BIOGRAPHY

Stacy L. Smith, Ph.D. (Kansas State University 2017), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on meaning-making, identity creation, and social cohesion in marginalized groups. She has recently published work on how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed hidden inequities in higher education. Currently, she seeks to use qualitative methods to understand the complex interaction between sublimated and realized identity among cosplayers. Her research interests include group behavior (subcultures and social movements), sociology of culture, social psychology, emotion, and pedagogy. Her work has also been featured in Teaching Sociology.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Stacy L. Smith

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Blum, Dinur, Adam G. Sanford, and Stacy L. Smith. Forthcoming 2022. “Careening Toward a Preventable Crisis: Toxic bureaucracy in higher education.” In Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, edited by J. Michael Ryan. Routledge.

Sanford, Adam G., Stacy L. Smith, and Dinur Blum. Forthcoming 2022. “Going Viral: How social media increased the spread of COVID-19 misinformation.” In COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities, edited by J. Michael Ryan. Routledge.

Smith, Stacy L. 2022.  “”We Didn’t Invent Them:’” the Development of Subcultural Identity among Deadheads.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction 54.

Smith, Stacy L., Dinur Blum, and Adam G. Sanford. Forthcoming 2022. “’Expendable and Devalued”: A snapshot of higher education’s COVID-19 response.” In Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, edited by J. Michael Ryan. Routledge.

Smith, Stacy L., Adam G. Sanford, and Dinur Blum. Forthcoming 2022. “’My Body, My Choice!’: COVID-19 misinformation consumers as a counterculture.” In COVID-19: Cultural and Institutional Changes and Challenges, edited by J. Michael Ryan. Routledge.

Blum, Dinur, Stacy L. Smith, and Adam G. Sanford. 2020. Toxic Wild West Syndrome: Individual rights vs. community needs. In COVID-19: Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations, edited by J. Michael Ryan. Routledge.

Sanford, Adam G., Dinur Blum, and Stacy Smith. 2020. Seeking Stability in Unstable Times: COVID-19 and the bureaucratic mindset. In COVID-19: Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations, edited by J. Michael Ryan. Routledge.

Smith, Stacy L., Adam G. Sanford, and Dinur Blum. 2020. “Spotlighting Hidden Inequalities: Post-secondary education response to the COVID-19 pandemic.” In COVID-19: Volume I: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions, edited by J. Michael Ryan. Routledge.

Smith, Stacy L. 2019. “Marianne Weber and #MarchForOurLives.” In Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Theorists, edited by C. Conner, D. Dickens, and N. Baxter. Lexington Books.

Smith, Stacy L. 2017. “Gender Stratified Monopoly: Why Do I Earn Less and Pay More?” Teaching Sociology 45(2):168-76.

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