Publications

Books

McDonnell, Terence E. 2016. Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns. University of Chicago Press.

  • Medical Sociology Section Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, 2018
  • Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Book Award (Honorable Mention), 2018
  • Sociology of Development Section Best Book Award (Honorable Mention), 2017
  • “Highly Recommended” by Choice, reviewed in The American Journal of Sociology; Contemporary Sociology; Social Forces; American Journal of Cultural Sociology; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Sociology of Health and Illness; Medicine Anthropology Theory

Articles

Taylor, Marshall A., Dustin S. Stoltz, and Terence E. McDonnell. 2019. “Binding Significance to Form: Cultural Objects, Cognition, and Cultural Change.” Poetics. 73(1): 1-16.

McDonnell, Terence E. and Kelcie L. Vercel. 2019. “Productive Methods in the Study of Culture and Cognition” in the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology. Oxford University Press.

McDonnell, Terence E. 2019. “Frustrated Fantasies: A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa by Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins.” Contemporary Sociology. 48(3): 252-54.

McDonnell, Terence E. 2018. “Book Review: Under the Cover by Clayton Childress.” Social Forces. 97(1): e3.

McDonnell, Terence E., Christopher A. Bail, and Iddo Tavory. 2017. “A Theory of Resonance.” Sociological Theory. 35(1): 1-14.

McDonnell, Terence E., Amy Jonason, and Kari Christoffersen. 2017. “Feeling Red and Wearing Pink: Trajectories of Cultural Power in AIDS and Breast Cancer Ribbons.” Poetics. 60(1): 1-15.

McDonnell, Terence E. and Kelcie Vercel. 2017. “Material Culture.” Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology.

McDonnell, Terence E. 2017. “Book Review: Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union by Zsuzsa Gille.” Contemporary Sociology. 46(4): 433-5.

McDonnell, Terence E. 2014. “Drawing Out Culture: Productive Methods for Measuring Cognition and Resonance.” Theory and Society. 43: 247-274.

McDonnell, Terence E., and Steven J. Tepper. 2014. “Culture in Crisis: Deploying Metaphor in Defense of Art.” Poetics. 43: 20-42.

  • Shortened Version Published (2015) in Grantmakers in the Arts Reader. 26 (1).

McDonnell, Terence E. 2014. “Book Review: AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church: Making the Wounded Whole by Angelique Harris.” Contemporary Sociology. 43: 92-93.

Griswold, Wendy, Gemma Mangione, and Terence E. McDonnell. 2013. “Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality in to Cultural Analysis.” Qualitative Sociology. 36: 343-364.

  • Reprinted (2016) in Actor Network Theory Research. Richie Nimmo, editor. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

McDonnell, Terence E. 2012. “Book Review: Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event by Katherine K. Chen.” Mobilization. 17: 105-106.

McDonnell, Terence E. 2010. “Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the Interpretation of AIDS Media in Accra, Ghana.” The American Journal of Sociology. 115: 1800-1852.

  • American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Culture’s Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article (Honorable Mention)
  • Martin Levine Student Essay Award, Sociologists’ AIDS Network, Winner

McDonnell, Terence E. 2008. “The (re)Presentation of an Epidemic in Everyday Life.” Social Psychology Quarterly. 71: 321-323.

Fine, Gary Alan, and Terence McDonnell. 2007. “Erasing the Brown Scare: Referential Afterlife and the Power of Memory Templates.”  Social Problems. 54: 170-187.

  • Society for the Study of Social Problems Theory Division Outstanding Article Award, Winner

Griswold, Wendy, Erin Metz McDonnell, Terence E. McDonnell. 2007. “Glamour and Honor: Going Online and Reading in West African Culture.” Information Technology & International Development. 3: 37-52.

  • Reprinted (2010) in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women (1st edition). Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, editors. Rochester, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Reprinted (2010) in Glocal Working: Living and Working Across the World with Cultural Intelligence. Barbara Bertagni, Michele La Rosa, and Fernando Salvetti editors. Milan, Italy: Franco Angeli.

Griswold, Wendy, Terry McDonnell, and Nathan Wright. 2005. “Reading and the Reading Class in the Twenty-First Century.” Annual Review of Sociology. 31: 127-41.