Lynette Patrice Spillman | |
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| Alma mater | Australian National University (B.A.) University of California-Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | cultural sociology,economic sociology,political sociology |
| Awards | Vivana Zelizer Award, Clifford Geertz Award |
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| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | University of Notre Dame |
| Academic advisors | Neil Smelser,Ann Swidler |
Lynette Patrice Spillman (born 3 July 1957) is asociologist and professor ofsociology at theUniversity of Notre Dame, and a Faculty Fellow of theHelen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, as well as the Center for Cultural Sociology,Yale University.[1] She is particularly known for the application ofcultural sociology to the sub-fields ofpolitical sociology andeconomic sociology.
Having completed a BA in sociology and philosophy at theAustralian National University in 1982, Lynette Spillman received herMA in 1986 and PhD in 1991 from theUniversity of California-Berkeley, both in sociology.[2] Her doctoral dissertation at Berkeley was titled:Recognition, Integration and the Mobilization of National Identity: Centennials and Bicentennials in the United States and Australia. It later became her first book:Nation and commemoration: creating national identities in the United States and Australia. In 1983 she received aFulbright award and in 2001 she was a recipient of theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
In 2014, Spillman was a keynote speaker at Yale'sCenter for Cultural Sociology special conference on"Advancing Cultural Sociology".[3]
Spillman's dissertation and first book published in 1997,Nation and commemoration, "examines meaning-making in politics. It traces the emergence of national identities in two similar “new nations” by comparing ritual and symbol in centennial and bicentennial commemorations."[1] Prominent Berkeley cultural sociologistAnn Swidler describes the work as "pathbreaking" with how it convincingly describes how "two similar nations [Australia and the USA] end up with divergent images of national identity."[4] The work was reviewed in several scholarly journals, including theAmerican Journal of Sociology,Social Forces, International Affairs and the Journal of Intercultural Studies.[5]
Spillman's 2012 publicationSolidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations won both theMary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology[6] and theViviana Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology for 2013.[7] The selection committee for the Zelizer Award includedFrank Dobbin (chair),Stephanie Mudge andFrederick Wherry.[8] The selection committee for the Douglas Award includedTimothy Dowd (chair),Claudio Benzecry, andSimonetta Falasca-Zamponi. Economic sociologistNina Bandelj states that "This is a path-breaking study of American trade associations that significantly enriches our understanding of contemporary economic life."[9] and Yale sociologist Frederick Wherry argues that "Solidarity in Strategy breaks new ground in the discussion of the cultures of capitalism"[9] Prominent Cornell economic sociologist,Richard Swedberg, considers this work "important because it brings attention to a phenomenon in U.S. life...in a theoretically innovative way that suggests a new - and more sociological - way of looking at the way capitalism operates."[10]
Spillman is married to fellow sociologistRussell Faeges.[11]
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