Author: Greggor Mattson

• February 14, 2013

  State of the Field: Sex Work / Trafficking

  I was fortunate to be part of an amazing team to craft a position paper on prostitution, sex work, and human trafficking during the 2012 Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association conference Crossing Boundaries, Workshopping Sexualities. So in keeping with Valentine’s Day: Brents et al 2012 State of the Field Working Paper Sex Work…
• April 12, 2012

  Prostitution Reform as a Symptom of EU Integration Anxieties

  Here’s video from talk I gave in May at the series “Conversations on Europe” at the Center for European Studies of the University of Michigan.
• February 11, 2011

  Book review of The State of Sex by Brents, Jackson & Hausbeck

  A Review of: “The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland. By Barbara G. Brents, Crystal A. Jackson, and Kathryn Hausbeck” New York, NY: Routledge, 2009, 320 pages. Paperback, $28.76. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2011.
• April 6, 2009

  Article: Is America fragmenting?

  Published in the Annual Review of Sociology in 2009, it was cited in The New York Times in 2010. “The view that America is fragmenting is popular among both pundits and academics and may well be endemic to American culture. We review claims that between 1970 and 2005 American society fragmented along lines of cultural…
• June 25, 2007

  Article: Urban ethnography’s “saloon problem” and its challenge to public sociology

  This was my first article which presaged my interest in bars. And, given that the Anti-Saloon League was founded there, it presaged my interest in Oberlin, Ohio. “This essay assesses the legacy of urban ethnography’s (UE) early engagement with the “saloon problem.” Early sociologists (1880–1915) intervened in the national debate on alcohol on the basis…