CURRICULUM VITA
Linda L. Shaw
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. in Sociology, 1980-1988. Dissertation: Board and
Care: The Everyday Lives of Ex-Mental Patients Living in the Community
University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. in Sociology, 1969-1972
California State University, Long Beach, B.A. in Sociology, 1964-1968. Graduated Magna Cum
Laude
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Teaching
Professor, Department of Sociology, California State University, Fall 2003-present
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, California State University, San Marcos, Fall
1996-Spring 2006
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, Fall 1994-Spring 1996
Assistant Professor, Sociology Program, California State University, San Marcos, Spring 1993Spring 1996
Lecturer and Coordinator of the Upstate New York Program, Field and International Study
Program, Cornell University, Fall 1990-Fall 1992
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, Winter 1989-Spring
1990
Field Studies Coordinator, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, Fall
1981-Fall 1987
Lecturer, Center for Women's Studies, California State University, Long Beach, Spring 1974Spring 1981
Instructor, Department of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach, Spring 1972Spring 1975
Teaching Interests
Field Research Methods
Feminist Research Methods
Sociology of Everyday Life
Poverty and Homelessness
Internship in Community Service
Sociological Practice
Social Welfare Policy and Social Services Delivery
Writing for Sociology Students
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Critical Animal Studies
Problem-based Learning
Publications
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (with Robert M. Emerson and Rachel I. Fretz), 2nd Edition.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
“Sanctions as Everyday Resistance to Welfare Reform,” (with John Horton and Manuel
Moreno), Social Justice, 35, (September 2008), pp. 83-98.
“The Untold Story of Welfare Fraud,” (with Richelle S. Swan), Journal of Sociology and
Social Welfare, 35 (September 2008), pp.133-151.
“Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes,” (with R.M. Emerson and R. I. Fretz), in Daniel Cafai
(ed.), L’Engagement Ethnographique, Summer 2008.
“Opportunity and Control: Views from Participants in Los Angeles County’s Welfare-to-Work
Program,” in Francis Fox Piven, Joan Acker, Margaret Hallock and Sandra Morgen (eds).
Work, Welfare, and Politics, Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 2002.
“Participant Observation and Fieldnotes,” (with R.M. Emerson and R.I. Fretz), in Handbook of
Ethnography, Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, Lyn Lofland and John
Lofland (eds.), London: Sage Publications, 2001.
“Processing Fieldnotes: Coding and Memoing,” (with R. M. Emerson and R. I. Fretz),
Ethnography. London: Sage Publications, 2001.
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (with R. M. Emerson and R. Fretz), Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1995.
"Stigma and the Moral Careers of Ex-Mental Patients Living in Board and Care," Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography 20(October 1991).
"Review of Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Clients in an American Community, (with R. M.
Emerson), Urban Life 13(April 1984).
"Micro-Politics of Trouble in a Psychiatric Board and Care Home," (with R. M. Emerson and E.
B. Rochford), Urban Life 12(October 1983).
"Teaching About Racism in the Classroom and the Community," (with D. G. Wicker) The Radical
Teacher 18(Spring 1981), reprinted in Heresies 15(1982).
"Economics and Enterprise in Board and Care Homes for the Mentally Ill," (with R. M. Emerson
and E. B. Rochford) in American Behavioral Scientist (August 1981).
Publications in Translation
“Fieldnotes in Ethnographic Research,” (with Robert M. Emerson and Rachel I. Fretz),
Tendencias, Social Sciences Department of Cariri Regional University, Brazil,
forthcoming.
“Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes” (with Robert M. Emerson and Rachel. I. Fretz), in Daniel
Cafai (ed.), L’Engagement Ethnographique, Summer 2008.
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (with Robert M. Emerson and Rachel I. Fretz), 2nd Edition
edition forthcoming in Vietnamese.
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (with Robert M. Emerson and Rachel I. Fretz),
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editions in Japanese; Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, and Spanish.
Agency Technical Reports
“Qualitative Process analysis of Los Angeles County’s General Relief Program” (with
Manuel H. Moreno, Principal Investigator), County of Los Angeles, Chief Administrative
Office, Service Integration Branch, November 2012.
“Project 50 Los Angeles: From the Street to Housing, Health, and Hope” (with John Horton,
Max Stevens, and Manuel Moreno, Principle Investigator), County of Los Angeles, Chief
Administrative Office, Service Integration Branch, November 2011.
“Sanctioned Participants and the Challenge of Meeting Welfare-to-Work Requirements
in the Era of TANF Reauthorization” (with John Horton and Manuel H. Moreno, Principal
Investigator), County of Los Angeles, Chief Administrative Office, Service Integration
Branch, CalWORKs Evaluation Services, October 2006.
“Study of Sanctions Among CalWORKs Participants in the County of Los Angeles: Who, When,
and Why?” (with John Horton and Manuel H. Moreno, Principal Investigator), County of
Los Angeles, Chief Administrative Office, Service Integration Branch, CalWORKs
Evaluation Services, March 2005.
“The Effects of Welfare Time Limits on Los Angeles County’s CalWORKs Participants: A Focus
Group Report “(with John Horton and Manuel H. Moreno, Principle Investigator),
County of Los Angeles, Chief Administrative Office, Service Integration Branch,
December 2003.
“A Window on Welfare Reform: Early Impacts on Families and Communities in Los
Angeles County” (with John Horton and Manuel H. Moreno, Principal Investigator),
County of Los Angeles, Chief Administrative Office, Service Integration Branch,
CalWORKs Evaluation Services, July 2002.
“Los Angeles County CalWORKs Transportation Needs Assessment (with John Horton, Paul
Ong and Douglas Houston), Working Paper #36, The Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for
Regional Policy Studies at UCLA, School of Public Policy and Social Research, May 2001.
“Assessing the Transportation Needs of Welfare-To-Work Participants in Los Angeles
County” (with Appendices, including "Focus Group Methodology" and "Focus Group
Findings"), (with John Horton and Manuel H. Moreno, Principle Investigator), Urban
Research, Chief Administrative Office, County of Los Angeles, November 2000.
“Longitudinal Focus Group report on Monitoring the Implementation of CalWORKs: Six Case
Studies in the Journey from Welfare to Work in Los Angeles County, 1998-2000,” (with
John Horton and Manuel Moreno, Principle Investigator), for Urban Research Division,
Chief Administrative Office, County of Los Angeles, September 2000.
“Focus Group Report on the Impact of CalWORKS on Participants, Their Families, and
Communities in Los Angeles County, 1999,” (with John Horton and Manuel H. Moreno,
Principle Investigator), September 1999.
“Monitoring the Implementation of CalWORKs: Welfare Reform and Welfare Service
Provision in Los Angeles County (with John Horton and Manuel H. Moreno, Principle
Investigator), Urban Research, Chief Administrative Office, County of Los Angeles,
August 1999.
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“Focus Group Report on Monitoring the Implementation of CalWORKs: Welfare Reform and
Welfare Service Provision in Los Angeles County” (with John Horton and Manuel H.
Moreno, Principle Investigator), for Urban Research Division, Chief Administrative
Office, County of Los Angeles, May 1999.
Unpublished Agency Reports
“Male Involvement Program Evaluation,” Current Change Consulting, April 2003.
“Cross Cultural Senior Mental Health Program Evaluation,” Current Change Consulting, March
2003.
“Project D.E.V.E.L.O.P. Program Assessment,” Current Change Consulting, June 2002.
“Cross Cultural Senior Mental Health Program Planning Assessment,” Current Change
Consulting, February 2002.
“Oaks and Acorns: The Outrageous Sages Process Evaluation,” Current Change Consulting,
August 2001.
“Oaks and Acorns: Oaks Go to Acorns Program Evaluation,” Current Change Consulting, August
2001.
“CSU Information Competence, Phase II,” (with Linda Pulliam and Barry Saferstein), Social and
Behavioral Research Institute, California State University, San Marcos, November 2001.
Conference Presentations
“Collaboration and Change: The Contributions of Quantitative and Qualitative
Research to Reform in L.A. County’s Welfare-to-Work Program,” National
Association for Welfare Research and Statistics, Los Angeles, September
2010.
“Despised and Forgotten: Justice for Poor Mothers Through Welfare Fraud
Diversion,” Social Justice and Equity Symposium, CSU San Marcos, March
2008.
“Walking the Tightrope: The Politics of Evaluation Research on the Welfare-to-Work
Program in Los Angeles County,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York,
August 2007.
“Choosing and Being Chosen: Planning for Graduate School,” Pacific Sociological
Association, Oakland, CA, March 2007.
“Teaching Qualitative Methods: Syllabi, Assignments and other Ideas,” Panel Organizer,
Pacific Sociological Association, Los Angeles, April 2006.
“Sanctions Among CalWORKs Participants in the County of Los Angeles,” The National
Association for Welfare Research and Statistics, Madison, 2005.
“Attacking Welfare Fraud from the Bottom Up” New Legal Realism Meets Feminism and
Legal Theory Conference, Emory University School of Law, June 2005.
“The Impact of Welfare Reform on Parents and Families in Los Angeles County,” Regional
Spotlight Session. Welfare Reform, Welfare Policy, and Welfare Research in Los Angeles
County, American Sociological Association, August 2001.
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“Fighting for Greater Equality in Los Angeles: An Exchange Between Academics and Activists,”
UCLA, November 2000.
“Opportunity and Control: A View from Participants in GAIN, the Los Angeles County Welfareto-Work Program,” Work, Welfare, and Politics Conference, University of Oregon,
February 2000; California Sociological Association, Riverside, CA October 2000.
“The Travel Behavior of Welfare Recipients,” The Journey to Work: UCLA Symposium on
Welfare Reform and Transportation, April 2000.
“Engaging Ethnographic Practice(s): Constructivist and Standpoint Epistemologies,” Ford
Foundation Group on Nationalism, Citizenship and Identity, Cornell University, April
2000.
“The Problematics of Meaning and Practice in Human Services Delivery: Contributions from
Qualitative Research,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, April 1998.
“Didactic Seminar, “Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes,” American Sociological Association,
Toronto, August 1997.
“Teaching About Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego,
April 1997.
“Fieldwork, Reflexivity, and the Classroom as a Site of Knowledge Production (with Amy
Denissen), American Sociological Association, New York City, August 1996.
“Approaches to Applied Curricula: The Syracuse Program,” Society for Applied Sociology, San
Diego, October 1995.
“Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes,” Sociology Department, Syracuse University, September
1995.
"Teaching Workshop: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes," Studying Human Lived Experience:
Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research `95," Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June
1995.
"The Practice and Politics of Team Ethnography," American Sociological Association, Los
Angeles, August 1994.
"The Strength of Loose Ties: Family Relations Among Ex-Mental Patients Living in Board and
Care," Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 1994.
"Qualitative Interviewing," Feminist Field Methods, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell
University, Fall, 1991.
"Rethinking Solidarity: Conflict and Consensus in Inter-generational Family Relations,"
Gerontology Seminar, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California,
Summer 1990.
"Social Constructions of Deviance and the Risk of Contracting AIDS: Implications for Public
Policy," Sociology of Deviant Behavior, Department of Sociology, University of
California, Los Angeles, November 1989.
"Marginality and Dilemmas of the Self: The Case of the Deinstitutionalized Mental Patient,"
Sociology of Mental Illness; Colloquium on Ethnomethodological, Phenomenological and
Observational Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles,
June 1989.
"Unlearning Racism," Ohio State University, January 1987; Mankato State University, January
1984.
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"Feminists Working Against Racism," National Women's Studies Association, December 1979;
May 1980; May 1981; Association for Women in Psychology, March 1980.
"Social Networks and Lay Support in a Psychiatric Board and Care Home," Society for the Study
of Social Problems, San Francisco, September 1982.
"Rehospitalization: Situational Contingencies in a Psychiatric Board and Care Home," Society
for the Study Social Problems, Toronto, August 1981.
"Violence Against Women in Psychiatric Board and Care Homes," Women's Coalition Against
Violence, California State University, Long Beach, April 1981.
Other Conference Activity
Chair of panel entitled, "Experiencing Relationships," Qualitative Research Conference `95:
Studying Social Life: Ethnography in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, June 1995.
Discussant for panel entitled, "The Construction of Status in Occupations and Professions,"
Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 1994.
Public Testimony
“Sanctioned Participants and the Challenge of Meeting Welfare-to-Work Requirements in the
Era of TANF Reauthorization” (with John Horton), County of Los Angeles Department of
Public Social Services Partners’ Working Group, February 2007.
“Sanctioned Participants and the Challenge of Meeting Welfare-to-Work Requirements in
the Era of TANF Reauthorization” (with John Horton), Los Angeles County
Department of Public Social Services Committee on Review and Evaluation of
CalWORKs, February 2007.
“A Study of Sanctions Among CalWORKs Participants in Los Angeles County: Barriers,
Impacts, Outcomes” (with John Horton), Los Angeles County DPSS Sanctions Action
Committee,” September 2005.
“Study of Sanctions Among CalWORKs Participants in the County of Los Angeles: Who, When,
and Why?” (with John Horton), Los Angeles County Department of Public Social
Services Committee on Review and Evaluation of CalWORKs, May 2005.
“The Study of Sanctions Among CalWORKs Participants in the County of Los Angeles: Focus
Group Findings from GSWs and Participants” (with John Horton), Los Angeles
County Department of Public Social Services Partners’ Working Group,” May 2005.
Editorial/Reviewer Activity
Urban Life: A Quarterly Journal of Ethnographic Research (Deputy Editor, 1984-1986)
Social Problems
Sociological Perspectives
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
The Sociological Quarterly
Journal of Marriage and the Family
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Mental Retardation
Pine Forge Press
Mayfield Publishers
University of California Press
Lynne Reiner Publishers
University Service
Sociology Department
Department Chair, 2006-2012
Program Annual Assessment Committee, 2009-2013
Graduate Coordinator, 2003-2006
Graduate Committee Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003-2006
Coordinator, Program Evaluation and Planning, 1998
Peer Review Committees
Tenure-Track Search Committees
College: CoAS/CHABSS
Interim Director, Social Sciences Program, 2013-2015
Interdisciplinary and Emerging Programs Steering Committee, 2013-14
Interdisciplinary and Emerging Programs Task Force, Fall 2012-present
“Social Sciences Feasibility Study” (with Marie Thomas), Fall-Spring 2013
Social and Behavioral Sciences Building Committee, 2006-2011
Faculty Development Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2004-2006
Budget Committee, 2001-2002
Faculty Development Committee, 2000-2001
Co-Director, Women’s Studies Program, 1998-2000
College Governance Secretary, 1996-1998
University
Academic Senate Program Assessment Committee Chair, Spring 2010-present
Academic Senate Executive Committee, Spring 2010-present
Academic Senate Program Assessment Committee, Fall 2009-present
Academic Senator, 1997-present
WASC Team on Assessment, Spring 2009
Academic Senate Academic Assessment Support Task Force, 2006
Academic Senate Faculty Affairs Committee, 1997-1998
Service Learning Committee, 1993
Faculty Mentoring Program, 1993-1994; 1996
Search Committee, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Academic Resources,
1997-1998
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WASC Assessment Team, 1998
Professional Service
External Reviewer, CSU Northridge Department of Sociology Program Review,
Spring 2010.
Ph.D. Committee for Amy Denissen, “Perpetual Pioneers: Women and Work in
The Construction Trades,” Department of Sociology, University of
California, Los Angeles, 2001-2006.
Peer Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion Review of Elizabeth Callaghan, Ithaca
College, 2006.
Program Committee, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, 1998
Community Service
St. Vincent DePaul’s Father Joe’s Villages, Project 25: Housing the Homeless, Fall 2012.
Supportive Parents Information Network (SPIN). Board of Directors, 2000-present.
San Diego County Public Defender’s Office and District Attorney’s Office, Welfare Fraud
Diversion Program (in collaboration with SPIN), 2004.
Palomar Palmorado Health Advisory Board, 2000-2001.
San Diego County Commission on Children, Youth, and Families, Public
Policy Subcommittee, 1998-99.
Affiliations/Activities
American Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association
Honors and Awards
National Association of Counties Achievement Award for Welfare Fraud Diversion Program,
2008.
Teaching Innovator Award (with Field and International Study Program faculty), Community
and Rural Development Institute, Cornell University, 1992.
Outstanding Teaching Award, Friends of Women's Studies, California State University, Long
Beach, 1981.
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