curriculum vitae
 

Jennie Germann Molz

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
One College Street
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
508.793.3596
jmolz (at) holycross (dot) edu

EDUCATION
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PhD
Sociology Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK (December 2004)
Postdoctoral Research Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster, UK (2005-6)
      Postgraduate Coursework in Sociology National University of Singapore (1999)
MA Popular Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Ohio (May 1998)
BA Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program The University of Texas at Austin (May 1992)
   
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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Assistant Professor of Sociology (2007-present)

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
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Visiting Research Fellow (2006-2007)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2005-2006)

Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, UK
 
PUBLICATIONS
Book  
2007 Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World.  Co-edited with Sarah Gibson. Aldershot: Ashgate.
   
Journal articles
forthcoming Representing Pace in Tourism Mobilities: Staycations, Slow Travel and The Amazing Race.' Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
   
forthcoming ‘Performing Global Geographies: Time, Space, Place and Pace in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel.’ Tourism Geographies
   
2008 ‘Global Abode: Home and Mobility in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel.’ Space and Culture. 11(4): 325-342. 
   
2007 ‘Eating Difference: The Cosmopolitan Mobilities of Culinary Tourism.’ Space and Culture. 10(1): 77-93.
   
2006 ‘Cosmopolitan Bodies: Fit to Travel and Travelling to Fit.’ Body & Society 12(3): 1-21.
   
2006 ‘“Watch Us Wander”: Mobile Surveillance and the Surveillance of Mobility.’ Environment and Planning A 38(2): 377-393.
   
2005 ‘Getting a “Flexible Eye”: Round-the-World Travel and Scales of Cosmopolitan Citizenship.’ Citizenship Studies 9(5): 517-531.
   
2003 ‘Border Stories: Working at a World without Borders.’ Salford Papers in Sociology.
33: 9-26.
   
Book chapters
forthcoming 'Connectivity, Collaboration, Search: Interactive Travel and the Mobile Production of Knowledge.' In Mobile Methods. Edited by M. Buscher, J. Urry and K. Witchger. London: Routledge.
   
2007 ‘Cosmopolitans on the Couch: Mobile Hospitality and the Internet.’ In Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World. Edited by J. Germann Molz and S. Gibson. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 65-80.
   
2006 ‘Sizing up the World: Scale and Belonging in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel.’ In Tourism and Social Identities: Global Frameworks and Local Realities. Edited by P. Burns and M. Novelli. Oxford: Pergamon/Elsevier, pp. 39-48.
   
2005 ‘Guilty Pleasures of the Golden Arches: Mapping McDonald’s in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel.’ In Emotional Geographies. Edited by J. Davidson,  L. Bondi and M. Smith. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 63-76.
   
2004 ‘Round-the-World Websites as Global Places to Play.’ In Tourism Mobilities. Edited by M. Sheller and J. Urry. London: Routledge, pp. 169-180.
   
2003 ‘Tasting an Imagined Thailand: Authenticity and Culinary Tourism in Thai Restaurants.’ In Culinary Tourism: Eating and Otherness.  Edited by L. Long.  Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, pp. 53-75.
   

Short publications

2008 Interview: ‘Sguardi in Cornice (Framed Gazes).’ In Rinascimento Virtuale: Convergenza, Comunità e Terza Dimensione (Virtual Renaissance: Convergence, Community and the Third Dimension) by Mario Gerosa. Rome: Meltemi, pp. 90-103.
   
2007 Book Review: ‘Making Place, Making Self: Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference by Inger Birkeland.’ Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.14(1): 111-120.
   
2007 ‘Tourism and Consumption.’ In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by G. Ritzer.
   
1997 ‘Fast Food: Singapore’s Addition to Tradition.’ Digest: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Foodways. 17: 31-35.
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Lancaster
University
Technology, Mobility, Sociality: Leisure Travel and Social Relations in the Information Age
  Visiting Research Fellow 2006-2007
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2005-2006
 
  Supervisor: Prof. John Urry  
     
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
Multicultural Britain
  Research Assistant 2001  
  Supervisor: Dr. Anne-Marie Fortier  
 
PRESENTATIONS
 

Invited Presentations

Destination Blogosphere: Tourism, Technology and the Re-Imagination of Place. Keynote. New England Undergraduate Sociology Research Conference. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. 11 April 2008.
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Travels in Blended Geographies: Technologies, Mobilities and ‘New’ Tourist Destinations. Mobilities, Technologies, and Travel Workshop. Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. 20 April 2006.
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Interactive Traveling
. Ruskin Studies Seminar Series. Lancaster University. 27 October 2005.
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Cosmopolitans on the Couch: Mobile Hospitality and the Internet.
Mobilizing Hospitality Conference. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 26-27 September 2005.
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A Mobile Sociology of Interactive Travel?
 Centre for Mobilities Research Seminar. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 25 April 2005.
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Eating Difference: The Cosmopolitan Mobilities of Culinary Tourism
.  Food and Mobility Symposium. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 12-13 November 2004.
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On-line and On the Road: Redefining Leisure Travel in the Age of Mobile Media Technologies
. DigiPlay Seminar Series: Mobile Leisure and the Technological Mediascape. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. 26 April 2004.
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‘Being there in the flesh’: Consumption and Embodiment in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel
. Material Culture and Consumption Group. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 10 Dec 2003.
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Consuming Global Culture in Round-the-World Travel Websites
. PhD Seminar, Consuming Global Culture conference. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 28-29 November 2003.
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Travelling around the Wired World: Networked Spaces and Interactive Mobilities
. Mobilities Reading Group.  Lancaster University.  Lancaster, UK. 4 March 2003.
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From 80 Days to 80 Clicks: Locating the Internet as a Technology of Round-the-World Mobility
. Mobilities Reading Group. Lancaster University.  Lancaster, UK. 15 November 2001. 

 

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Professional Presentations

Walking in Boston: Mobile Technologies and Tourist Epistemologies in the City. Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Annual Conference. Boston. 5-7 November 2009.

Pacing Leisure Travel: Staycations, Slow Travel and The Amazing Race. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. New Orleans. 7-11 April 2009.

Mobile Landscapes of Authenticity: Rethinking the Relationship between Mobility and Authenticity in Heritage Tourism. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. Boston. 14-18 April 2008.
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In the Slow Lane: The Aesthetics and Material Geographies of Slow Travel. Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. 26-27 October 2007.
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Travels in the Blogosphere:The Material and Virtual Geographies of Travel Blogs. RGS-IBG Annual Conference. London. 31 August-2 September 2005.
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Mobloggers, Technomads and Cybercircumnavigators: Re-imagining Leisure Travel in the Information Age. International Popular Culture Association Conference. Swansea, Wales. 7-13 Aug 2005.
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At Home in the World: Travellers’ Narratives of Feeling at Home On-line and On the Road. The End of Tourism? Conference. University of Brighton at Eastbourne, UK. 23-25 June 2005.
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 ‘“Watch Us Wander”: Negotiating the Private and the Public in Round-the-World Travel Websites.’ Alternative Mobility Futures. Lancaster University, UK. 9-11 January 2004.
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Getting a ‘Flexible Eye’: Round-the-World Travel and Cosmopolitan Belonging. RGS-IBG Annual Conference. London. 3-5 September 2003.
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Sizing up the World: Scale, Identity and Belonging in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel. Social and Cultural Identities in Making and Consuming Tourism Conference. University of Brighton at Eastbourne, UK. 10-12 September 2003.
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Guilty Pleasures of the Golden Arches: Mapping McDonald’s in Stories of Round-the-World Travel.  Emotional Geographies Conference.  Lancaster University, UK. 23-25 September 2002.
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Rewriting Eden and Eve: Woman as 'Other' in Tourism Imagery. British Sociological Association Annual Conference. Manchester, UK. 9-12 April 2001.
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One Nation Under One Roof: ‘Glocalism’ and the Social Politics of Singapore’s Most Popular Sitcom.  Popular Culture Association Midwest Conference. Traverse City, MI, USA. 25 Oct 1997.
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All That’s New is Old Again: Seinfeld’s Unconventional Use of Comedic Conventions. Situating the Comedy Conference.  Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. 26 September 1997.
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KFC and 7-Eleven in Thailand: The Postmodern Dharma of Late Capitalism? Popular Culture Association National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA. 27 March 1997.

 
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Recreation, Tourism and Sport Research Group (AAG)
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Communication and Information Technologies Section (ASA)
CosMobilities Network (Research Center for Reflexive Modernization, Munich)
Popular Culture Association (PCA)