Scholarly

Education

Boston College, Ph.D., Social Psychology, 1992.

Washington State University, B.S., Psychology, 1987.

         

Doctoral Dissertation

Speaking a New Truth: Oscar A. Romero and the Catholic Church in El Salvador, 1977-1980.

Recent Scholarship

Krase, J. and T. Shortell. In press. “Storymaking and Photography: The Visual Essay and Migration.” Visual Methods in Migration Studies. Edited by K. Nikielska-Sekula and A. Desille. Springer.

Williams, R. and T. Shortell. In press. “Eyes Upon the Street: Visual Social Scientific Approaches to Religion and the City.” Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities. Edited by K. Day and E. Edwards. Routledge.

Shortell, T. 2019. “Social Type (Simmel)” Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2^nd edition, edited by G. Ritzer and C. Rojek. Wiley Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss320.pub2

Shortell, T. 2016. Everyday Globalization: A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris. Routledge.

Brown, E. and T. Shortell. (Eds) 2015. Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice. Temple University Press.

Shortell, T. 2015. “Introduction: Walking as Urban Practice and Research Method.” Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice. Edited by E. Brown and T. Shortell. Temple University Press. 1-22.

Shortell, T. 2015. “Preface.” Culture and Visual Forms of Power: Experiencing Contemporary Spaces of Resistance. Edited by L.K.C. Manzo. Common Ground Publishing. x-xvii.

Shortell, T. 2015. “Visual Methods in the Study of Power.” Culture and Visual Forms of Power: Experiencing Contemporary Spaces of Resistance. Edited by L.K.C. Manzo. Common Ground Publishing. 11-17.

Krase, J. and T. Shortell. 2015. “Seeing Islam in Global Cities: A Spatial Semiotic Analysis.” Seeing Religion: Toward a Visual Sociology of Religion. Edited by R. Williams. Routledge. 61-84.

Shortell, T., and E. Brown. (Eds) 2014. Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography. Ashgate.

Shortell, T. and E Brown. 2014. “Introduction: Walking in European Cities.” Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography. Edited by. T. Shortell and E. Brown. Ashgate. 1-18.

Shortell, T., and K. Aderer. 2014. “Drifting in Chinatowns: Toward a Situationist Analysis of Polyglot Urban Spaces in New York, London and Paris.” Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography. Edited by T. Shortell and E. Brown. Ashgate. 109-128.

Krase, J., and T. Shortell. 2013. “Seeing New York City’s Financial Crisis in the Vernacular Landscape.” Crisis and Cities: New Critical Urban Theory. Edited by K. Fujita. Sage. 188-217.

DeSena, J. N., and T. Shortell. (Eds) 2012. The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Shortell, T. 2012. “Brooklyn and Belleville: On the Spatial Semiotics of Ethnic Identity in Immigrant Neighborhoods.” The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration and Ethnic Politics in a Global City. Edited by J. DeSena and T. Shortell. Lexington Books. 259-288.

Shortell, T., and J. Krase. 2012. “On the Visual Semiotics of Collective Identity in Urban Vernacular Spaces.” Sociology of the Visual Sphere. Edited by R. Nathansohn and D. Zuev. New York: Routledge. 108-128.

Shortell, T., and J. Krase. 2012. “Global Cities.” Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Edited by W. C. Roof and M. Juergensmeyer. Sage.

Selected Earlier Publications

Shortell, T. 2011. “The Conflict Over Origins: A Discourse Analysis of the Creationism/Evolution Controversy in American Newspapers.” Mass Communication & Society. 14(4):431-453.

Krase, J., and T. Shortell. 2011. “On the Spatial Semiotics of Ethnic and Class Differences in Global Cities.” Visual Communication. 10(3): 371-404.

Shortell, T. 2011. “African-American Abolitionism as a Human Rights Discourse,” Human Rights and the Media, Volume 6, Studies in Communications. Edited by D. Papademas. Bingley, UK: Emerald. 121-137.

Recent Presentations

Shortell, T. 2017. “Seeing Conflict & Cooperation in Public Discourse.” Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Washington, DC, October.

Shortell, T. 2017. “Using Everyday Mobility to See Religious Identity.” Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Washington, DC, October.

Shortell, T. 2016. “Seeing Religion Inside and Out: Spatial Semiotics and Group Boundaries.” Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Atlanta, October.

Shortell, T. 2015. “Seeing Religion in Public Spaces: Some Methodological Considerations.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Chicago.

Shortell, T. and J. Krase. 2015. “Everyday Mobility as a Method of Seeing Contested Identities.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Visual Sociology Association. Tinos, Greece.

Shortell, T. 2014. “The Politics of Visibility: Gentrification and Immigration in East London.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the New York State Political Science Association. New York.

Krase, J. and T. Shortell. 2014. “Seeing Islam in Global Cities: A Spatial Semiotic Analysis.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Visual Sociology Association. Pittsburgh.

Shortell, T. and J. Krase. 2013. “Seeing Islam in Global Cities: A Spatial Semiotic Analysis.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association. London.

Aderer, K. and T. Shortell. 2012. “Drifting in Chinatowns: Toward a Situationist Analysis of Cosmopolitan Urban Spaces.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. New York.

Aderer, K. and T. Shortell. 2012. “Drifting in Chinatowns: Toward a Situationist Analysis of Cosmopolitan Urban Spaces.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association. Brooklyn.

Selected Earlier Presentations

Shortell, T. 2011. “A Spatial Semiotics of Public Spaces in Migrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris.” Paper presented at the 10th conference of the European Sociological Association. Geneva.

Shortell, T. 2011. “Polyglot Paris: A Spatial Semiotics of Postcolonial Immigrant Neighborhoods.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies. London.

Shortell, T. and J. Krase. 2011. “Immigrant Islam: Politics of Representation and the Challenge of Seeing Collective Identity in Global Cities.” Paper presented at the 10th conference of the European Sociological Association. Geneva.

Shortell, T., and J. Krase. 2010. “On the Visual Semiotics of Collective Identity in Urban Vernacular Spaces.” Paper presented at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Shortell, T., and J. Krase. 2010. “Place, Space, Identity: A Spatial Semiotics of the Urban Vernacular in Global Cities.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Sociological Society, Milan, Italy.

Krase, J., and T. Shortell. 2010. “Seeing Islam in Global Cities: A Spatial Semiotic Analysis.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore.

Krase, J., and T. Shortell. 2010. “Seeing Everyday Multiculturalism.” Paper presented at the IUAES Inter-Congress in Antalya, Turkey.

Krase, J., and T. Shortell. 2009. “Visualizing Glocalization: Semiotics of Ethnic and Class Differences in Global Cities.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore.

Shortell, T., and J. Krase. 2009. “Spatial Semiotics of Difference in Urban Vernacular Neighborhoods.” Paper presented at the 9th annual conference of the European Sociological Association, Lisbon, Portugal.

Shortell, T. 2009. “Brooklyn and Belleville: a Case Study of the Visual Semiotics of Ethnic Identity in Two Diverse Urban Neighborhoods.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association, Carlisle, UK.

Krase, J., and T. Shortell. 2008. “Visualizing Glocalization: Changing Images of Ethnic Vernacular Neighborhoods in Global Cities.” Paper presented at the First ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain.

Shortell, T. 2008. “The Conflict Over Origins: A Discourse Analysis of the Creationism/Evolution Dispute.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York.

Krase, J., and T. Shortell. 2007. “Imagining Chinatowns and Little Italies: a Visual Approach to Ethnic Spectacles.” Paper presented at Le Beau Dans La Ville: Colloque International. Tours, France.