Dan Ryan
Current Position
| Associate Professor of Sociology, Kathryn P. Hannam Professorship, Mills College, Oakland, CA. |
| Areas of professional interest: Information and Organizations, Simulation, Technology & Innovation, Phenomenology/Everyday Life, Social Control. |
Education
| 1999 | Yale University, Ph.D. Sociology. Dissertation under direction of Charles Perrow: "The Ghosts of Organizations Past: Organizational Aspects of Urban Social Structure in the Implementation of the Fighting Back Initiative in New Haven, Connecticut 1989-1996." |
| 1993 | Yale University, M.A., M. Phil. Sociology. |
| 1986-87 | Universität Trier, Germany, Guest Student (German/Politics). |
| 1983 | New College of Florida, B.A. Mathematical, Physical, and Computer Sciences Thesis under V. Ambardar, with P. Kazaks, S.B. Chae. P. Scudder : "Descripto Novi Collegi modi ad data compenenda nomine Pascal Utendi cum IBM SERIE/I machina computante miniscula (The Design and Implementation of a Pascal Compiler for the IBM Series/1 Minicomputer)" |
Scholarship
Peer Reviewed Publications
ORCID 0000-0001-8627-5029
| 2013 | "Democracy and the Information Order" with Gillian K. Hadfield forthcoming European Journal of Sociology (Archives européennes de sociologie) 2013-1. |
| 2008 | "Emergent Temporal Effects in Community Initiatives." Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 51, Issue 1, pp. 139–162. |
| 2006 | "Getting the Word Out: Notes on the Social Organization of Notification." Sociological Theory, September 2006. See also Tierney, J. 2007. "As the Grapevine Withers, Spam Filters Take Root." New York Times, 22 May 2007. |
| 2006 | "Separating the Organizationally Normal from the Political in Communities of Organizations" Journal of Drug Issues, vol. 36, no. 2 (Spring 2006). |
| 2005 | "Why is it so difficult to form community coalitions?" with Charles Kadushin and Matthew Lindholm. City and Community,4:3 September 2005. |
| 2004 | "'Fighting Back' Against Substance Abuse: The Structure and Function of Community Coalitions." Matthew Lindholm, Dan Ryan, Charles Kadushin, Leonard Saxe, Archie Brodsky. Human Organization. Fall 2004. Vol. 63, Iss. 3 |
Other Publications
| 2007 | Review of Time Use by William Michelson. Contemporary Sociology 36, 3 (May 2007). |
| 2005 | "Time and Globalization" in Encyclopedia of Globalization |
| 2004 | "Time" in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by George Ritzer |
| 1998 | "How to Enjoy a Convention" The Pacific Sociologist Volume 6, #3. September 1998 (Republished by ~25 professional associations and websites) |
| 1995 | Farrar, C., Moskowitz, M., Rae, D. and D. Ryan. New Haven Maps! '95 A book of maps based on GIS analysis of data sets assembled by the Regional Data Cooperative for New Haven. September, 1995. |
| 1989 | Le Beau, M. M., D. Ryan, Jr. and M. A. Pericak-Vance. "Report of the committee on the genetic constitution of chromosomes 18 and 19." Cytogenetics & Cell Genetics 1989:51(1-4):338-57.|| |
Unpublished Work
| 2010 | "How to Run a College Like a Business Without Running a College Like a Business" |
| 2010 | A Pre-Transition Agenda for Mills College |
| 1999 | Organizational Aspects of Urban Social Structure in the Implementation of the Fighting Back Initiative in New Haven, Connecticut 1989-1996 (Dissertation Yale University Department of Sociology) |
| 1998 | “Urban Communities as Organizational Scrapyards” |
| 1989 | "Notes Toward a Social Psychology of Combat" (with Daniel F. Chambliss) |
| 1988 | "Big Problems Demand Small Solutions : Towards a General Strategy for Excellence in Education" (with Daniel F. Chambliss) |
| 1972 | "A Statistical Study" |
Work in Progress
| Review | Wellman & Raine, Networked: The New Social Operating System for Contemporary Sociology. |
| Article | "Social Organizational Junkyards" |
| Article | "Learning to be a Node" |
| Book | The Ghosts of Organization Past currently under review at Temple University Press. |
| Book | The Information Order |
Media
| 2009 | Contributor KALW news "Economic Edge" series. |
| 2007 | Tierney, John. 2007. "As the Grapevine Withers, Spam Filters Take Root." New York Times Science Times 22 May 2007.|| |
Online Writing
| blog | The Sociology of Information |
| blog | Assessing Assessing: Organizationally informed commentary on the assessment industry in higher education. |
| blog | Majoring in the 21st Century: Investigations into what college should look like for those whose object of study needs to be the coming century. |
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Presentations
| 2013 | "Democracy and the Information Order," USC Law School Faculty Workshop (with G Hadfield), February. |
| 2012 | "Pedagogical Productivity and the Survival of SLACs in the Age of MOOCs," Mills College Faculty Colloquium, December. |
| 2011 | Guest lectures, Mills College. "19th German Social Theory" (for HIST127, Germany and Central Europe); "Power in Organizations" (for GOVT101 "Organizational Theory") |
| 2010 | "The 'Six-Hats' Approach to Group Discussion," Mills College. |
| 2010 | "Democracy, Courts, and the Information Order" (co-authored with Gillian K. Hadfield) presented at Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, CA April. |
| 2008 | "Democracy, Courts, and the Information Order" (co-authored with Gillian K. Hadfield) presented at Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA August. |
| 2007 | "Notification and the Information Order," presented at Mills College Faculty Works-in-Progress Forum, October. |
| 2007 | "Women, Men, and the Information Order," presented at Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, CA, April. |
| 2007 | "Notification and the Information Order," presented at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, April. |
| 2007 | "Communities as Organizational Junkyards," presented to Organizational Change Study Group at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, March. |
| 2007 | "The Mathematics of Petition Trees," presented to Political Economy and Formal Modeling Working Group at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, February. |
| 2004 | "Getting the Word Out: Notes on the Social Organization of Notification" presented at Mills College Social Science Works in Progress Seminar, Oakland, CA, October. |
| 2004 | "Separating the Organizationally Normal from the Politically Pathological in Communities of Organizations" presented at Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, April. |
| 2002 | "Social Networks" mock lecture for Mills College admissions event. |
| 2002 | "Making Methods a Lab Course" presented at Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Vancouver, BC, April. |
| 2002 | "'Please take a few minutes… : Using 'Pointless' Internet Petitions to Characterize the Shape of Acquaintance Networks" presented at Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, March 2001 and in poster session at Annual Meetings of American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August. |
| 2001 | "Getting the Word Out: On the Social Organization of Notification" presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Association, St. Louis, April. |
| 2001 | "Are Chain Letters Completely Useless? Extracting Social Network Information from ‘Pointless’ Internet Petitions" presented at Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, March. |
| 2000 | "Getting the Word Out: Notes On the Social Organization of Notification" presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August. |
| 2000 | "Temporal Notification Norms: An Application in Formal Sociology" presented at Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, March. |
| 1999 | "Notes on the Social Organization of Notification" presented at the annual "Pre-author meets non-critics" session at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August. |
| 1999 | "It’s About Time: Time as a Social Structure in Communities of Organizations" presented at SSSP meetings, Chicago, August. |
| 1999 | "Do Kids Today Lack a Work Ethic? Or: Organizational Learning Across Social Networks" presented to Bay Area Public Pool Operators Association, January. |
| 1999 | "Some Thoughts on Undergraduate Research" presented to Dallas Area Mills College Alumnae Group, April. |
| 1998 | "Access to Information is Neither the Problem nor the Solution," Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. |
| 1998 | "Urban Communities as Organizational Junkyards" presented at ASA meetings, San Francisco, CA, August. |
| 1997 | "Throwing Like a Girl" guest lecture presented in "Introduction to Sociology" course at Mills College, Oakland, CA, October. |
| 1997 | "Everything Here is Political: Communities of Organizations as Settings for Community Initiatives" presented at ASA meetings, Toronto, ON, August. |
| 1996 | "New Haven: A Virtual Tour." Invited talk, Yale Law School Reunion, New Haven, CT, October. |
| 1996 | "The City Room at ISPS: Efforts toward Bolstering the Local Information Economy." Yale University Department of Statistics. |
| 1989 | "Some Notes on the Social Psychology of Combat" (with Daniel F. Chambliss) Presented at 1989 ASA meetings, San Francisco, CA. |
| 1988 | "Big Problems Demand Small Solutions : Towards a General Strategy for Excellence in Education" (with Daniel F. Chambliss). Presented at the 1988 conference of the New England Educational Research Organization. |
| 1990s | Numerous public presentations on computer networks and organizations, urban organizations, and New Haven demographics. |
Unpublished Reports
Other Research
| 1995 | Ethnographic fieldwork for Fighting Back National Evaluation Study, San Antonio, Texas. |
| 1992 | The Corporate Citizenship Challenge Project under the direction of N. Tichy and C. Kadushin. Set up qualitative database and wrote section of report on styles of corporate citizenship motivation. |
| 1992 | Research assistant to Steven Brint. Content analysis of journal articles for project on the American intellectual elite. |
| 1992 | "Student Markets and Admissions Strategies: A Report to the Competitive Markets Subcommittee of the Hamilton College Board of Trustees" an analysis of admissions data written with Daniel F. Chambliss. |
| 1983 | IBM Thomas J. Watson Laboratory. Worked on hardware and software for control, data collection, and display for the scanning tunneling electron microscope under Dr. R. Feenstra. American Institute of Physics Summer Industrial Intern Fellowship. |
| 1982-3 | B.A. thesis research — development and implementation of a Pascal Compiler for the IBM Series/1 minicomputer. |
| 1981 | Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute. Raman spectroscopy of electrochemical breakdown of thin oxide films on iron. NSF URPP. |
Employment
Consulting
| 2012 | Loyola Marymount College: Program Review Department of Sociology. |
| 2008-9 | Michelle R. Clayman Center Institute for Gender Research. Data visualization for "Dual-Career Academic Couples" project. |
| 2005-8 | Mills College. GIS mapping for Office of Admissions, Alumnae Association. Web site development for Curriculum Revision effort. (pro bono) |
| 2003 | Gaucher College: Program Review Department of Sociology and Anthropology. |
| 2003 | Hamilton College Project on Assessment of Learning in the Liberal Arts. |
| 1999 | Cooper Robertson & Partners, Architects. Developing methods of data visualization for Museum of Modern Art renovation project. |
| 1997 | Yale Office of University Planning and Cooper Robertson & Partners on campus planning project. Developed methods of visualizing campus activity patterns by combining multiple sources of administrative data with geographic information systems. |
| 1997 | Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership (LEAP). Organizational climate and effectiveness. |
| 1997 | The Waterbury Foundation/ The Counseling Center. GIS mapping. |
| 1995-6 | NIDA funded Community Health Care Van Project, providing GIS support and community information. |
| 1996 | New Haven Childcare Coalition. GIS mapping and spatial analysis. |
| 1996 | “Liaison, Information Exchange, and Consultation Core” component of Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS proposal. |
| 1995 | Dr. Joann Elmore, Yale University Medical School. GIS mapping of breast cancer incidence data. |
| 1995 | New Haven Fighting Back. Assisted with planning for local community based self-assessment of program effectiveness. |
| 1994 | Collaboration Studio at Yale School of Architecture. Organizational design and analysis. |
| 1989 | Hamilton College Board of Trustees Admissions Committee. Data analysis and development of criteria for identifying multiple admissions markets. |
Teaching
Courses taught: (1) Analysis of Social Structure; (2) Ants, Brains, Cities and Software; (3) Computer Applications in the Social Sciences; (4) Computers and Society; (5) Geographic Information Systems and Sociological Geography; (6) History of Sociological Thought; (7) Introduction to Sociology; (8) Junior Proseminar; (9) Research Methods; (10) Senior Seminar; (11) Simulation in the Social and Policy Sciences; (12) Social Control; (13) Social Organization; (14) Social Psychology of Organizations; (15) Sociology of Everyday Life; (16) Statistics, (17) Social Network Analysis. Independent Studies: Multiagent Simulation and Computer Music; Mathematical Sociology; Network Analysis; Contemporary Social Theory; Social Theory for International Relations; All by One: Goffman.
Non-academic Work Experience
| 1/93-8/94 | Academic Computing Services, Yale University. Humanities Computing Consultant. Developed and implemented user training, communications software, new consulting service, computer solutions to various instructional problems. |
| 9/91-12/93 | Yale Computer Center, Statistical Computing Consultant. |
| 6/88-9/88 | Software engineer. London, England. Consultant to FXNET project. Tracked down and repaired software problems that had eluded in-house maintenance staff. |
| 2/87-7/87 | Universität Trier, Trier, West Germany. Taught computer skills to clerical staff in dean's office |
| 9/85-6/87 | Synergistic Communications, Inc. Boston/London. System Designer and Programmer on the Foreign Exchange Netting Project. All phases of project development from high level functional specs to final debugging and ongoing support. Programming in C and VMS layered products on MicroVax IIs. |
| 7/84-1/85 | Consultant at Bank of America, London Branch, Marketing Systems Group. Worked with bank staff to develop, design, test, and implement new database products. |
| 9/83-6/84 | New College, Sarasota. FL. Admissions Counselor. Traveled as recruiter and designed and implemented database for applicant tracking. |
Grants, Awards, Honors
Grants
| 2012 | Mills College Research Grant for "Mapping the Higher Education Lobby," $1,245 |
| 2007 | Fulbright German Studies Seminar |
| 2006 | Quigley Research Grant, Mills College: "Women, Men, and the Information Order." Course release. |
| 2002 | Mills College Faculty Development Grant “Feasibility of Establishing GIS Data Warehouse for Oakland” with Julia McQuoid (Mills undergraduate). |
| 2000 | Mills College Irvine Classroom Technology Initiative for the development of online lab materials to accompany methods of social research course. $4,000. |
| 1998 | Mills College Course Development Grant for “Geographic Information Systems and Sociological Geography.” $3,500. |
| 1996 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/City of New Haven. “An Inventory of Faith Community Involvement in Substance Abuse Related Programs in New Haven.” $15,000. |
| 1995 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/City of New Haven. “Local Assessment of Substance Abuse Related Data in New Haven.” $16,803. |
| 1994 | City University of New York Research Foundation. “Fighting Back in New Haven: Community Study Pilot Project.” $18,566. |
| 1994 | Co-author of Yale University’s “Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC)” proposal funded by HUD. $540,000. |
Awards and Honors
| 2012-15 | Kathryn P. Hannam Professorship in American Studies |
| 2011 | Baccalaureate Speaker, Mills College |
| 2010-11 | Visiting Scholar, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences |
| 2008-11 | Robert and Ann Wert Chair, Mills College |
| 2003 | "Pearl M" as honorary member of senior class, Mills College. |
| 2000 | Sussman Dissertation Prize, Yale University Department of Sociology. |
| 1995 | Elm/Ivy Award for contributions to relationship between Yale and New Haven |
| 1994 | President’s Public Service Fellowship, Yale University |
| 1993 | University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University |
| 1988 | National Science Foundation Three Year Graduate Fellowship Jacob Javits Fellowship (declined) |
| 1987 | Yale University Graduate Fellowship Sterling Prize Fellowship, Yale University |
| 1983 | American Institute of Physics Summer Industrial Intern Fellowship, IBM T. J. Watson Laboratory |
| 1981 | National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 1977 | Out-of-State Tuition Scholarship, New College of Florida National Merit Scholarship |
Service
College/University Service
| Ongoing | Mills College, Interdisciplinary Computer Science Program Committee, PLEA Program Committee |
| 2012 | Chair, ad hoc Committee on Electronic Course Evaluations; member Campus Budget Committee, Faculty Executive Committee, Course Credit Task Force |
| 2010 | Mills College, Presidential Search Committee Mills College, Chaplain/Director Spiritual Life Search Committee |
| 2009-11 | Mills College, Chair Faculty Executive Committee Assessment Committee |
| 2006-8 | Mills College, Department Head, Sociology and Anthropology |
| 2008 | Mills College, Sociology Search Committee |
| Pre-2008 | Academic Computing, Undergraduate Research, Faculty Executive, Sociology Search |
Association Activity
- Secretary-Treasurer and Information Officer, American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technology
- Member Committee on Awards, American Sociological Association
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: John Mohr & Robin Wagner-Pacifici" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Denver, CO. August 2012.
Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Ido Tavory" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV. August 2011.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Alan Horwitz" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA. August 2010.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: John Levi Martin" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA. August 2009.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Ann Swidler" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA. August 2008.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Tom DeGloma" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY. August 2007.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Chris Nippert-Eng" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada. August 2006.
- Discussant, "Sociology of Sport" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA. August 2005.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Arlie Hochschild" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA. August 2005.
- Presider and discussant, "Undergraduate Research Panel," Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Portland, OR, April 2005
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Murray S. Davis" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA. August 2004.
- Presider and discussant, "Undergraduate Research Panel," Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, April 2004
- Program Committee, Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, 2004.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Jamie Mullaney" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 2003.
- Nominations Committee, Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, 2003.
- Presider and discussant, "Undergraduate Research Panel," Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Pasadena, CA, April 2003
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Carla Eastis" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL. August 2002.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Kim Torres" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, CA. August 2001.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Ruth Simpson" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC August 2000.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Dan Ryan" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL. August 1999.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Wayne Brekhus" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA. August 1998.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Daniel F. Chambliss" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 1997.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Lynn Chancer" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY. August 1996.
- Organizer, "Soon-to-be-Author-Meets-Non-Critics: Eviatar Zerubavel" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC. August 1995.
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