Christina D Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 138741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina D Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina D |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Dakota State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dust Covered Privilege: White Women’s Experiences of the Dust Bowl
In this article, I utilize a white privilege framework to analyze white women’s experiences of the Dust Bowl. In particular, I focus on the question: What do white women’s experiences of the Dust Bowl tell us about privilege and inequality? Using oral histories housed in the University of Oklahoma’s archive, “Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women in the Dust Bowl Oral History Project,” I engage in a qualitative analysis of the women’…
Explicating anomie in refugee women’s integration narratives: A qualitative research study
Reaching for Low Hanging Fruit: Tensions Between Agency and Strategic Ambiguity
Using the conceptual tools from Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography, the focus of this article is on the challenges faculty face in their efforts to improve the gender climate at a Midwestern university. Using interviews with faculty, policy texts, and participant observation, I assert that disjunctures and text-reader conversations are valuable tools for researchers who want to examine the process of institutional change. Through this rese…
"Unpacking" Cross-Disciplinary Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
In this article, we, a team of scholars from Project Unpack, detail our process of successful cross-disciplinary collaboration. We include a discussion of the aims of our collaborative project, our process of collaboration and the roles of each individual organizer, the resources we used to support the collaboration, data sharing practices, and how our research approaches and methodologies have been influenced by engaging in collaborative researc…
Social Memory and War Narratives: Transmitted Trauma among Children of Vietnam War Veterans
The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad
Being Brave: Negotiating Agency in Dialogues and Vignettes
In this article, I explore how individuals access agency within a large institution. Relying on Dorothy Smith's work with institutional ethnography, I integrate interview data with my experience as part of the institutional change process. What is revealed in the data is that agency is constantly being negotiated with disengagement. In the article, I set up a series of vignettes to establish an interwoven dialogue that enables me to tell the coll…
Navigating the Gendered Math Path: Understanding Women's Experiences in University Mathematics Classes
Using dialogues with our informants, as well as with each other, we explore how the men and women in our research make it through their mathematics coursework and, in turn, pursue their intended majors. Our research focuses on how students navigate what we call the gendered math path and how that path conforms to and diverges from traditional gender norms. Common themes of women's lower than men's self-perception of their ability to do mathematic…
Putting the Family Into the Military Mission: A Feminist Exploration of a National Guard Family Program
What are the challenges of doing feminist research within a military institution? This became the guiding force of my research with the Midwest Family Program of the National Guard (MWFP). This article examines both my experiences as a feminist scholar conducting research in a military institution as well as the gendered tensions within the MWFP. While in the field, my research shifted from a traditional ethnographic study to a deeply personal au…
Literary Fiction as a Tool for Teaching Social Theory and Critical Consciousness
In this paper, I discuss the possibilities that emerge from using literary fiction as a tool for teaching social theory and critical consciousness. Focusing on data from a social theory course I taught in fall 2007, along with my experiences teaching social theory, I evaluate the utility of utilizing literary fiction in the social theory classroom. Serving as a mechanism to encourage the development of critical consciousness, literary fiction can…
I Mean It's Awkward Anxiety: Exploring the Role of Sociohistorical Context in Men's Negotiation of Masculine Subjectivity
In this article, the author explores the process of claiming masculine subjectivity through in-depth interviews conducted with two brothers who are adult children of a Vietnam Veteran. Drawn from a larger research project, these interviews serve as a case study that reveals the ways in which men navigate masculine subjectivity within a specific historical context. Drawing on Connell and Messerschmidt's reformulation of hegemonic masculinity and B…
Literary Fiction as a Tool for Teaching Social Theory and Critical Consciousness
In this paper, I discuss the possibilities that emerge from using literary fiction as a tool for teaching social theory and critical consciousness. Focusing on data from a social theory course I taught in fall 2007, along with my experiences teaching social theory, I evaluate the utility of utilizing literary fiction in the social theory classroom. Serving as a mechanism to encourage the development of critical consciousness, literary fiction can…
Explicating anomie in refugee women’s integration narratives: A qualitative research study
Putting the Family Into the Military Mission: A Feminist Exploration of a National Guard Family Program
What are the challenges of doing feminist research within a military institution? This became the guiding force of my research with the Midwest Family Program of the National Guard (MWFP). This article examines both my experiences as a feminist scholar conducting research in a military institution as well as the gendered tensions within the MWFP. While in the field, my research shifted from a traditional ethnographic study to a deeply personal au…
I Mean It's Awkward Anxiety: Exploring the Role of Sociohistorical Context in Men's Negotiation of Masculine Subjectivity
In this article, the author explores the process of claiming masculine subjectivity through in-depth interviews conducted with two brothers who are adult children of a Vietnam Veteran. Drawn from a larger research project, these interviews serve as a case study that reveals the ways in which men navigate masculine subjectivity within a specific historical context. Drawing on Connell and Messerschmidt's reformulation of hegemonic masculinity and B…
"Unpacking" Cross-Disciplinary Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
In this article, we, a team of scholars from Project Unpack, detail our process of successful cross-disciplinary collaboration. We include a discussion of the aims of our collaborative project, our process of collaboration and the roles of each individual organizer, the resources we used to support the collaboration, data sharing practices, and how our research approaches and methodologies have been influenced by engaging in collaborative researc…
Literary Fiction as a Tool for Teaching Social Theory and Critical Consciousness
In this paper, I discuss the possibilities that emerge from using literary fiction as a tool for teaching social theory and critical consciousness. Focusing on data from a social theory course I taught in fall 2007, along with my experiences teaching social theory, I evaluate the utility of utilizing literary fiction in the social theory classroom. Serving as a mechanism to encourage the development of critical consciousness, literary fiction can…
I Mean It's Awkward Anxiety: Exploring the Role of Sociohistorical Context in Men's Negotiation of Masculine Subjectivity
In this article, the author explores the process of claiming masculine subjectivity through in-depth interviews conducted with two brothers who are adult children of a Vietnam Veteran. Drawn from a larger research project, these interviews serve as a case study that reveals the ways in which men navigate masculine subjectivity within a specific historical context. Drawing on Connell and Messerschmidt's reformulation of hegemonic masculinity and B…
Navigating the Gendered Math Path: Understanding Women's Experiences in University Mathematics Classes
Using dialogues with our informants, as well as with each other, we explore how the men and women in our research make it through their mathematics coursework and, in turn, pursue their intended majors. Our research focuses on how students navigate what we call the gendered math path and how that path conforms to and diverges from traditional gender norms. Common themes of women's lower than men's self-perception of their ability to do mathematic…
Putting the Family Into the Military Mission: A Feminist Exploration of a National Guard Family Program
What are the challenges of doing feminist research within a military institution? This became the guiding force of my research with the Midwest Family Program of the National Guard (MWFP). This article examines both my experiences as a feminist scholar conducting research in a military institution as well as the gendered tensions within the MWFP. While in the field, my research shifted from a traditional ethnographic study to a deeply personal au…
Social Memory and War Narratives: Transmitted Trauma among Children of Vietnam War Veterans
The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad
Being Brave: Negotiating Agency in Dialogues and Vignettes
In this article, I explore how individuals access agency within a large institution. Relying on Dorothy Smith's work with institutional ethnography, I integrate interview data with my experience as part of the institutional change process. What is revealed in the data is that agency is constantly being negotiated with disengagement. In the article, I set up a series of vignettes to establish an interwoven dialogue that enables me to tell the coll…
Reaching for Low Hanging Fruit: Tensions Between Agency and Strategic Ambiguity
Using the conceptual tools from Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography, the focus of this article is on the challenges faculty face in their efforts to improve the gender climate at a Midwestern university. Using interviews with faculty, policy texts, and participant observation, I assert that disjunctures and text-reader conversations are valuable tools for researchers who want to examine the process of institutional change. Through this rese…
"Unpacking" Cross-Disciplinary Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
In this article, we, a team of scholars from Project Unpack, detail our process of successful cross-disciplinary collaboration. We include a discussion of the aims of our collaborative project, our process of collaboration and the roles of each individual organizer, the resources we used to support the collaboration, data sharing practices, and how our research approaches and methodologies have been influenced by engaging in collaborative researc…
Explicating anomie in refugee women’s integration narratives: A qualitative research study
Dust Covered Privilege: White Women’s Experiences of the Dust Bowl
In this article, I utilize a white privilege framework to analyze white women’s experiences of the Dust Bowl. In particular, I focus on the question: What do white women’s experiences of the Dust Bowl tell us about privilege and inequality? Using oral histories housed in the University of Oklahoma’s archive, “Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women in the Dust Bowl Oral History Project,” I engage in a qualitative analysis of the women’…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works)