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Eric Margolis

Associate Professor (retired) · Hugh Downs School of Human Communication · Arizona State University

Eric Margolis
Associate Professor (retired) · Hugh Downs School of Human Communication · Arizona State University

Eric Margolis is a Sociologist and Associate Professor retired from The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He is Past-President of the International Visual Sociology Association. His scholarly interests include the politics of higher education, visual research methods in general and visual ethnography in particular.

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Publications

His most recent book is The Sage Handbook of Visual Research co-edited with Luc Pauwels (Sage Publications, London, 2011). An edited book, The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education, was published by Routledge in 2001 and translated into Chinese and Farsi; The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities, edited with Mary Romero was published in 2005.

Recent Articles

  • “The Shift from Internationalism to Identity Politics: From Our Oppression to My Oppression” with Michael Soldatenko
  • “School as Ceremony and Ritual: How Photography Illuminates Moments of Ideological Transfer” with Drew Chappell and Sharon Chappell. Qualitative Inquiry 17:1, 2011
  • “Architectural and Built Environment Discourses in an Educational Context: The Gottscho and Schleisner Collection” with Sheila Fram, Visual Studies 26:3, 2011

Book Chapters

  • “Higher Education and the Capitalist Turn: Research and Reflections” with Michael Soldatenko in Higher Education & Society (Peter Lang, 2015)
  • “On using Found Object Photographs in School Research” with Jeremy Rowe in Visual Research Methods in Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)