Orange Cactus
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Every day I climb three flights of stairs to reach my apartment, aging wooden stairs with decades-old cracks. Each time this hundred year-old building laughs at my impatience. I sure do miss the one-story architecture of my last home. From my living room I can see the street that, after that laborious ascent, seems impossibly close. Yet, here I am on the third floor telling myself, "You really should move to the fourth." My building doesn't have a fourth.


November 2009
BALTIMORE, Maryland—For some, the world is a cold, metallic, calculating place. But not for this inspired guest of the American Visionary Art Museum. Practically leaping from the stolid game board, Jeff Larson bristles with life as he squares off against kings, queens, and a bunch of pawns in his new Maryland home. The air hovering above reeks of anticipation for his first move.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Sociology

Social Research Methods

Social Movements

Recent Papers

[In progress] Social Movements and Tactical Choice

[In progress] Strategic Adaptation or Institutional Stability? Tracking Organizational Change in a Social Movement Field

[In progress] From Mobilization to Institutionalization: Persistence and Change within the Social Movement Field

[In progress] The Effects of Gender and Status in Interactional Context (w/Nelson, Sheikh, and Starks)

Why Change? Organizational Adaptation and Stability in a Social Movement Field (Ph.D. Dissertation)

Sector Level Dynamics and Collective Action in the United States, 1965-1975, Mobilization, 2009 (w/Soule)

Generations, Identities, and the Collective Memory of Che Guevara, Sociological Forum, 2007 (w/Lizardo)

Structural Embeddedness and the Liability of Newness among Nonprofit Organizations, Public Management Review, 2004 (w/Hagar and Galaskiewicz)

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Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Towson University, 8000 York Rd., Towson, MD 21252 (410) 704-2852 Email: pigonthestairs@gmail.com