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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:

  • Social movements
  • Mass media
  • Political participation
  • Political culture and democratic processes

Teaching:

  • Undergraduate:
    • Sociology of Mass Media
    • Collective Behavior and Social Movements
    • Mass Media and Democratic Processes
  • Graduate:
    • Collective Behavior and Social Movements
    • The Contemporary Women's Movement
    • Introduction to Qualitative Methods
    • Grant Writing

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

  • Associate Professor, Department of Sociology at Florida State University (2010-Present)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Florida State University (2004-2010)
  • 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., Leslie Bunnage and Jesse Klein. Forthcoming. “Virtual Power Plays: Social Movements, ICT, and Party Politics” in The Internet and Democracy: Voters, Candidates, Parties and Social Movements, edited by Bernard Groffman, Alex Trechsel, Mark Franklin. READ
  • Meyer, David S. and Deana A. Rohlinger. 2012. “Big Books and Social Movements: A Myth of Ideas and Social Change.” Social Problems, 59(1): 136-153. READ
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. and Jesse Klein. 2011/2012. “Visual Landscapes and the Abortion Issue.” American Behavioral Scientist, 56(2): 172-188. READ
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. and Jill Quadagno. 2009. “Framing Faith: Explaining Cooperation and Conflict in the U.S. Conservative Christian Political Movement.” Social Movement Research 8(4): 341-358. READ
  • Rohlinger, Deana A. and Jordan Brown. 2009. “Democracy, Action and the Internet after 9/11.” American Behavioral Scientist, 53(1): 133-150. READ
  • 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. 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:

  • Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) Grant from Florida State University. “Constructing Political Discourse: Framing Life and Death in the Debate over Terri Schiavo,” funded for summer 2011.
  • National Institute of Mental Health (Investigator). “Influencing Employer Benefit Purchasing Behavior,” funded for 2008-2013.
  • Graduate Mentoring Award, 2009-2010, Florida State University, Department of Sociology.
  • 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.

Recent Media Coverage

January 17, 2012 Leitsinger, Miranda. “Occupy Congress: Could It Be Politics as Usual.” READ
January 6, 2012 Martin, Timothy and Betsy McKay. “Man Faces Federal Charges in Abortion Clinic Fire.” Wall Street Journal. READ
January 4, 2012 Nelson, Melissa. “Fla. Abortion Clinic that Burned New Year’s Day has been Center of Anti-Abortion Movement.” Associated Press.
November 17, 2011 Cardin, Joy (host of Ideas Network on Wisconsin Public Radio). An hour long political talk show on the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy Wall Street Movement. READ
November 16, 2011 Gomez, Alan. “Tea Party, Occupy Share Similar Beginnings.” USA Today. READ
November 11, 2011 Kurtzleben, Danielle. “The Occupy Vs. Tea Party Scorecard: While Tea Partiers have Political Power, Occupy has International Support.” US News and World Report. READ
October 18, 2011 Merritt, Jennifer. “Occupy Wall Street To Big To Fail?” Parade Magazine. READ
October 13, 2011 Leitsinger, Miranda. “Old Guard Back in the Trenches at ‘Occupy’ Protests: Activists from other eras — Vietnam, Civil Rights and Anti-Nuclear — Join the 'Kids.'” MSNBC. READ
July 9, 2011 Colarossi, Anthony. "Why did Casey Anthony case rivet us?" Orlando Sentinel. READ
June 22, 2011 Ng, Christina. "MTV Might Make High School Dropouts Its Next Reality Show Stars." ABC News. READ
April 13, 2011 Rovner, Julie. “Planned Parenthood: A Thorn in Abortion Foes’ Sides.” National Public Radio (Morning Edition). READ

 

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