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Cary Gabriel Costello

Associate Professor of Sociology

Office: Bolton Hall 722
Phone: (414) 229-6942
E-mail: costello@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Fall Office Hours: TR 2:15–3:15pm and by appointment

Degrees:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1999
M.A., University of California, Berkeley 1994
J.D., Harvard Law School 1990
B.A., Yale College 1986

Research Interests:

Dr. Costello is currently engaged in research on virtual embodiment and identity in Second Life™. HCostello Greenwings 2009e runs the Avatar Identity Research Center, which presents a seminar series on avatar embodiment, and through the Editing Appearances project has interviewed over 80 individuals in a variety of communities about selfhood and the virtual body."

Teaching Interests:
Sex and Gender, Sexuality and the Body

Spring 2010 Courses
SOCIOL 102-401: Social Problems in American Society
SOCIOL 444-001: Sociology of the Body

Fall 2009 Courses
SOCIOL 102-401: Social Problems in American Society (pdf)
SOCIOL 250-202: Sex and Gender (pdf)

Past Course Syllabi
SOCIOL 255: Sociology of Sexuality (pdf)
SOCIOL 444: Sociology of the Body (pdf)
SOCIOL 928: Seminar: Sociology of the Body (pdf)

Selected Publications:
Carrie Yang Costello. Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender and Success at Professional Schools. 2005. Vanderbilt University Press.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Changing Clothes: Gender Inequality and Professional Socialization." 2004. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 16(2): pp. 138-155.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Cosmetic Genital Surgery Performed upon Children." 2004. Robert Perrucci, Kathleen Ferraro, JoAnn Miller, Paula C. Rodriguez Rust, eds., Solutions: Agenda for Social Justice 2004. Tenn.: Society for the Study of Social Problems: pp. 81-86.

Carrie Yang Costello. The Sociology of Gender and Work: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. (editor) 2002. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Comment: Limits of Biological Determinism." Coauthored with Eleanor M. Miller. 2001. American Sociological Review, 66(4): pp. 592-8.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Schooled by the Classroom: The (Re)Production of Social Stratification and Professional School Settings," 2001. Eric Margolis, ed., The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education, Routledge: pp. 43-59.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Conceiving Identity: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Parents Consider their Children's Sexual Identities," 1997. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 24(3): pp. 63-89.