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Paul Lopes

Professor of Sociology and Africana and Latin American Studies

Department/Office Information

Sociology and Anthropology, Africana and Latin American Studies
407 Alumni Hall

Contact

(315) 228-7553
  • BA University of California, Berkeley 1980
  • MS University of Wisconsin, Madison 1985
  • PhD University of California, Berkeley 1994

Teaching Positions

  • Smith College, 2004-2005
  • Mount Holyoke College, 2002-2004
  • Tufts University, 1994-2002
  • University of San Francisco, 1993-1994
  • University of California, Berkeley, 1992
     

Courses

  • Media and Modern Society
  • American Popular Culture
  • Cultural Sociology
  • The Power of Black Music
  • Classical Social Theory
  • Social Experience in Mass Culture
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Self and Society
  • Mass Media Research
  • Sociology of Socio-Political Movements
  • Senior Project Seminars in Sociology and Mass Media
  • Senior Honors Thesis Seminars
  • Cultural sociology
  • Media studies
  • Popular culture
  • American studies
  • African American Studies
  • Sociology of art
  • Race and ethnicity

Rebellion and transition in "art worlds"

Books:

  • (Princeton, June 2019) 
Book cover of "Art Rebels" by Paul Lopes
  • (Temple, 2009) 
Book cover of "Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book" by Paul Lopes
  • (Cambridge, 2002)
Book cover of "The Rise of a Jazz Art World" by Paul Lopes

Selected articles and chapters:

Ingyu Ho, Pascal Brassier, & Paul Lopes. 2024 (November). “” Asia Pacific Business Review. Pp. 1–27. (2024).

Lopes, Paul, Ingyu Oh & Lynn Pyun. 2023 (November). Asia Pacific Business Review 29/5 (2023)

Hwang, Hyeseon, Ingyu Oh & Paul Lopes. Asia Pacific Business Review 29/5 (2023).

Lopes, Paul.  Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 23/5 (2017)

Lopes, Paul. “The Heroic Age of American Avant-Garde Art.” Theory and Society 44/3 (May 2015)

Lopes, Paul. "Strategies of Rebellion in the Heroic Age of the American Comic Book" in International Journal on the Arts in Society 2/2 (2007)

Lopes, Paul. "Culture and Stigma: Popular Culture and the Case of the Comic Book" in Sociological Forum (Fall 2006)

Lopes, Paul. "Signifying Deviance and Transgression: Jazz in the Popular Imagination" in American Behavioral Scientist (July 2005)

Lopes, Paul. "Pierre Bourdieu's Fields of Cultural Production: A Case Study of Jazz" in Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)

Lopes, Paul. "Innovation and Diversity in the Popular Music Industry, 1969-1990" in American Sociological Review (Feb. 1992)

Special journal issues:

Lopes, Paul, Jangwoo Lee, Ingyu Oh, and Lynn Pyun. Special Issue: "The Globalization of Postcolonial Pop Music: Putting the Success of K-pop Industries into Theoretical Perspectives," Asia Pacific Business Review 29/5.  (November 2023)

Lopes, Paul, and Mary Durfee. Special Issue: "The Social Diffusion of Ideas and Things," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 566 (Nov. 1999)

Book reviews:

  • American Journal of Sociology; American Ethnologist; Contemporary Sociology

Member Faculty Affairs Committee, ±«Óătv, Fall 2013 to Spring 2016, Fall 2018 to Spring 2020, Fall 2023 to Spring 2024

Member Faculty Affirmative Action Oversight Committee, ±«Óătv, Fall 2013 to Spring 2020, Fall 2018 to Spring 2019

Chair Department of Sociology and Anthropology, ±«Óătv July 2015 to June 2017, July 2020-2021

Director of Communications and Media Studies Program, Tufts University 1994-2001

Annenberg Scholar, Annenberg School for Communication - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Fall 1997