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Studies in Symbolic Interaction Volume 54

Subcultures

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Christopher T. Conner

University of Missouri – Columbia, USA

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About the Contributors

Nicholas M. Baxter is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Kokomo. His teaching and research areas include urban and community sociology, social theory, environmental sociology, and leisure studies. His research focuses on the social-physical coconstruction of place, identity construction, and meaning-making and has included ethnographic studies of live-action role players and Mississippi river towns.

Shane Blackman is Professor of Cultural Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His most recent books include, Chilling Out: The cultural politics of substance consumption, youth and drug policy (2004), The Subcultural Imagination: Theory, Research and Reflexivity in Contemporary Youth Cultures (2016), and Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary studies of austerity (2017). Shane’s research interests are youth, subcultures, drugs and alcohol, gender, ethnography, and popular music.

Bertan Buyukozturk is a Postdoctoral Associate at Florida State University. His research interests include identity, culture, gaming, and social inequalities. He integrates symbolic interactionism with game studies, exploring player dynamics and the (re)production of dominant and marginalized identities in gaming spaces.

Christopher T. Conner is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His work has been featured in top sociology journals including The Sociological Quarterly, YOUNG, Sexualities, and Symbolic Interaction. His research interests are at the intersection of Deviance, Criminology, and LGBTQ Studies. He is currently finishing a book on electronic dance music.

Theodore Greene is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bowdoin College. Greene's research interests lie at the intersections of gender, sexuality, urbanism, and culture. His research broadly uses sexual communities to understand how urban redevelopment shape and reconfigure how individuals conceptualize, identify to, and participate in local communities.

Rob McPherson is Senior Lecturer in the Arts and Humanities Foundation Year at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His PhD explored extreme drinking practices by young adults in a UK city, through the critical lens of ethnography. Rob's research interests include youth and young adults, ethnography, researcher positionality and media coverage of young adults, and intoxication.

Marko Salvaggio holds a dual appointment in the Environmental Studies program at Tulane University and the Humanities & Social Sciences program at Tulane School of Professional Advancement. He also holds a courtesy affiliation as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Goucher College. His areas of specialization include: environmental sociology; cultural studies; the political economy of space, place, and tourism; and theories of nation, race, ethnicity, and indigeneity.

Monica Sklar is Assistant Professor and Director/Coordinator of the Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection with the Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors Department at the University of Georgia. She teaches courses on aspects of fashion history and industry pertaining to merchandizing, popular culture, and museum issues. Her scholarship is focused on twentieth/twenty-first-century design history and social-cultural aspects of dress with a particular interest in activism, subculture, and especially punk. She is also engaged in museum and archival work aiming to improve diversity and digitization efforts in clothing preservation. She is the author of the book Punk Style, and a frequent contributor to media outlets.

Stacy Smith is Assistant Professor (fixed term) in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her research is at the intersection of culture, theory, and subcultures. Smith's work has also appeared in Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists, COVID-19 Volume I: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions, and Volume II: Social consequences and cultural adaptations.

Jessica Strübel is an Associate Professor in the Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design department at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches a variety of courses on culture and dress. Jessica's research interests stem from her collective interest in anthropology and psychology. She is intrigued with material culture, especially dress and appearance, and thus part of her research focuses on answering the enduring question of why we dress the way we do.

Jason Torkelson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His research interests include youth and youth culture, adult transition, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender. His work has been featured in Qualitative Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Symbolic Interaction, Humanity & Society, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.