Research
Research, Teaching, Service
Dustin Kidd - CV
Current Position
Director of General Education, 2023 — Present
Associate Professor of Sociology, 2004 — Present (tenured in 2011)
Chair of the Department of Sociology, 2021 — 2023
Director of Intellectual Heritage, 2017 — 2021
Director of Assessment, College of Liberal Arts, 2015 — 2021
Research (selected)
Legislating Disability. In progress. Under contract with New York University Press.
Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society, by Dustin Kidd. First edition 2014, Westview Press. Second edition 2018, Routledge. (Third edition in progress and under contract.)
Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society, by Dustin Kidd. 2017: Westview Press (now published by Routledge). (Second edition in progress and under contract.)
Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art and Politics, by Dustin Kidd. 2010: Routledge.
"Social Media and Social Movements" by Dustin Kidd and Keith McIntosh. Sociology Compass.
“Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture” by Dustin Kidd. Journal of Popular Culture.
Additional publications in Research in Political Sociology, Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, The Hedgehog Review, Contemporary Sociology, Sociology Compass, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Contexts, Afterimage, Men & Masculinities, and Teaching Sociology.
Awards (selected)
Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award (2020)
Faculty Senate Outstanding Faculty Service Award (2017)
College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (2017)
Temple Leadership Academy (2015-2016)
Provost’s Teaching Academy (2014)
Mellon Regional Humanities Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum (2008-2009)
Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities at Temple (2007-2008)
Service (current and recent)
Past Chair (2023-2024), Chair (2022-2023), and Chair Elect (2021-2022) of the Communications, Information Technology, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section of the American Sociological Association.
Secretary/Treasurer of the Communications, Information Technology, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section of the American Sociological Association, 2019-2021.
Graduate Board, Temple University, 2016-2022.
Chair of Graduate Committee, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2014-2016.
Faculty Senate, 2017-2020.
Director of Graduate Studies and chair of graduate committee, Sociology, Temple University, 2012-2019.
Advisory Board, Center for the Humanities at Temple. Temple University, 2013-2016.
General Education Executive Committee, 2017-2021.
Provost’s Task Force on Textbook Affordability, 2019-2022.
Steering Committee, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, Temple University, 2015-2019.
Executive Committee, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2021 — Present.
Executive Committee, Sociology, Temple University, 2012-2019.
Education
Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies, Temple University, 2020.
PhD, Sociology, University of Virginia, 2004.
MA, English, University of Virginia, 1999.
Graduate Certificate in American Studies, University of Virginia, 1999.
BA, Philosophy & Religious Studies and English, James Madison University, 1996.
Teaching
Undergraduate Studies
Intellectual Heritage: The Good Life
Intellectual Heritage: The Common Good
Sociology of Popular Culture
Development of Sociological Thought
Sociology Internship Seminar
Social Entrepreneurship
Graduate Studies
Teaching in Higher Education
Contemporary Social Theory
Classical Sociological Theory
Sociology of Culture