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

Dr. Costello is currently engaged in research on virtual embodiment and identity in Second Life™. He 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.