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Indiana University
Department of Sociology
Ballantine Hall 744
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
Phone: (812) 856-1521
Fax:
(812) 855-0781
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Ethan Michelson
(September 2009)
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ADDRESS
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Indiana University
Department of Sociology
Ballantine Hall 744
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405 |
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TELEPHONE/FAX
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(812) 856-1521
(812) 855-0781 (fax)
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EMAIL
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URL
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http://www.indiana.edu/~emsoc
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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Departments of Sociology and East Asian Languages & Cultures |
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2008-present |
Associate Professor |
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2003-2008 |
Assistant Professor |
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Maurer School of Law |
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2009-present |
Associate Professor of Sociology and Law |
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2008-2009 |
Adjunct Professor of Law |
EDUCATION
University of Chicago
Ph.D., Department of Sociology, 2003 (Dissertation:
"Unhooking from the State: Chinese Lawyers in Transition")
M.A., Department of Sociology, 1995
McGill University
B.A., First Class Joint Honors in East Asian Studies and
Sociology, 1992
Nanjing University, Nanjing,
China, Chinese language study, 1992-93
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
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forthcoming |
“What Do Chinese Lawyers Want? Political
Values and Legal Practice.” (Ethan Michelson and Sida Liu) In China’s Emerging Middle Class:
Beyond Economic Transformation, edited by Cheng Li. Washington DC:
Brookings Institution Press.
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forthcoming |
“Family Planning Policy Enforcement in Rural China: Enduring State-Society
Conflict?” (Ethan Michelson) In Growing Pains: Tensions and Opportunity in China’s
Transformation, edited by Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle, and Xueguang Zhou.
Stanford, CA: Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, distributed by
Brookings Institution Press (expected 2009).
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forthcoming |
“Public Attitudes toward Official
Justice in Beijing and Rural China.” (Ethan Michelson and Benjamin
L. Read) In Chinese Justice: Civil
Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China, edited by Margaret Y.K. Woo,
Mary E. Gallagher, and Merle Goldman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press.
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2009 |
"Gender Inequality in the Chinese Legal Profession." Research in the
Sociology of Work 19:337-76. |
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2008 |
Mediating the Mediation Debate: Conflict Resolution and
the Local State in China (Benjamin L.
Read and Ethan Michelson) Journal of Conflict Resolution 52(5):
737-67. |
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2008 |
Dear Lawyer Bao: Everyday Problems, Legal Advice, and
State Power in China. (Ethan Michelson) Social Problems 55(1):
43-71. |
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2008 |
Justice from Above or Below? Popular
Strategies for Resolving Grievances in Rural China (Ethan Michelson)
The China Quarterly 193: 43-64. |
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Winner of the 2009 Gordon White Prize for most original
article or research report published in The China Quarterly
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2007 |
Lawyers, Political Embeddedness,
and Institutional Continuity in China's Transition from Socialism (Ethan
Michelson) American Journal of Sociology 113(2): 352-414. |
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Abridged and edited version to be reprinted in Lawyers
and the Construction of the Rule of Law: National and Transnational
Processes, edited by Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth.
Co-Winner of the 2009 Research Article Award of the
American Sociological Association Section on Asia & Asian America
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2007 |
Climbing the Dispute Pagoda: Grievances and Appeals to the Official Justice
System in Rural China. (Ethan Michelson) American Sociological Review
72(2): 459-85. The article also has an
Online
Supplement and an
Erratum. |
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2006 |
"The Practice of Law as an Obstacle to Justice:
Chinese Lawyers at Work." Law & Society Review 40(1): 1-38
(lead article) (Ethan Michelson)
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Abridged and edited version reprinted in
Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation,
edited by Ching Kwan Lee. Oxon, UK and
New York: Routledge, 2007.
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2000 |
"Gender Differentials in Economic Success: Rural China in 1991," Pp. 134-56
in Redrawing Boundaries: Gender, Households, and Work in China,
edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail Henderson. Berkeley: University of
California Press (Ethan Michelson and William L. Parish) |
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2000 |
"The Changing Character of the Lawyer-Client Relationship: Evidence From Two
Chicago Surveys," in The Management of Durable Relations: Theoretical and
Empirical Models for Households and Organizations, edited by Werner Raub
and Jeroen Weesie. Amsterdam: Thela/Thesis Publishers (Ethan
Michelson, Edward O. Laumann, and John P. Heinz) |
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1998 |
"The Changing Character of Lawyers' Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995." Law
& Society Review 32(5): 751-75. (John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann,
Robert L. Nelson, and Ethan Michelson) |
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Reprinted in
Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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1998 |
"Guest Editor's Introduction." Chinese Law and Government
31(5) (Ethan Michelson) |
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1998 |
"Tradition in the Shadow of Modern Legal Practice: Continuity and Change in
the Delivery of Justice in China (I)." Chinese Law and Government
31(5) (Ethan Michelson) |
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1998 |
"Tradition in the Shadow of Modern Legal Practice: Continuity and Change in
the Delivery of Justice in China (II)." Chinese Law and Government
31(6) (Ethan Michelson) |
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1996 |
"Politics and Markets: Dual Transformations." American Journal of
Sociology 101(4): 1042-1059 (William L. Parish and Ethan Michelson) |
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Reprinted in Shichang Zhuanxing Yu Shehui
Fenceng: Meiguo Shehuixuezhe Fenxi Zhongguo (Market Transition and Social
Stratification: American Sociologists' Analyses of China), edited by Yanjie
Bian. Beijing: San Lian Press, 2002.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS
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2008 |
"Popular
Attitudes Towards Dispute Processing in Urban and Rural China," The Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society |
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2004 |
"Shimin Shenghuo Zhong de Falü," (Law in the Lives of
Urban Citizens) Pp. 81–104 in Falü Yu Shehui: Shehuixue He Faxue de
Shijiao (Law and Society: Sociological and Jurisprudential
Perspectives), edited by Guo Xinghua and Lu Yilong. Beijing: Renmin Daxue
Chubanshe. |
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2003 |
"Jiufen Yu Falü Xuqiu: Yi Beijing de Diaocha Wei Li" (Disputes and Legal
Demand: Taking a Beijing Survey as a Case) Jiangsu Shehui Kexue [Jiangsu
Social Science], 1:72-80. (Ethan Michelson) |
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2001 |
"Lang Lai Zi Nali? Zhongguo Lüshi de Xiwang Lai Zi Nali? [From Where Does
the Wolf Come? From Where Do Chinese Lawyers' Hopes Come?]" Huanqiu Falü
Pinglun [Global Law Review] 119: 173-5. (Ethan Michelson) |
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2000 |
"Shichang Jingji, Jiufen Jiejue, Yu Lixing Falv Bianhuazhong De Zhongguo
Jiquan Shetuan [The Market, Dispute Resolution, and Rational Law:
Corporatism in a Changing China]," in Gong Fa [Public Law Review],
Volume 2, edited by Xia Yong. Beijing: Falv Chubansh (Gao Hongjun
and Ethan Michelson) |
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2000 |
"Statistical Appendix," in Zou Xiang Quanli de Shidai: Zhongguo Gongmin
Quanli Fazhan Yanjiu [Towards an Age of Rights: Research on The Development
of Chinese Citizen Rights], Revised Edition, edited by Xia Yong.
Beijing: Zhongguo Zhengfa Daxue Chubanshe (Ethan Michelson) |
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1993 |
"In Defense of Collective Farms: Collectivization and Decollectivization in
the People's Republic of China." Society for Economic Anthropology
Newsletter 13(2): 6-15 (Ethan Michelson) |
JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PROGRESS
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND DISTINCTIONS
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2009-2010 |
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program
Fellowship |
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2009-2010 |
U.S. Department of State Fulbright Research Scholar Grant, declined |
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2009 |
2009 Research Article Award of the American Sociological Association Section
on Asia & Asian America |
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2008 |
Gordon White Prize for most original article or research report published in
The China Quarterly in 2008 |
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2007-2008 |
Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award,
campus-wide award for junior faculty members who show promise of achieving
great distinction as scholars or artists |
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2006-2007 |
Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Institute for International Research, In-Residence
Research Fellowship |
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2006-2007 |
Indiana University Research Leave Supplement |
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2005 |
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary
Research, The University of Iowa (co-PI: Benjamin L. Read) |
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2002 |
The University of Chicago Doolittle Fellowship |
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2001-2003 |
American Bar Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship |
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2000-2001 |
Ford Foundation Individual Grant for Promoting Sociology of Law in China,
2000-2001 (Grant #15006118).
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1999-2000 |
Fulbright-Hays, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
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1999-2000 |
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program, Grant for
Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research (co-PI: William L. Parish)
[NSF#9906234]
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1999-2000 |
Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field
Research Fellowship |
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1995-96 |
Social Science Research Council, International Predissertation
Fellowship Program |
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1993-97 |
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship |
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1992-93 |
China/Canada Scholar Exchange Programme Fellowship |
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1992-93 |
Harold K. Schneider Prize, Society for Economic Anthropology |
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1991-92 |
David N. Solomon Prize in Sociology, McGill University |
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1989-90 |
Bielski Prize in Sociology, McGill University |
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1989-90 |
James McGill Award, McGill University |
INVITED TALKS
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2009 |
Sino-Global Legal Alliance, Beijing, October 17 |
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2008 |
University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, December
11 |
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2008 |
Invited Discussant at Senior Scholar Seminar on the
Role of Empirical Research in Criminal Justice Policy
Change, Harvard University, Kennedy School of
Government, October 6-7
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2008 |
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law, March
28 |
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2007 |
Yale Law School, November 26 |
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2007 |
Missouri Southern State University,
Joplin, two talks for “China Semester,” November 16 |
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2006 |
Nanjing University, Department of
Sociology, Sociological Seminar, No. 70, November 15 |
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2006 |
Invited Discussant at Workshop on Globalization of
Women's
Rights, Wellesley College, July 30-August 2 |
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2006 |
University of Illinois, College of Law, February 3 |
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2005 |
University of Pittsburgh, Asian Studies Center, November
14 |
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2005 |
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Sociology,
November 14 |
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2005 |
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, June 11 |
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2005 |
The University of Chicago, East Asia
Workshop, May 31. |
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2005 |
Northwestern University, Department of
Sociology, April 7 |
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2005 |
University at Buffalo (SUNY), Baldy
Center for Law & Social Policy, March 4 |
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2004 |
University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, Noon
Lecture Series, November 9 |
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2002 |
Harvard University Law School, East Asian Legal Studies
Series, December 16 |
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2002 |
MIT Sloan School, Economic Sociology Seminar, December
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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2009 |
paper for International Conference on Relational
Sociology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, October
4-5 |
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2009 |
"What Do Chinese Lawyers Want?" for Conference on
“China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic
Transformation,” the Brookings Institution in
Washington, DC, September 22-23
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2009 |
"Chinese Lawyers since 2000: Findings from Two
Surveys," for Conference on "The 'Law and Society'
Movement in the 21st Century China: An
Interdisciplinary & Transnational Dialogue on
Reconstruction of Legal Order," the KoGuan Law
School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,
September 13
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2009 |
"Gender Inequality in the Chinese Legal Profession,"
for the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting,
Denver, May 28-31 |
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2008 |
paper for Conference on Lawyers and the Construction
of the Rule of Law: National and Transnational
Processes, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL,
March 21-22 |
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2007 |
paper for "Growing Pains: Tensions
and Opportunity in China’s Transformation" workshop,
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford
University, November 2 |
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2007 |
paper for "Chinese Justice: Civil
Dispute Resolution in Post-Reform China" workshop at
Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian
Research, October 12-14 |
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2007 |
paper for "Conference on Dispute
Resolution in China," The William S. Richardson
School of Law, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI,
September 17-18 |
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2007 |
“Climbing the Dispute Pagoda:
Grievances and Appeals to the Official Justice
System in Rural China,” for the American Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August
30-September 2 |
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2006 |
"Deprivation, Discontent, and
Disobedience in Rural China: Collective Learning in
Southeast Henan," for Conference on "Reclaiming Chinese
Society: Politics of Redistribution, Recognition and
Representation," University of California-Berkeley,
October 27-28 |
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2006 |
"Lawful and Unlawful Strategies of
Contention in China: Evidence from a Survey of
Rights Consciousness," for Conference on "Popular Contention
in China," University of California-Berkeley,
October 6-8 (with Jennifer Choo) |
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2006 |
"Dear Lawyer Bao: Institutional Change, State Power,
and Popular Resistance in China,"
for Law and Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, July
5-9 (Ethan Michelson) |
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2006 |
"Challenges and Coping Strategies in China's Criminal
Defense Bar," for Law and Society
Annual Meeting, Baltimore, July 5-9 (Ethan
Michelson) |
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2006 |
"Hooked, Unhooked, Still Hooked: Lawyers, Political
Embeddedness, and Institutional Continuity in
China's Transition from Socialism," for Conference
on Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: China's
Political Economy in Comparative and Theoretical
Perspective, Bloomington, Indiana, May 19-20 |
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2006 |
"Peasants' Burdens" and
State Response: Explaining the Causes and Predicting
the Consequences of Popular Tax Resistance in Rural China," for the Association for
Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 6-9. |
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2005 |
"Global Institutions, Local
Meaning: Appropriation and Indigenization in the
Chinese Legal System," for Workshop on Comparative
Institutional Research, Peking University, October
14-16. |
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2005 |
"Justice from Above or Justice from
Below? Social Limits to Petitioning the State in
Rural China," Overseas Young Chinese Forum 7th
Annual Meeting (The State of Rural China: Chinese
Peasants, Agriculture and Rural Society in the
Reform Era), Storrs, CT, May 27-30. |
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2004 |
"The Trials and Tribulations of
Chinese Lawyers," for the 99th Annual Meeting of the
American Sociological Association, San Francisco,
August 14-17 (Ethan Michelson) |
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2004 |
"The Power of a Powerless Profession: Why and How
Chinese Lawyers Screen Cases," for the Workshop on
Working in China: New Ethnographies of Labor and the
Chinese Workplace, Ann Arbor, MI, June 5 (Ethan
Michelson) |
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2004 |
"How Much Does Law Matter in Rural
China?" for Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago,
May 27-30 (Ethan Michelson) |
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2004 |
"Chinese
Lawyers and Their Competitors: State-Mediated
Jurisdictional Conflicts," for Law and Society
Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 27-30 (Sida Liu and
Ethan Michelson) |
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2004 |
"Causes
and Consequences of Grievances in Rural China," for
Conference on Socioeconomic Rights in China
Dickinson College, April 16-18 (Ethan Michelson) |
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2003 |
"Chinese Lawyers: Guanxi as a
Substitute for Rights," for Human Rights in China:
Progress, Problems, and Prospects, University of
Chicago, April 19 (Ethan Michelson) |
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2002 |
"They Talk the Talk, But Can They Walk the Walk?
Obstacles to Collective Action Among Chinese
Lawyers," for Law and Society in China conference
co-sponsored by the Institute for East Asian
Studies, the Center for the Study of Law & Society,
and the Center for Chinese Studies, University of
California at Berkeley, September 20-21. (Ethan
Michelson) |
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2002 |
"When Organizations Subsume Law: Work Units and the
Structure of Disputing in Urban China," for the 97th
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological
Association, Chicago, August 16-19 (also presented
at the North American Chinese Sociologists'
Association Mini-Conference, Chicago, August 15)
(Ethan Michelson) |
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2002 |
"How Much Does Law Matter in Beijing?" for Law and
Society Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC,
Canada, May 30-June 1 (Ethan Michelson) |
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2002 |
"Lawyers and Clients in China: The Power of a
Powerless Profession," for the Association for Asian
Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 4-7
(Ethan Michelson) |
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1999 |
"Patterns of Provision and Jurisdictional
Territorialism: The Organization of Work in Urban
China," for the 94th Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-10
(Ethan Michelson) |
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1998 |
"Economic Development, Social Control, and Disputing
in China: The Changing Face of Chinese Corporatism,"
for the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association, San Francisco, August
21-25 (Ethan Michelson and Gao Hongjun) |
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1997 |
"Chicago Lawyers and their Clients, 1975-95: A
Client-Based Approach to the Social Transformation
of the Bar," for "The Management of Durable
Relations: Theoretical and Empirical Models for
Households and Organizations," Zeist, The
Netherlands, June 26-28 (Ethan
Michelson, Edward O. Laumann, and John P. Heinz) |
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1997 |
"The Organization of Lawyers' Work: Hemispheres,
Tectonic Plate Movements, and Continental Drift,"
for Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May
29-June 1, St. Louis, Missouri (John P. Heinz,
Robert L. Nelson, Edward O. Laumann, and Ethan
Michelson) |
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1997 |
"Corporatism and the Individual: Changing Dynamics
of Disputing Under Rapid Social Change," for Law and
Society Association Annual Meeting, May 29-June 1,
St. Louis, Missouri (Ethan Michelson and Gao Hongjun) |
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1996 |
presentation at "Conducting Social Science Research
in Southeast Asia" workshop jointly hosted by the
Social Science Research Council and The University
of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines, June 16-20
(Ethan Michelson) |
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
American Sociological Association
Sociology of Law Section, Nominations
Committee, 2004
Sociology of Law Section, Graduate Student
Paper Award Committee, Chair, 2008
Sociology of Law Section,
Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Chair, 2010
Manuscript reviews for:
American Sociological
Review
American Journal of
Sociology
Social Forces
Law & Society Review
The China Quarterly
The China Journal
Modern China
The China Review
Asian Survey
Law & Social Inquiry
Canadian Journal of Law &
Society
Grant proposal reviews for:
National Science Foundation
Israeli Science Foundation
Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Academic Council, Overseas Young Chinese Forum (http://www.oycf.org),
2006–
Facilitator, Fellows Workshop, Social Science Research
Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship,
Charleston, SC, March 2006
Screener, Social Science Research Council International
Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2006
American Journal of
Sociology, manuscript review
committee, 1996–1997
LANGUAGE COMPETENCE
Chinese: written fluent,
spoken fluent
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