Leontina M. Hormel, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Worcester State College

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Work:                                                                                                                                    

Department of Sociology                                                                                                   

486 Chandler Street                                                                                                             

Worcester MA 01602                                                                                                         

(508) 929-8768

lhormel@worcester.edu     

http://sharepoint.worcester.edu/external/lhormel/default.aspx

                                               

Education

 

2004     PhD. Sociology, University of Oregon                            

1998     MA Sociology, University of Oregon

1993     BA Sociology (minors in Russian and History), Eastern Washington University

 

Areas of Interest

 

Sociology of International Development and Alternatives to Development (regional specialization post-Soviet societies); Gender; Political Economy; Political Sociology; Social Change; Social Movements; Social Stratification; Social Theory; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

 

Professional Experience (* indicates appointed position)

 

2004 TO PRESENT Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Worcester State College

 

2005     *Associate Director of Co-Curriculum, Women’s Studies Program, Worcester State College

 

2005     *Participant in Investigative Delegation in Republic of Nagorno Karabagh parliamentary elections, June 15-22. Participated as representative of the Worcester State College Center for the Study of Human Rights with representatives from Global Exchange, San Francisco, California.

 

Publications

 

Peer Reviewed Journals

 

2006 ACCEPTED WITH REVISIONS Leontina Hormel and Caleb Southworth. “Eastward Bound: A case study of post-Soviet labor migration from a rural Ukrainian town.” Europe-Asia Studies.

 

Edited Volumes

 

2004     Caleb Southworth and Leontina Hormel. “Why Work “Off the Books”? Community, Household, and Individual Determinants of Informal Economic Activity in Post-Soviet Russia.” Leo McCann (edit.). Russian Transformations: Challenging the Global Narrative. Routledge-Curzon: London and New York.

 

Book Reviews

 

2005     Leontina Hormel. “Review of Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops, by Robert J. S. Ross.” (University of Michigan Press, 2004) for Humanity and Society. May 2005. 29(2).

 

2005     ----“Review of Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor, by Elizabeth C. Dunn.” (Cornell University Press, 2004) for Work-In-Progress (Newsletter for Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the ASA) Spring 2005.

 

Reports

 

2003     Caleb Southworth and Leontina Hormel. “Social Conditions in Komsomolsk, July-September 2002.” Statistical report presented to the city of Komsomolsk, Ukraine, in August 2003.

 

Manuscripts Under Review

 

2005     Leontina Hormel and Hava Gordon. “Are Cuss Words Effective Tools for Critical Teaching?” Humanity and Society

 

Work In Progress

 

2006     Leontina Hormel. Gender, Class, and Informal Work in Post-Soviet Ukraine. Book Manuscript.

 

2006     ----“From Soviet Factory to post-Soviet Micro-enterprise: Gender, Class, and Work Reorganization after the Demise of Tiko Garment Factory in Komsomolsk, Ukraine.”           

 

2006     ---- “Class and Gender in post-Soviet Ukraine's Petty Trade System.”

 

2006     ---- “Is it Possible to Learn Activism in the Classroom? A Group Project Proposal.”

 

2006     Caleb Southworth and Leontina Hormel. “Market Transition and the Soviet Company Town: A Case Study of Komsomolsk, Ukraine.”

 

Current Research Projects:

 

Informal work in post-Soviet Ukraine

I am continuing to examine informal work arrangements (micro-enterprises in garment industry, temporary migrant work, petty trade, subsistence gardening, moonlighting, home childcare and healthcare) in post-Soviet societies in comparison to other global regions. Field research in Ukraine is planned for May-July 2006 for follow-up research on these arrangements.

 

The Nagorno-Karabagh conflict and U.S. foreign policy

As follow-up to my work as an international observer in Nagorno-Karabagh (NKR), I am collecting information about NKR and the surrounding region. This is a query into the connection between the region’s political economy, international humanitarian aid, and U.S. foreign policy. How do responses to NKR’s June 2005 elections from international observers reflect western power interests in the region?

 

Making profits on charity: the global market in discarded clothing from the West

Investigation on globalization, the garment industry, and second-hand clothing: Tracing the cycle of garment worker exploitation in “less-developed countries” (LDCs), mass consumption in “developed countries,” and the dumping of second-hand clothing on consumers in LDCs.

 

Subsistence Economy versus Global Capital: the story of the Karuk Tribe’s Struggle with Scottish Power

I am working with Dr. Kari Norgaard, Whitman College, examining the potential for subsistence economies to challenge global capitalism. We are using survey data and narratives collected from Karuk people in northern California and from representatives of Scottish Power (the Scotland based parent company of PacifiCorp) to explore whether subsistence enables autonomy for marginalized groups in society.

 

Grants and Honors

 

2005-2006         Faculty Development in Research Grant, Worcester State College, for research in Komsomolsk, Ukraine ($4,500)

 

2005-2006         Faculty Development in Teaching Grant, Worcester State College, for development of team instruction with Julie Frechette (Communications) and Henry Theriault (Philosophy) for the course: “Race/Nation/Class/Gender/Sexuality: Concepts, Reality, and Representation” ($4,000)

 

2003                 National Exposure Travel Award, University of Oregon Department of Sociology ($600)

 

2002-2003                  Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Oregon ($16,000 and tuition waiver)

 

2002-2003                  Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, Fulbright-Hays ($14,500)

 

2002-2003         Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Komsomolsk, Ukraine ($7,500 and travel expenses)

 

2001                 Graduate Research Support Grant, Center for the Study of Women and Society ($2,500)

 

2001                 Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women and Society Travel Grant ($500)

 

2001                 U.S. State Department Grant toward regional language study in

Novosibirsk, Russia – Associated Council of Teachers of Russian ($2,000)

 

2000-2001         University of Oregon Mortar Board Professor of the Month (nomination)

 

1999-2000         U.S. State Department Grant toward language study in St. Petersburg, Russia – Council of International Education and Exchange ($10,500)

 

1994-1997         Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon (salary, health insurance and tuition waiver)

 

1990-1991                  Student Exchange Program, Eastern Washington University. Cultural and language study in Tver, USSR

 

Conference Papers and Invited Presentations (* indicates refereed)

 

Feb. 2006 FORTHCOMING Worcester State College Center for the Study of Human Rights, Worcester MA: invited panel session “The Summer 2005 Nagorno Karabagh Elections and the Continued Conflict with Azerbaijan”

 

January 2006 FORTHCOMING Center for the Improvement of Teaching. Conference on Teaching for Transformation, University of Massachusetts, Boston: “Developing a Progressive Pedagogy of Self-Empowered Learning for Social Change” with co-presenters Julie Frechette, Worcester State College, and Nina Huntemann, Suffolk University

 

August 2005*    American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA: regular session Gender and Development.  “From Soviet Factory to post-Soviet Micro-enterprise: Gender, Class, and Work Reorganization after the Demise of Tiko Garment Factory in Komsomolsk, Ukraine.”

 

August 2004*    American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA: regular session Immigration and Gender. “Eastward Bound: How men and women decide to travel for work from a post-Soviet Ukraine town.”

 

Nov. 2003         University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society, Eugene OR. Invited presentation. “How Do Women and Men 'Make Ends Meet' in Post-Soviet Komsomolsk, Ukraine?”

 

August 2003*    American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA: regular session Informal Economy. “Why Work “Off the Books”? Community, Household, and Individual Determinants of Informal Economic Activity in Post-Soviet Russia.”

 

April 2003*       Pacific Sociological Association Annual Conference, Pasadena CA: regular session Informal Economy. “Why Work “Off the Books”? Community, Household, and Individual Determinants of Informal Economic Activity in Post-Soviet Russia.”

 

May 2001         University of Oregon Sociology Department Colloquium, Eugene OR. “Teaching Social Issues and Movements: Activism in the Classroom.”

 

May 2001         Feminism Unbound. Graduate Student Symposium, University of Oregon, Eugene OR. “Practical Dilemmas of Researching Gender in Provincial Russia.”

 

March 2001      Pacific Sociological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco CA: roundtable  Issues on Gender. “Exploring Gender and Development in Rural Russia.”

 

Languages

 

Fluent Russian including translation, simultaneous translation, reading, formal writing, and conversation.

Reading knowledge in Ukrainian.

 

Department Service (* indicates appointed):

 

Fall 2005           Worcester State College Open House, advisor to incoming Sociology students

 

Spring 2005       *Acting Chair, Department of Sociology, Worcester State College

 

Fall 2004           Chair, Sociology Hiring Committee, Worcester State College

 

Fall 2004           Worcester State College Open House, advisor to incoming Sociology students

 

University Service (* indicates appointed):

 

2005                 Member, Ethnic Studies Development Committee, Worcester State College

 

2005                 Member, Honors Program Committee, Worcester State College

 

Spring 2005       *Member, All Campus Committee, Worcester State College

 

Spring 2005       Member, College Hiring Policy Assessment Committee, in service for the Council of Department Chairs, Worcester State College

 

Service at University of Oregon

 

2000-2001         Graduate Representative, Staff Development Committee, University of Oregon

 

1997-1998*       President, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (G.T.F.F.), University of Oregon

 

1996-1997*       Vice President, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, Organizing

Graduate Representative, Qualifying Exam Committee, University of Oregon

 

1995-1996*       Vice President, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, COPE, University of Oregon

 

1995                 G.T.F.F. Representative, University of Oregon Selection Committee, Graduate Teaching Fellow Teaching Excellence

 

1994-1995         Graduate Representative, Sociology Department, University of Oregon

 

Professional Affiliations

 

  • American Sociological Association

-         Political Economy of World Systems

-         Marxist Sociology

-         Sociologists for Women in Society

-         Organizations, Occupations, and Work

  • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
  • Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), University of Oregon
  • International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
  • Network of East-West Women (NEWW)

 

Student Advising

 

2005-2006                  Priscila Espinosa, Study abroad research: “Central Europe: Nationalism, Ethnicity, 

                          and Culture” (Germany, Greece, Serbia, Kosovo, and Hungary)

 

2006                 Matt Holmes, Internship for Amnesty International in Washington D.C.

 

Spring 2006       Gemma Goranson, Independent Study, “Sociology of International Development”

 

Spring 2006       Matthew McAuliffe, Internship, “Food Not Bombs,” Denver CO

 

Spring 2006       Erik Merksamer, Independent Study, “Sociology of International Development”

 

Spring 2006       Jessica Succi, Independent Study, “Sociology of International Development”

 

Fall 2005           Michelle Benjamin, Team Study Project: “Women, Work, and Poverty in Western Capitalist Society”

 

Fall 2005           Kristen Birch, Independent Study Project: “The Impacts of Urban Gentrification on the Poor”

 

Fall 2005           Amanda MacDonald, Team Study Project: “Women, Work, and Poverty in Western Capitalist Society.”

 

Summer 2005    Carrie Rice, Study abroad research in Western Europe: “The Islamic Diaspora in Europe” (France and Netherlands)

 

Fall 2004           Yvonne Abra-Appiah, Independent Study Project: “Globalization and the Apparel Industry”

 

Professional Service (* indicates elected position):

 

2005 TO PRESENT Member, Editorial Board for Humanity and Society

 

2005     Member, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Selection Committee for the 2006-2007 Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD)

 

2004 TO PRESENT Member Newsletter Editorial Collective, ASA Section: Organizations,                                   Occupations and Work 

 

2003     Grant Writer, Social Sciences Feminist Network Research Interest Group, University of Oregon

 

2003     Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon

 

2002     Field Research in Komsomolsk, Ukraine: directed city-wide sociological survey, conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews, and field observations

 

2001-2 Survey Interviewer, Oregon Survey Research Laboratory, University of Oregon

 

1995-6  Member editorial collective, Critical Sociology