ANN HERDA-RAPP, Ph.D.

 

Current Position

 

Assistant Professor of Sociology (since Fall 1998)

University of Wisconsin – Marathon

518 S. 7th Ave.

Wausau, WI  54401

715/261-6269

aherdara@uwc.edu  

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

                        Advisor:  Dr. John Lie

                        Dissertation: Women’s Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement: The Dialectics

                                    of Gender and Activism

                       

M.A., Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1994                                        Advisor:  Dr. Joel Best                

                        Master's Thesis:  Black Women as Inspirational Leaders in the Civil Rights                                         Movement: A Case Study

                                               

B.S.E., University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, 1990                                                                                        Major:  Education;  Areas:  Sociology and History

 

           

Scholarly Publications

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann. 1998. “The Power of Informal Leadership”. Sociological Focus.              31(4):341-355.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  2000.  “Gender Identity Expansion and Negotiation in the Toxic Waste             Movement”.  The Sociological Quarterly.  41(3):431-442.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  2000.  “The Impact of Social Activism on Gender Identity and Care Work:             Women’s Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement”.  In Care Work: Gender, Labor and      Welfare States, edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer (Routledge Press). 

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  2000.  Review of Citizen Politics in Post-Industrial Societies, edited by Terry             Nichols Clark and Michael Rempel (Westview Press, 1998). Sociological Imagination, 37             (2/3):185-188.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  Forthcoming.  “The Social Construction of Threat: The Reconstruction of      School Shootings in the News Media and Professional Organizations”.  Sociological             Inquiry.  Vol. 73, number 3 (August) or 4 (November).

 

 

Papers under review:

Herda-Rapp, Ann.   “Organizational Constraints on Women’s Social Movement Leadership:             Case Studies from the Toxic Waste Movement”.  Received “Revise & Resubmit” from             Sociological Spectrum.  Currently under revision.         

 

 

Professional Presentations

 

Session organizer, “Wildlife and Society”.  Annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological             Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  April 2002.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann. The Social Construction of Local School Violence Threats in the Context of News   Media and Professional Media Coverage of School Shootings.  Annual meetings of the             Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, Missouri.  April 2001.

 

Panelist, response to keynote address of Wisconsin Sociological Association president Al             Gedicks’ keynote address.  Gedicks and the panel addressed the question, “Will the 21st             Century Be Green?”.  Annual meetings of the Wisconsin Sociological Association,             UW-River Falls.  October 2000.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  The Social Construction of Threat:  Media(ted) Violence.  Annual meetings                     of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois.  April 2000.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  Sex, Gender and Leadership in Social Movement Organizations: Leadership             Opportunities for Women in the Toxic Waste Movement.  Annual meetings of the Midwest             Sociological Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  April 1999.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  The Personal Impact of Activism: Gender Identity Expansion as a Consequence of             Toxic Waste Activism.  Annual meetings of the Wisconsin Sociological Association,             Waukesha, WI.  Fall 1998.

 

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  The Personal Consequences of Working Class Women’s Activism.   Annual             meetings of the Southwest Labor Studies Association, San Antonio, TX.  April 1998.

 

Session organizer & discussant:  “Women’s Activism in Social Movements”.   Annual             meetings of the Illinois Sociological Association, held jointly with Wisconsin                               Sociological Association, Rockford, IL.  Fall 1997.

 

Herda, Ann Elizabeth.  Carving a Niche: Black Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.              Annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological  Society, Chicago.  1995.

 

Herda, Ann Elizabeth.  African-American Women as Inspirational Leaders in the Cairo, Illinois Civil     Rights Movement. Annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.  1994.

 

Herda, Ann Elizabeth.  Participant in panel discussion of oral histories and the Cairo civil     rights movement. Annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.              1994.

 

Herda, Ann Elizabeth.  The Impact of the Hill-Thomas Hearings: One Year Later.  Southeast                                Missouri State, Sociology/Anthropology Conference, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.             1993.

 

 

Grants Received

 

UWMC Foundation Summer Research Grant, summer 2002.  Support for work on book, Human Conflict Over Wildlife Issues: A Social Constructionist Approach.

 

UW-Madison – UW Colleges Summer Research Grant, summer 2001.  Requested and received support (approximately $9000) for research project (“The Social Construction of Hunting:  Shifts in Rural and Urban Residents’ Perceptions of Hunting”).

 

UWMC Foundation Summer Research Grant, summer 2001.  Requested and received $2000 grant to support research project (“The Social Construction of Hunting:  Shifts in Rural and Urban Residents’ Perceptions of Hunting”).

 

UW-Marathon Department of Anthropology and Sociology Summer Research Grant, summer 2001.  Requested and received $250 to employ a research assistant on research project (“The Social Construction of Hunting:  Shifts in Rural and Urban Residents’ Perceptions of Hunting”).

 

Course development grant, 2000.  Funded development of 1 credit interdisciplinary studies course (“Environmental Issues seminar”) with Mark Brown (Philosophy) ($2000 total).

 

UW-Madison – UW Colleges Summer Research Grant, summer 1999. Requested and received support (approximately $8000) for research project (“The Social Construction of Threat: Media(ted) Violence”).

 

Course development grant, 1999.  Requested and was granted funding ($2000) for development of “Environmental Sociology” course.  Because I received funding for the UW-Madison/UW Colleges Summer Research Program, however, I could not accept this grant.

 

Fellowship, Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems.  University of Illinois.  1997-98.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Marathon.  Courses --- Environmental Sociology (fall 1999, 2000, 2001; taught for UW-Stevens Point’s Collaborative Degree Program as well); Introduction to Sociology (fall 1998-present), Contemporary Social Problems (fall 1998-present), American Minority Groups (spring 1999 & 2000).

 

Instructor, Lewis University Career Education Program (LUCEP), Lewis University, Romeoville, IL. Course -- Cultural Diversity.  1996; 1997; 1998.

 

Instructor, Department of Sociology, Concordia University, Forest Park, IL. Courses -- Education and Society (graduate level) (Summer 1996; Winter 1997;  Summer 1997);  Contemporary Family Patterns (graduate level) (Summer 1997).

 

Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois. Course -- Social Problems (1995-6);  Gendered Social Problems (Fall 1996).

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois. Course --  Environmental Sociology (Spring 1997);  Sociology of Community (Summer 1995);  Introduction to Sociology (1994-95).

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Courses -- Statistics for Social Science; Marriage and the Family.  1992-93.