Eric Margolis
Courtesy Affiliate,
Retired Faculty or Staff
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Phone: 480-965-0131
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ED 120M TEMPE, AZ 85287-2411
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Long Bio
Eric Margolis is a sociologist, internationally known for his work on visual ethnography and research on higher education. He has published many articles on visual ethnographic methods and on the hidden curriculum in higher education. Dr. Margolis conducted ethnographic interviews with retired miners in the Rocky Mountain West resulting in several video programs including “Out of the Depths-The Miners' Story”, a 60-minute segment of the PBS series A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers. More than 12,000 historic photographs and 100 hours of color broadcast-quality videotape form the core of an oral history archive at the University of Colorado available in digital form on-line.
He is a Past-President of the International Visual Sociology Association and co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Visual Research.
Education
Ph.D. - Sociology; University of Colorado
B.A. - Sociology; State University of New York, New Paltz
Research Interests
sociology of education, visual sociology, qualitative research methods
Publications
- Drew Chappell, Sharon Chappell and Eric Margolis. "School as Ceremony and Ritual: Photography Illuminates Moments of Ideological Transfer". Qualitative Inquiry (2011).
- Sheila Fram and Eric Margolis. "Architectural and Built Environment Discourses in an Educational Context: The Gottscho and Schleisner Collection". Visual Studies (2011).
- Eric Margolis and Luc Pauwels. Sage Handbook of Visual Research. (2011).
- Eric Margolis and Jeremy Rowe. "Methodological approaches to disclosing historic photographs". Sage Handbook of Visual Research (2011).
- Margolis, Eric. Hidden Curriculum. Encyclopedia of Social Problems (2008).
- Margolis, Eric, Gina, Pazzaglia. Cultural Capital. Encyclopedia of Social Problems (2008).
- Eric Margolis. "A través de un lente oscuro:imaginación fotográfica y escuelas urbanas en Estados Unidos" (Through A Lens Darkly: Urban Schools and the Photographic Imagination). Revista Bifurcaciones (2008).
- Eric Margolis, Sheila Fram. Caught Napping: Images of Surveillance, Discipline and Punishment on the Body of the School Child. History of Education Journal special issue "The Body of the School Child in the History of Education." (2007).
- . . Review of: The Education of John Dewey: A Biography. John Dewey: Peter Lang Primer. Inquiry and Education: John Dewey and the Quest for Democracy (2007).
- . The Visible Curriculum. (2007).
- Eric Margolis. Teaching John Dewey: An essay review of three books on John Dewey. (2007).
- Margolis, Eric. Search for a Method by Jean Paul Sartre. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2006).
- Margolis, Eric. The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education. (2006).
- Romero, Mary. The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities. (2005).
- Romero, Mary and Eric Margolis. The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities. (2005).
- . . Review of: Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (2005).
- . . Review of: Readings in American Educational Thought: From Puritanism to Progessivism.(2004) (2005).
- . . Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change (2005).
- . . Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life in Sociology (2005).
- Margolis, Eric (Author) . Colorado's Wobbly Strike. Slaughter in Serene: The Columbine Coal Strike Reader Denver, Colorado,Industrial Workers of the World and Bread and Roses Workers' Cultural Center (2005).
- Margolis, Eric (Author) . Liberal documentary goes to school: Farm Security Administration photographs of students and teachers. American Visual Cultures (2005).
- Eric Margolis. Review of Milson, Andrew J.; Bohn, Chara Haeussler; Glanzer, Perry L. and Null, J. Wesley. (Eds.) (2004). Readings in American Educational Thought: From Puritanism to Progessivism. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. (2005).
- Eric Margolis. Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographic Representations of Indian Boarding Schools. Visual Studies (2004).
- Eric Margolis, Jeremy Rowe. Images of Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona. History of Education (2004).
- Margolis, Eric. The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education. (2004).
- . . Review of: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2004).
- . . Review of: The McDonaldization of Higher Education (2004).
- Eric Margolis. "Hogwarts Labeled an Underperforming School" A Review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (2004).
- Eric Margolis. Review of "The McDonaldization of Higher Education" edited by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard,. (2004).
- . . Review of: Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment and the Children of Arrested Enemy Aliens (2003).
- . . Review of: The Color of Bureaucracy: The Politics of Equity in Multicultural Communities (2003).
- . . Review of: Wherever I Go, I Will Always be an American: Schooling Seattle's Japanese Americans during World War Two (2003).
- Eric Margolis. Review essay: "Wherever I Go, I Will Always be an American: Schooling Seattle’s Japanese Americans during World War Two", by Yoon K. Pak; and "Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment and the Children of Arrested Enemy Aliens". (2003).
- . . Review of: American Archives: Gender. Race, and Class in Visual Culture (2002).
- . . Review of: Software Review: Thumbs Plus (2002).
- Margolis, Eric. The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education. (2001).
- . . The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education (2001).
- Eric Margolis. Life is Life: One Family's Struggle in the Southern Colorado Coal Fields. Colorado Heritage (2000).
- Margolis, Eric (Author) ,Romero, Mary (Author) . Dissed in the Department: Women of Color Graduate Students Talk about Integrating Sociology. Self-Analytic Sociology: Essays and Exploration in the Reflexive Mode (2000).
- Eric Margolis. "Between Feast and Famine: Coal Communities in the American West,". Community in the American West (1999).
- Eric Margolis. "Picturing Labor: A Visual Ethnography of the Coal Mine Labor Process,". Visual Sociology (1999).
- Eric Margolis and Mary Romero. "Integrating Sociology: Observations on Race and Gender Relations in Sociology Graduate Programs ". Race and Society (1999).
- Eric Margolis and Mary Romero. "The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative": The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Sociology Departments". Harvard Educational Review (1998).
- Eric Margolis. "Visual Ethnography: Tools for Mapping the AIDS Epidemic,". Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (1990).
- Eric Margolis. "Class Pictures: Representations of Race, Gender and Ability in a Century of School Photography,". Visual Sociology (0).
Research Activity
- Marsiglia,Flavio*, De La Garza,Sarah Amira, Margolis,Eric. DRUG RESISTANCE STRATEGIES PROJECT. PENN STATE UNIV(9/15/1997 - 7/31/1998).
Courses
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EDP 792 | Research |
| SPF 792 | Research |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 784 | Internship |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EDP 792 | Research |
| SPF 792 | Research |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 784 | Internship |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EDP 792 | Research |
| SPF 792 | Research |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 784 | Internship |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EDP 792 | Research |
| SPF 792 | Research |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 784 | Internship |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 792 | Research |
| EDP 792 | Research |
| EPA 792 | Research |
| SPF 792 | Research |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 784 | Internship |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 784 | Internship |
| EDP 792 | Research |
| EDP 599 | Thesis |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 792 | Research |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 792 | Research |
| EDP 792 | Research |
| EPA 792 | Research |
| SPF 792 | Research |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
2019 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 784 | Internship |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Presentations
- Eric Margolis with Sheila Fram. "Architectural and Built Environment Discourses in an Educational Context: The Gottscho and Schleisner Collection". International Visual Sociology Association Cumbria UK, July 22-24 (Jul 2009).
- Eric Margolis with Drew and Sharon Chappell. "Ceremony and Ritual in School". International Visual Sociology Association, Buenos Aires, August 6-8 (Aug 2008).
- Eric Margolis. "Changing Images of Reform School". International Visual Sociology Association, New York City, August 10-12 (Aug 2007).
- Margolis, Eric. Sociologies of the Image: Methodologies for Using Historical Pictures. International Visual Sociology Association, Urbino, Italy (Jul 2006).
- Margolis, Eric, Fram, Sheila. Schooling the Body. International Visual Sociology Association, Dublin, Ireland (Aug 2005).
- Margolis, Eric. The Hidden Curriculum and Chicano/a Studies. Higher Education in the Crosshairs, Pitzer College (Feb 2005).
- Margolis, Eric. Urban Schools and the Photographic Imagination. Sociology of Education Association, Monterey CA (Feb 2005).
- Margolis, Eric. Through a Lens Darkly: Urban Schools in the Photographic Imagination. American Sociological Ass., San Francisco (Aug 2004).
- Margolis, Eric. Liberal documentary goes to school: Farm Security Administration photographs of students and teachers. American Sociological Association, Atlanta GA (Aug 2003).
- Margolis, Eric. Manufacturing Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans (Apr 2002).
- Margolis, Eric, Romero, Mary. Diversity? The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education". Hawai'i Sociological Association (Feb 2002).
- Margolis, Eric, Romero, Mary. In the Image and Likeness... How Mentoring Functions in the Hidden Curriculum. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington DC (Aug 2000).
- Margolis, Eric. Class Pictures: Representations of Race, Gender and Ability in a Century of School Photography. Sociology of Education Association, Monterey, Ca (Feb 2000).
- Margolis, Eric. Manufacturing Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona. Chancellor's lecture Series, University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu
- Margolis, Eric. Manufacturing Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona. International Visual Sociological Association, Santorini, Greece
Editorships
The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education, (Routledge, 2001) has been translated into Mandarin
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities, (Blackwell, 2005) edited with Mary Romero.
The Sage Handbook of Visual Research co-edited with Luc Pauwels (May 2011)
Service
- PLC Taskforce on Personnel Procedures Update, member (2010 - Present)
- Public Resistance, Associate Editor (2007 - Present)
- Educational Reviews, Book Reviewer (2002 - Present)
- International Journal of Leadership in Education, Reviewer (1998 - Present)
- Committee of Faculty Hugh Downs School, member (1997 - Present)
- Visual Studies, Reviewer (1990 - Present)
- International Visual Sociology Association, President (2006 - 2013)
- Graduate Admissions Committee Hugh Downs School, Member (2010 - 2010)
- MLF Advanced Studies in Policy, Leadership, and Curriculum, Personnel Committee (2003 - 2010)