Rate My Professor Gabrielle Raley-Karlin

Raley-Karlin's teaching connects macro-level structural forces to micro-level experiences, delving into everyday talk and interaction, institutional processes, and inequalities pertaining to race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Her teaching interests include sociology of culture, sociology of art, work and occupations, social theory, inequality, and qualitative methods. She is a member of the Program Committee for Arts Administration and the Peace and Justice Minor Program Committee. Among her publications are a book review titled "Review of Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries, by David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker," published in Contemporary Sociology 41.1 (2012): 87-88. She co-edited chapters including "Avenue to Adulthood: Teenage Pregnancy and the Meaning of Motherhood in Poor Communities" in American Families: A Multicultural Reader, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2007), which was reprinted in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings, 8th Edition (Pine Forge Press, 2010), and "No Good Choices: Teenage Childbearing, Concentrated Poverty, and Welfare Reform" in the same 1999 volume. She instructs courses such as AADM 221 / ANSO 221: Art Work: Culture, Power, and Meaning in Aesthetic Practice.