Elizabeth Wissinger
Professor
Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice
EMAIL: ewissinger@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: N-651S
Office Hours: W,Th,F by appointment
Phone: +1 (212) 776-6446
Expertise
Sociology of the Media, Media Studies, Gender studies
Degrees
- Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center (GSUC) , Sociology, Women’s Studies , 2004
- M.A. CUNY Graduate Center (GSUC), Sociology, 2000
- B.A. Middlebury College , Philosophy and French, 1986
Courses Taught
- This course studies the social world and how it has evolved over time, as well as how individuals are influenced and structured by social interactions in small groups and by larger social forces. The course covers major sociological theories and research methods, and key concepts such as culture, socialization, social class, race/ethnicity, gender, technology, social inequality, and social change.
Research and Projects
- Wissinger, Elizabeth and Joanne Entwistle, eds. (2012) Fashioning Models: Image, Text, and Industry. London: Berg Publishers.
Publications
- Modelling a Way of Life: Immaterial and Affective Labor in the Fashion Modeling Industry, 7(1): 250-269,ephemera: theory & politics in organization
- Fashion Modeling, Blink Technologies and New Imaging Regimes, pp. 133-143 in Fashion Media: Past and Present, Djurdja Bartlett, Shaun Cole, and Agnes Rocamora, eds., London: Bloomsbury, 2013,London:Bloomsbury
- Managing the semiotics of skin tone: Race and aesthetic labor in the fashion modeling industry, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 33(1): 125-143, February 2012,
- Modeling Consumption: Fashion modeling work in contemporary society, Journal of Consumer Culture, 9(2): 275-298, July 2009,
- Always on Display: Affective Production in the Fashion Modeling Industry,a?? pp. 231-260 in The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, Patricia Clough and Jean Halley eds., Durhan, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. ,
- Entwistle, Joanne and Elizabeth Wissinger, Keeping Up Appearances: Aesthetic Labor in the Fashion Modeling Industry, The Sociological Review. 54(4): 774- 794. November 2006.,
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies, GSUC of the City University of New York
- Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
- Professional Staff Congress CUNY Research Award Grant
- CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program Grant
- BMCC Faculty Development Grant
