Jennifer Jordan

Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies

Office:  Northwest Quadrant–Building B, Room 7492
Phone: 414/229-5074
E-mail: jajordan@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Summer Office Hours (May 19–Sept. 2, 2013): By appointment

Degree:

Ph.D. University of California–San Diego

Areas of Specialization:

Urban Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Theory; Globalization; Europe/Germany; Sociology of Food.

Media Interviews

On tomatoes on Chicago Public Radio  http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/tomatoes-story
On kitchen gardens on Milwaukee Public Radio's Lake Effect  http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=8351
On heritage turkeys on  Milwaukee Public Radio's Lake Effect  The Sociology of the Heritage Turkey
On heirloom tomatoes on Milwaukee Public Radio's Lake Effect  The Sociology of the Heirloom Tomato

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2014
UrbStd 983-001: Contemporary Urban Structure and Change
Fall 2013
Sociol 715-001:  Systematic Sociological Theory
Spring 2013
Sociol 375-001: History of Sociological Theory (pdf)
Sociol 923-001: Seminar: Sociology of Culture (pdf)
Fall 2012
Sociol 715-001: Systematic Sociological Theory (pdf)
Representative Syllabi from Past Semesters
Sociol 101-203: Introduction to Sociology  Spring 2012 (pdf)
Sociol 927-002: Seminar: Sociology of Food: Culture, Place and Eating Spring 2011 (pdf)
Urb Std 983-001: Contemporary Urban Social Structure and Change  Spring 2012 (pdf)

Selected Publications:

Jennifer A. Jordan, "Landscapes of European Memory: Biodiversity and Collective Remembrance," History and Memory 22: 2 (Fall/Winter 2010), 5-33.

Jennifer A. Jordan. “Essen, Identität, und Zeitgeschichte in Österreichischen Ausstellungen (Food, Identity, and Contemporary History in Austrian Exhibitions).” In Dirk Rupnow and Heidemarie Uhl (Eds.) Zeit-/Geschichte ausstellen in Österreich. Bestandsaufnahme und Recherche, Böhlau: Vienna (forthcoming).

Jennifer A. Jordan. “Elevating the Humble Dumpling: From Peasant Kitchens to Press Conferences,” Ethnology, 47: 2 (Spring 2008), 109-121.

Jennifer A. Jordan. "The Heirloom Tomato as Cultural Object: Investigating Taste and Space" Sociologia Ruralis 47:1 (January 2007), 20-41.

Jennifer Jordan. Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2006).