
Karen Cerulo
Karen A. Cerulo (PhD, Princeton University) is a Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her research interests include culture and cognition, symbolic communication, media and technology, decision making, social change, and comparative historical studies.
Professor Cerulo’s articles appear in a wide variety of journals, including the American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, Poetics, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Communication Research and annuals such as the Annual Review of Sociology and Research in Political Sociology. She is the author of three books: Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation, a work that won the ASA Culture Section’s award for the Best Book of 1996 (Rose Book Series of the ASA, Rutgers University Press); Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong (Routledge); and Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst (University of Chicago Press). She has edited a collection entitled Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition (Routledge) and co-authored a book entitled Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom (Pine Forge), now in its sixth edition. Currently, Professor Cerulo is at work on a book entitled Dreams of a Lifetime: The Sociocultural Dimensions of Our Imaginings (with Janet M. Ruane).
Professor Cerulo served as the Sociology Department Chair from July 2009 to August 2012. She has also served as the Chair of the ASA's Culture section (2009 through 2010), where she also functions as the section's network coordinator, and the director of the Culture and Cognition Network. She is a former Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society and the current editor of Sociological Forum, the flagship journal of the Eastern Sociological Society. In 2013, she was named the Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecturer by the Eastern Sociological Society and she also won that organization's 2013 Merit Award. In 2012, she received the Rutgers University Scholar-Teacher Award, recognizing both her pedagogy and research in sociology.
Professor Cerulo’s articles appear in a wide variety of journals, including the American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, Poetics, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Communication Research and annuals such as the Annual Review of Sociology and Research in Political Sociology. She is the author of three books: Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation, a work that won the ASA Culture Section’s award for the Best Book of 1996 (Rose Book Series of the ASA, Rutgers University Press); Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong (Routledge); and Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst (University of Chicago Press). She has edited a collection entitled Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition (Routledge) and co-authored a book entitled Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom (Pine Forge), now in its sixth edition. Currently, Professor Cerulo is at work on a book entitled Dreams of a Lifetime: The Sociocultural Dimensions of Our Imaginings (with Janet M. Ruane).
Professor Cerulo served as the Sociology Department Chair from July 2009 to August 2012. She has also served as the Chair of the ASA's Culture section (2009 through 2010), where she also functions as the section's network coordinator, and the director of the Culture and Cognition Network. She is a former Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society and the current editor of Sociological Forum, the flagship journal of the Eastern Sociological Society. In 2013, she was named the Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecturer by the Eastern Sociological Society and she also won that organization's 2013 Merit Award. In 2012, she received the Rutgers University Scholar-Teacher Award, recognizing both her pedagogy and research in sociology.
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