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Dean M. Braa

Vita

November, 2006

Address: Office

Division of Social Sciences

Western Oregon University

Monmouth, Oregon 97361

Phone: (503) 838-8270

Email: braad@wou.edu

Education: University of Kansas

Major: Sociology

Degree: Ph.D., 1991.

University of Kansas

Major: Social-Cultural Anthropology

Degree: M.A., 1980.

University of Northern Colorado

Major: Anthropology

Degree: B.A., 1976

Dissertation Topic: Urban Redevelopment in Union Hill

The dissertation topic was urban redevelopment in Kansas City, Missouri. Three years of intermittent field work was conducted on the gentrification of an old residential area of the inner-city known as Union Hill. Field work included participant observation and activism with the Union Hill Tenants Association. This organization carried on a political struggle with the City and the Union Hill Redevelopment Corporation over the issue of relocation benefits for residents displaced by redevelopment. The role of the city and the state in providing incentives for the gentrification of Union Hill is an important policy issue considered in the dissertation. The overall effect of gentrification on the availability of low-income housing in Kansas City was also analyzed. This analysis was used in the development of a new city ordinance that governs redevelopment and tenant displacement. The basic impact is mandated superior relocation benefits for tenants.

M.A. Thesis Topic: The Transformation of Irish Peasant Society, Anthropology, 1980 (Based on field work in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.)

Areas of Specialization:

Political Economy

Sociology of Development/Globalization

Urban Sociology

Social Problems

Theories of the State

Industrial Theory

Social-Cultural Anthropology

Peasant Studies

Professional Employment:

Associate Professor and Chair, Sociology Department, Western Oregon University, 2005-2007.

Associate Professor, Sociology Department, Western Oregon University, 1997-2005.

Associate Professor and Chair, Sociology Department, Western Oregon University, 1997-1999.

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Western Oregon University, 1990-1996.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Western Civilization Program, University of Kansas, 1987-1990.

Assistant Instructor, Sociology Department, University of Kansas, 1981-1988.

Executive Coordinator, Graduate Student Council, University of Kansas, 1986-1987.

Academic Counselor, Continuing Education (Kansas University Programs at U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth), 1984-1986.

Research Assistant, Center for Public Affairs, University of Kansas, 1984-1985.

Research Assistant, Sociology Department, University of Kansas, 1982-1983.

Instructor, Sociology-Anthropology Department, Baker University, 1980-1981.

Assistant Instructor, Anthropology Department, University of Kansas, 1978-1980.

Courses Taught (Kansas University, Western Oregon University):

Soc. 600: Topics in Political Economy

Soc. 600: Urban Political Economy

Soc. 531: Sociology of Development

Soc. 526: Industrial Sociology

Soc. 524: Sociology of the Economy

Soc. 500: Sociological Theory

Soc. 474: Urban Sociology

Soc. 471: Classical Theory

Soc. 437: Race and Ethnicity

Soc. 430: Political Sociology

Soc. 427: Rev olutions

Soc. 400: Globalization

Soc. 390: Critique of Education

Soc. 350: Food and Hunger

Soc. 340: The Community

Soc. 330: American Society

Soc. 321: Labor Studies

Soc. 320: Introduction to Social Organization

Soc. 325: Qualitative Methods

Soc. 315: Stratification/Inequality

Soc. 310: Service Learning

Soc. 225: Social Problems

Soc. 130: Comparative Societies

Soc. 104: Introduction to Sociology

Anth. 108: Human Ways

Anth. 101: Human Origins

Western Civilization 234, 235

Awards:

Outstanding Graduate Student, Sociology Department, University of Kansas, 1986.

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1985

Carroll D. Clark Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching, Sociology Department, University of Kansas, 1983

Publications:

Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Praxis, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 34, Number 4, 2006.

Critical Pedagogy, American Sociological Association Guide to Critical Pedagogy (version of the above), Sept., 2006.

The Transformation of Irish Peasant Society, Science and Society, Vol. 61, Number 2, 1997.

Tenant Struggle and Class Analysis in Kansas City, Critical Sociology, Vol. 21, Number 3, 1996.

The Irish Land War: Peasants, Politics and Parliament, (with Kathleen Stanley), in Scott McNall, Rhonda Levine, eds., Bringing Class Back in: Studies in Class and Class Formation, Westview Press: Boulder, Colorado, 1991.

Military Spending and the Contemporary American Crisis, (with Robert Antonio), Economic Forum. Summer, 1982.

The Easter Rebellion as Social Drama, in Allan Hansen, ed., Studies in Symbolism and Cultural Communication. University of Kansas Press, 1982.

Speculative Grammar and Commodity Fetishism. Anthropological Working Papers. University of Kansas, Vol. 3, 1978.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:

Counter-Hegemony and Social Justice from the Classroom, Pacific Sociological

Meetings, Vancouver, B.C., April 2002.

Faculty Unions: Why You Need One, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings,

Vancouver, B.C., April, 2002.

Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy, Pacific Sociological Meetings, San Diego,

April, 1998.

Critical Pedagogy and Hegemony, Midwest Sociological Association Meetings, March, Kansas City, Missouri, 1997.

The Evolution of Worker Participation at Oregon Steel Mills: A Case Study in Ownership and ESOPs, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco, April, 1995.

Tenant Struggle and Class Analysis, American Sociological Association Meetings, Cincinnati, August, 1991.

Theories of the Local State and Urban Redevelopment: Pahl, Castells, and Harvey Reconsidered. Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, April, 1989.

The Irish Land War: Peasants, Politics and Parliament. Bringing Class Back In

Conference, University of Kansas, April, 1989.

Redevelopment in Kansas City, Missouri: An Urban Political Economy.

Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, April, 1986.

The Transformation of the Irish Peasantry. Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April, 1984.

Historical Materialism Reconsidered. Allied Social Science Association and Union for Radical Political Economy (joint meetings), San Francisco, January, 1983.

Military Spending and the Contemporary American Crisis: Contradictions in Production and Reproduction. (with Robert Antonio), World Congress of Sociology, Mexico City, 1982.

Historical Materialism and Historical Sociology. Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, April, 1982.

The Origins of Manorial Production in the Late Roman Empire: The Role of the State and the Colonate. Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, 1981.

Theory in the Analysis of Peasant Societies. Kansas Anthropological Association, Lawrence, 1979.

Speculative Grammar and Commodity Fetishism: Semiotics in Marx and C.S. Pierce. American Semiotics Association, Denver, 1978.

Public Lectures:

Critical Pedagogy, (with Peter Callero) Center for Teaching and Learning, October 30, 2006.

What’s the Matter with Kansas: Hegemony and Prospects for Counter-Hegemony in American Politics, Social Science Symposium, November 9, 2005.

State and Society: Current Theories in Political Sociology, Social Science Symposium, May 4, 2005.

Basic Marxist Problematics: Continuing Relevance for the Social Sciences, Social Science Symposium, April 14, 2004.

Contradictions of Global Capitalism, Philosophy Club Lecture Series, November 21, 2003.

The Declining Significance of Race: An Introduction to the Work of William Julius Wilson, WOU Diversity Series, November, 2002.

Class Conflict Among Finnish Immigrants in Astoria, 1900-1930, Philosophy Club Lecture Series, October 27, 1997.

Classroom Praxis and the Telos of Emancipation, Philosophy Club Lecture Series, October 23, 1997.

Hegemony and Critical Pedagogy, Philosophy Club Lecture Series, April 12, 1996.

Philosophical Foundations of Marxist Theory, Philosophy Club Lecture Series, January 28, 1994.

Malcolm X Reconsidered, African-American Awareness Conference (WOU), February 26, 1994.

Sessions Organized and Chaired at Professional Meetings:

Counter Hegemony and Teaching Social Justice, Roundtable, Pacific Sociological Meetings, Vancouver B.C., April, 2002.

Tenants and Class Struggle, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Seattle, April, 1998.

Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Praxis. Midwest Sociological Meetings, Kansas City, Missouri, March, 1997.

The Modes of Production Controversy. Allied Social Science Association and Union for Radical Political Economy Meetings, San Francisco, 1983.

Case Studies in Historical Materialism. Allied Social Science Association and Union for Radical Political Economy Meetings, San Francisco, 1983.

Editorial Experience:

Reviewer, Critical Sociology, 1992-2000.

Member, Editorial Board, Review of Radical Political Economy, 1983-1986.

Department/Division Activities:

Member, College of Liberal Arts/Sciences, Personnel Review Committee, Western Oregon University, 1998-Present.

Chair, Department of Sociology, Western Oregon University, 1991-1993,

2006-2008.

Member, Social Science Division, Budget and Resources Committee, Western Oregon University, 1992-1993, 2006-2007.

Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Sociology Department, University of Kansas, 1985-1986.

Graduate Student Representative, Departmental Meetings, Sociology Department, University of Kansas, 1984-1985.

University/College Service:

Vice President for Political Education/Action (COPE), WOUFT, 2002-Present.

Vice President, Executive Council, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, 1998-Present.

President, Western Oregon University Federation of Teachers, AFT-Oregon, AFL-CIO, 1996-2000.

Member, Faculty Senate, 1994-1995.

Member and Chair, Faculty Senate Committee on Committees, Western Oregon University, 1994-1995.

Member, College Speakers Committee, Western Oregon University, 1994-1995.

Advisor, Community Scholarship Program, Western Oregon University, 1994-1999.

Member, Collective Bargaining Team, Western Oregon University Federation of Teachers (WOUFT), 1993-2006.

Member, Child Care Committee (WOSCFT Representative), Western Oregon University, 1992-1993.

Vice President, Western Oregon University Federation of Teachers, 1991-1995.

Member, International Education and Services Committee, Western Oregon University, 1991-1992.

Dean’s Advisory Council, Western Oregon University, 1991-1992.

Member, Chancellor’s Tack Force on the University of Kansas and Economic Development, Subcommittee on Graduate Students and Economic Development, 1986.

References:

Robert Antonio Donald Stull

Professor Professor

Department of Sociology Department of Anthropology

University of Kansas University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045 Lawrence, KS 66045

(913) 864-4111 (913) 864-4103

Peter Callero Ed Dover

Professor Professor

Division of Social Science Division of Social Science

Department of Sociology Department of Political Science

Western Oregon University Western Oregon University

Monmouth, OR 97361 Monmouth, OR 97361

(503) 838-8288 (503) 838-8288

Steve Gibbons

Professor

Division of Social Science

Department of Criminal Justice

Western Oregon University

Monmouth, OR 97361

(503) 838-8317

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