My CV
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Updated: August 2, 2010
Bin Xu
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1810 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 847-868-0306
Email:binxu2008@u.northwestern.edu
Personal Website: www.binxusoc.com
Education
Ph.D candidate (ABD), Northwestern University, 2005-present. Degree expected: winter 2011.
Dissertation
Distant Suffering and Solidarity among Strangers: Politics of Moral Sentiments after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China
Dissertation Committee: Gary Alan Fine (Chair), Wendy Griswold, Charles Camic, Peter J. Carroll (History), Dingxin Zhao (University of Chicago)
M.A. University of California, Davis 2005
M.A. Nanjing University, China 1999
B.A. East China Normal University, China 1996
Research Interests
Theoretical Fields: social theory, cultural sociology, political sociology, microsociology/social psychology
Empirical Emphases: theories of solidarity, political rituals, social movement and collective behavior, collective memory, state-society relationship, civil society and public sphere, sociology of emotions, disaster research
Regional Interest: East Asia, China
Publications and Projects
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Bin Xu and Gary Alan Fine. 2010. “Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims’ Reparations Movement against Japan.” Pp.166-189 in Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory, edited by Mikyoung Kim and Barry Schwartz. Palgrave-McMillan.
Bin Xu and Xiaoyu Pu. 2010. “Dynamic Statism and Memory Politics: A Case Analysis of the Chinese War Reparations Movement.” China Quarterly 201(1): 156-175.
- Winner of Best Graduate Student Paper from Asia and Asian America Section of American Sociological Association, 2010
Bin Xu. 2009. “Durkheim in Sichuan: The Earthquake, National Solidarity, and the Politics of Small Things” Social Psychology Quarterly 72 (1).
Bin Xu. 2002. “The Struggles among Gods and Intellectuals: Two Key Issues in Classical Sociology of Knowledge” (诸神之争与知识人：经典知识社会学的两个核心问题) (in Chinese) in The Journal of Social Theory (社会理论丛刊) 2002, China.
Other Publications
Book Review. 2009. Kevin J. O’Brien. Ed. Popular Protest in China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Mobilization, Volume 14 (2), 2009.
Book review: 2008. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Ching-Kwan Lee, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Volume 13 (4), 2008.
Book Review. 曼海姆《文化社會學論集》，《二十一世紀》（香港）, October, 2000.
Translation. Selected Papers of Karl Mannheim (translation into Chinese曼海姆精粹) Nanjing University Press (南京大学出版社), China, 2003.
Translation. John R. Hall and Mary Jo Neitz. Culture: Sociological Perspectives (文化：社会学的视野) Commercial Press(商务印书馆). China. 2004.
Papers under review and Advanced manuscripts
Gary Alan Fine and Bin Xu. “Honest Brokers: Owen Lattimore and the Politics of Expertise.” Under review at Social Problems.
Bin Xu. “Explaining Solidarity among Strangers: Interaction Rituals and Publics in the Wake of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China.” Under Review at American Sociological Review.
Bin Xu. “Moral Legitimacy and the Ritual of Downplaying: State-Society Relationship in the National Mourning for the Sichuan Earthquake Victims in China.” Being submitted.
Bin Xu. “Embedding Talk and Speech Genres in Memory Movement: Discourses and Hegemony in the Chinese WWII Victims’ Redress Movement.” Advanced manuscript.
Bin Xu. “Reproduction of Charisma: Symbolic Capital, Performative Actions, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s Post-First Lady Reputation.” Advanced manuscript.
Working Projects
“Identity Narratives and Collective Memory of the Educated Youth in China.” Working project, with Guoli Dong and Jiping Ren (Shanghai University, China).
“People of a Gown Flock Together: the Han Clothing Movement and the Invention of Tradition in Small Publics” Working Project.
“Patriotic Education and Chinese Nationalism” Working Project, with Dingding Chen (PI), University of Macau.
Awards and Grants
Best Graduate Student Paper (With Xiaoyu Pu) from Asia and Asian America Section of American Sociological Association, 2010. “Dynamic Statism and Memory Politics: A Case Analysis of the Chinese War Reparations Movement.” China Quarterly 201(1): 156-175.
Karpf Prize for advanced graduate students whose work contributes to promoting “peace, goodwill, tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the Earth.” Northwestern University. June 2009.
Small Grant from the China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) (2009. $1500) for dissertation project.
Ethnographic Research Fellowship (quarter-long research fellowship), Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 2009.
Summer Research Grant. “China’s New Nationalism”. 2008. $2,500. From The Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University.
Graduate Research Grant. “The Chinese War Reparations Movement.” 2007. $1,500. From the Graduate School, Northwestern University. 2008. $1,350.
MacArthur Summer Research Grant, with Gary Alan Fine, 2007. $1,350. “The Chinese War Reparations Movement and State-Society Relationship”. Sociology Department, Northwestern University.
Summer Research Grant. “The Chinese War Reparations Movement”. 2007. $1,000. From The Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University.
MacArthur Summer Research Grant, with Gary Alan Fine, 2006, Project “Owen Lattimore and Politics of Reputation.” Sociology Department, Northwestern University, $1,000.
University Scholar Fellowship, $20,000, 2003-2004, University of California, Davis.
East Asia Small Research Grant, $500, 2005, Project “Memory and Nationalism in China.” East Asia Research Group, University of California, Davis.
Presentations
“Grandpa Wen and Mise-en-scène: Disasters and Political Performance.” Panel on “Power and Performance” at International Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden. July, 2011.
“Rite of Reversal: Commemoration, Emotion, Politics in the National Mourning for the Sichuan Earthquake Victims.” Culture and Society Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston IL. April 8, 2010.
“Civic Participation and Disaster in the Wake of the Sichuan Earthquake.” Northeastern Illinois University 15th Annual Asian American Heritage Conference disaster panel, Chicago, IL. April 1, 2010.
Topic: “Explaining Solidarity among Strangers: A Theoretical Explanatory Framework” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Social Theory Panel. Chicago, IL. March 31, 2010.
“Rite of Reversal: Politics, Commemoration, and the National Mourning for the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake Victims in China.” Michigan Social Theory Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. March 12-13, 2010.
“Solidarity and Government Legitimacy in the Wake of the Sichuan Earthquake”. US-China People’s Friendship Association Annual Symposium. November 2009.
“Solidarity in Publics: the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and Interaction Rituals”. Culture and Society Workshop, Northwestern University, November 2009.
“People of a Gown Flock Together: the Han Clothing Movement and the Invention of Tradition in Small Publics” The Third Urban Representation Conference. Shanghai, China, April 2009.
“The Elusive Harmony: Rituals, Solidarity, and State Legitimacy in the Sichuan Earthquake and the Beijing Olympics.” Presentation at Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University. February, 2009.
“Han Clothing and Small Group Cultural Production.” Presentation at Culture and Society Workshop, Northwestern University. November, 2008.
“Official Memory Texts and Discursive Politics: A Case Analysis of the Chinese WWII Victims’ Redress Movement” Presentation on American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2008, Boston.
“Civil Society, Collective Memory, and Sino-Japanese Relations: A Case Analysis of Chinese War Reparations Movement since the 1990s” with Xiaoyu Pu, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, March 2008, San Francisco.
“Memory Movement and the State-Society Relationship: The Chinese WWII Victims’ Reparations Movement against Japan”. With Gary Alan Fine. Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. November, 2008, Chicago.
“Transfer of Charisma: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Post-First-Lady Reputation and Custodian Network” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Social Psychology Section, Roundtable Session, August, 2008, New York.
“Public Sphere, Collective Memory, and Chinese WWII Reparations Movement” Presentation with Gary Alan Fine on “Politics of Regret” International Conference, Washington D.C, March 2007.
“Reception of Commemorative Narratives: China’s Official Commemoration of WWII and the Student Protest in 1985.” Midwest Political Science Association 2006 Annual Meeting.
Research and Language Skills
Qualitative Methods: in-depth interviews, ethnography (advanced, three publications)
Quantitative Methods: content analysis (adavanced), statistics (advanced, teaching), network analysis (intermediate)
Software: atlas.ti, SPSS, Stata, UCINET, Siena
Teaching and Research Assistant Experience
Teaching Assistant
Research Methods Courses
Fall 2008, Sociological Analysis (research methods overview), Northwestern University
Winter 2007, 2008, Introduction to Analysis of Social Data (social statistics), Northwestern University
Fall 2004, Introduction to Social Statistics, UCDavis
Substantive Courses
Winter 2009. Complex Organizations. Northwestern University
Spring 2008, Complex Organizations, Northwestern University
Fall 2007, Law and Society, Northwestern University
Fall 2006, Seminar on Historical Reputation, Kaplan Institute of Humanities, Northwestern University
Winter & Spring 2005, Introduction to Sociology, UCDavis
Research Assistant
RA for Professor Wendy Griswold, project on “reading market and publics in China”, March 2008
RA for Professor Carolyn Chen, project on “Spirituality and Religiosity in the United States.” Spring 2007
RA for Professor John R. Hall, project on “Religion and Terrorism”. 2003
Community and Professional Service
Reviewer for Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Mobilization
Panel Organizer: Panel on “Symbolic Politics” Association for Asian Studies, 2011 Annual Meeting
East Asian Research Cluster, Student Assistant, Northwestern University
Membership: American Sociological Association, Association for Asian Studies
References
Gary Alan Fine (Dissertation Advisor)
John Evans Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-3495
Wendy Griswold
Bergen Evans Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
(847)-491-2701
Charles Camic
John Evans Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
Dingxin Zhao
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
Peter J. Carroll
Associate Professor
Director, Program of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Department of History
Northwestern University