood, Single Mothers, and Policy Discourse in U.S. Policymaking," Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the National Women's Studies Association, Oakland, CA.
"Seeing the Other and Radical Hospitality: Spirituality and Feminism in Peace an Justice Activism," with Kristeen Black and Lynne Isaacson. Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the National Women's Studies Association, Orlando FL.
"Violence, Peace, and the Welfare State." Presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA.
"History and Metaphor, Spirituality and Feminism in the Formation of Peace and Justice Activists," with Kristeen Black and Lynne Isaacson. Presented at the 2004 meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, San Francisco CA.
"Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and the Patriarchal State." Presented at a conference on Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Race, Ethnicity & Nation in Post Socialist Societies and the United States, organized by the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, Porec, Croatia, 2003.
Single Mothers and the State: The Politics of Care in Sweden and the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, 2002).
"Sweden's Child Support Guarantee and Women's Economic Independence," Journal of Poverty 5, 4 (2001): 29_50.
"Equality and Freedom: Family and Labor Policies in Sweden and the United States." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Anaheim, August 2001.
"Flying Without a Husband: Comparing U.S. and Swedish Approaches to Family Law and Social Policy." Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association, Budapest, July 2001.
"Mothering, equality and the individual: feminist debates and welfare policies in the USA and Sweden," Community, Work & Family 1(2): 149_166, 1998.
"Will the Maid Have a Maid? Solidarity and Domestic Service in Neoliberal Sweden." Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, April 1998
"Constructing the Social Individual: Putting Together Care, Resources, and Voice." Presented at the 1997 American Sociological Association annual meeting, Toronto, Ontario.
Personal Interests:
Weeding the garden, repairing the house, keeping the dogs out of trouble, and strolls in the mountains when time allows.
Current Courses
SOCI 485 Political Sociology
TR; 11:10-12:30; NAS 103
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SOCI 520 Contemporary Social Theory
Thursdays; 2:10-5:00pm; SS 330
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SOCI 455 Classical Sociological Theory
TR; 11:10-12:30;
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SOCI 545 Seminar in Inequality and Social Justice
WGS 595
T; 3:00-6:00pm; LA 138
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