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Kyle D Green

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Sociology 1058 Soc Sci Bldg 267 - 19th Ave S

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Narrative

I have always found great pleasure in learning new and wondrous things. Sociology is the discipline that allows me to continue to explore the world with the wonderment of a child first entering the magical lands of fairy tales.


Specialties

  • Sociology
  • Geography
  • gender (masculinity)
  • Excess & ritual
  • physical practice/sport
  • Popular Culture
  • Spaces of escape
  • Place & Identity
  • Mixed Martial Arts

Educational Background

  • B.A.: Geography major, Philosophy and Honors minors, State University of New York (SUNY), Geneseo, NY, 2005.
  • M.A.: Geography, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2008.

Publications

  • "We Wear No Pants": Selling Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials: Green, Kyle, Madison Van Oort, Signs: Journal of Women in Society, forthcoming .
  • the Wire goes to college: Green, Kyle, Sarah Lageson, Sinan Erensu, Contexts, 10 12-15, 2011.
  • It hurts so it is real: sensing the seduction of mixed martial arts: Green, Kyle, social & cultural geography, 12 377-396, 2011.

Research Activities

  • Talking About Social Controversies Project: Research assistant for a National Science Foundation funded project examining how people discuss issues related to science, religion, and politics. Responsible for organizing and running twelve focus groups in Boston, MA., 2011
  • Prince and the Twin Cities music scene: archival research focused on the racial dynamics of the Minneapolis music scene., 2008
  • Globalization and sustainable development in Latin America: Research assistant for a National Science Foundation funded study of the urban thermal heat island effect in Merida, Mexico, 06/2003 - 08/2003
  • Globalization and sustainable development in Latin America: Research assistant for a National Science Foundation funded study of consumer consumption and waste generation in Merida, Mexico, 06/2003 - 08/2003
  • Globalization and sustainable development in Latin America: Research assistant for a National Science Foundation funded study of ecotourism in Celestun, Mexico, 06/2003 - 08/2003

Professional Activities

  • 2011 Sociology Research Institution – Paper Presentation in session on Contestation, Conversion and the Politics of Consumption – “We Wear, We Wear, We Wear No Pants“: The Crisis of Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials.
  • 2011 Guest Lecture – Research Methods – Participant observation or observant participation?
  • 2011 Sociology Research Institution – Paper Presentation in Women, Men & Hippies: Revisiting the Feminist Scholarship of Helen Hacker – The New Burdens of Masculinity
  • 2010 Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport – Paper Presentation in Section on Producing Athletic Extremes: Studies of Sports Culture at the Outer Limits Talking on the Mat: Mixed Martial Arts & the Emergence of Narrating Men
  • 2010 Guest Lecture – Separate Worlds: Comparing Homelessness and Affluence in the United States (Augsburg College) – Why Ethnography.
  • 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association – Paper Presentation in Section on Body and Embodiment Exploring the Limits of the Body: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Role of Pain in Mixed Martial Arts
  • 2009 Sociology Research Institution – Paper Presentation in Sport session – Amateur Mixed Martial Arts and the Emergence of Hypermasculine Narratives: Creating a Safe Space to Hurt
  • 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers – Paper Presentation in session on the Limits of the Body Pain, Masculinity and Contemporary Capitalism: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Seduction of Mixed Martial Arts
  • Paper Presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Geographers (Boston): Streetball: Representation and racialization of an urban performance (as part of the Public Space and Spectacle session)
  • Discussant on the Critical Sports Geography panel at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Geographers (Boston)
  • 2005 AAG conference poster presentation, Denver, CO: The Globalization of Basketball
  • Paper presentation at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers: Analysis of the Generation and Distribution of Solid Waste in Mérida, Mexico

Outreach Activities

  • Editorial Board - The Society Pages: 2011 - present
  • Graduate Editorial Board - American Sociological Association "Contexts" Magazine: 2010 - 2011
  • Co-organizer of the SWS Brownbag Speaker Series: 2010 - 2011
  • Graduate student representative - University of Minnesota Sociology Department: 2010 - 2011

Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2010 - 2011
  • Public Sociology Award, U of M Department of Sociology, 2010 - 2011
  • Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Travel Grant (University of Minnesota), Summer 2010
  • Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2009
  • National Council for Geographic Education & Association of American Geographers Award for Excellence of Scholarship, 2004 - 2005

Courses Taught

  • Sociology 4966 – Senior Projects
  • Sociology 3801 – Sociological Research Methods
  • Sociology 3703 – Social Theory
  • Sociology 1001 – Introduction to Sociology
  • Cities, Citizens, and Communities (Teaching Assistant)
  • Geography of the Twin Cities
  • Geographies of Global Cities (Teaching Assistant)
  • Physical Geography (Lab Instructor)
  • Humanities II (Teaching Assistant)
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