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People > Faculty > Justine E. Tinkler
Justine E. Tinkler
PhD, Stanford University, 2007
Assistant Professor
Phone: 225 578 0188
Email address: jtinkler@lsu.edu
Office: 105A Stubbs Hall
Curriculum Vitae
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I joined the Department of Sociology at LSU in 2008 after receiving my Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. My research is unified by an attention to the micro-level processes that create and reinforce race and gender inequality in institutions. My past work, published in such journals as Social Psychology Quarterly and Law and Social Inquiry, examined how sexual harassment laws, in their effort to reduce gender inequality in the workplace, have unintended consequences that run counter to their equalizing aims. My recent work investigates how laws designed to change existing relations between groups (like anti-harassment and affirmative action laws) threaten widely held cultural beliefs, group privileges, and interaction norms. I show that the resistance provoked by these threats limits the potential of law for social change. Recent and on-going collaborations include studies examining the process by which people develop and transfer a newly formed status belief to a new situation, the role of gender bias in the decision-making of high growth venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, and the role of implicit racial bias in transracial adoption decisions.
Courses recently taught at LSU
(Syllabi provided below are only for illustrative purposes and are subject to change every semester)
Sociology 4471: Sociology of Law
Sociology 4621: Small Groups
Sociology 7491: Sociology of Law |
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