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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Marybeth C. Stalp, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
University of Northern Iowa
319-273-6235
Marybeth.Stalp@uni.edu

 

ACADEMIC DEGREES

December 2001                   Ph.D. (Sociology)
                                           The University of Georgia

June 1998                            Graduate Certificate (Women’s Studies)
                                            The University of Georgia

July 1996                             M.A. (Sociology)
                                            Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

May 1993                           B.A. (Sociology, Communications, and English Literature)
                                           Regis University

COURSES TAUGHT                                 
Graduate: Qualitative Research Methods, Graduate Proseminar, Gender in the Workplace
Undergraduate: Introductory Sociology, Introductory Sociology (Honors), Women, Men & Society,  Women, Men & Society (Honors), Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology of Gender, Theories of Sex and Gender, Sociology of Culture            

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009-present Associate Professor, Dept of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology, University of Northern Iowa

2003-2008    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology, University of Northern Iowa

2002-2003   Visiting Assistant Professor, Western State College

2001-2002   Instructor, Women’s Studies Program, The University of Georgia
                                   
2001-2002   Adjunct Faculty, Department of Sociology, Piedmont College
                                                                                                                                   
2000-2001   Doctoral Student Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia           
                                   
1999-2000   Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
                                               
1996-1999    Teaching & Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
                       
1994-1996    Teaching & Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Books
Marybeth C. Stalp. December 2007. Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life.  Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

 

Marybeth C. Stalp, and Rachel Conti. Forthcoming. "'To See or Not to See' Serious Leisure in the Home: Professional Quilters Negotiate Family Space." Gender, Work & Organization.

Marybeth C. Stalp, Rachel Williams, Annette Lynch, and M. Elise Radina. Forthcoming. “Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women’s Identity”  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

Marybeth C. Stalp, and Theresa M. Winge. 2008. "My Collection is Bigger Than Yours: Tales from the Handcrafter's Stash" Home Cultures. 5(2): 197-218.

Marybeth C. Stalp, M. Elise Radina, and Annette Lynch. 2008. “‘We Do It Cuz It’s Fun’: Creating Women’s Leisure Space through Red Hat Society Membership.” Sociological Perspectives Volume 51(2): 325-347.

M. Elise Radina, Annette Lynch, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Lydia K. Manning. 2008. “‘When I am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple’: Red Hatters Cope with Getting Old.” Journal of Women and Aging Volume 20 (1/2) Spring/Summer.

Annette Lynch, Marybeth C. Stalp, and M. Elise Radina. 2007. (Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter in Edited Volume) “Growing Old and Dressing (Dis)gracefully.” Pages 144-155 in Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes. Edited by Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2006. “Creating an Artistic Self: Amateur Quilters and Subjective Careers.” Sociological Focus Volume 39 (3): 193-216.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2006. “Hiding the (Fabric) Stash: Fabric Collecting, Hoarding and Hiding Strategies of Contemporary U.S. Quilters” Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture Volume 4 (1): 104-125.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2006. “Negotiating Time and Space for Serious Leisure: Quilting in the Modern U.S. Home.” Journal of Leisure Research Volume 38 (1): 104-132.

Linda Grant, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Kathryn B. Ward. 2002. “Women’s Sociological Research and Writing in the Pre-World War II Era.” The American Sociologist Volume 33 (3): 76-99.

Marybeth C. Stalp and Linda Grant. 2001. “Teaching Qualitative Coding in Undergraduate Field Methods Classes: An Exercise Based on Personal Ads.” Teaching Sociology Volume 29 (April): 209-218.

Marybeth C. Stalp and Bill Winders. 2000. “Power in the Margins: Gendered Organizational Effects on Religious Activism.”  Review of Religious Research Volume 42 (1): 41-60.

Gary Alan Fine, Beth Montemurro, Bonnie Semora, Marybeth C. Stalp, Dane Claussen and Zaida Sierra. 1998. "Social Order Through A Prism: Color As Collective Representation."  Sociological Inquiry Volume 68 (4): 443-457.

 

BOOK REVIEWS
Marybeth C. Stalp. 2008. Case Study Research: Principles and Practices, by John Gerring. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Contemporary Sociology 37 (1): 76-77.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2003. Essay review of recent works on gender and carework:Medicalized Motherhood by Jacqueline Litt, Mothering Inner-City Children by Katherine Brown Rosier, and Mothers & Children, Edited by Susan E. Chase and Mary F. Rogers.  Gender & Society Volume 17, Number 2 (April): 324-326.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2000. The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers by Anna M. Speicher, 2000. Review of Religious Research. Volume 42 (2): 221-222.
 
Marybeth C. Stalp. 1998.  Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara, 1996. Women’s Studies International Forum. Volume 21 (3): 325-326.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 1997.  Poverty, Chastity, and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns by Carole Garibaldi Rogers, 1996.  Review of Religious Research. Volume 39 (2): 184-185.

AWARDS
2006-2007 University Book & Supply Outstanding Teaching Award,
University of Northern Iowa
Nominated by the department head for competition in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Awarded by the CSBS Dean for recognition of significant contributions to the quality of teaching.

1999-2000 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
University of Georgia
Nominated by the sociology department faculty for university-wide competition in recognition of excellence in teaching.  Recognized among the top 10% of instructors at University of Georgia.

1998-99 Certificate of Excellence Award,
Department of Sociology,
University of Georgia
Nominated by the sociology faculty for department-wide recognition for excellence in teaching.

 

PRESENTATIONS AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS
Marybeth C. Stalp, Finn Kolsrud, and Josephine Kipgen. 2008. “Men (and Women) in Tights: The Carnival Atmosphere of RAGBRAI. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March, 2008.

Annette Lynch, M. Elise Radina, and Marybeth C. Stalp. 2007. “An Investigation of Meaning Transfer from Product to Consumer: A Red Hat Society Case Study.” International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November, 2007.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2007. “But What's Under the Covers?: Quiltmakers' Memories of Quilts Made.” Invited Scholar, “Du décousu au cousu méticuleux, From Patchwork to Quilt” International multidisciplinary conference, The University of Rouen, Rouen, France. November, 2007.

Knesting, Kimberly, Nicholas Pace, Marybeth C. Stalp, Katherine Niman, and Xavier Escandell. 2007. “Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes towards Sexual Minority Youth.” American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2007.

Marybeth C. Stalp, Kimberly Knesting, Nicholas Pace, and Katherine Niman. 2007. “Complicating Gender and Sexuality on Campus: An Autoethnography of the Presentation of the Advocate Self” Conference of Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies (QUIG), University of Georgia, Athens, GA, January, 2007.

Marybeth C. Stalp and Theresa M. Winge. 2006. “Mine’s Bigger than Yours: Tales from the Material Culture Stash.” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Indianapolis, IN, October, 2006.

Marybeth C. Stalp and Rachel Williams.  2006. “Working at Home—Is it Working Out?: Midlife Professional Quilters through the Life Course.” Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, NE, March/April, 2006.

Rachel Williams, Marybeth C. Stalp, Annette Lynch, and M. Elise Radina. 2006. “Empowerment as a Commodity?” Red Hat Society Members as Consumers.” Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, NE, March/April, 2006.

M. Elise Radina, Annette Lynch, and Marybeth C. Stalp. 2005. “’When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple’: Red Hatters Cope with Getting Old.” The Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, FL, November, 2005.

Annette Lynch, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Elise Radina. 2005. "'With a Red Hat that Doesn't Go and Doesn't Suit Me': Red Hats as Emblems of Subversive Identity."  The Senses and Sentiments of Dress: A Symposium Recognizing the Career of Regents Professor Joanne B. Eicher.  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, September, 2005.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2005. “Tripping Over the Tulips: Using Feminist Methods to Study Contemporary U.S. Quilters.” Regular Session on Feminist Research Methods, American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August, 2005.

Phyllis Baker, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Doug Hotek. 2005. “The Construction of Masculinity in Youth Wrestling: Ethnographic Observations.” Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2005.

Marybeth C. Stalp, M. Elise Radina, and Annette Lynch. 2005. “’We Do It Cuz It’s Fun’: Creating Women’s Leisure Space through Red Hat Society Membership.” Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2005.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2005. “‘It’s About the Stash’: Quiltmakers as Fabric Collectors.” International Quilt Study Center Biennial Symposium, Lincoln, NE, February, 2005.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2004. “Preserving the Self: Identity Development and Subjective Careers among Contemporary Women Quilters” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, June, 2004.

 

                                                                                                                      

 

 

   

Marybeth C. Stalp, 2007