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| Click here for a PDF version of this vita. Ethan Michelson (April 2007) ADDRESS | Indiana University Department of Sociology Ballantine Hall 768 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405 | TELEPHONE/FAX | (812) 856-1521 (812) 855-0781 (fax) | EMAIL | | URL | http://www.indiana.edu/~emsoc | CURRENT POSITION 2003-present | Assistant Professor of Sociology and East Asian Languages and Cultures | EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D., Department of Sociology, 2003 M.A., Department of Sociology, 1995 McGill University B.A., First Class Joint Honors in East Asian Studies and Sociology, 1992 Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Chinese language study, 1992-93 DISSERTATION PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS forthcoming | Dear Lawyer Bao: Ten Years of Legal Advice for Everyday Trouble in China, 1989-1998. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (Ethan Michelson) | conditional accept | Mediating the Mediation Debate: Conflict Resolution and the Local State in China (Benjamin L. Read and Ethan Michelson) Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2008 | Dear Lawyer Bao: Everyday Problems, Legal Advice, and State Power in China. (Ethan Michelson) Social Problems 55, forthcoming | 2007 | Lawyers, Political Embeddedness, and Institutional Continuity in China's Transition from Socialism (Ethan Michelson) American Journal of Sociology 113(2), forthcoming | 2007 | Justice from Above or Justice from Below? Popular Strategies for Resolving Grievances in Rural China (Ethan Michelson) The China Quarterly 192, forthcoming | 2007 | Climbing the Dispute Pagoda: Grievances and Appeals to the Official Justice System in Rural China. (Ethan Michelson) American Sociological Review 72(2): 459-85. The article also has a Technical Appendix. | 2006 | "The Practice of Law as an Obstacle to Justice: Chinese Lawyers at Work." Law & Society Review 40(1): 1-38 (lead article) (Ethan Michelson) Abridged and reorganized version reprinted in Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation, edited by Ching Kwan Lee. Oxon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2007. | 2000 | "Gender Differentials in Economic Success: Rural China in 1991," Pp. 134-56 in Redrawing Boundaries: Gender, Households, and Work in China, edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail Henderson. Berkeley: University of California Press (Ethan Michelson and William L. Parish) | 2000 | "The Changing Character of the Lawyer-Client Relationship: Evidence From Two Chicago Surveys," in The Management of Durable Relations: Theoretical and Empirical Models for Households and Organizations, edited by Werner Raub and Jeroen Weesie. Amsterdam: Thela/Thesis Publishers (Ethan Michelson, Edward O. Laumann, and John P. Heinz) | 1998 | "The Changing Character of Lawyers' Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995." Law & Society Review 32(5) (John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann, Robert L. Nelson, and Ethan Michelson) Reprinted in Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. | 1998 | "Guest Editor's Introduction." Chinese Law and Government 31(5) (Ethan Michelson) | 1998 | "Tradition in the Shadow of Modern Legal Practice: Continuity and Change in the Delivery of Justice in China (I)." Chinese Law and Government 31(5) (Ethan Michelson) | 1998 | "Tradition in the Shadow of Modern Legal Practice: Continuity and Change in the Delivery of Justice in China (II)." Chinese Law and Government 31(6) (Ethan Michelson) | 1996 | "Politics and Markets: Dual Transformations." American Journal of Sociology 101(4): 1042-1059. (translated into Chinese for publication in Yanjie Bian, ed., 2002, Shichang Zhuanxing Yu Shehui Fenceng: Meiguo Shehuixuezhe Fenxi Zhongguo [Market Transition and Social Stratification: American Sociologists' Analyses of China], Beijing: San Lian Press.) (William L. Parish and Ethan Michelson) | OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS 2004 | "Shimin Shenghuo Zhong de Falü," (Law in the Lives of Urban Citizens) Pp. 81–104 in Falü Yu Shehui: Shehuixue He Faxue de Shijiao (Law and Society: Sociological and Jurisprudential Perspectives), edited by Guo Xinghua and Lu Yilong. Beijing: Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. | 2003 | "Jiufen Yu Falü Xuqiu: Yi Beijing de Diaocha Wei Li" (Disputes and Legal Demand: Taking a Beijing Survey as a Case) Jiangsu Shehui Kexue [Jiangsu Social Science], 1:72-80. (Ethan Michelson) | 2001 | "Lang Lai Zi Nali? Zhongguo Lüshi de Xiwang Lai Zi Nali? [From Where Does the Wolf Come? From Where Do Chinese Lawyers' Hopes Come?]" Huanqiu Falü Pinglun [Global Law Review] 119: 173-5. (Ethan Michelson) | 2000 | "Shichang Jingji, Jiufen Jiejue, Yu Lixing Falv Bianhuazhong De Zhongguo Jiquan Shetuan [The Market, Dispute Resolution, and Rational Law: Corporatism in a Changing China]," in Gong Fa [Public Law Review], Volume 2, edited by Xia Yong. Beijing: Falv Chubansh (Gao Hongjun and Ethan Michelson) | 2000 | "Statistical Appendix," in Zou Xiang Quanli de Shidai: Zhongguo Gongmin Quanli Fazhan Yanjiu [Towards an Age of Rights: Research on The Development of Chinese Citizen Rights], Revised Edition, edited by Xia Yong. Beijing: Zhongguo Zhengfa Daxue Chubanshe (Ethan Michelson) | 1993 | "In Defense of Collective Farms: Collectivization and Decollectivization in the People's Republic of China." Society for Economic Anthropology Newsletter 13(2): 6-15 (Ethan Michelson) | BOOK MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS - Unhooking from the State: The Privatization of Chinese Lawyers
- The Practice of Law as an Obstacle to Justice in China
- Social Conflict in Rural China
JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PROGRESS GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND DISTINCTIONS 2006-2007 | Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Institute for International Research, In-Residence Research Fellowship | 2006-2007 | Indiana University Research Leave Supplement | 2005 | Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research, The University of Iowa (co-PI: Benjamin L. Read) | 2002 | The University of Chicago Doolittle Fellowship | 2001-2003 | American Bar Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship | 2000-2001 | Ford Foundation Individual Grant for Promoting Sociology of Law in China, 2000-2001 (Grant #15006118). | 1999-2000 | Fulbright-Hays, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship | 1999-2000 | National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program, Grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research (co-PI: William L. Parish) [NSF#9906234] | 1999-2000 | Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship | 1995-96 | Social Science Research Council, International Predissertation Fellowship Program | 1993-97 | National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship | 1992-93 | China/Canada Scholar Exchange Programme Fellowship | 1992-93 | Harold K. Schneider Prize, Society for Economic Anthropology | 1991-92 | David N. Solomon Prize in Sociology, McGill University | 1989-90 | Bielski Prize in Sociology, McGill University | 1989-90 | James McGill Award, McGill University | INVITED TALKS 2007 | Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, two talks for "China Semester," November 16 | 2006 | Nanjing University, Department of Sociology, Sociological Seminar, No. 70, November 15 | 2006 | University of Illinois, College of Law, February 3 | 2005 | University of Pittsburgh, Asian Studies Center, November 14 | 2005 | University of Pittsburgh, Department of Sociology, November 14 | 2005 | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, June 11 | 2005 | The University of Chicago, East Asia Workshop, May 31. | 2005 | Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, April 7 | 2005 | University at Buffalo (SUNY), Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, March 4 | 2004 | University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, Noon Lecture Series, November 9 | 2002 | Harvard University Law School, East Asian Legal Studies Series, December 16 | 2002 | MIT Sloan School, Economic Sociology Seminar, December 19 | CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2007 | paper for "Growing Pains: Tensions and Opportunity in China's Transformation" workshop, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, November 2 | 2007 | paper for "Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Post-Reform China" workshop at Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, October 12-14 | 2007 | "Climbing the Dispute Pagoda: Grievances and Appeals to the Official Justice System in Rural China," for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30-September 2 | 2006 | "Deprivation, Discontent, and Disobedience in Rural China: Collective Learning in Southeast Henan," for Conference on "Reclaiming Chinese Society: Politics of Redistribution, Recognition and Representation," University of California-Berkeley, October 27-28 | 2006 | "Lawful and Unlawful Strategies of Contention in China: Evidence from a Survey of Rights Consciousness," for Conference on "Popular Contention in China," University of California-Berkeley, October 6-8 (with Jennifer Choo) | 2006 | workshop on globalization of women's rights, Wellesley College, July 30-August 2 | 2006 | "Dear Lawyer Bao: Institutional Change, State Power, and Popular Resistance in China," for Law and Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, July 5-9 (Ethan Michelson) | 2006 | "Challenges and Coping Strategies in China's Criminal Defense Bar," for Law and Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, July 5-9 (Ethan Michelson) | 2006 | "Hooked, Unhooked, Still Hooked: Lawyers, Political Embeddedness, and Institutional Continuity in China's Transition from Socialism," for Conference on Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: China's Political Economy in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective, Bloomington, Indiana, May 19-20 | 2006 | "Peasants' Burdens" and State Response: Explaining the Causes and Predicting the Consequences of Popular Tax Resistance in Rural China," for the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 6-9. | 2005 | "Global Institutions, Local Meaning: Appropriation and Indigenization in the Chinese Legal System," for Workshop on Comparative Institutional Research, Peking University, October 14-16. | 2005 | "Justice from Above or Justice from Below? Social Limits to Petitioning the State in Rural China," Overseas Young Chinese Forum 7th Annual Meeting (The State of Rural China: Chinese Peasants, Agriculture and Rural Society in the Reform Era), Storrs, CT, May 27-30. | 2004 | "The Trials and Tribulations of Chinese Lawyers," for the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 14-17 (Ethan Michelson) | 2004 | "The Power of a Powerless Profession: Why and How Chinese Lawyers Screen Cases," for the Workshop on Working in China: New Ethnographies of Labor and the Chinese Workplace, Ann Arbor, MI, June 5 (Ethan Michelson) | 2004 | "How Much Does Law Matter in Rural China?" for Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 27-30 (Ethan Michelson) | 2004 | "Chinese Lawyers and Their Competitors: State-Mediated Jurisdictional Conflicts," for Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 27-30 (Sida Liu and Ethan Michelson) | 2004 | "Causes and Consequences of Grievances in Rural China," for Conference on Socioeconomic Rights in China Dickinson College, April 16-18 (Ethan Michelson) | 2003 | "Chinese Lawyers: Guanxi as a Substitute for Rights," for Human Rights in China: Progress, Problems, and Prospects, University of Chicago, April 19 (Ethan Michelson) | 2002 | "They Talk the Talk, But Can They Walk the Walk? Obstacles to Collective Action Among Chinese Lawyers," for Law and Society in China conference co-sponsored by the Institute for East Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of Law & Society, and the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, September 20-21. (Ethan Michelson) | 2002 | "When Organizations Subsume Law: Work Units and the Structure of Disputing in Urban China," for the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 16-19 (also presented at the North American Chinese Sociologists' Association Mini-Conference, Chicago, August 15) (Ethan Michelson) | 2002 | "How Much Does Law Matter in Beijing?" for Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 30-June 1 (Ethan Michelson) | 2002 | "Lawyers and Clients in China: The Power of a Powerless Profession," for the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 4-7 (Ethan Michelson) | 1999 | "Patterns of Provision and Jurisdictional Territorialism: The Organization of Work in Urban China," for the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-10 (Ethan Michelson) | 1998 | "Economic Development, Social Control, and Disputing in China: The Changing Face of Chinese Corporatism," for the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 21-25 (Ethan Michelson and Gao Hongjun) | 1997 | "Chicago Lawyers and their Clients, 1975-95: A Client-Based Approach to the Social Transformation of the Bar," for "The Management of Durable Relations: Theoretical and Empirical Models for Households and Organizations," Zeist, The Netherlands, June 26-28 (Ethan Michelson, Edward O. Laumann, and John P. Heinz) | 1997 | "The Organization of Lawyers' Work: Hemispheres, Tectonic Plate Movements, and Continental Drift," for Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May 29-June 1, St. Louis, Missouri (John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, Edward O. Laumann, and Ethan Michelson) | 1997 | "Corporatism and the Individual: Changing Dynamics of Disputing Under Rapid Social Change," for Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May 29-June 1, St. Louis, Missouri (Ethan Michelson and Gao Hongjun) | 1996 | presentation at "Conducting Social Science Research in Southeast Asia" workshop jointly hosted by the Social Science Research Council and The University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines, June 16-20 (Ethan Michelson) | MEDIA INTERVIEWS OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript reviews for: American Sociological Review American Journal of Sociology Law & Society Review The China Quarterly Modern China The China Review Asian Survey Law & Social Inquiry Canadian Journal of Law & Society Grant proposal reviews for: National Science Foundation Israeli Science Foundation Hong Kong Research Grants Council Academic Council, Overseas Young Chinese Forum (http://www.oycf.org), 2006– Facilitator, Fellows Workshop, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Charleston, SC, March 2006 Screener, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2006 Nominations Committee for the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Law Section, 2003-04 American Journal of Sociology, manuscript review committee, 1996–1997 LANGUAGE COMPETENCE Chinese: written fluent, spoken fluent |
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