Rachel L. Einwohner

Associate Professor of Sociology Office: STON 334
Office Phone: (765) 494-4696
Email: einwohnerr@purdue.edu

Specialization: social movements; political sociology; comparative/historical sociology; qualitative methods; gender

Courses:

Taught (Last two years)

SOC 429 - Sociology of Protest
SOC 497H/498H - Honors Seminar in Sociology
SOC 610 - Seminar on Teaching Sociology
SOC 686 - Qualitative Methods

Dr. Einwohner's research focuses on the dynamics of protest and resistance, and her interests include questions related to protest effectiveness, the role of gender and other identities in protest dynamics, and protesters’ sense of efficacy. She has explored these topics with theoretically-driven analyses of a diverse set of movements and cases of protest, including the U.S. animal rights movement, the college-based anti-sweatshop movement, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Her published work has appeared in journals such as the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and Social Problems. Her current work tests extant models of social movement emergence with an historical study of the efforts to create resistance movements in the Jewish ghettos of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Vilna, and Lodz.  Dr. Einwohner was also one of two recipients of the Departmental Educational Excellence Award in the College of Liberal Arts for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Positions at Purdue University

2004 - present Associate Professor of Sociology

1998 - 2004 Assistant Professor of Sociology

Service to Profession

Editorial Board, American Sociological Review (2009 - 2011)

Advisory Editor, Social Problems (2006 - 2011)

Editorial Board, Teaching Sociology (2004 - 2007)

Book Review Editor, Mobilization (2005 - 2008)

Council Member, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, ASA (2004 - 2007)

Chair, Erwin O. Smigel Fund Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (2001 - 2002)

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