Philip Mabry

Sociology

BS (Behavioral Neuroscience), PhD (Sociology), University of Pittsburgh. Philip Mabry is a former faculty member of Hartwick College, the University of California at San Diego, and California Polytechnic State University where he taught a wide range of courses in Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies, and Research Methods. His dissertation research focused on the resettlement of Vietnamese Amerasians in the United States in the 1990s.

Since then, his research and teaching interests have focused on the race-sex-nation nexus as it organizes collective and intimate lives, and contemporary social theory that seeks to transcend the binaries that have conventionally defined the field (structure vs. agency, micro vs. macro analysis). Recently taught courses that reflect these and related interests include: Analyzing the “War on Terror”; “Stop It, You’re Killing Me!” (Sociology of Emotions); Unnatural Conceptions: Race, Sex, Nation, Empire; and The Unconsoled: Inscriptions of Displacement and Dismemberment. (2003– )