Cecelia C. Walsh-Russo - Hartwick College

Cecelia C. Walsh­Russo
Department of Sociology
336 Galisano Hall
Hartwick College
Oneonta, New York 13820
607-431-4620
Email : walsh_russoc@hartwick.edu
Education:
2008 Ph.D. Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department
of Sociology
2004 M. Phil. Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of
Sociology
2002 M.A. Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of
Sociology
1996 A.B. Smith College
Present position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hartwick College
Dissertation title: “The World is My Country and My Countrymen are All Mankind”:
Transnational Tactical Diffusion of Anglo-American Anti-Slavery organizing, 1824-1839
Research interests: Collective Action and Social Movements, International Relations, Race
and Ethnicity, and Political Sociology.
Teaching Experience:
2007-2009
2005-2006
2000-2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Queens College-CUNY
Cordier Fellow, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Columbia University

Courses:
Forthcoming Summer 2009 Women and Work, Department of Sociology, Queens College-
CUNY
Spring 2009 Instructor, Shaping the Future of New York, Macaulay Honors College, Queens
College-CUNY
Spring 2009 Instructor, Modern Urban Community, Department of Sociology, Queens
College-CUNY
Spring 2009 Instructor, Foundations of Sociological Theory, Department of Sociology,
College-CUNY
Fall 2008 Instructor, Foundations of Sociological Theory, Department of Sociology, Queens
College-CUNY
Summer 2008 Instructor, Mass Media and Popular Culture, Department of Sociology,
Summer Session, Columbia University
Summer 2008 Instructor, Women and Work, Department of Sociology, Queens College-
CUNY
Spring 2008 Instructor, Foundations of Sociological Theory, Department of Sociology,
Queens College-CUNY
Spring 2008 Instructor, Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, Queens
College-CUNY
Spring 2008 Instructor, Sociology of Women, Department of Sociology, Queens College-
CUNY
Spring 2008 Instructor, Social Movements and Social Change, Department of Sociology,
Queens College-CUNY
Fall 2007 Instructor, Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, Queens College-
CUNY
Fall 2007 Instructor, Social Movements and Social Change, Department of Sociology, Queens
College-CUNY
Fall 2007 Instructor, Women and Work, Department of Sociology, Queens College-CUNY
Summer 2007 Instructor, Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture, Department of
Sociology, Summer Session, Columbia University
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Spring 2007 Instructor, Transnational Social Movements, Department of Sociology,
Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University
Fall 2006 Instructor, Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture, Department of
Sociology, Barnard College
Summer 2006 Instructor, Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture, Department of
Sociology, Summer Session, Columbia University
Summer 2005 Instructor, Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture, Department of
Sociology, Summer Session, Columbia University
Spring 2006 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Urban Sociology, Dr. Greg Smithsimon,
Department of Urban Studies, Barnard College.
Spring 2005 Teaching Assistant, Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, Dr. Raymond
Smith, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Fall 2004 Teaching Assistant, Mass Media and American Politics, Dr. Brigitte Nacos,
Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Fall 2004 Teaching Assistant, Sociology of Gender, Dr. Elizabeth Bernstein, Department of
Sociology, Columbia University
Spring 2004 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to American Studies, Dr. Casey Blake,
Department of American Studies, Columbia University
Fall 2003 Teaching Assistant, Popular Culture and Mass Media, Dr. Jeffery Olick,
Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Spring 2003 Teaching Assistant, Inequality and Poverty, Dr. Sanjay Reddy, Department of
Economics, Barnard College
Fall 2002 Teaching Assistant, Immigrant Experience: Old and New, Dr. Robert Smith,
Department of Sociology, Barnard College
Spring 2002 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Latino/a Studies, Dr. Nicole Marwell,
Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Spring 2001 Teaching Assistant, Sociology of Education, Dr. Kathryn Neckerman, Department
of Sociology, Columbia University
Fall 2001 Teaching Assistant, Methods of Social Research, Dr. Charles Tilly, Department of
Sociology, Columbia University
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Fall 2000 Teaching Assistant, Popular Culture and Mass Media, Dr. Jeffery Olick,
Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Papers in Progress:
“My country is the world:” Transnational tactical diffusion and the Anglo-American abolitionist
movements, 1824-1839. To be sent to Mobilization, December 2009.
Fellowships, Awards, Honors:
2005-2006 Cordier Fellowship, School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University
Spring 2005 Cornerhouse Travel Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Summer 2004 Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia
University
Summer 2002 Summer Research Fellowship, Center for Historical Social Science, Institute of
Social and Economic Policy and Research, Columbia University
2000 to 2004 Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Columbia University
Summer 2000 PepsiCo Travel Fellowship, The Harriman Institute, School of International and
Public Affairs, Columbia University
Summer 2000 and Summer 2001 Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Central
European University, Budapest, Hungary
Presentations:
March 2009 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting
Panel title: Anti-Racism and Social Movements
Paper: “My Country is the World;” Transnational tactical diffusion within the
Anglo-American abolitionist movements, 1824-1839.
Panel title: A Conversation on: The Contributions of Charles Tilly
Presentation title: “Tilly on Repertoires”
August 2008 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Collective Behavior and
Social Movements Roundtable Session on Globalization and Transnational
Mobilization
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Paper: ““The World is My Country:” Tactical Diffusion and Anglo-American
Abolitionism”
August 2006 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Collective Behavior and
Social Movements Roundtable Session on Tactics and Recruitment Processes
Paper: “Downward Scale Shift and Diffusion within Anglo-American Antislavery
Mobilization”
August 2005 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Collective Behavior and
Social Movements Roundtable Session on Tactics and Recruitment Processes
Paper: “The Politics of Antislavery Organizing”
Presider for Open Refereed Roundtables on Social Movements
March 2005 Alternative Futures and Popular Protests, Manchester Metropolitan University
Paper: “British and American Antislavery Movements, 1780s-1830s”
May 2004 Society for Comparative Research, Graduate Student Retreat, University of
California, San Diego
Paper: “Diffusion and Transnational Social Movements”
August 2001 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Collective Behavior and
Social Movements Roundtable Session
Paper: “The Art of Democracy: Art Collectives and Participatory Democracy on
New York City’s Lower East Side.”
April 2001 New Spaces for Civil Society in Latin America and Eastern Europe: Strengthening
or Fragmenting Democracy, Columbia University
Panel: Social Movements and the Challenge of Political Participation
Paper: “Linking Ideas with Action: On the Uses of Information Technology
among Women's Organizations in East Central Europe”
August 1999 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Collective Behavior and
Social Movements Roundtable Session
Paper: “The Community They Loved: SNCC’s Freedom Summer and the Black
Volunteer Experience”
August 1998 Social Movements Workshop, Department of Sociology, University of California-
Davis
Paper: “The Community They Loved: African American participants of SNCC’s
Freedom Summer”
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