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Curriculum vitae for Nancy L. Malcom
last updated August 2008
 

Education:

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Ph.D. in Sociology, 2000
Dissertation: "Constructing Identities on Contested Terrain: How Real Girls Play Softball and Negotiate Female Athleticism"
 
Miami University, Oxford, OH
B.A., magna cum laude, 1994
Majors: Sociology and Zoology
 

Publications:

Malcom, Nancy L. 2006. "'Shaking It Off' and 'Toughing It Out': Socialization to Pain and Injury in Girls' Softball." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35(5): 495-525.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. 2006. "Analyzing the News: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in a Writing Intensive Social Problems Course." Teaching Sociology 34(2): 143-149.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. 2003. "Constructing Female Athleticism: A Study of Girls' Recreational Softball." American Behavioral Scientist 46(10): 1387-1404.
 
Gove, Walter R. and Nancy L. Malcom. 1997. "Can Sociology Be a Science?: The Issue of Gender and Sex-Dimorphic Characteristics." The American Sociologist 28(4): 9-30.
 
Griffin, Larry J., Christopher Caplinger, Kathryn J. Lively, Nancy L. Malcom, Darren McDaniel, and Candice Nelsen. 1997. "Comparative-Historical Research and Scientific Inference: Disfranchisement in the U.S. South as a Test Case." Historical Methods 30(1): 13-27.
 

Work in Progress:

Malcom, Nancy L. "Learning About Loss." Content analysis research examining messages about death, dying, grief and bereavement in children's story books.
 

Conference Presentations:

Malcom, Nancy L. "Who Adopts the Sport Ethic? Social Determinants of 'Athlete Identity' Development Among Girls." Children and Youth Section roundtable session, American Sociological Association annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2003.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. "Constructing Female Athleticism: A Study of Girls' Recreational Softball." Gender Section presentation, Southern Sociological Society annual conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2003.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. "'Shaking it Off' and 'Toughing it Out': Socialization to Pain and Injury in Girls' Softball." Sociology of Children and Youth Section session presentation, American Sociological Association annual conference, Anaheim, California, August 2001.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. "Organized Cheering and the 'Feminization' of Youth Sports." Social Psychology Section presentation, Southern Sociological Society annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2001.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. "Are They Apologizing? Adolescent Female Athletes and the Apologetic Defense." Sociology of Sport regular session presentation, American Sociological Association annual conference, Washington, D.C., August 2000.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. "A Time Series Regression Analysis of White and Non-White Birth Rates in the United States, 1910-1970." Refereed roundtable presentation, American Sociological Association annual conference, San Francisco, California, August 1998.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. and Darren C. McDaniel. "The 'Who am I?' Test as a Reflection of Social Location: A Classification Scheme for Social Identities." Roundtable presentation, Southern Sociological Society annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1998.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. "Doing Gender and Playing Softball: Sport Participation, Femininity, and Inequality." Sociology of Children section session presentation, American Sociological Association annual conference, Toronto, Ontario, August 1997.
 
Malcom, Nancy L. "The Career Goal Certainty of First-Year College Students: Gender and Past Exposure to Career Opportunities." Session presentation, Third Annual Midwest Student Sociology Conference, Oxford, Ohio, March 1994.
 

Teaching and Research Interests:

intersections of gender, class, and race
sport in society
children and childhood
social problems
qualitative research methods
 

Selected Departmental, College, and University Service:

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Committee
Steering Committee member, Women's and Gender Studies Program
WGST Student Recruitment and Advising subcommittee
WGST graduate certificate subcommittee
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences SACS QEP Team (2004)
GSU campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity, faculty advisor
 

Selected Honors and Awards:

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1995-1999
Phi Beta Kappa, Miami University, 1994
Mortar Board Honor Society, Miami University, 1994
National Merit Scholar, 1990
 

Professional Memberships:

American Sociological Association
Southern Sociological Society