Alex V. Barnard

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Education

Ph.D. 2019 (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil 2011 (International Development), University of Oxford; A.B. 2009 (Sociology), Princeton University

Areas of Interest

Medical Sociology and Mental Health; Political Sociology; Comparative Cultural Sociology; Social Policy; Social Theory

Articles

“Bureaucratically Split Personalities: (Re)ordering the Mentally Disordered in the French State.” Conditionally Accepted at Theory and Society.

“Etat de santé et état des droits: la construction collective des figures inconciliables de malade et justiciable dans le contrôle judiciaire des soins psychiatriques forcés à New York.” (with Tonya Tartour) Participations 23 (2), 2018: 83-107.

“Making the City ‘Second Nature’: Freegan ‘Dumpster Divers’ and Materiality of Morality in Urban Life.” The American Journal of Sociology 121 (4) (January 2016): 1017-1050.

“Waving the Banana at Capitalism: Political Theatre and Social Movement Strategy Among New York’s ‘Freegan’ Dumpster Divers.” Ethnography 12 (4) (December 2011): 419-444.

Publications

  • Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Wasted in the United States
    Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
    2016
    Freegans by Alex V. Barnard