LARA JEANNE FOLEY

 

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology

University of Tulsa

800 S. Tucker Dr.

Tulsa, OK 74104-3189

Phone: (918)631-2050

Fax: (918)631-2057

E-Mail: lara-foley@utulsa.edu

Webpage: http://personal.utulsa.edu/~lara-foley/

 

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Florida                             Ph.D. (Sociology)                                 2001

                                                            Graduate Certificate

(Women’s Studies and Gender Research)

                                                

Georgia State University                       M.A. (Sociology)                                 1996

                                                

University of Georgia                            A.B. (Psychology)                                1994

 

 

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor                              University of Tulsa                                2007-present

Assistant Professor                               University of Tulsa                                2001-2007

Instructor                                              University of Florida                             1996-2001

 

ADMINISTRATION

Co-director   Tulsa Institute for Trauma, Abuse and Neglect Research (TITAN)    2007-present

Co-director   African American Studies Certificate Program, University of Tulsa    2007-present

Board            Women's Studies Program, University of Tulsa                                2002-present

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

 

Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine                     Sociology of Crime, Deviance, and Law

Women’s Health                                                           Sociology of Gender                 

Qualitative Sociology                                                    Interpretive Sociology

                                                             

 

 

RESEARCH

 

Books

Crawley, Sara, Lara Foley and Constance Shehan.  2008. Gendering Bodies.  New York: Rowman and Littlefield.   

 

 

Articles and Chapters

Foley, Lara. 2005. “Midwives, Marginality, and Public Identity.” Symbolic Interaction 28(2):183-203.

 

Donnelly, Denise, Kimberly J. Cook, Debra VanAusdale, and Lara Foley.  2005. "White Privilege, Color Blindness, and Services to Battered Women."  Violence Against Women  11(1):6-37.

 

Broad, Kendal, Sara Crawley and Lara Foley. 2004. “Doing Family Values: Social Movement Framing, Discourse, and Interpretive Practice.” Sociological Quarterly 45(3):509-527.

 

Foley, Lara. 2004.  “How I Became a Midwife: Identity, Biographical Work, and Legitimation in Midwives’ Work Narratives.”  Pp. 87-128, in M.T. Segal, V. Demos, and J. J. Kronenfeld (eds.), Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine: Reproduction and Sexuality.  Advances in Gender Research volume 8.  San Diego, CA: Elsevier JAI Press.

 

Foley, Lara and Chris Faircloth. 2003. "Medicine as a Discursive Resource: Legitimation in the Work Narratives of Midwives." Sociology of Health and Illness. 25(2):165-184.

 

Foley, Lara and Chris Faircloth. 2000. "The Parenting Self:  Narrative Resources and Identity Work in Parent's Stories.” Pp. 235-254, in J.A. Holstein and G. Miller (eds.), Perspectives on Social Problems volume 12. Stamford, CT: JAI Press.

 

O'Brien, Eileen and Lara Foley.  1999.  "A Dating Game: An Exercise Illustrating Homogamy in Mate Selection" Teaching Sociology 27:145-149.

 

Foley, Lara and Jim Fraser. 1998.  "A Research Note on Post-Dating Relationships: The Social Embeddedness of Redefining Romantic Couplings.” Sociological Perspectives 41(1):209-219.

 

 

Encyclopedia Articles

Foley, Lara.  2002. “Eugenics and Reproductive Rights," in Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States, edited by Judith Baer.  Greenwood.

 

Foley, Lara. 2000. Entries on Family Planning, Motherhood, Eugenics, Heterogamy and Homogamy.  For Worlds of Sociology International Thomson  Publishing.

 

 

Book Reviews

Patricia Yancey Martin. 2006. “Rape Work: Victims, Gender, and Emotion in Organization and Community Context.” Gender and Society 21(2):295-296 (with Sandra Gill, Angela Hattery and Kathleen Guidroz)

 

Laura Carpenter.  2006.  “Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of first Sexual Experiences.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 68(3):772-773.

 

Cynthia Siemsen.  2005. “Emotional Trials: The Moral Dilemmas of Women Criminal Defense Attorneys.”  Gender and Society.  19(4):568-569.

 

Linda Blum. 2002.  “At The Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States.”  Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering. 4(1):198-199.

 

Amy Flowers.  2000.  " The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry." Discourse and Society 11(1):139-140.

 

Chris Dixon. 1999 "Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth Century America."  Women's Studies International Forum 22(1):128-129.

 

 

Work In Progress and Under Review

Murphy-Geiss, Gail, Dana Rosenfeld and Lara Foley. “Believe in Birth: Midwifery as an Established Sect” conditional acceptance Community, Work and Family.

 

Foley, Lara. “From Victims to Patients: Work Narratives of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners”

 

 

Invited Essays and Contributions:

Hey Jane! (volumes 9-current). Regular column for the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) listserv, archived on the SWS website.

 

Foley, Lara. Contributor.  Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook 2^nd ed. By David Silverman and Amir Marvasti.  Sage Press. (In progress).

 

Foley, Lara. 2004. “Dilemmas of an Untenured Professor: Journal Time versus Tenure Time.” In Sociologists for Women in Society’s Network News 21(4):15. Winter 2004.  

 

Houvouras, Shannon and Lara Foley. 2002. “Two Women, A Birth, and the Personal Side of Research.” In Sociologists for Women in Society’s Network News.  19(2):10-13.

 

Foley, Lara. 2000. “Reflections on Transition and Change.”  In the newsletter of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida, News and Views Fall Volume 11 Issue 1.

 

 

Papers presented at professional academic meetings

 

2007        "Working Against the Self: Midwives, Competing Identities and Burnout" Sociology of Reproduction I: Reproductive Work session of the American Sociological Association meetings in New York. (with Dana Rosenfeld).

 

2007    “From Victims to Patients: Organizational Framing in Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs” Violent Offenders, Victims, and Community/Organizational Response session sponsored by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency and Law and Society Divisions of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in New York.

 

2006    “They Are Patients First and Foremost: Organizational Framing in Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs” at the Medical Section Roundtables, American Sociological Association meetings in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 

2005    “Sexual Assault and Harassment on Campus: Assessing Policies, Procedures and Campus Climate” at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, November 2-5, in Toronto, Canada (With Ron Jepperson, and Elana Newman).
 

2005    “From Victim to Patient: Medicalizing Rape, Examining Suffering Bodies” American Sociological Association meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2005    “‘The Body is Our Crime Scene’: Negotiating Patient Care and Evidence

Collection in Sexual Assault Exams” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction meeting in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. 

 

2005    "Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs and Practices" Society for the Study of Social Problems meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

2005    “Midwifery as Established Sect: An Expanded Application of the Church-Sect Continuum”  American Sociological Association meeting in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. (with Gail Murphy-Geiss and Dana Rosenfeld).

 

2005    “Midwives and Motherwork” Pacific Sociological Association meeting in Portland Oregon.

 

2004    “Midwives, Boundary Work and Public Identity” Study of Social Problems meeting in San Francisco, California.

 

2004    “Midwives, Boundaries, and Burnout.” Midwest Sociological Society meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. (with Dana Rosenfeld).

 

2003    “Identity, Boundaries, and Performance in Midwives' Narratives” American Sociological Association meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

2003    “Midwifery Can Feed You or Kill You:” Midwives, Caregiving and Burn-Out” Pacific Sociological Association meeting in Pasadena, California.

 

2002    “Doing Family Values: Social Movements Framing, Discourse, and Interpretive Practice.” American Sociological Association meeting in Chicago, Illinois. (with Kendal Broad and Sara Crawley).

 

2002    “Teaching Reproduction: Integrating Theoretical Perspectives on the Body.”  National Women’s Studies Association meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

2002    “Midwives, Identity and the Public.” Eastern Sociological Society meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

2001    "The Bio-Medical Model as Discursive Resource: Legitimation in the Work Narratives of Midwives" American Sociological Association meeting in Anaheim, California. (with Chris Faircloth).

 

2001    "Theories and Politics of Motherhood" Association for Research on Mothering's panel session, "Mothering and Academia" National Women's Studies Association meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

2000    "Fear of Freaknik: A Print Media Analysis." American Sociological Association meeting in Washington D.C. (with Eileen O'Brien)

 

2000    "‘You've Gotta Have Both Worlds:' The Practical Management of A Medical Discourse in Midwives' Work Narratives." Society for the Study of Social Problems meeting in Washington D.C.

 

2000    "My Ideal Birth Experience:  Reflexivity and Romanticism in the Field" Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Couch/Stone Symposium in St. Petersburg, Florida.

 

1999    "‘Green, Purple or Red': Color (Un) Consciousness and White Privilege in Services to Battered Women." Society for the Study of Social Problems meeting in Chicago, Illinois.  (with Kimberly J. Cook, Denise Donnelly, and Debra VanAusdale).

 

1998    "Constructing the Female Orgasm: A View From Goffman" American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco, California. (with Chris Faircloth)

 

1998    "Storied Production of Parenting" Southern Sociological Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. 

 

1998    "The Narrative Construction of Parenting Styles" Southeastern Council on Family Relations meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

1997    "A Tale of Two Freakniks - One Told, One Not Told:  White Supremacist Discourse in Media Coverage of An Annual African American College Student Spring Break" American Sociological Association meeting in Toronto, Canada.

 

1996    "A Relationship Redefined:  Conceptualizing Post-dating Relationships" American Sociological Association meeting in New York, New York.

 

 

Invited and other presentations

2008    Presidential Session: Conversation and Critique of Gendering Bodies by Sara Crawley, Lara Foley and Constance Shehan.  Organizer: Jodi O’Brien. Presider: Clare Sears. Discussants: Lara Foley, Sara Crawley, Dana Britton, Wendy Sears and Wendy Chapkis.  Pacific Sociological Association meeting in Portland, OR.

 

2006    “Working Against the Self: Midwives, Competing Identities and Burnout” Workshop on Changing Professional Roles in Health and Social Care.  Royal Holloway, University of London.  (Presented by Dana Rosenfeld).

 

2006    “Overcoming Challenges: A Qualitative Study of SANE-SART Programs” Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Conference in Oklahoma City, OK.

 

2006    “They Are Patients First and Foremost: Organizational Framing in Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs” Health, Ethics and Legal Issues for the Next Generation, Special Topics Symposium at the American Association for Advancement in Science – Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

2006    Author meets critic panel for Rape Work by Patricia Yancey Martin at the Southern Sociological Society meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

2005    Panel Member:  Hurricane Katrina: Beyond the Storm Surge.  University of Tulsa.  Sponsored by the Association of Black Collegians and Ethnic Minorities in Psychology. 

 

2005     “A Sociological Analysis of SANE programs” Oklahoma chapter of the International Association of Forensic Nursing, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

2005    “LGBT Issues in Health Care” presented as continuing education for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

2004     “The Clock is Ticking: Organizational Structure, Gatekeepers, and other Roadblocks to Consider when Choosing a Research Topic in Graduate School and Pre-Tenure.”  Graduate research methods course, department of sociology, University of Florida.

 

2004    "Selling Out or Burning Out: Boundary Work and Coping Strategies in Midwife Narratives." Paper presented at Departmental Seminar, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Braun Hadassah-Hebrew University, Israel. (presented by Dana Rosenfeld)

 

2003    “Health Care - - A Right or A Privilege?” at the Social Science Symposium at the University of Tulsa.

 

2001    "Rights of Passage: Historical, Social, and Popular Representations of Pregnancy and Birth in the United States" at the 14th Annual Women's Leadership Conference at the University of Florida.

 

2001    Panel Member for a Publishing Workshop sponsored by the Department of Sociology at the University of Florida. (1997, 1998, 2001)

 

1997    "White Privilege and Newspaper Coverage of African American Events" at AKD honor colloquium at the University of Florida.

 

1996    "Racial Barriers to Domestic Violence Shelter Utilization in the Deep South" at a colloquium sponsored by the Program for the Study of Social and Cultural Change at Georgia State University. (with Denise Donnelly)

 

 

TEACHING

 

Teaching Positions

2001-present    Department of Sociology, University of Tulsa

1999-2001       Instructor, Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida

1999                 Instructor, Santa Fe Community College

1996-2001       Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Florida

 

Selected Courses Taught

Sociological Imagination; Reproduction and Birth; Sociology of Medicine; Foundations of Social Thought; Mental Health and Everyday Life; Deviant Behavior; Crime, Justice, and Social Order; Sociology of Law; Introduction to Women’s Studies; Sociology of Gender; Women and Health

Foley, Lara.  Contributor. “Foundations of Sociological Theory” in Incorporating the Women Founders into Classical Theory Courses: A Resource Book, edited by Jan E. Thomas.  Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.