Resume

• 2006

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Sociology

  Union for Democratic Communications

  American Sociological Association

  Cultural Studies Association

  International Gramsci Society

  Texas A&M University

• 2000

  Master's Degree

  Cultural Studies

  George Mason University

• 1992

  Bachelor’s Degree

  Literature (Honors) and Philosophy

  Rutgers University

• Social Media

  PowerPoint

  Cultural Theory

  Microsoft Office

  Event Planning

  Critical Theory

  Instructional Design

  Curriculum Development

  Research

  Editing

  Academic Writing

  Social Theory

  Qualitative Research

  Teaching

  Social Movements

  University Teaching

  Student Affairs

  Public Speaking

  Higher Education

  “Alie(N)ation: A Qualitative Multi-Method Approach to Discourse

  Domination

  and Unauthorized Migration.” in Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance.

  “Alie(N)ation: A Qualitative Multi-Method Approach to Discourse

  Domination

  and Unauthorized Migration.” in Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance.

  Autonomy

  Refusal

  and the Black Block

  This paper explores a selective intellectual historiography in contemporary social movements scholarship and offers a critique of it. I argue that although the study of social movements

  especially in the context of globalization

  is inherently about capital

  modernity and forms of political

  social

  and economic agency

  social movement scholarship has retreated from the materialist influence upon their analysis. As a result

  breaking connections with a Marxist materialist approach has made it difficult for social movement scholars

  in the social sciences to have a standpoint: this is detrimental for both the politics of social movement studies but

  also

  for critique.

  “A Materialist and Standpoint Critique of Social Movement Theoretical Presumptions”

  This article investigates why Gramsci's theories and concepts have a discrete relevance to the study of race and ethnicity in contemporary contexts. Two theoretical points emerge from the investigation. First

  through Gramsci's work

  Hall's approach to the structural/cultural theory problem provides an important mediation for theoretical approaches to race. Hall is then able to demonstrate that the racialization of labor and the coercion of workers in colonial and neocolonial contexts

  with regard to the “global south” was the rule and not the exception. Second

  through an historical and discursive approach

  I demonstrate how Gramsci's analysis of politics and political strategies took race into account. I contend that Gramsci's perspective on race facilitated Hall's ability to deploy Gramsci's theoretical framework and concepts.

  \"Agile Materialisms: Antonio Gramsci

  Stuart Hall

  Racialization

  and Modernity\"​

  Hilario Molina II

  \"How Women Work:The Symbolic and Material Reproduction of Migrant Labor Camps in United States Agribusiness\"​

  \"A Sociology of Shakespeare: Or Scattered Speculations on Capital

  the Symbolic

  Social Structure and Agency in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice\"​

  While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes

  Robert F. Carley argues by contrast that tactics are

  above all

  what social movements do. They are not mere means to an end so much as they are a public form of expression pointing out injustices and making just demands. Rooted in a highly original analysis of the tactically mediated relationship between race and mobilization in the work of Italian philosopher and revolutionary Antonio Gramsci

  Culture and Tactics demonstrates how tactics impact the organizational structures of social movements and expand the affinities of political communities. Carley looks at how Gramsci used innovative tactics to bridge perceptions of racial differences between factory workers and subaltern groups

  the latter having been denigrated to the point of subhumanity by a complex Italian national racial economy. Newly envisioning Gramsci as a theorist of race within a broader context of social struggle

  Carley connects Gramsci’s insights into the political mobilizations of racialized subaltern groups to contemporary critical race theory and cultural studies of racialization and racism. Speaking across disciplines and drawing on a number of empirical examples

  Carleyoffers a battery of original concepts to assist scholars and activists in analyzing the tactical practices of protests in which race is a central factor.\n\n“This book provides an excellent rendering of Gramsci’s political perspective applied to race

  and usefully extended to broader theoretical and practical applications.” — Lee Artz

  coauthor of Cultural Hegemony in the United States

  Culture & Tactics: Gramsci

  Race

  and the Politics of Practice

  Recipient of 2017 North Central Sociological Association Scholarly Achievement Award\n\nThis article introduces the concept “ideological contention” into the study of social movements and demonstrates the concept through an analysis of the relationship between race and mobilization in modern national contexts. The analysis links the emergence of scientific racism to the period of large nation state consolidation and the development of liberal political ideologies across Western nations. The paper demonstrates that movement struggles within the context of a national ideological framework impact the organization

  process of ideological elaboration

  and strategic choices a movement makes. I explore how ideology organizes

  coordinates

  and mobilizes movement members in political processes through a study of Sardinian worker

  peasant

  and communist struggles in the context of a modernized and industrialized Italy (1917–1920). I argue that reevaluating the theoretical and empirical relationship between ideology and the frame perspective could strengthen analyses of social movement struggles.

  \"Ideological Contention: Antonio Gramsci and the Connection Between Race & Social Movement Mobilization in Early Twentieth-Century Italy\"​

  Collectivities

  in brief

  is a term describing the intellectual and creative potential of groups. Collectivities then mark a position in the connection between disciplinary fields; a position that is simultaneously productive of new knowledge and new politics. In Collectivities: Politics at the Intersections of Disciplines Robert Carley looks at the classical ideas and theorists that have influenced interdisciplinary work in the humanistic and social-scientific disciplines as well as contemporary cases of interdisciplinary meeting points

  specifically cultural studies

  Chicana/o studies and radical sociology (e.g. critical

  liberation

  public

  and Marxist approaches). He discusses the intellectual

  creative

  and political potential of these groupings. Noting that interdisciplinary groups often come together to address political or social problems

  Carley provides an analysis of these groupings as well as ways of understanding their work. He suggests that we might understand interdisciplinarity as more than merely a constellation of scholarly fields. By looking at the political contexts that inform our understanding of as well as the approaches of interdisciplinary groups Collectivities suggests some new ways to think about the production of knowledge when it occurs between disciplines.\n\n

  Collectivities: Politics at the Intersections of Disciplines

  Robert

  Carley

  Ph.D.

  Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

  Texas A&M University

  Wright State University

  Texas A&M University

  Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

  Editor

  Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

  Book Review Editor

  Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

  Texas A&M University

  Assistant Professor

  Bryan/College Station

  Texas Area

  Assistant Professor

  Department of Sociology

  Dayton

  Ohio Area

  Wright State University

  Texas A&M University

  North Central Sociological Association

  Steering Committee Member

  Union for Democratic Communications

  International Social Theory Consortium

  Book Review Editor

  Lateral

  Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

  Cultural Studies Association

  National Communication Association

  American Sociological Association

  The Scholarly Achievement Award Committee of the North Central Sociological Association solicits nominations from the membership for significant work in the discipline and has not been recognized by the Association. There are two types of awards: scholarly paper and scholarly book. \n\nThe committee evaluates the nominated books/articles using the following criterion:\n\n -use

  development

  extension

  or reworking of theory;\n\n -appropriateness and strength of methods/research design;\n\n -clarity

  quality

  and accessibility of writing;\n\n -overall contribution to and impact on the discipline of sociology — be it through use in the classroom

  as a research piece

  or both — including its timeliness and significance.\n

  North Central Sociological Association