Avery Gordon is a Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, archivist and author of sociological theory and imagination.[1]

Early life

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Gordon grew up in Florida, then attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.[2] She earned a doctorate from Boston College.[1]

Career

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Gordon is a Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, archivist and author of sociological theory and imagination.[1] She has also been a visiting Faculty Fellow in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College University of London (2008-2013) and visiting professor at Birkbeck School of Law University of London. In 2012, she was the Anna Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.[1] Her writings have been featured in South Atlantic Quarterly, Race & Class, PMLA, and other collections.[3][4] Gordon’s work centers on radical thought and practice, the utopian, haunting and forms of dispossession.[5][4][6]

Gordon co-hosts "No Alibis" with Elizabeth Robinson and Marisela Marquez on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara; a weekly radio program with discussions and interviews about domestic and international affairs.[7][8]

Bibliography

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  • The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (2017, Fordham University Press)[9]
  • Avery F. Gordon: Notes for the Workhouse: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 041 (2012, Hatje Cantz Publishers)
  • Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People (2004, Routledge)[10]
  • Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (1997, University of Minnesota Press)[11][12][13][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Avery Gordon | Department of Sociology - UC Santa Barbara". www.soc.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  2. ^ "Revolutionary Feminisms: Avery F. Gordon". Verso. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. ^ "Avery Gordon". American Academy. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  4. ^ a b "The Hawthorn Archive – Avery F. Gordon". Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  5. ^ "Panel Discussion: Blackness - Ghosts of Past, Present and Future". Camden Art Centre. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  6. ^ "Revolutionary Feminisms: Avery F. Gordon". Versobooks.com. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  7. ^ "KCSB-FM". KCSB FM - KCSB FM, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  8. ^ "No Alibis". soundtap.com. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  9. ^ Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2019). "The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the utopian margins by Avery F. Gordon". Race & Class. 61: 93–96. doi:10.1177/0306396819856216. S2CID 198796114.
  10. ^ Agger, Ben. "Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power, and People." Contemporary Sociology 34.6 (2005): 681.
  11. ^ Smith, Dorothy E. "Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination." Contemporary Sociology 28.1 (1999): 120.
  12. ^ Van Wagenen, Aimee (2004). "An Epistemology of Haunting: A Review Essay". Critical Sociology. 30 (2): 287–298. doi:10.1163/156916304323072116. S2CID 220916041.
  13. ^ Pors, Justine Grønbæk, Lena Olaison, and Birke Otto. "Ghostly matters in organizing." Ephemera. Critical Dialogs on Organization19.1 (2019): 1-29.
  14. ^ Overend, Alissa (2014-02-01). "Haunting and the ghostly matters of undefined illness". Social Theory & Health. 12 (1): 63–83. doi:10.1057/sth.2013.20. ISSN 1477-822X. S2CID 256515021.