Education.
2016
PhD, Yale University: Department of Sociology
Dissertation: “Making Morals: Standard-Setting in Organizations.”
Committee: Jeffrey Alexander, Rene Almeling, Nina Eliasoph (USC), Philip Gorski
2012
MA, MPhil, Yale University: Department of Sociology
2005
AB, Harvard College: The Comparative Study of Religion, with high honors
Employment.
2021 -
2019-2021
Assistant Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
2017-2019
Lecturer, Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
2015-2017
Kenneth P. Dietrich Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
2015-2016
Russell Sage Foundation Researcher—”The Etiquette of Inequality in Egalitarian Spaces”
2013
Adjunct Professor, Fordham University
Adjunct Professor, Bronx Community College-CUNY
2010-2012
Teaching Fellow, Yale University
2006-2008
Institute for American Values, Research Associate
Publications.
Brophy, Sorcha A. and Veena Sriram (eds). "Pragmatic Advocacy: Advancing Racial Equity in Physician Associations.” Health Affairs blog. (July 2021).
Brophy, Sorcha A. and Veena Sriram (eds). “Recontextualizing Professional Medical Associations.” Special Section, Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law (2021).
Brophy, Sorcha A. and Veena Sriram. “Revisiting Professional Medical Associations.” Special Section, Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law (2021).
Brophy, Sorcha A. 2019. “Health or Politics?: Organizational Maintenance in the AAFP.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 44(1):43-66.
Spillman, Lyn and Sorcha A. Brophy. 2018. “Professionalism as a Cultural Form: Knowledge, Craft, and Moral Agency.” Journal of Professions and Organization 5(2): 155-166.
Brophy, Sorcha A. 2016. “Orthodoxy as Project: Temporality and Action in an American Protestant
Denomination.” Sociology of Religion 77(2):123-143.
2018 Distinguished Article Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association, Sociology of
Religion Section
Brophy, Sorcha A. 2014. “Making Morals: Standard-Setting in Organizations.” Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity: Establishing a Field of Study (Palgrave Macmillan).
Brophy, Sorcha A. 2012. “Exploring Physicians’ Attitudes About and Behavior in Communicating with Patients.” American Medical Association Journal of Ethics.July 2012; 14(7):557-559.
It’s A Wonderful Life: Essays on American Thrift, edited by David Blankenhorn, Sorcha Brophy, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Templeton Press, 2008).
“US Mutual Savings Banks and the ‘Savings Bank Idea’: The Virtue of Thrift as an Institutional Value.” In It’s A Wonderful Life: Essays on American Thrift.
Publications In Development.
Ethical Infrastructures: The Politics of Organizational Standard-Setting (book manuscript in preparation)
Brophy, Sorcha A. and Carolyn Ly-Donovan. “Nimble or Democratic?: Changes in State Medical Association Governance.” (To be included in special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law).
Brophy, Sorcha A. And Veena Sriram. “Recontextualizing Organized Medicine.” (To be included in special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law).
Brophy, Sorcha A. And Francesca Tripodi. “Systematization Work: Creating [In]Coherence Through Organizational Policy.”
Teaching.
2019-2020
Policy Implementation, The Politics of Health Care, Public Policy Senior Seminar
2018-2019
Policy Implementation, The Politics of Health Care, Medical Ethics
2017-2018
Policy Implementation, The Politics of Health Care, Police and Citizen, Public Policy Senior Seminar
2015-2017
Medical Sociology, Cultural Sociology
2014
Bioethics and the Law (Teaching Fellow)
2013
Sociological Theory
2013
Introduction to Sociology
2010-2012
Material Culture and Iconic Consciousness, Cultural Sociology, Sex and Romance in Adolescence, Foundations of Modern Social Theory (Teaching Fellow)
Interviews.
2017
Christian Teen Magazine ‘Brio’ Returns With a ‘Biblical Worldview.’ NPR, Morning Edition
2017
“Focus on the Family Revives Brio.” New York Times, May 2.
Selected Conference Presentations.
2019
Social Science History Association - Chicago, IL
”Diversity Policy and Infrastructural Repair”
2019
American Political Science Association – Washington, DC
“An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Politics and Strategy in Medical Associations” (workshop convener)
2018
American Sociological Association – Philadelphia, PA
“Health or Politics?”
2018
Eastern Sociological Society – Baltimore, MD.
“Systematization Work”
2017
work/culture, Data & Society – New York, NY
“Making Morals”
2016
American Sociological Association – Seattle, WA
“Expertise, Standard-Setting, and Public Health”
2016
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics – Reston, VA
“The Expansion of Ethics: Social Policy Debates in American Physicians’ Associations”
2015
American Sociological Association – Chicago, IL
“The Perils of Identification: Strong Organizational Identity and Institutional Complexity”
2014
Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology Anniversary Conference – New Haven, CT
“Maintaining Orthodoxy: Lay Theorizations of Temporality and Action.”
2013
American Sociological Association – New York, NY
“Principles and Agents: Articulating Moral Authority in Contexts of Organizational Moral Review”
2012
American Sociological Association – Denver, CO
“Theorizing Domains of Moral Review”
2011
American Sociological Association – Las Vegas, NV
“Normalizing Virtue: Moral Discourse and Group Identification Processes Among Evangelical Teenagers”
2010
International Sociological Association – Gothenburg, Sweden
“Imagining the Transnational in the Anglophone Caribbean”
2010
Caribbean Studies Association – St. Peter, Barbados
“Jeopardizing Civility: Imagining the Transnational in the Anglophone Caribbean”
2009
Social Science History Association Annual Meeting – Long Beach, CA
“Propriety, Civility, and ‘Tradition’ in the Anglophone Caribbean”
2009
McGill-CREOR Graduate Student Conference – Montreal, Canada
“Fashion as Ritual: Performing Personality Through Modesty”
Invited Presentations.
2020
Arthur Olsen Student Symposium Keynote Speaker – Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD
2019
The University of Chicago Center in Delhi – New Delhi, India
“A Dialogue on Professional Medical Associations and Health Policy”
2018
The Mission Continues – Chicago, IL
“Bias in Practice”
2017
Tufts University – Boston, MA
“Shunning Politics: Organizational Neutrality in the AAFP”
2012
Smith College – Northampton, MA
“Gender and Ethics in Beauty Pageants”
2010
“The Shape of Families” Working Group – Austin, TX
“Narrating Divorce in the Protestant Church”
Fellowships and Grants.
2019 New Leaders Council, Fellow
2016 Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh -- $3,500
2015 Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh -- $3,500
2012 Sociology Dept. Dissertation Research Grant – $2,000
2012 Center for Cultural Sociology Research Grant – $500
2012 Sociology Department CAMP Grant – $600
2010 Caribbean Studies Association Travel Grant (Paper Award) – $500
2010 American Sociological Association ISA Award – $900
2010 Yale Graduate Student Assembly Conference Travel – $750
2010 Konstanz University “Clash of Cultures” Masterclass, Konstanz Germany – $1400
2009 Charles and Louise Tilly Graduate Student Travel Award (Social Science History Association)
Professional Service, Volunteer Activities.
2018-2019
Chair, American Sociological Association Religion Section Distinguished Article Committee
2018-pres
University of Chicago BA Thesis Director, Public Policy Studies
2018
Expert Witness, In re: A.W. et al. v. Woodlands Hills School District
2017-pres
Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
Peer Reviewer, Organization Studies, Social Forces, The American Journal of Cultural Sociology, National Science Foundation
Professional Affiliations.
Academy of Management
American Political Science Association
American Sociological Association (sections: Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity; Medical Sociology; Religion; Culture; Organizations, Occupations and Work; Theory)
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Social Science History Association
Research Skills.
Atlas.ti, Nvivo, Dedoose, import.io, Stata
Ethnographic (participant) observation, interviews, archival research