Jamie L. Mullaney

Jamie L. Mullaney is a Professor of Sociology and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Goucher College, with a Ph.D. in Sociology (Culture and Cognition) from Rutgers University (2003). Her scholarly work spans time studies, emotion sociology, and identity formation, with notable books including Everyone is NOT Doing It: Abstinence and Personal Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and Paid to Party (Rutgers UP, 2012) on emotional labor in direct sales.

• Education: Ph.D. & M.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University; B.A. in Sociology from Goucher College

Her research explores intersections of temporality and emotion, evident in 20+ years of publications analyzing time perception in contexts from personal resolutions to prison systems. She co-authored the 2021 pandemic mobility study on study abroad disruptions and 2022 leadership work on department chair mentoring. Awards include the Caroline Doebler Bruckerl ‘25 Faculty Award. As administrator, she shapes faculty affairs while maintaining active scholarship through cognitive sociology symposia and gender studies.

As a public intellectual, she contributed 2018 Baltimore STYLE Magazine commentary on #MeToo workplace implications, advocating for structural-cultural workplace reform. Her 15-year Sociology of Masculinities seminar demonstrates sustained pedagogical commitment. Publications span symbolic interaction theory (Symbolic Interaction), gender analysis (Gender & Society), and ethnographic studies of subcultures like straight edge and My Little Pony fandom.