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Name: Sarah Sobieraj
Title: Assistant Professor, Sociology
Departmental Affiliation: Sociology Department
Degrees: PhD, SUNY Albany (2002)
MA, American University (1997)
Expertise: Political Sociology; Mass Media; Civil Society and the Public Sphere; Sociology of Culture; Social Movements
E-mail: Sarah.Sobieraj@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Sobieraj, Sarah. (forthcoming). Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism. New York: New York University Press.

Sobieraj, Sarah and Deborah White. (2007). “Could Civic Engagement Reproduce Political Inequality?” In Susan Ostrander and Kent Portney, (eds.), Acting Civically (pp. 92-110). Hanover: New England University Press.

Jacobs, Ronald and Sarah Sobieraj. (2007). “Narrative, Public Policy, and Political Legitimacy: Congressional Debates about the Nonprofit Sector, 1894-1969.” Sociological Theory 25 1: 1-25.

Sobieraj, Sarah. (2006). “The Implications of Transitions in the Voluntary Sector for Civic Engagement: A Case Study of Association Mobilization around the 2000 Presidential Campaign.” Sociological Inquiry 76 1: 52-80.

Sobieraj, Sarah and Deborah White. (2004). “Taxing Political Life: Reevaluating the Relationship Between Voluntary Association Membership, Political Engagement, and the State.” The Sociological Quarterly 45 4: 739-764.

Moore, Gwen, Sarah Sobieraj, J. Allen Whitt, Olga Mayorova, and Daniel Beaulieu. (2002). “Elite Interlocks in Three U.S. Sectors: Nonprofit, Corporate, and Government.” Social Science Quarterly 83 3: 726-744.

Sobieraj, Sarah and Heather Laube. (2001). “Confronting the Social Context of the Classroom: Media Events, Shared Cultural Experience, and Student Response.” Teaching Sociology 29 4: 463-470.

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