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Department of Sociology

Carolyn Ellis
Professor

Contact

Office: CIS 3041
Phone: 813/974-3626
Email:

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Education

Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook, 1981

Specialty Area

qualitative methods, emotions, autoethnography

Current Courses

RefCourseSecCourse TitleCRDayTimeLocation
87836COM 4020001Communicat Illness/Grief/Loss
3TR11:00am-12:15pmCPR 345
87835SPC 6728001Comm Grief, Loss, and Illness
3T2:00pm-4:45pmCIS 3057
81835SPC 6913002Directed Research
Dept. Approval Required; S-U Only 		1-19  TBA TBA
82210SPC 7980005Dissertation: Doctoral
2-19  TBA TBA

Honors and Award

  • USF President’s Women’s Leadership Award, USF Women’s Status Committee, 2007.
  • Distinguished book award (The Ethnographic I), Ethnography Division, NCA, 2005
  • Faculty Recognition Award, USF Graduate Communication Association, 2003-2004
  • USF President's Faculty Excellence Award, 2003
  • Feminist Mentor Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2002
  • Distinguished Publication Award ("With Mother/With Cild"), Ethnography Division, NCA, 2002
  • HUB Award, Department of Communication, USF, 1999
  • University Teaching Award, USF, 1999
  • Teaching Incentive Program Award, USF, 1998
  • Faculty Recognition Award, USF Graduate Communication Association, 1997-1998
  • University Teaching Award, USF, 1990
  • University Teaching Award, USF, 1987
  • Robert E. Park Award for Outstanding Research Monograph in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1986-1987
  • President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1979

Recent Publications

  • The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.

  • Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing, co-edited with Arthur P. Bochner. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1996.

  • Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss and Chronic Illness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.