Sociology Department

Joel Stillerman

Joel Stillerman (Associate Professor and Coordinator of Latin American Studies):  Prof. Stillerman's areas of concentration are labor and labor movements, urban sociology, consumer culture, and Latin America.  He has conducted mixed method (ethnography, interview, and archival) research in Chile on a) trade union protest and the effects of military rule on working-class culture, and b) consumption in alternative (street and flea markets) and standard (shopping malls) retail formats and its relationship to the character of urban public life.  He has also examined transnational labor activism in North America.  His recent publications appear in Social Science History, Mobilization: An International Journal, Journal of Consumer Culture, City & Community, Qualitative Sociology, and several edited volumes.  He is currently revising his book manuscript, entitled, Contentious Geographies: The Transformation of Class and the Politics of Space among Chile s Metalworkers, 1945-2005.  He coordinates GVSU's Latin American Studies program and advises students pursuing the LAS minor.  Prior to coming to the department, Prof. Stillerman taught in the Latin American Studies program at the University of Arizona.  He teaches SOC 201 -- Introduction to Sociology, SOC 280 -- Social Problems, SOC 351 -- Urban Sociology, SOC 420 -- Sociology of Community, and HNR 311 -- Consumer Culture and Society. 

Professor Stillerman's c.v.

2166 ASH Phone: 331-3129 Email: stillejo@gvsu.edu