Curriculum Vitae

 

GABRIEL ROSSMAN

 

UCLA Department of Sociology
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551

rossman@soc.ucla.edu

Phone:  310.206.8904

Fax:      310.206.9838

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

   July 2005 – Present                           Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, UCLA

   July 2007 – Present                           Visiting Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Sociology Department, Harvard University

 

EDUCATION

 

   2005       Ph.D. Sociology                 Princeton University

                  Dissertation: The Effects of Ownership Concentration on Media Content

                  Committee: Paul DiMaggio (chair), Scott Lynch, and Paul Starr

 

   2002       M.A. Sociology                  Princeton University

                  Exams: Culture and Mass Media, Inequality, and Organizational Theory

 

   1999       B.A. Sociology                   UCLA

                  (Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Honors)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

   Diffusion of innovation, economic sociology, culture, and organizations

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

·    “Modeling Diffusion of Multiple Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves: Payola in Pop Music Radio” (With Ming Ming Chiu and Joeri Mol) Sociological Methodology 2008.

·     “Hollywood and Jerusalem: Christian Conservatives and the Media.” in Steven Brint and Jean Schroedel. Conservative Christians and American Democracy. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming).

·    “By the Numbers: Lessons from Radio,” in William Ivey and Steven Tepper. Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life. (New York: Routledge, 2007).

·    “Changing Arts Audiences: Capitalizing on Omnivorousness” (with Richard A. Peterson), in William Ivey and Steven Tepper. Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life. (New York: Routledge, 2007).

·    “Elites, Masses, and Media Blacklists: The Dixie Chicks Controversy” Social Forces September 2004, 83: 61-78.

Previously released under the title “Who Killed the Travelin’ Soldier: Elites, Masses, and Blacklisting of Critical Speakers” as Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Working Paper #26, 2003.

·    (co-editor, with Michael Suman) Advocacy Groups and the Entertainment Industry. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000).

Also contributed solo-authored chapter, “Hostile and Cooperative Advocacy.”

·    “In Response to Donald Wildmon,” in Michael Suman (ed.). Religion and Prime Time Television. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997).

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

 

·    “Concentration of Ownership and Concentration of Content in Rock Radio”, under journal review

·    “I’d Like to Thank the Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality” (with Nicole Esparza and Phil Bonacich), under journal review

·    “Through Being Cool: The Instability of Omnivorous Cultural Taste Over Time” (with Richard A. Peterson)

·    “The Influence of Ownership on the Valence of Media Content: The Case of Movie Reviews”

·    “Who Picks the Hits in Radio”

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

·    “Modeling Diffusion of Multiple Innovations with Multilevel Diffusion Curves” at American Sociological Association, 2007

·    “I’d Like to Thank the Academy, Social Networks, and Multiplicative Productivity” (with Nicole Esparza)

o       Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy, 2007

o       UCSD Culture Workshop, 2007

o       Sunbelt Conference, 2006

·    “Roll Over Beethoven: Whatever Happened to ‘Highbrow’” (with Richard A. Peterson) at the International Sociological Association Research Committee #14, 2005.

·    “The Landslide Brought Them Down: The Role of Chain Ownership and Popular Protest in the Dixie Chicks Boycott” at the Federal Communications Commission, 2004

 

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS

 

·    National Science Foundation, Program on Innovation and Organizational Change, “Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation: Drawing Lessons from the Radio Industry” (Award # SES-0724914), 2007-2009

·    Social Science Research Council, “Assessing the Impact of the Spitzer Payola Investigation”, 2007-2008

·    UCLA Senate Faculty Research Grant, 2006-07

·    Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Cultural Policy, through the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, 2004-2005

·    Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, 2003-2004

            Awarded to Princeton University graduate students in the social sciences whose work addresses public policy.

·    Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Investigate Cultural Conflict, through the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, 2003

·    Princeton University Graduate School Summer Research Grants, 2001-2003

·    Princeton University fellowship, 1999-2003

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Teaching

 

·    Sociology M176/ Communication Studies M147, The Sociology of Mass Communications, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2008, and Fall 2008

·    Sociology 180B/191T, War and Society, Winter 2006 and 2007

·    Sociology 210A, Univariate Statistics, Fall 2008

·    Sociology 248/245/246, Structural Approaches to Culture, Winter 2006, Winter 2007, and Spring 2008

·    Sociology 265, Institutionalism and Diffusion, Fall 2006 and Spring 2008

 

Service

 

·    Editorial Board, Poetics, 2007-2010

·    Chair, Economic Sociology Field Exam, 2008

·    Chair, Sociology of Culture Field Exam, 2006-09

·    Member, Graduate Curriculum and Advisement Committee, 2006-07

·    Co-Organizer, Boundaries Working Group UCLA, 2005-06

·    Member, Sociology Computing Committee, 2005-06