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Education
Ph.D., Sociology, 2018
M.Phil, Sociology, 2015
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Dissertation: The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences
in the Sharing Economy (Airbnb, Uber, Taskrabbit &
Kitchensurfing)
M.A., Sociology, 2003
Graduate Minor in Women's & Gender Studies
University of Missouri, Columbia
Thesis: Ideological Work, Religious Practice and Feminism AmmongModern Orthodox and Southern Baptist Women
B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001
University of Missouri, Columbia
LMS Systems
BLACKBOARD
CANVAS
D2L
ECOLLEGE
MOODLE
SAKAI
Courses Taught
Anchor 1
Academic Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2023-2024
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019 -- current
Faculty Fellow, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, 2020 -- current
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, 2018 -- 2020
Assistant Professor, Mercy College, 2018 -- 2019
Visiting Instructor, Mercy College, 2017 -- 2018
Books
Ravenelle, A.J. The Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. -- in press, October 2023 publication
Ravenelle, A.J. (2019). Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Crime & Society
Critical Thinking
Drugs & Society
Ethnic Groups in the US
Ethnic Conflict & Genocide
Fieldwork in Entrepreneurship
Intro. to Social Science
Intro. to Sociology
Intro. to Social Systems
Labor Force
Leadership in Film
Marriage & the Family
Minority Groups
Race, Class & Gender
Race & Ethnicity
Race, Crime & Justice
Research Methods
Sexuality & Gender Expression
Scope & Methods in Soc. Sci.
Social Deviance
Social Inequalities
Social Movements
Social Problems
Social Psychology
Social Science Research
Sociology of the Digital Era
Sociology of Gender
Technological Society
Why We Overeat
Women & Development
Journal Articles
* Graduate student **Undergraduate
(Please click on the links below to open papers in a separate window)
Ravenelle, A.J. and Knoble, S.** (2023).
'“I could be unemployed the rest of the year:”
Unprecedented Times and the Challenges of 'Making More.' RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 9(3), 110-131. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.05
Ravenelle, A.J., & Kowalski, K.C.* (2023). “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies. Work and Occupations, 50(2). 284-309
https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884221125246
Ravenelle, A.J., Conley, J.,* & Newell, A.* (2022). "Left Behind: Yachts, Dinghies, and Perceptions of Social Inequality in Covid-19." Sociological Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/00380253.2022.2133755
Ravenelle, A.J., Janko, E.C. * Kowalski, K.C. * (2022). "Good Jobs, Scam Jobs: Detecting, Normalizing, and Internalizing Online Job Scams During the Covid-19 Pandemic," New Media & Society. 24 (7), 1591-1610. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221099223
Ladegaard, I., Ravenelle, A.J. & Schor, J. (2022). "'God Is Protecting Me… And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces," The British Journal of Criminology, 62,(3), 773-789 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab080
Ravenelle, A. J., Newell, A.,* & Kowalski, K. C.* (2021). “The Looming, Crazy Stalker Coronavirus”: Fear Mongering, Fake News, and the Diffusion of Distrust. Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211024776
Ravenelle, A.J., Kowalski, K.C,* Janko, E.C. * (2021). "The Side Hustle Safety Net: Precarious Workers and Gig Work During COVID-19." Sociological Perspectives. 64(5), 898-919 https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211005489
Ravenelle, A.J. (2020). "Digitalization and the Hybridization of Markets and Circuits in Airbnb." Consumption Markets and Culture. 23(2), 154-173, DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2019.1661244
Ravenelle, A.J. (2019) ""We're not Uber." Control, Autonomy, and Entrepreneurship in the Gig Economy," Journal of Managerial Psychology. 34(4), 269-285. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-06-2018-0256
Ravenelle, A.J. (2017). Sharing Economy Workers: Selling, Not Sharing. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 10(2). 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsw043
Memberships
American Sociological Assoc.
Eastern Sociological Society
Assoc. for Study of Food & Soc.
Society for the Study of Social Problems
The Authors Guild
Book
Chapters
Ravenelle, A.J., & Kowalski, K.C. * (2022). "Working at the Nexus of Global Markets and Gig Work: U.S. Gig Workers, Credential Capitalization, and Wealthy International Clientele." in L. Storti, G Urso, and N Reid (eds.), Economies, Institutions and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses in a Changing World. New York: Routledge
Ravenelle, A.J., Janko, E.C.,* Kowalski, K.C.* (2021). "Gigging with an MBA: Elite Entrepreneurship in the Gig Economy." Digital Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy. 145–59. New York: Routledge.
Ravenelle, A.J. (2021). "Just a Gig? Sharing Economy Work and the Implications for Career Trajectory." In Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, ed. Deepa Das Acevedo. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 103-122.
Ravenelle, A.J. (2017). "A return to Gemeinschaft: Digital Impression Management and the Sharing Economy." In Digital Sociologies, ed. Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory and Tressie McMillan Cottom, 27-46. Bristol, UK: Policy Press/Bristol University Press.
Editorial & Reports
Ravenelle, A.J. (2019). "The Gig Economy Makes Workers Vulnerable to Sexual Harassment." Medium.com. 27 March.
Ravenelle, A.J. (2019). 'For Workers in the Gig Economy, Client Interactions Can Get... Weird.' Wired.com. March 17.
Ravenelle, A.J. (2016). Hepatic Encephalopathy (H.E.) Research Report. American Liver Foundation.
Ravenelle, A.J. (2012). “Each Teacher Wonders; Is This The One.” The New York Times. Op/Ed. 10 March.
Select Funding
National Science Foundation, 2023-2026
UNC Publications Support Grant, 2023
UNC Faculty Development grant, 2022
Russell Sage Foundation, Future of Work grant, 2021-2023
National Science Foundation RAPID Response grant, 2020-2021
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge grant, 2019-2023
Mercy College Faculty Development grant, 2018
Labor Research Action Network, Emerging Scholars grant, 2018
Graduate Center Early Research Initiative in Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Public Knowledge, 2017
Graduate Center Dissertation Year Award, 2017- 2018
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, 2017
Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2012-2017
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Teaching
Adjunct Instructor, Hostos Community College, Sept. 2010 - July 2019
Adjunct Instructor, Social Science Degree Completion Program, Ramapo College, Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2017
Adjunct Instructor, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, Aug. 2016 - May 2017
Adjunct Instructor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Sept 2016 - May 2017
Adjunct Instructor, Excelsior College Online, Feb. 2011 - March 2017
Adjunct Instructor, St. Joseph's College, Sept. 2011 - May 2016
Graduate Teaching Fellow, City College, CUNY, Aug. 2013 - May 2016
Adjunct Instructor, Yeshiva University Stern College for Women, Aug. 2005 - Jan. 2016
Adjunct Instructor, Notre Dame College Online, Aug. 2011 - April 2014
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