Faculty | Social and Cultural Sciences

Assistant Professor
Office: 410 Lalumiere Hall
Phone: (414) 288-7914
Contact via e-mail

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor; Marquette University, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences; 2007-. Assistant Professor; University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology; 2000-2008.

Education

PhD 2000. The University of Chicago, Department of Sociology. • Dissertation: The Limits of Tolerance: Homosexuality and the Politics of Church.
AM 1994. The University of Chicago, Department of Sociology. • Thesis: “Insult and Inclusion: The Term Fag Hag and Gay Male ‘Community.’”
AB 1991. The University of Chicago, The College. • Honors in the College. • Honors in the Collegiate Program in Sociology.

Book

God, Sex and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies (University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Journal Articles

Moon, Dawne. 2008. "It's Only Natural? Culture in the Sociology of Sexuality," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 619 (September): 183- 205.
Moon, Dawne. 2005. "Emotion Language and Social Power: Homosexuality and Narratives of Pain in Church," Qualitative Sociology 28(4): 325-47.
Moon, Dawne. 2005. "Discourse, Interaction, and the Making of Selves in the US Protestant Dispute over Homosexuality," Theory and Society 34: 551-577. Gamson, Joshua and
Dawne Moon. 2004. "The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond," Annual Review of Sociology 30: 47-64.
Messner, Michael A., Dawne Moon, Raka Ray, and Barrie Thorne. 2004. "Roundtable: The Reconstitution of Gender in Contemporary Society," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 48: 126-43. 2
Moon, Dawne. 2003. "Gay Pain in Church," Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds 2:1 (January 2003): 58-59.
Moon, Dawne. 1995. "Insult and Inclusion: The Term Fag Hag and Gay Male 'Community,'" Social Forces 74 (2): 487-510.

Sample Syllabi

SOCI 1001 Principles of Sociology
SOCI 3000 Sociological Theory (offered only in Fall)
SOCI 4450 Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOCI 4996 Capstone Seminar in Sociology (offered only in Spring)

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