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Noreen Cornfield
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor
Urban Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Families, Theory, Utopian Communities,
Artists in Cities
990 West Fullerton Avenue, Room #1117
Phone: 773.325.4947
E-mail: ncornfie@depaul.edu |
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| Introduction |
Noreen Cornfield is a tenured Professor of Sociology who began teaching on the Lincoln Park Campus in Autumn, 2005. She had previously taught Sociology at Barat College from 1973 until 2001, serving as department Chair during most of that time. After the Barat-DePaul affiliation, she became Director of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences program as well as Coordinator of Sociology on the Barat campus of DePaul, while continuing to teach Sociology there. Among other courses, she enjoys teaching urban ethnography; qualitative methods; families; utopian communities; sociological theories; and sociology of occupations. She is enthusiastic about the new course she has developed this year, Artists in Cities.
Currently, she is conducting an ethnographic study of artists’ housing in Chicago neighborhoods. She plans to interview thirty Chicago artists about their housing experiences in this city.
Her previous major research project (in Paris) involved interviewing French social scientists about their interest in the “Chicago traditJuly 16, 2008d a statistical survey on the well-being of employed, married women. Before that, she carried out a qualitative and quantitative study of urban communes, which was published in Journal of Marriage and the Family. She presented papers on both marriages and communes at meetings of the American Sociological Association, National Council on Family Relations, and other professional organizations; and as a guest lecturer at five universities.
She received the B.A. (Liberal Arts), and the Ph.D. and M.A. (Sociology), from the University of Chicago. She completed additional graduate work at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (International Relations), and Harvard University (Social Psychology). She received a Fulbright Fellowship to l’Institut d’Études Politiques (“Sciences Po”) in Paris, and remained in that city to work full-time on the editorial staff of Newsweek magazine. Later, after returning to Chicago, she wrote and produced documentaries for public radio (WBEZ ) and television (WTTW).
Most recently, she has been experimenting with digital photography and imaging.
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