Senior lecturer
Research areas
- Sociological theory
- Economic sociology
- Cultural sociology
- Science and technology studies
Current research
Gerber’s current research focuses on value and valuation processes in the development of archives and archival practice; images and visual veracity across disciplinary contexts; and sensation and attention in scientific research.
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
‘Everyone’s Annoyed’ : Leveraging Uncertainty in the Smell of Others
Alison Gerber
(2022) Cultural Sociology, 16 p.338-357
Journal articleDrawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary Work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline
Alison Gerber
(2022) The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music : New Directions and New Discoveries , p.377-404
Book chapterWhy academics shouldn’t move fast and break things
Alison Gerber, Ov Cristian Norocel, Francesca Bolla Tripodi
(2021)
Web publicationIn Search of Search (& its Engines)
(2021)
Web publicationReview of Gary Alan Fine, Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education.
Alison Gerber
(2019) Contemporary Sociology, 48
ReviewBlack Hole Suns: Binarism and Gravity in Cultural Fields
Alison Gerber
(2019) Culture Unbound
Journal articleThe Economic World Obverse: Freedom Through Markets After Arts Education
Alison Gerber, Clayton Childress
(2017) American Behavioral Scientist, 61 p.1532-1554
Journal articleNewspaper Refuses To Give An Artist Credit For Her Work
Alison Gerber
(2017) Hyperallergic
Newspaper articleI Don’t Make Objects, I Make Projects: Selling Things and Selling Selves in Contemporary Artmaking
Alison Gerber, Clayton Childress
(2017) Cultural Sociology, 11 p.234-254
Journal articleThe MFA in Creative Writing: The Uses of a “Useless” Credential
Clayon Childress, Alison Gerber
(2015) Professions and Professionalism, 5
Journal articleBook Review: The Economics of Creativity: Art and Achievement under Uncertainty by Pierre-Michel Menger, Harvard University Press, 2014.
Alison Gerber
(2015) Organization Studies, 36 p.1115-1117
ReviewThe Meaning of Indeterminacy: Noise Music as Performance
Joseph Klett, Alison Gerber
(2014) Cultural Sociology, 8 p.275-290
Journal articleThe Tax Collectors vs. the Artists
Alison Gerber
(2014) Minneapolis Star Tribune , p.13-13
Newspaper articleThe Audit of Venus : A simple tax audit leads to a thorny bureaucratic question: what does it mean to be an artist?
Alison Gerber
(2014) Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 58 p.6-13
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Background
Alison Gerber (PhD 2014, Yale University) works on the intersection of value, culture, and public life, from tax audits to noise music.