Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Latin American and Latino Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies
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Ph.D. Emory University
Fields:听culture; global political and economic change; social movements and peace movements; gender and women鈥檚 movements; NGOs; nonviolence; methods; social theory
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Office Phone: 508-793-3468
Office: Beaven 202
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I am a cultural and political sociologist working in the fields of globalization, conflict, and social movements studies. My research has focused on how changing narratives and belief systems fold into the development of political conflicts and movements for social change. My听book,听,听comparatively examines听three women鈥檚 movements against state violence in Argentina, the former Yugoslavia, and Liberia. In this study, I identify the social attributes of political invisibility that significantly shape distinct mobilization outcomes听in the face of repression and violence. The trajectories of these three movements illuminate how political and social regard, or lack thereof,听can present unique opportunities to marginalized resisters, especially as they move into an international arena, where they experience amplified authority as human rights leaders. I have also conducted research on the role of international NGOs in the global spread of nonviolence, developments in US foreign military training in Latin America, a variety of women's and human rights movements, and I actively contribute to developments in cultural and global social theories.
My research has been published in听Feminist Formations,听International Sociology,听Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, Sociological Forum, Social Movement Studies, Sociology Compass,听Sociology of Health and Illness,听The International Studies Compendium, The European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Advances in Medical Sociology,听and听Social Theory and Health, among other edited volumes. I have served as a Gender, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at The听University of Notre Dame and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of New Mexico. I earned my BA in Sociology from Wellesley College and my Master鈥檚 and PhD degrees in Sociology from Emory University where I held a Laney Diversity Fellowship and an American Sociological Association Minority Dissertation Fellowship. I have听served on the councils of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements and Peace, War and Social Conflict sections of the American Sociological Association, I serve听as the coordinator for the,听and I听am the book review editor for听听听I am delighted to be a Visiting Scholar with the Women鈥檚 Studies Research Center at Brandeis University听for the 2020-2021 academic year.
At 海角社区 I teach a number of courses on general and special topics in sociology, including a Montserrat first-year seminar on Global Inequality, The Sociological Perspective, Gender and Society, Developments in Social Theory, Social Movements and Social Change, and an upper level seminar entitled Women and Nonviolence. In 2017 my seminar students collected and contributed interviews with Worcester Women peace activists to Worcester Women鈥檚 History Project Oral History Archives housed at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. I served as a member of the Steering Council of the Worcester Women鈥檚 History Project and directed 海角社区 students鈥 community-based learning with the WWHP from 2017 to 2019. In the 2019-2020 academic year, I began working with local community organizers to pilot a Mellon Scholarship in Action funded program to bring grassroots civics education to Worcester students. As part of this work, I facilitated a youth-organized climate civics club at St. Peter Central Catholic Elementary School听and have worked with summer research students through the J.D. Power Institute for the Liberal Arts to develop an in-depth study of civics curriculum in public schools. I also currently serve on the board of Abby鈥檚 House, a shelter, housing, and advocacy organization for women in Worcester and am a member of Mothers Out Front, Worcester.听I enjoy working with students at every level, from the first-year transition into college to the development of Honors theses, independent research, and preparation for professional development and post-graduate study.
Select Publications
Gallo-Cruz, Selina. 2021 鈥溾澨Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change. Vol. 44: 91-115
Gallo-Cruz, Selina and Tulinski, Hannah. 2020.听鈥澨Feminist Formations. Vol. 32 (2): 207-234
Gallo-Cruz, Selina. 2019. 鈥溾澨International Sociology听34(6): 655-674.
Gallo-Cruz, Selina.听 2018. 鈥淎merican Mothers of Nonviolence: Action and the Politics of Erasure in Women鈥檚 Nonviolent Activism鈥 in听, edited by Holly J. McCammon and Lee Ann Banaszak,听Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cormier Nick, Gallo-Cruz, Selina, and Beard, Ren茅e. 2017.听
Sociology of Health and Illness听39 (8): 1496 - 1513.
Gallo-Cruz, Selina. 2016.听听Social Movement Studies听Vol 16 (2).
Gallo-Cruz, Selina. 2016.听听Sociology Compass. September (1-13).
Gallo-Cruz. 2016.听听European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology听3(2-3): 243-279.
Gallo-Cruz, Selina. 2015.听听Interface: a journal for and about social movements听7(1): 322- 350.
Gallo-Cruz, Selina.听2013.听听Pp. 181-196 in听National Policy Making: Domestication of Global Trends,听edited by Pertti Alasuutaari and Ali Qadir. New York: Routledge.
Gallo-Cruz, Selina. 2012.听.听Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change,听34: 213-256.
Gallo-Cruz, Selina. 2012.听听Sociological Forum听27听(1): 21-45.
Boli, John, Selina Gallo-Cruz, and Matthew Mathias. 2011.听听in听The International Studies Compendium Project, edited by Robert A. Denemark. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.听
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