Ashley Mears Wins Publication Award
Professor Ashley Mears has won a paper award, the Section on the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award for: “Girls as Elite Distinction: The Appropriation of Bodily Capital.” Special Issue on New Forms of Distinction, published in Poetics, 2015. Congratulations, Ashley!
Professor Ashley Mears elected section chair of the ASA Consumers and Consumption Section
Professor Ashley Mears will serve as chair of the ASA Consumers and Consumption Section. She will join Professors Catherine Connell and Neha Gondal, who have also been elected to hold chair positions of the ASA. Congrats, Professor Mears!
Professor Stone and Graduate Alumni Polly Rizova and Xiaoshuo Hou Publish Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism is a five volume, 1.5 million word reference work to be published in December 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell. Consisting of hundreds of entries written by leading experts on the topics from all over the world, it also has many contributions from scholars drawn from both the faculty and advanced […]
Professor Ashley Mears Gives Keynote Speech at the 16th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
Professor Ashley Mears gave the Keynote speech, titled “Girl Capital in the Consolidation of Class among Elites: A Relational Approach to Ownership,” at the 16th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference. Hosted by the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University on March 15th, 2014, this conference “is an annual graduate student conference hosted by one of several Chicago-area sociology […]
Professor Ashley Mears at the University of Amsterdam
Professor Ashley Mears is on leave in Fall 2013 and is traveling to Amsterdam as a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Amsterdam in the Amsterdam Resarch Center for Gender and Sexuality program. She is working on a book manuscript on elite consumption and gender among the global jet set.
Professor Ashley Mears to Present in the Discoveries Lecture Series: Pricing Looks, Pricing Gender
Next Tuesday, April 30th, the Discoveries Lecture Series will feature Professor Ashley Mears, who will present “Pricing Looks, Pricing Gender: How Women Earn More Than Men in a Few Rare Fields.” Tuesday, April 30th at 7PM The Florence & Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University 213 Bay State Road, 4th Floor Boston, MA Registration for […]
Professor Ashley Mears Comments on Fashion Week
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” took note of this year’s New York Fashion Week with a story noting the dominance of white models on the runways. In the February 15 story, they included note of Ashley Mears’s book Pricing Beauty and incorporated a comment from Professor Mears. Listen to the full story on their […]
CONTINUED MEDIA COVERAGE OF PROF. ASHLEY MEARS’ WORK
The Boston Globe Sunday magazine featured a multi-page account of Professor Ashley Mears’ study of the modeling industry. Also, don’t miss BU Today’s feature article: “High Heeled Scholarship”, January 24th 2012.
SLATE.COM DUBS PROF. MEARS ‘NEXT TOP SOCIOLOGIST’
Responding to the release of Prof. Ashley Mears’ new book, “Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model”, Slate.com (http://www.slate.com/id/2303242/) places her work in the long line of important sociological work based on researchers “embedding” themselves in an industry. Her participant observation and interviewing in the modeling industry provides dozens of important insights.
“PRICING BEAUTY: THE MAKING OF A FASHION MODEL.” BY PROFESSOR ASHLEY MEARS
Prof. Mears’ pathbreaking study of the fashion modeling industry has just been published by University of California Press. The book builds on Mears’ ethnographic observations and interviews to examine the economics and politics, as well as the racial and gender boundaries of the glamour industry.