Office: DERR 202
Phone: 245-8983
E-Mail: pg07@txstate.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Patti Giuffre

I began teaching at Texas State University in 1998 (at the time, Southwest Texas State University). I was honored to receive the Texas State University Women's History Month Outstanding Woman Faculty Award in 2005. My teaching and research areas are qualitative research methods, work and occupations, and the sociology of gender and sexuality. I have conducted research on sexual harassment, sexual orientation discrimination, and experiences of LGBT workers in “gay-friendly” workplaces. My most recent project, with Dr. Deborah Harris, involves a study of elite women chefs.

I am active in the American Sociological Association's Section on Sex and Gender and in the Sociologists for Women in Society (www.socwomen.org). I serve on the editorial board of the Journal for Research on Women and Gender (http://jrwg.mcgs.txstate.edu/) and, starting in 2010, will serve on the editorial board of the ASA journal, Teaching Sociology (http://www.asanet.org/cs/journals/ts).

One of my favorite quotes:

“Under some conditions people flourish. Under other conditions, although the spirit is willing, people atrophy. How do we create conditions under which people flourish? How do we design cultures and organizations in which people thrive? This should be the task of sociology.”

Quoted from William Du Bois (2001) in Applying Sociology: Making a Better World edited by William Du Bois and R. Dean Wright.

Some of my favorite links:

American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender section

American Sociological Association, Sexualities Section

Sociologists for Women in Society

University of Maryland Women's Studies and Gender Issues Database

Institute for Women's Policy Research

American Association of University Women

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Columbia University 's Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth, and Family Policies

http://www.childpolicyintl.org/

 
Recent publications:
Christine Williams, Patti Giuffre, and Kirsten Dellinger. 2009. “The Gay-Friendly Closet.” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 6:29-45.

Patti Giuffre, Cynthia Anderson, and Sharon Bird. 2008. “Teaching the Sociology of Gender and Work.” Teaching Sociology 36: 66-78.

Patti Giuffre, Kirsten Dellinger, and Christine Williams. 2008. “’No Retribution for Being Gay’?: Inequality in Gay-Friendly Workplaces.” Sociological Spectrum 28:254-277.

Patti Giuffre and Sharon Bird (editors). 2006. Gender and Work Syllabi and Instructional Materials. Washington DC: American Sociological Association.