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Deana Rohlinger

Deana Rohlinger


Contact Information:

Office: 221 Pepper
Phone: 644-2493
Fax: 644-6208
Email: drohling@fsu.edu
Website: The FSU Study of Women and Aging

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

  • Collective action and social movements
  • Mass media

Teaching:

  • Undergraduate:
    • Sociology of Mass Media
    • Collective Behavior and Social Movements
  • Graduate:
    • Collective Behavior and Social Movements
    • The Contemporary Women's Movement

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Florida State University (2004-present)
  • Research Associate, Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy (Spring 2006- present)
  • Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California-Irvine (2004)
  • M.A. in Social Sciences, University of California-Irvine (2001)
  • M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Sociology and Communication Studies), California State University (1999)
  • B.A. in Communication Studies, University of Arizona (1995)

Selected Papers and Publications:

  • Rohlinger, Deana A. and Jordan Brown. Forthcoming. “Democracy, Action and the Internet after 9/11.” American Behavioral Scientist.
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. and Jill Quadagno. Forthcoming. “Framing Faith: Explaining Cooperation and Conflict in the U.S. Conservative Christian Political Movement.” Social Movement Studies.
  • Downey, Dennis and Deana A. Rohlinger. 2008. “Linking Strategic Choice with Macro Organizational Dynamics: Strategy and Social Movement Articulation,” Research on Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 28: 3-35. READ
  • Rohlinger, Deana. 2007. "American Media and Deliberative Democratic Processes." Sociological Theory 25:122-148. READ
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. 2006. “Friend and Foe: Media, Politics, and Tactics in the Abortion War.” Social Problems 53(4): 537-561. READ
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. and David S. Meyer. 2005. “Framing Abortion Globally: Transnational Framing of Access to Abortion in the United States, England, and Ireland,” pp. 197-214. U.S. Women’s Movement in a Dynamic and Global Perspective, Lee Ann Banaszak, editor. New York: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers.
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. and David A. Snow. 2003. “Social Psychological Perspectives on Crowds and Social Movements,” pp. 503-527. Handbook of Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives, John DeLamater, editor. New York: Klewer-Plenum.
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. 2002. “Framing the Abortion Debate: Organizational Resources, Media Strategies, and Movement-Countermovement Dynamics,” The Sociological Quarterly, 43(4), 479-507. READ
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. 2002. “Eroticizing Men: Cultural Influences on Advertising and Male Objectification.” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 46(3/4): 61-74. READ

Selected Awards, Fellowships and Grants:

  • National Institute of Mental Health (Investigator). “Influencing Employer Benefit Purchasing Behavior,” funded for 2008-2013.
  • ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant (with Gregory Maney, Kenneth Andrews, Jeff Goodwin, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Ellen Resse, and Dingxin Zhao). “Social Movement Strategies: Sources, Processes, and Outcomes.
  • Florida State University Faculty Teaching Award, 2006-2007.
  • Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) Grant from Florida State University. “Social Support, Cultural Challenges, and Collective Action: An Examination of the Red Hat Society.”
  • J. Michael Armer Faculty Teacher Award, 2005-2006, Department of Sociology, Florida State University.
  • First Year Assistant Professor Grant, Summer 2005.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2003-2004.
  • Outstanding Graduate Scholarship Award for the School of Social Science at the University of California-Irvine, 2003. American Sociological Association award for Best Graduate Student Paper for the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 2002.
  • Graduate Student Award in the 2000/2001 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics from Iowa State University; $500
  • Global Peace and Conflict Studies Fellowship, 2000 2001.
  • National Science Foundation Democratization Training Program Fellowship, 1999 2001.

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