Research Interests
Urban Sociology; Social Movements; Political Sociology;
Culture; Media and Technology; Tourism; Disasters;
Social Networks; Globalization; Intellectuals.
Scholarship
Publications, peer reviewed Forthcoming Lynn Owens. Cracking under pressure: The decline of the Amsterdam squatters’ movement. Penn State University Press and Amsterdam University Press.
Forthcoming Lynn Owens. “From tourists to anti-tourists to tourist attraction: The transformation of a social movement.” Social Movement Studies
Forthcoming Lynn Owens. “What we talk about when we talk about decline: Competing narratives in the Amsterdam squatters’ movement.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change, 28.
2003 Lynn Owens and Ken Palmer. “Making the news: Anarchist counter public relations on the World Wide Web.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 20(4), 335-361.
2002 Charles Kurzman and Lynn Owens. “Sociology of intellectuals.” Annual Review of Sociology, 28, 63-90.
1991 P. D. Cottle, S. M. Aziz, K. W. Kemper, M. L. Owens, E. L. Reber, J. D. Brown, E. R. Jacobsen, and Y. Y. Sharon. “Proton inelastic scattering on the transitional nucleus 144Nd.” Physical Review C 43, 59-65.
1990 P. D. Cottle, S. M. Aziz, K. W. Kemper, M. L. Owens, E. L. Reber, J. D. Brown, E. R. Jacobsen, and Y. Y. Sharon. “Non-octupole origin of the 51- state in 144Nd.” Physical Review C 42, 762-764.
1990 S. M. Aziz, P. D. Cottle, K. W. Kemper, M. L. Owens, and S. L. Tabor. “Three- and five-quasiparticle high-spin states in 143Nd.” Physical Review C 41, 1268-1271.
1989 P. D. Cottle and M. L. Owens. “Behavior of octupole states near mass 150 and the collapse of the Z=64 subshell gap.” Physical Review C 40, 2904-2906.
Publications, non-peer reviewed
2007 Lynn Owens. Book review of Francesca Polletta’s It was like a fever: Storytelling in protest and politics for Social Forces
2005 Lynn Owens, “Just Visiting.” Chronicle of Higher Education. September 29, 2005.
Manuscripts in preparation
2007 “Mobs, mobilities, and mobilizations: The politics of movement”
2007 “Activists face the voluntourist trap in New Orleans” (with Emily Wilson-Barnard)
2007 “Tourists, pilgrims, or revolutionaries? Summit-hopping and the globalized politics of travel”
Presentations and Conferences
2007. “Tourists take snapshots. Activists make documentaries.” Presented at Glazing, Glancing, and Glimpsing: Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, UK.
2006 “Rootless activism: Moving within and without the movement.” Presented at Renewing the Activist Tradition Conference, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT.
2006 “Activists filling the post-Katrina void in New Orleans.” Invited presentation at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
2006 “Your place or mine? Summit-hopping and the global politics of place.” Presented at Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
2006 “New Orleans after Katrina.” Presented at Academics and Activists Conference, Pitzer College, Clarement, CA
2006 Invited paper discussant, Critical Trends in Social Movements Research: Autonomy, Alternatives and Knowledge Conference. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
2005 “From tourists to anti-tourists to tourist attraction: The transformation of a social movement.” Invited presentation at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
2003 “At home in the movement? Strategizing the public-private boundary in social movements.” Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA.
2002 “The rise of social movement culture and the culture of social movement decline: The case of the Amsterdam squatters’ movement.” Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.
2002 “Direct action.” Workshop organizer, Authority in Contention mini-conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
2001 “Sociology of intellectuals: Mapping the field.” (with Charles Kurzman). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA.
2000 “Understanding the anarchist movement.” Workshop organizer and facilitator, SURGE Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
2000 “Public betrayals and private portrayals: Activist intentions in tension on the Web.” (with Ken Palmer). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.
1999 “The structure of anarchy: Political ideology and organization on the World Wide Web.” (with Ken Palmer). Presented at the International Social Networks Conference, Charleston, SC.
1996 “Cycles of repression in the U. S. anti-war movement.” (with James Fendrich) Presented at Remembering Vietnam Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
Honors, Grant, and Awards
2006 Wesleyan Supplementary Support for Scholarship Grant
2004 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, UNC-CH
2002 Graduate Student Research Grant, UNC-CH
2002 Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship, UNC-CH
2001 Everret K. Wilson Teaching Award, Dept of Sociology, UNC-CH
2001 Smith Graduate Research Grant, UNC-CH
2000 Foreign Language Area Studies [FLAS] Grant, US Dept of Education
1999-2000 Foreign Language Area Studies [FLAS] Grant, US Dept of Education
1998 Goethe-Institut Language Grant, German Academic Exchange Service [DAAD]
1990-1992 Barry Goldwater Scholarship for Excellence in Science
1990 Research Trainee Program, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
1988-1992 National Merit Scholar
1988-1992 Florida Academic Scholar
Teaching Experience
2004- Visiting Professor, Wesleyan University
Full responsibility for course, including choosing texts, writing syllabi, preparing class discussions and activities, and grading assignments and exams. Additionally, I have supervised several senior honor’s theses, on such topics as policing, affordable housing, public space, study abroad, and social movements.
Undergraduate Introductory Sociology
Urban Societies
Social Movements
Criminology
Sociology of Tourism
Sociological Analysis
2003 Adjunct Professor, Elon University, Elon, NC
Full responsibility for course, including choosing texts, writing syllabi, preparing class discussions and activities, and grading assignments and exams
Undergraduate Sociology through Film
1999 - Graduate Student Instructor, UNC Chapel Hill
Full responsibility for courses, including choosing texts, writing syllabi, preparing class discussions and activities, and grading assignments and exams
Undergraduate Social Movements
Sociological Theory
Sociology of Politics
Sociology of Crime and Deviance
American Society, Independent Studies
1995 - Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill and Florida State University
Graduate: Research Methods, Introductory Statistics
Undergraduate: Sociological Theory, Conflict and Bargaining, European Politics, Introduction to Sociology
2000- Writing Tutor, UNC Writing Center,
Tutoring undergraduate and graduate students on their writing, both in individual face-to-face sessions and online; creating guides for undergraduate writing in sociology and for writing with statistics; organizing and facilitating in-class workshops on specific writing skills; taught sessions on teaching writing to undergraduates to UNC sociology teaching seminar and at the UNC graduate student teaching assistant orientation.
Teaching Interests
Political Sociology Community Culture
Social Movements Urban Sociology Media Studies
Globalization Virtual Communities Tourism
Social Justice Disasters Intellectuals
Inequality Social Networks Technology
Secondary Interests
Introduction to Sociology
Sociological Theory
Research Methods
Crime and Deviance
Research Experience
2000-2002: Research Assistant for Dr. Charles Kurzman, UNC Sociology Dept. Analysis, translation, and library research of early 20th century democracy movements funded by the National Science Foundation.
1998-2000: Research Assistant for Dr. Pam Frasier, UNC Dept. of Family Medicine. Data collection and network analysis in study evaluating domestic violence programs in Chatham County, North Carolina funded by the Center for Disease Control.
1995-1996: Research Assistant for Dr. James Fendrich, FSU Sociology Dept. Library research and data collection in study of cycles of protest and repression in the anti-Vietnam war movement.
1988-1991: Research Assistant for Dr. Paul Cottle, FSU Physics Dept. Data analysis and library research in various studies of the nuclear structure of the element neodymium.
Languages Spoken
English (native)
Dutch (fluent)
German (fluent)
Professional
Member American Sociological Association, 1996-present
Reviewer, Theory & Society, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces
Organizer UNC Sociology Graduate Student colloquium, 1998-2000