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Lory
Janelle Dance
Associate
Professor
Ph.D.
Sociology, Harvard University, 1995
Office:
3133 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6469
Email: ldance@socy.umd.edu
Specialty Areas:
Stratification and Theory
Additional Research Areas:
Sociology of (Urban) Education, U.S. Race
and Ethnic Relations, Youth Culture, Urban Sociology,
Critical Qualitative Methods in Sociology, Theory
and Qualitative Methods in Sociology
Dr.
Lory J. Dance
received a B.A. degree in Government in 1985 from
Georgetown University and the M.A. from Harvard
University in 1991. In June of 1995, she received
a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard. She has worked
as an instructor in the Social Studies and Sociology
Departments at Harvard. She is presently employed
as an associate professor at the University of
Maryland at College Park.
 Dr.
Dance's areas of interest include the sociology
of education, urban sociology, youth cultures,
U.S. race and ethnic relations, intersectional
and critical theory, and qualitative methods (with
an emphasis on ethnographic research). Her most
recent research project, funded by a grant from
the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation
in Research and Higher Education, was a pilot
study on national belonging and ethnic identity
among ethnic minority teenagers in Sweden. Her
most recent U.S. research, funded by a Spencer
Postdoctoral Fellowship, was conducted on site
at two inner city schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She interviewed students, teachers, and community
members to better understand the impact of small
learning communities on ninth grade educational
performance.
As a 2003/2004 Fulbright scholar, Dr. Dance spent
the Spring semester of 2004 teaching at Lund University
in Lund, Sweden. As a result of her Fulbright,
she was invited back to Sweden during the Fall
semester of 2004 to work as a guest researcher
at Kalmar University in Kalmar, Sweden. Dr. Dance
currently holds a visiting scholar position at
Kalmar University College and spends summers and
semester breaks in Sweden.
Dr. Dance has authored several academic papers.
She has also published articles and a book titled,
Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture
on Schooling (Routledge, 2002). Book manuscripts
in progress include: At Risk Near Harvard U.
Working Class Teens and the Teachers They Love,
and Black Strawberries: Teenagers, School
Reform, and Urban Change in North Philly.
She has been a guest lecturer and speaker at many
universities in the United States, as well as
at Universities in Germany and Sweden.
Course Syllabi:
Sociology 467: Sociology
of Education
Sociology 699D: Schooling
and Inequality
Sociology 699M: Qualitative
Methods in Sociology: Ethnographic Interactions
Other Links:
The
Consortium on Race, Gender & Ethnicity
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