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Timothy Shortell

Associate Professor   Department: Sociology   Location: 3501 James Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x1762   Fax: 718-951-4639   Email:   Timothy Shortell's Web site

I am trained as a social psychologist and research methodologist/statistician. I am the author of a content coding software application, SemioCode. I program in C, Perl, Java, and R, among others. I am also a visual artist and musician. I have been at Brooklyn College since 1997. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, BOSTON COLLEGE - 1992 (PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL) Areas of Expertise: My research interests include social semiotics, American public discourse, and visual ethnography of urban neighborhoods. My teaching interests include research methods, visual sociology, and the sociology of science and technology. I am currently working on a project modeling the contentious public sphere. Below is some of my recent scholarly and creative work. Books and Publications T. Shortell, African-American Abolitionism as a Human Rights Discourse. In Human Rights and the Media, Volume 6, Studies in Communications, edited by Diana Papademas. New York: Emerald. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010 T. Shortell, The Conflict Over Origins: A Discourse Analysis of the Creationism Controversy in American Newspapers. In press at Mass Communication & Society. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 T. Shortell, The Decline of the Public Sphere: A Semiotic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Race in New York City. Pp 159-177 in Race and Ethnicity in New York City. Research in Urban Sociology, Volume Seven, edited by Jerome Krase and Ray Hutchinson. New York: Elsevier. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004 T. Shortell, The Rhetoric of Black Abolitionism: an Exploratory Analysis Of Anti-Slavery Newspapers In New York State. Social Science History. 28(1):75-109. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 Creative Work G. Lambkin and T. Shortell, Motion Painting. DVD. 2007 T. Shortell, Urban Birds. Photographs and music. Book/CD. 2007 T. Shortell, SemioCode: Content Coding Software for Quantitative Text Analysis. 2007 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Leonard and Claire Tow Faculty Travel award to study multiethnic neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris. (Awards and Honors) 2010 T. Shortell and John A. Velling, Modeling the Contentious Public Sphere: Extending Network Science to the Study of Public Discourse. National Science Foundation grant application. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007 T. Shortell, SemioCode: Proposal for the Development of Content Coding Software for Quantitative Text Analysis. CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development. (Grants and Fellowships) 2002 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums T. Shortell and J. Krase, On the Visual Semiotics of Collective Identity in Urban Vernacular Spaces. Paper presented at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010 With Jerome Krase, I organized and convened "Brooklyn in a Global Context: Ethnicity and Class Differences in Urban Neighborhoods" at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010 J. Krase and T. Shortell. Visualizing Glocalization: Semiotics of Ethnic and Class Differences in Global Cities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 T. Shortell & J. Krase. Spatial Semiotics of Difference in Urban Vernacular Neighborhoods. Paper presented at the 9th European Sociological Association Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 T. Shortell. Brooklyn and Belleville: a Case Study of the Visual Semiotics of Ethnic Identity in Two Diverse Urban Neighborhoods. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 J. Krase and T. Shortell. Visualizing Glocalization: Changing Images of Ethnic Vernacular Neighborhoods in Global Cities. Paper presented at the First ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 T. Shortell, The Conflict Over Origins: A Discourse Analysis of the Creationism/Evolution Dispute. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 J. Krase and T. Shortell. Imagining Chinatowns and Little Italies: a Visual Approach to Ethnic Spectacles. Paper presented at Le Beau Dans La Ville: Colloque International. Tours, France. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 T. Shortell, African-American Abolitionism as a Human Rights Discourse. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Amherst Branch of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History. Amherst, MA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005 T. Shortell, From Innovation To Common Practice: How Faculty Networks Are Spreading New Practices at Brooklyn College. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington, DC. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004 T. Shortell, Seeing the City: Using the Community Profile to Teach Urban Sociology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004 T. Shortell, Collective Identity Construction in Black Abolitionist Discourse: A Conceptual Network Analysis of the New York Anti-Slavery Press. Paper presented at the Race/Ethnicity Network session, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. St Louis, MO. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002 T. Shortell, Urban Wordscapes: The Rhetoric Of Public Life In Contemporary New York. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociology Society Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002 T. Shortell, The Black Abolitionist Jeremiad: An Innovative Analysis Of Anti-Slavery Newspapers In New York State. Paper presented at the Race/Ethnicity Network session, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001 T. Shortell, The Rhetoric Of Black Abolitionism: Moral Claims-Making And Collective Identity In The New York Anti-Slavery Press. Paper presented at the Sociology of Religion roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA. With Nancy Sanchez, Zuleika Rodriguez, and, Enrique Marin. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001 Professional Leadership I serve as an editor for the American Studies discussion list at H-Net, H-AMSTDY. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2007 PSC Faculty Grievance Counselor (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007 Pedagogical Achievements I have created an online teaching portal, CourseServe. 2003