 Ivy Kennelly
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ivy Kennelly studies the mutual constitution of race, class, gender, and other sources of oppression and privilege. The dominant understanding among those who study race, class, and gender is that they "intersect" or "interlock." Unsatisfied with these notions, Kennelly has articulated a framework that focuses attention on the theoretical relationships that develop when race, class, and gender are produced, used, experienced, and "digested." Much of the empirical evidence Professor Kennelly has used to ground her theoretical interest in race, class, and gender comes from her studies of paid labor markets. Her article, "'That Single Mother Element': How White Employers Typify Black Women," received the 2001 Distinguished Article Award from the ASA Race, Gender and Class Section. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology Kennelly teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on race, class, gender, and sociological theory, and is the recipient of The George Washington University's 2004 Bender Teaching Award and the 2006 Robert W. Kenny Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Selected Publications
2008. Ivy Ken. "Beyond the Intersection: A New Culinary Metaphor for Race-Class-Gender Studies." Sociological Theory26:2.
2007. Ivy Ken. "Race-Class-Gender Theory: An Image(ry) Problem." Gender Issues 24:2:1-20.
2007. Sandra Hanson, Ivy Kennelly, and Stephan Fuchs. "Perceptions of Fairness: Gender and Attitudes about Opportunity and Status among Women Scientists in Germany and the U.S." Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 13:3:231-58.
2007. Ivy Kennelly. "Time Off as Economic Capital: Thwarting the Traps of the Segregated Occupational Field." Sociological Spectrum 27:183-205. (Awarded the Sociological Spectrum Article of the Year Designation from the Mid-South Sociological Association, 2007.)
2006. Ivy Kennelly and Roberta Spalter-Roth. "Parents on the Job Market: Resources and Strategies That Help Academic Parents Attain Tenure-Track Jobs." The American Sociologist 37:4:29-49.
2006. Ivy Kennelly. "Secretarial Work, Nurturing, and the Ethnic of Service." NWSA Journal 18:2:170-192.
2004. Roberta Spalter-Roth, Ivy Kennelly, and William Erskine. "The Best Time to Have a Baby: Institutional Resources and Family Strategies among Early Career Sociologists." American Sociologial Association Research Brief.
2002. Ivy Kennelly. " 'I Would Never Be a Secretary': Reinforcing Gender in Segregated and Integrated Occupations." Gender & Society 16:5:603-324.
2001. Ivy Kennelly, Sabine Merz, and Judith Lorber. "Comment: What is Gender?" American Sociological Review 65:4:598-605.
2001. Marina Karides, Joya Misra, Ivy Kennelly, and Stephanie Moller. "Representing the Discipline: Social Problems compared with ASR and AJS." Social Problems 48:1:111-128.
2000. Linda Grant, Ivy Kennelly, and Kathryn Ward. "Revisiting the Gender, Marriage, and Parenthood Puzzle in Scientific Careers." Women's Studies Quarterly 28:1&2:62-85.
1999. Ivy Kennelly. " 'That Single Mother Element': How White Employers Typify Black Women." Gender & Society 13:2:168-192.
1999. Irene Browne and Ivy Kennelly. "Stereotypes and Realities: Black Women in the Labor Market." Pp. 302-326 in Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality. Edited by Irene Browne. New York: Russell Sage Press.
Current Projects
- Digesting Race, Class and Gender: Sugar as a Metaphor.
- "Modesty as an Expression of Structural Advantage."
Courses Taught
SOC 103 - Classical Sociological Theory (WID)
SOC 104 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOC 175 - Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOC 239 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOC 268 - Race, Class, and Gender
SOC 271 - Gender and Society
Contact Information
ivyken@gwu.edu
202-994-1886
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