Patti Lynne Donze
UCLA Department of Sociology
264 Haines
Hall -
Email: pdonze at ucla dot
edu
website: www.pattidonze.com
Education
Ph.D. (expected 2010).
Thesis working title: Pop Stars and Gender: The Relation of Representation, Promotion, and Listener Preferences to Artist Success (Committee Members: Steve Clayman, Robert Mare, Russell Robinson, Gabriel Rossman (chair), Abigail Saguy).
Comprehensive Fields: Cultural Sociology/Sociology of Culture (specializing
in meaning, identity, inequality); Sociology of Gender (specializing in
sexuality and socio-legal approaches to gender).
Academic interests: Sociology of Law, Sex and Gender, Family, Culture, Quantitative
and Qualitative Methods.
J.D. (2000).
Thesis: Trouble in
M.A. (2005).
Thesis: Labor Force Status and Work and Family
Attitude Change, General Social Survey 1994-2002 (Advisor: Megan Sweeney).
B.A. (1994).
Thesis: Continuous Performance Task Differences Between Positive and Negative Schizophrenics (Advisor: Grover Gilmore).
Thesis: The Mirror Effect in Recognition Memory (Advisor: Robert Greene).
B.A. (1994). Cleveland Institute of Music (cross-registered); honors in music theory.
Publications
Donze, Patti L. In Press. “Heterosexuality is Totally Metal: Ritualized Community and Separation at a Local Music Club” Journal of Popular Music and Society.
Donze, Patti L. 2001. “Legislating Comity: Can Congress Enforce Federalism Constraints Through Restriction on Preemption Doctrine?” N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 4: 239-283.
Donze, Patti L. 2000. “Supreme Court’s Denial of Certiorari
in Dallas Fire Fighters Leaves Unsettled the Standard for Compelling Remedial
Interests.” Case
Working Papers
Donze, Patti L. 2010. “Popular Music, Gender, and Sexualization: A Latent Class Analysis of Artist Types” Revise and Resubmit from Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media, and the Arts.
Donze, Patti L. 2010. “Why So Few Women?: The Role of Gender and Sexualization in Record Label Promotional Decisions” Out for Peer Review.
Donze, Patti L. 2010. “A Comparison of Promoter and Listener Preferences for Popular Music Artists” Work in progress.
Donze, Patti L. 2010. “Whatever Happened to the Reasonable Woman?: The Reasonable ‘Person’ or ‘Woman’ as Man in Society. Out for Peer Review.
Research Positions
Pop Stars and Gender: The Relation of Representation, Promotion, and Listener Preferences to Artist Success, principal investigator (dissertation).
Project
explores several reasons why less than 30% of the charting popular music acts
are female or mixed-gender. Using survey
data methods, the project first explores qualitative differences between female
and male artist personas, then connects gendered and
sexualized persona types with the receipt of promotional support and the odds
of being liked by listeners.
Social Construction of Sexuality on the Dance Floor, principal investigator. Supervisor: Karen Brodkin (Feminist Ethnographic Methods).
Project
explores how sexuality is situationally constructed
at a local music club, where many new bands play in order to get exposure or
major label recording contracts. This
project was designed to offer an ethnographic narrative comparison with the
institutional construction of sexuality explored in Pop Stars and Gender.
Reggaeton: The Invention of a Genre, University
of
Using Microsoft Visual Basic, programmed software to collect
genre and sub-genre information for a large number of artists from online
sources.
Assessing
the Impact of the Spitzer Payola Investigation,
Collected
information on payola payments from record labels to radio stations and coded
such information for quantitative analysis.
Modeling
Diffusion of Many Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves:
Payola in Pop Music Radio,
Collected
radio station airplay charts to be used for quantitative analysis.
UCLA
Conducted
interviews with human resources personnel regarding family leave policies;
researched state and federal case law and statutes applied to family leave in
Teaching Positions
Lecturer/Instructor
Sociol 169 Law and Society, UCLA (Summer 2010)
Taught upper-division sociology course exploring the
relationship of law and social order.
Course covers the relationship of individual rights and collective goals,
including the important role of law when it comes to securing equal rights for
minority groups. Duties included curriculum design, lecture planning and
implementation, assignment design and implementation, and evaluation of student
progress. 30 students.
Sociol 355 Power and Sexuality,
Taught
upper-division sociology course exploring the relationship of sexuality (sexualization, sexual identity, sexual meaning) to social
structure. Course covered classical and contemporary social theories, the role
of sexuality in social stratification, the interplay between sexual selves and
sexual scripts, and followed an explicitly intersectional approach.
Duties
included curriculum design, lecture planning and implementation, assignment
design and implementation, advising students regarding individual research
assignments, and evaluation of student progress. 18 students.
Sociol 162 Sociology of Gender, UCLA (Summer 2009)
Taught upper-division sociology course exploring the
question “what is gender?” Course
considered the social construction of gender through intersectionality,
institutions, culture, and power. Duties
included curriculum design, lecture planning and implementation, assignment
design and implementation, advising students regarding individual research
assignments, and evaluation of student progress. Received
grading assistance. 140 students.
Sociol 1 Introductory Sociology, UCLA (Summer 2008; Summer 2009)
Taught
introductory sociology course centered around
developing the ‘sociological imagination.’ Course highlighted the importance of
race, gender, class, and sexuality in institutions, identity, and the practice
of every day life while it introduced students to the theories and methods
commonly used in sociological practice. Received grading assistance. 130 students.
Sociol 051, Introductory
Sociology,
Taught
introductory sociology course centered around
developing the ‘sociological imagination.’ Course highlighted the importance of
race, gender, class, and sexuality in institutions, identity, and the practice
of every day life while it introduced students to the theories and method
commonly used in sociological practice. 18 students.
GE CLST 24C, Art Work and Identity, UCLA (Spring 2009)
Taught
lower-division general education seminar centered around
ethnographic exploration of art and identity.
Taught field methods and coached students through individual research
projects that connected situated aesthetic evaluations to social hierarchies,
especially those of race, class, gender, and sexuality. 22
students.
LSAT Intensive Review (2000-2005)
Taught weekend seminar focusing on test-prep
strategies. Also tutored students
individually during this time period.
Teaching Fellow / Teaching Associate / Teaching Assistant
GE CLST 24 Work, Labor, and
Social Justice, UCLA (Fall 2008 – Winter 2009)
Assisted
with assignment design; led weekly discussion sections; advised and mentored
students; evaluated student progress. 40 students.
Sociol 145 Deviance, UCLA (Spring 2007)
Assisted
with assignment design; led weekly discussion sections; advised and mentored
students; evaluated student progress. 80 students.
Sociol 162 Sociology of Gender, UCLA
(Winter 2007)
Assisted
with course design; assisted with lecture planning and implementation; assisted
with assignment and exam design; led weekly discussion sections; advised and
mentored students; evaluated student progress. 95 students.
Sociol 167 Contested Sexualities, UCLA
(Spring 2006)
Assisted
with assignment and exam design; led weekly discussion sections; advised and
mentored students; evaluated student progress. 80 students.
Sociol 130 Self and Society, UCLA
(Fall 2005, Fall 2006)
Assisted
with assignment and exam design; led weekly discussion sections; advised and
mentored students; evaluated student progress. 80 students.
Sociol 101, Development of Social Theory, UCLA
(Winter 2005, Winter 2006)
Assisted
with assignment and exam design; led weekly discussion sections; advised and
mentored students; evaluated student progress. 75 students.
Comm. Studies 100, UCLA
(Fall 2004, Spring 2005)
Assisted
with assignment and exam design; led weekly discussion sections; advised and
mentored students; evaluated student progress. 75 students.
Women Studies M153, Mass Media
and Aggression Against Women, UCLA
(Summer 2004)
Assisted
with assignment and exam design; evaluated student progress. 45
students.
Conferences, Presentations, and Invited
Talks
Donze, Patti L. 2010. “Heterosexuality is Totally Metal.” Paper
presented at the meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association,
Donze, Patti L. 2010. “The ‘Reasonable Person’ as
‘Man in Society’.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Pacific
Sociological Association,
Donze, Patti L. 2009. “Impediments
to Accommodating Invisible Disabilities in Academia: Lessons for Deans, Department
Heads, and Colleagues.” Presented at the meeting of the American Sociological
Association,
Donze, Patti L. 2009. “Record Label
Promotional Decisions and Artistic Personas: The Importance of Gender and Sexualization.” Paper presented at
Donze, Patti L. 2009. “Labeling ‘Sexy’ Artists by Gender: A Latent Class Analysis of Artist Types.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California, April 2009.
Donze, Patti L. 2009. “Record Label Promotional Decisions and Artistic Personas: The Importance of Gender and Sexualization.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California, April 2009.
Donze, Patti L. 2008. “How Does Gender Influence Attributions of ‘Sexiness’ to Popular
Musicians?” Paper presented at Extremism and the Excluded Middle, the
annual Culture Conference at
Donze, Patti L. 2008. “Hot or Not: Constructions and Ascriptions of ‘Sexiness’ to Popular Musicians.” Paper presented to the Culture Working Group at the University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, February 2008.
Donze, Patti L. 2008. “Gender and Record Label Promotional Strategies.” Paper
presented at the Thinking Gender Annual Conference,
Donze, Patti L. 2008. “Gender and Record Label Promotional Strategies.” Paper
presented to the Culture Working Group at the
Donze, Patti L. 2007. “Are Record
Labor Promoters Making ‘Gendered’ Decisions?” Paper presented at the meeting of
the American Sociological Association,
Donze, Patti L. 2007. “Gender and the Law.” Guest Lecture given in Sociology of Gender at the
Donze, Patti L. 2005. “Gender Role
Attitudes: 1994 – 2002.” Paper presented at the meeting of the American
Sociological Association,
Donze, Patti L. 2004. “Pornography and Agency.” Guest Lecture given in Mass Media and Aggression
Against Women at the University of California - Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, California, July 2004.
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
Social Science Research Council Research Grant (2007) (Gabriel Rossman, principal investigator)
ILE Travel Grant, Institute for Labor and Employment,
Sociology Department Travel Grant,
Graduate Summer Research Fellowship,
Departmental Fellowship,
Judicial Law Clerk, Judge Lesley Brooks Wells (N.D.
Award for Excellence in Criminal Procedure,
Judicial Extern, Magistrate Judge Daniel E. Klein (D. Maryland) (1998)
Law Review Contributing Editor,
Merit Scholar,
Presidential Scholarship,
Departmental Honors for Achievement in Music Theory, Cleveland Institute of Music (1993)
William Nordman Memorial Scholarship, Private Scholarship (1990)
Professional Activities
American Sociological Association, Member (section on Sex and Gender, Law, Culture) (2002-present)
American Sociological Association, Discussant (2005)
UCLA Sociology Department, Sociology Graduate Student Association (2005-6)
UCLA Sociology Department, AKD Conference, Discussant (2005-2007)
Pacific Sociological Association, Member (2007-present)
UCLA Sociology Department, Culture Working Group, Co-Founder/Co-Coordinator (2007-2008)
Reviewer, Gender and Society (2008-present)
Reviewer, Sociological Perspectives (2008-present)