September 2011 BILL WINDERS Office Address: Home Address: School of History, Technology, and Society 840 Gilbert Street Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30316 221 Bobby Dodd Way Atlanta, GA 30332-0225 (404) 894-8401 fax: (404) 894-0535 E-mail: bill.winders@gatech.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor of Sociology, 2009-present. School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Tech. Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2008-present, HTS, Georgia Tech. Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2002-2009, HTS, Georgia Tech. Visiting Assistant Professor, 2001-2002, HTS, Georgia Tech. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Sociology, Emory University, 2001. M.A. in Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1995. B.A. in Sociology, McKendree College, Lebanon, IL, 1993. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Political Sociology, Social Movements, Social Inequality, Political Economy of the World System, Political Economy of Agriculture, Sociology of Food. TEACHING AWARDS Hesburgh Teaching Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. E. Roe Stamps, IV, Excellence-in-Teaching Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. Class of 1969 Teaching Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-2004. Freshman Partner of the Year, Georgia Institute of Technology, Faculty Winner, 2003. Dean s Teaching Fellowship, Emory University, 1999-2000. Graduate Student Teaching Award, Sociology Department, Emory University, 1999-2000. OTHER HONORS 2011 Book Award, Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association: The Politics of Food Supply. Bernstein & Byres Prize for the Best Article in the Journal of Agrarian Change in 2009: The Vanishing Free Market. Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award, Political Sociology Section of the ASA: The Roller Coaster of Class Conflict, 1999. Pi Gamma Mu National Honor Society Graduate Student Scholarship, 1993. Lincoln Laureate, McKendree College, Illinois, 1993. 1
PUBLICATIONS Book: Winders, Bill. 2009. The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy. Yale University Press. (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) *Winner of the 2011 Book Award given by the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) section of the American Sociological Association. Journal Articles: Winders, Bill. 2009. The Vanishing Free Market: The Formation and Spread of the British and US Food Regimes. Journal of Agrarian Change. 9(3):315-345. *Winner of the Bernstein & Byres Prize for the Best Article in JAC in 2009. Winders, Bill. 2006. Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction : Southern Planters, State Policy, and the Market, 1933 to 1975. Journal of Agrarian Change. 6(2):143-166. Winders, Bill. 2005. Maintaining the Coalition: Class Coalitions and Policy Trajectories. Politics & Society. 33(3):387-423. Winders, Bill. 2004. Sliding Toward the Free Market: Shifting Political Coalitions and U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1945-1975. Rural Sociology. 69(4):467-489. Winders, Bill and David Nibert. 2004. Consuming the Surplus: Expanding Meat Consumption and Animal Oppression. International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy. 24(9):76-96. *Reprinted in Between the Species: A Reader in Human-Animal Relationships, edited by Arnold Arluke and Clinton Sanders, 2008. New York: Allyn & Bacon. Werum, Regina and Bill Winders. 2001. Who s In and Who s Out: State Fragmentation and the Struggle Over Gay Rights, 1974-1999. Social Problems. 48(3):386-410. Stalp, Marybeth and Bill Winders. 2000. Power in the Margins: Gendered Organizational Effects on Religious Activism. Review of Religious Research. 42(1):41-60. Winders, Bill. 1999. The Roller Coaster of Class Conflict: Class Segments, Mass Mobilization, and Voter Turnout in the U.S., 1840-1996. Social Forces. 77(3):833-862. Book Chapters and Scholarly Essays: Winders, Bill. Forthcoming. The Food Crisis and the Deregulation of Agriculture. Brown Journal of World Affairs. 2
Book Reviews: Winders, Bill. 2007. Review of Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History, by Melissa Walker. Journal of Agrarian Change. 7(3):416-418. Winders, Bill. 2004. Review of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality by Joanne Nagel, and of Animal Rights, Human Rights by David Nibert. Gender and Society. 18(2):257-259. Teaching Publications: Winders, Bill. 2003. Social Movements. Pages 150-155 in Social Movements and Collective Action: Syllabi and Instructional Materials, edited by Bob Edwards, Marieke Van Willigen, and Tisha Yelvertion. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center. Winders, Bill. 2000. Teaching Title IX. Pages 105-106 in Teaching Sociological Concepts and the Sociology of Gender, edited by Marybeth C. Stalp and Julie Childers. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center. Other Publications: Winders, Bill. 2004. Historical Lens Blurs His Solid Mandate. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. November 17:A-23. Winders, Bill. 1996. Privatizing War Veterans Home. Z-Magazine, October. Papers to be Submitted: Winders, Bill. The Politics of Retrenchment: Agricultural Coalitions and the 1996 FAIR Act. To be submitted. (9,500 words) Winders, Bill and Regina Werum. Sectionalism and Economic Interests: Access to Vocational Training in the US South, 1920-1937. To be submitted. (8,100 words) Winders, Bill. The 2004 Presidential Election in Historical Perspective: Party Cohesion and the Advantage of Incumbency in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1900-2004. To be submitted. (9,300 words) Papers in Progress: Winders, Bill. Life After the Regime: Market Stability and Volatility after the Fall of the U.S. Food Regime. (5,200 words) Winders, Bill, Kathy Liddle, and Regina Werum. Mainstream Politics: How State and Mobilization Capacity Affected Gay-Rights Ordinances, 1974-1994. Revising to submit for publication. (10,100 words) Winders, Bill. The Birth of Nations: Dynamics in the World Economy and the Emergence of Nation- States. In preparation. 3
Grants: Winders, Bill. 2003. Faculty Foundation Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology. To fund international travel ($2,140). Winders, Bill. 2002. Faculty Foundation Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology. To fund archival research ($1,500). INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES Making Food Industrial and the World Hungry: US Agricultural Policy in the World Economy. Guest Speaker, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, February 2011. Between State and Market: The Politics of Food Supply. AKD Speaker, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. At Mary Washington University, Fredricksburg, VA. April 9, 2009. The Politics of Food Supply. Panel Discussion on Sustainable Farming, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, March 25, 2009. Locked Out? How the United States Limits Voter Participation. Constitution Day Talk, Georgia Tech Library, September 17, 2008. Don t Skip My Table: A Brief Introduction to Interpreting and Understanding Regression. Graduate Student Forum, HTS. At Georgia Tech, March 28, 2008. Lessons Learned in Graduate School. Guest Speaker, Annual Awards Ceremony, Department of Sociology. At Emory University, April 25, 2007. Historical Racial Inequality and Reparations. Panel Discussion on the Brown University Report on Slavery and Justice. At Georgia Tech, February 20, 2007. The Politics of Twentieth Century U.S. Agricultural Policy. Guest Speaker, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. At Mary Washington University, Fredricksburg, VA. November 8, 2005. SELECT PRESENTATIONS Life After the Regime: Market Stability and Volatility for Wheat, Corn, and Coffee with the Fall of the U.S. Food Regime. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Boise, ID, July 2011. Author Meets Critics: The Politics of Food Supply. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA, August 2010. The Perfect Storm?: The Political-Economic Context of the 1996 FAIR Act. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, WI, July 2009. 4
The Politics of Retrenchment: Agricultural Coalitions and the FAIR Act of 1996. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August 2008. The Vanishing Free Market: Changing International Food Regimes Under British and U.S. Hegemony. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Manchester, NH, July 2008. Restricting the Market: The International Food Regime Under U.S. Hegemony. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, VA, April 2008. The Business of Racial Equality: A Comparison of Movements for Racial Equality in the U.S. South and South Africa. (With Kristin Marsh) Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 2007. The 2004 Election in Historical Perspective: Party Cohesion and the Advantage of Incumbency in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1900-2004. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA, March 2007. The South at the Center: The Rise and Demise of Supply Management Policy, 1920-1975. Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 2006. Panelist. Author Meets Critics: One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. has no National Health Insurance, by Jill Quadagno. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, April 2006. When Incumbents Lose: The 2004 Presidential Election in Historical Context. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005. Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction : Southern Planters, the Civil Rights Movement, and U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1938 to 1975. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Sacramento, CA, August 2004. Changing Racial Inequality: The Rise and Fall of Systems of Racial Inequality in the U.S. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 2004. Sectionalism and Economic Interests: Access to Vocational Training in the U.S. South, 1920-1937. Presented with Regina Werum at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Bildungsforschung and the Annual Meeting of the European Social Science History Conference, both in Berlin, Germany, March 2004. Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction : Southern Planters, the Civil Rights Movement, and U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1938 to 1975. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA, March 2004. The Return of the Market: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the late 1900s. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2003. 5
Changing Racial Inequality: Political Coalitions and Systems of Racial Inequality in the U.S. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2003. Panel Participant. Bringing Social Justice into the Classroom. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2003. Race, Economics, and Policy Implementation: Access to Educational Opportunities in the South, 1917-1937. Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, St. Louis, MO, October 2002. (With Regina Werum, Emory University) Sliding Towards the Free Market: Shifting Political Coalitions and U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1945 to 1975. Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, August 2002. Mainstream Politics: How State and Mobilization Capacity Affected Gay-Rights Ordinances, 1974-1994. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002. (With Regina Werum and Kathy Liddle, Emory University) The Vanishing Free Market: Comparing International Food Orders Under British and U.S. Hegemony. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000. Maintaining the Coalition: Class Coalitions and the Trajectories of the Wagner Act and Agricultural Adjustment Act. Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, April 2000. The Roller Coaster of Class Conflict: Class Segments, Mass Mobilization, and Voter Turnout in the United States, 1840-1996. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 1998. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught Undergraduate Introduction to Sociology Social Movements Class, Power, and Social Inequality Social Problems; Social Issues and Public Policy Race and Ethnicity Sociology of Development Social Change (senior seminar) Food in the World Economy (senior seminar) Research Methods Graduate Foundations of Socio-Historical Research Social Movements 6
SERVICE Department Service Director of Undergraduate Studies, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2008-present. Chair of Speaker Series Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2010-2011. Chair of Sociology Search Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2010-2011. Undergraduate Program Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2006-present. Executive Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2007-2009, 2011-present. Speakers Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2010-present. Graduate Program Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2002-2005. Policy Alignment Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2003-2004. Seminar in Comparative History and Society (SCHaS) Committee, HTS, Georgia Tech, 2003-2005. Dissertation Committee, Ben Shackleford, Going National While Staying Southern: Stock Car Racing in America, 1949-1979, 2004. Dissertation Committee, Hannes Toivanen, Learning and Corporate Strategy: The Dynamic Evolution of the North American Pulp and Paper Industry, 1860-1960, 2004. Institute Service Dean Search Committee, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech, 2009-2010. CETL Awards Committee, Georgia Tech, 2010. Evaluation Committee, President s Scholarship Program, Georgia Tech, 2006. HTS Representative to the Faculty Assembly and Senate, 2003-2006. Freshman Partner Program, Georgia Tech, 2002-2003. Professional Service Program Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2011-2012. Program Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2011-2012. Chair, Sociology of Agriculture & Food Research Interest Group (SAFRIG), Rural Sociological Society, 2011-2012. Co-Chair, Sociology of Agriculture & Food Research Interest Group (SAFRIG), Rural Sociological Society, 2010-2011. Endowment Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2010-present. Development Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2008-2011. International Advisory Board, Journal of Agrarian Change, 2010-present. Co-organizer, SAFRIG Field Trip, Rural Sociological Society, 2010. Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2006. Nomination Committee, Animals & Society Section, American Sociological Association, 2004. Local Arrangements Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2004. Member of the ASA Political Sociology Section s Committee for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, 2000. Registration Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, Summer Meeting. San Francisco, CA, August 1998. 7
Journal Peer Reviewer American Sociological Review, 2001, 2006 American Journal of Sociology, 2006, 2008 American Political Science Review, 1999 Journal of Agrarian Change, 2011 Rural Sociology, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Sex Roles, 2001 Social Forces, 2005, 2006, 2008 Social Problems, 2005, 2007 Sociological Forum, 2006, 2007 Sociological Quarterly, 2005 Southern Rural Sociology, 2007, 2011 Yale University Press, 2009 Professional Meetings (Selected) Session presider, Production and Consumption in a Global Economy. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, VA, April 2008. Session presider and discussant, Economic Transformation and Inequality Trends. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2003. Session organizer, Challenging Racial Inequality. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2003. Session chair, Race, Ethnicity, and the Dimensions of Public Policy. Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, St. Louis, MO. October 2002. Session organizer and presider, Teaching and Feminism: The Classroom Environment. Sociologists for Women in Society, Summer Meeting. Chicago, IL, August 1999. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association (ASA) Rural Sociological Society (RSS) Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Social Science History Association (SSHA) 8