Colin Jerolmack
New York University 212-998-7788
295 Lafayette St., 4th Floor jerolmack@nyu.edu
New York, NY 10012
Employment
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2009-
Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Chair of the Environmental Studies Dept. 2017-
Education
Ph.D., Sociology. 2009. City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center.
M.A., Sociology. 2005. CUNY, Queens College.
B.S., Psychology. 2000. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
Areas of Research and Teaching
Community and Urban Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Human-animal Relations; Culture; Health; Ethnography.
Books: Monographs
Jerolmack, Colin. 2021. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town. Princeton University Press.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2013. The Global Pigeon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (“Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries” Series).
Books: Edited Volumes
Jerolmack, Colin, and Shamus Khan (eds.). 2017. Approaches to Ethnography. Oxford University Press.
Schlottmann, Christopher, Maria Damon, Dale Jamieson, Colin Jerolmack, and Anne Rademacher (eds.). 2017. Environment and Society: Essential Readings. New York: NYU Press.
Journal Articles (* = non-refereed)
Jerolmack, Colin, Abigail Westberry, and Belicia Teo. 2024. “Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman’s Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind.” Symbolic Interaction.
Jerolmack, Colin, Belicia Teo, and Abigail Westberry. 2024. “The Interactional Zoo: Lessons for Sociology from Erving Goffman’s Engagement with Animal Ethology.” Sociological Theory 42(2): 137-59.
*Jerolmack, Colin, Alexandra Murphy, and Victoria Reyes. 2024. “Ethnography in the Open Science and Digital Age: New Debates, Dilemmas, and Issues.” Frontiers in Sociology 9: 1392012.
*Jerolmack, Colin, 2023. “What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?” Sociological Methods and Research 52(2): 1059-72.
Murphy, Alexandra, Colin Jerolmack, and DeAnna Smith. 2021. “Ethnography, Data Transparency, and the Information Age.” Annual Review of Sociology 47: 41-61.
Jerolmack, Colin, and Alexandra Murphy. 2019. “The Ethical Dilemmas and Social Scientific Tradeoffs of Masking in Ethnography.” Sociological Methods and Research 48(4): 801-27.
Jerolmack, Colin, and Edward T. Walker. 2018. “Please in My Backyard: Quiet Mobilization in Support of Fracking in an Appalachian Community.” American Journal of Sociology124(2)
*Jerolmack, Colin. 2018. “Northwestern Law Interrogating Ethnography Conference: Author
Meets Critic.” Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 13(3): 114-120.
*Jerolmack, Colin. 2018. “Northwestern Law Interrogating Ethnography Conference:
Ethnography, Ethics & Law.” Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 13(3): 182.
Jerolmack, Colin, and Shamus Khan. 2017. “The Analytic Lenses of Ethnography.” Socius.
Jerolmack, Colin and Nina Berman. 2016. "Fracking Communities." Public Culture 28(2): 193-214
*Murphy, Alexandra, and Colin Jerolmack. 2016. “Ethnographic Masking in an Era of Data Transparency.” Contexts 15(2): 14-17.
Jerolmack, Colin and Shamus Khan. 2014. "Talk is Cheap: Ethnography and the Attitudinal Fallacy." Sociological Methods and Research 43(2): 178-209.
· lead article and feature of a symposium, with commentary by four critics.
*Jerolmack, Colin and Shamus Khan. 2014. "Toward an Understanding of the Relationship Between Accounts and Action." Sociological Methods and Research 43(2): 236-247.
Jerolmack, Colin and Iddo Tavory. 2014. "Molds and Totems: Nonhumans and the Constitution of the Social Self." Sociological Theory 32(1): 64-77.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2013. "Who's Worried About Turkeys? How 'Organisational Silos' Impede Zoonotic Disease Surveillance." Sociology of Health and Illness 35(2): 200-212.
Khan, Shamus and Colin Jerolmack. 2013. "Saying Meritocracy and Doing Privilege." The Sociological Quarterly 54(1): 8-18.
*Jerolmack, Colin. 2012. “Toward a Sociology of Nature” The Sociological Quarterly 53(4): 501-505.
Angelo, Hillary, and Colin Jerolmack. 2012. “Nature’s Looking-glass.” Contexts 11(1): 24-29.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2009. “Humans, Animals, and Play: Theorizing Interaction When Intersubjectivity is Problematic.” Sociological Theory 27(4): 371-389.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2009. “Primary Groups and Cosmopolitan Ties: The Rooftop Pigeon Flyers of New York." Ethnography 10(4): 435-457.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2008. "How Pigeons Became Rats: The Cultural-Spatial Logic of Problem Animals." Social Problems 55(1): 72-94.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2007. "Animal Practices, Ethnicity and Community: The Turkish Pigeon Handlers of Berlin." American Sociological Review 72(6): 874-894.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2007. “Animal Archeology: Domestic Pigeons and the Nature-Culture Dialectic.” Qualitative Sociology Review 3(1): 74-95.
Jerolmack, Colin, and Douglas Porpora. 2004. “Religion, Rationality, and Experience: A Response to the New Rational Choice Theory of Religion.” Sociological Theory 22(1): 190-211.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2003. “Tracing the Profile of Animal Rights Supporters.” Society and Animals 11(3): 245-263.
Book and Journal Editorship
Barriers and Pathways to Climate Action. Invited editor for special issue of npj Climate Action.
Ethnography in the Open Science and Digital Age. Invited editor for special issue of Frontiers in Sociology.
Animals in Context. A new animal studies series on NYU Press.
The Sociology of Nature. Invited editor for special issue of The Sociological Quarterly 53(4).
Book Chapters (* = reprint)
Jerolmack, Colin, and Kyle Green. 2015. “Deep Play and Flying Rats.” In Getting Culture. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2013. “Environmental Sociology.” Pp. 506-535 in The Sociology Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination. New York: Pearson.
*Jerolmack, Colin. 2013. "Feeding the Pigeons: Sidewalk Sociability in Greenwich Village." Pp. 235-250 in The Urban Ethnography Reader, edited by Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy. Oxford University Press.
*Jerolmack, Colin. 2013. “Who’s Worried About Turkeys? How ‘Organisational Silos’ Impede Zoonotic Disease Surveillance.” Pp. 33-45 in Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Sociological Agenda, edited by Robert Dingwall, Lily Hoffman, and Karen Staniland. Wiley-Blackwell Press.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2013. “Writing in Practice: Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals.” Pp. 217-219 in Writing for Emerging Sociologists: A Practical Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
*Angelo, Hillary and Colin Jerolmack. 2013. “Nature’s Looking Glass.” Pp. 27-34 in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action, edited by Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy Auriffeill. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Review Essays and Book Reviews, and Miscellany
Jerolmack, Colin. 2020. “Integrating Human and Animal Health Can Prevent Pandemics.” CEAP Research Briefs.
Jerolmack, Colin. May 20, 2016. "Fighting Climate Change is Hard When You Live on a Natural Gas Reserve." Slate.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2016. Book Review of “American Zoo: A Sociological Safari” by David Grazian. Sociological Forum 31(2): 365-68.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2016. Book Review of “Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight” by Timothy Pachirat. Society and Animals 24: 201-04.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2014. “The Pigeon Fliers of New York.” New York Times Sunday Review, p. SR6, August 10.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2014. Book Review of “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” by Alice Goffman. European Journal of Sociology 55 (3): 526-30.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2014. Book Review of "Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee" by Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut. American Journal of Sociology 120(2).
Jerolmack, Colin. 2014. Book Review of "Thinking Together: An E-Mail Exchange and All That Jazz" by Howard S. Becker and Robert Faulkner. International Journal of Communication 8: 622-627.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2012. "Choking on Poverty: Inequality and Environmental Suffering." Public Books.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2010. “Interview with Colin Jerolmack.” Social Thought and Research 31: 17-36.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2009. “Meaning and Morality in Everyday Life: Beyond ‘The Social Construction of…’” Sociological Forum 24(3): 714-721.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2008. “Urban Renewal.” In The Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2008. Book Review of “Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place” by Gabriella Modan. British Journal of Sociology59(4): 814-816.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2005. “Our Animals, Ourselves? Chipping Away the Human-Animal Divide.” Sociological Forum 20(4): 651-660.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2004. Book Review of “Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture” by Christian Smith. Contemporary Sociology33(6): 677-678.
Fellowships and Grants
2020. “Formulating and Assessing Strategies for Combatting Zoonotic Disease Transmission.” Seed grant from the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, NYU.
2013. Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, NYU.
2008-2009: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Harvard University
2007-2008. Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center.
2006-2007. Dissertation Writing Fellowship, CUNY-GC.
2005. Doctoral Research Grant, CUNY- GC.
2005. Dissertation Writing Fellowship, CUNY- GC (declined).
2005. Humboldt University (Berlin) Urban Studies Program (tuition, lodging, travel).
2004-2005. University Fellowship- tuition stipend (CUNY- GC).
2003-2004. Graduate Assistant (B) Research Fellowship and tuition stipend (CUNY- GC).
2002-2003. Altman and University Fellowships covering tuition and living expenses (CUNY- GC).
Awards
2014. Honorable Mention, Mary Douglas book award from the Culture section of the ASA; for The Global Pigeon. 2013. Times Higher Education. Book of the Year; for The Global Pigeon.
2008. Animals and Society of the ASA, Distinguished Publication Award; for “Animal Practices, Ethnicity and Community.”
2007. Theory Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2nd Place in Graduate Student Paper Competition; for "How Pigeons Became Rats."
2005. Distinction. Comprehensive Oral Exams.
2003. Distinction. First Exam.
2000. Summa Cum Laude; perfect GPA (Drexel University).
Prior Teaching Positions
2007 (summer). Co-teacher, Dept. of Sociology, UCLA. Course taught in collaboration with Jack Katz: "LA at Play," an ethnographic research and training program supported by the National Science Foundation.
2006 (fall): Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Drexel University, Philadelphia. Course taught: “Urban Ethnography Seminar.”
2003-2005: Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Hunter College, New York. Courses taught: “Class, Status, and Power” (twice) and “Classical Sociological Theory” (twice); also an honors senior thesis adviser and a supervisor of undergraduate independent studies.