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Katrina Kimport, PhD
Katrina Kimport, PhD

Assistant Professor

[email protected]

Contact Information
Mailing Address: 1330 Broadway Street, Suite 1100
Oakland, CA 94612
Academic Phone: (415) 353-4537
Academic Fax: (510) 986-8960
Research/Clinical Interests:

Sociology of gender; sociology of sexuality; social movements; inequality

Education/Training
Year Institution & Location Degree Field of Study
2000 Yale University, New Haven, CT BA Sociology & Women's Studies
2005 University of California, Santa Barbara MA Sociology
2009 University of California, Santa Barbara PhD Sociology
Achievements & Recognition
Year Major Honors
2013 Best book award honorable mention, Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association
2009 Best published article award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association
2015 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book, Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association
Selected Publications

Kimport, K. 2014. Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the U.S. Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Kimport, K. 2012. Organizational Dominance and Its Consequences in the Online Abortion Rights and Anti-Abortion Movements. Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change 33:139-161.

Kimport, K. 2012. “Remaking the White Wedding? Same-Sex Wedding Photographs’ Challenge to Symbolic Heteronormativity.” Gender & Society 26(6): 874-898.

Kimport, K. 2012. (Mis)Understanding Abortion Regret. Symbolic Interaction. 35(2):105-122.

Earl, J, Kimport, K. 2011. Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.

Taylor, V, Kimport, K, Van Dyke, N, Andersen, E. 2009. Culture and Mobilization: Tactical Repertoires, Same-Sex Weddings, and the Impact on Gay Activism. American Sociological Review 74: 865-890.