Elizabeth
Cherry
Department
of Sociology,
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I’m
currently an instructor in the Department of
Sociology at the University of Georgia,
where I completed my PhD in May 2008.
My
research focuses on culture and social movements, specifically in cultural
analyses of social movements and social movement analyses of contentious
subcultures. In particular, I am interested in the role culture plays in
constraining and enabling collective action, as well as how activists attempt
to change culture.
My
dissertation (abstract)
on the animal rights movements in France and the United States examines
movement success through the interaction of culture and strategy at multiple
levels—how activists strategically attempt to change dominant culture, how
extant culture shapes tactical repertoires, and how movement culture informs
organizations’ and activists’ strategic and tactical choices.
I also serve
as faculty co-coordinator for the Georgia
Workshop on Culture, Power, and History.