Attended the Yale CCS Populism and the Civil Sphere Conference

Jeffrey Alexander at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology has an ongoing book series project expanding civil sphere theory outside of the framework of the United States into a global perspective. The latest book project, The Civil Sphere and Populism, is underway, and a conference was held last weekend for contributors to meet with editors Jeff Alexander, Peter Kivisto, and Giuseppe Sciortino.

As a student working on civil sphere theory with Alexander, who is my advisor, I was invited to attend as a reader and respondent

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Anne Taylor
Conference Presentation: 2019 Yale Center for Cultural Sociology Annual Conference

The annual Yale CCS Spring Conference was held on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27., with plenary speakers CCS Director Philip Smith and Faculty Fellow Isaac Reed.

I presented my latest work on audience agency in charismatic performance theory, a paper called “Audiences Becoming Actors in Charismatic Performance: A study of Sarah Osborn and George Whitefield in the Great Awakening.”

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Anne Taylor
Continued service at the Comparative Research Workshop

18-months into my time at Yale, I am very happy to have made the Comparative Research Workshop a mainstay in my academic life. I greatly enjoy attending, and once a semester, serving as a discussant for one of our many talented speakers. This semester, on November 6th, 2018, I was pleased to serve as a discussant for my colleague Till Hilmar’s presentation, “Robustness of Social Ties, Robustness of Beliefs: Culture, Inequality and Friendship in Post-socialist East Germany after 1989.”

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Anne Taylor
Invited to be a discussant for Yale's Comparative Research Workshop

In November of 2017, I was invited by Professor Julia Adams to serve as a discussant at Yale's Comparative Research Workshop. Specifically, Professor Adams asked me to respond to Sociology PhD student James Hurlbert's paper, "Enemies Foreign and Domestic: War, Rebellion, and Sovereignty in the Early American Republic," as I have a background in studying early American history. It was a great first time experience as a discussant, and I owe many thanks for the guidance and mentorship Professor Adams provided me. I look forward to doing it again soon!

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Anne Taylor