Joane Nagel

Email: nagel@ku.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Soc 811 - Graduate Seminar on Social Research Design, Spring 2008
Soc 970 Ethnicity & Sexuality, Fall 2006
Annual Review of Sociology article, Ethnicity and Sexuality: http://soc.annualreviews.org
Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Table of Contents

Biographical Sketch

Joane Nagel is University Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Sociology Department, former Associate Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Kansas, and Sociology Program Director at the National Science Foundation from 2002-2004. She was born in Cleveland and her Bachelor's degree (in English and Speech) and Master's degree (in Sociology) are from Bowling Green State University (Ohio); her Ph.D. in Sociology is from Stanford University. She joined the University of Kansas faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1977. Except for a year and a half as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Liberia in West Africa and two years at NSF, Professor Nagel has spent her entire academic career at the University of Kansas. She is currently serving as the Director of KU’s Center for Research on Global Change within the Institute for Policy & Social Research where she is working with colleagues in the social and natural sciences in engineering to design a graduate training program in Climate Change, Humans & Nature in the Global Environment (C-CHANGE); as part of this work she is co-organizing an NSF-sponsored workshop on "Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change" at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia in May, 2008.

Professor Nagel's research focuses on the politics of ethnicity and sexuality, and her recent publications include American Indian Ethnic Renewal (Oxford University Press, 1997), Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations," Ethnic and Racial Studies (1998), "Ethnicity & Sexuality," Annual Review of Sociology (2000), "States of Arousal/Fantasy Islands: Race, Sex, and Romance in the Global Economy of Desire," American Studies (2000), "Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Globalization," Theory, Culture & Society (2006). Her most recent book is Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (Oxford University Press, 2003), and she is currently working on two projects dealing with different aspects of globalization:  one (with Lindsey Feitz) examines the militarization of race, gender, and sexuality in the Iraq war and the other focuses on the interplay between climate change and the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of globalization.

Professor Nagel teaches courses in the sociology of deviance, sociology of nationalism, ethnicity and sexuality, social research methods & design, and she has received several teaching awards including an Outstanding Mentorship award, a Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, and a Louise Byrd Graduate Educator's Award.