Dr. Brianna Turgeon

Education

• 2014–Spring 2018 Ph.D. Sociology
  Kent State University, Kent, OH
  Dissertation:  Talking About Accountability:  An Analysis of the Discourse of Welfare-to-Work Program Managers."

• 2012 - 2014 MA, Sociology
  Kent State University, Kent, OH
  Thesis:  "Poor Women, Poor Workers, Poor Mothers:  Using Critical Discourse Analysis to examine Welfare-to-Work Program Managers' Expectations and Evaluations of their Clients' Mothering."

• 2008 – 2012 BA, Sociology
  Minor:  Gender Studies
  Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Sociology, Pop Culture, Sociology of Education, Modern Family, Social Movements, and Social Psychology

Academic & Research Interests

• Social Inequality (Gender, Race, Class), Ideology, Discourse, Social Psychology, Pop Culture and Media, Public Policy, Poverty, Family, Social Welfare, Mothering

Other Responsibilities

• 2024-Present. Alpha Kappa Delta Honors Society Faculty Advisor, Jacksonville State University
• 2020-Present. Wai-Man Siu Endowed Scholarship Committee, Jacksonville State University
• 2019-Present. Sociology Club Faculty Adviser, Jacksonville State University

• 2024-2027. Faculty Senate, Representative, Jacksonville State University
• 2023-Present. Fat Studies and Body Activism Center, Member, Jacksonville State University
• 2019-Present. JSU Gender Studies Minor Curriculum Committee, Jacksonville State University
• 2019-Present. Faculty Research Symposium Committee, Member, Jacksonville State University

• 2023-2025. Southern Hand Mentor Coordinator, Sociologists for Women in Society- South
• 2021-Present. Committee on Gender & Sexuality Member, Southern Sociological Society
• 2020-Present. Anti-Harassment Task Force Chair, Southern Sociological Society

Publications

• Turgeon, Brianna, Kaitlyn Root, Kasey Ray, and Tiffany Taylor. 2022. “’It’s Embarrassing to Come Here’: Welfare-to-Work, Emotion Rules, and Emotional Capital” Poverty & Public Policy 14(1):8-24.
• Jason, Kendra and Brianna Turgeon. 2021. “Victim-Blaming in Disguise? Supervisors’ Accounts of Problems in Healthcare Delivery. Qualitative Sociology 44(2): 253-270.
• Brianna Turgeon. 2019.“When “Best I Can” is Not Enough: Welfare Managers’ Appraisal of Clients’ Mothering Practices.” Sociological Inquiry 90(4): 839-866.
• Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, Alison Buck, and Katrina Bloch. 2019. “Spatial Variation in U.S. Labor Markets and Workplace Sex Segregation: 1980-2000.” Sociological Inquiry 89(4): 569-572.
• Taylor, Tiffany, Alison Buck, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon. 2019. “Gender Composition and Share of Management: Tipping Points in US Workplaces, 1980-2005.” Submitted to The Social Science Journal 56(1): 48-59.
• Turgeon, Brianna. 2018. “A Critical Discourse Analysis of Welfare-to-Work Program Managers’ Expectations and Evaluations of their Clients’ Mothering.” Critical Sociology 44(1):127-140.
• Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, and Christi Gross. 2018. “’Here on the Front Lines’: Welfare-to-Work Managers’ Moral Identity Work.” Symbolic Interaction 41(1): 45-61.
• Taylor, Tiffany, Christi Gross, and Brianna Turgeon. 2018. “Becoming a Good Welfare Manager: Paternalistic Oppressive Othering and Boundary Maintenance.” Sociological Focus 51(4): 335-349.
• Turgeon, Brianna, Tiffany Taylor, and Laura Niehaus. 2014. “Contrasts and Classtalk: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Welfare-to-Work Program Managers.” Discourse & Society 25(5):1-16.
• Cossman, Lynne, Philip Mason, Brianna Turgeon, and David Lay. 2014. “The use of technology and perceptions of its effectiveness in training physicians.” Medical Teacher 36(4).

• Brianna Turgeon and Kaitlyn Root. 2019. “Mothers on Welfare.” In Routledge Motherhood Companion, edited by Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Andrea O’Reilly, and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles. New York, NY: Routledge Publishing.
• Taylor, Tiffany, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon. 2017. “What Work/Life Balance? Ohio Welfare-to-Work Program Managers’ Focus on Paid Work.” In The Balancing Act: Intersections of Work-Life Balance in Communication across Identities, Genders, and Cultures, edited by Elizabeth Hatfield. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Gross, Christi, Brianna Turgeon, Tiffany Taylor, and Kasey Wilkes. 2014. “State Intervention in Intensive Mothering in the United States: Neoliberalism, New Paternalism, and Poor Mothers in Ohio.” In Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood, edited by Linda Ennis. Toronto, ON: Demeter Press.
• Peer-Reviewed Teaching Activities
  Turgeon, Brianna and Sarah Donley. 2023. “Beyond Race, Class, and Gender: Integrating Intersectionality into Monopoly Simulations.” TRAILS. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/4048 . (2023- Featured in a “Games for Teaching and Learning” resource on TRAILS https://trails.asanet.org/issue/view/games-for-teaching-and-learning )
• Turgeon, Brianna. 2015. “Power and Privilege.” TRAILS. https://trails.asanet.org/ . (2017 – 7th most downloaded TRAILS resource, 2016 – 4th most downloaded TRAILS resource; 2015 - 8th most downloaded TRAILS resource)

• Turgeon, Brianna, Jacob Church, Tierra James, Leonela Martinez Ramirez, Ariel Vicars, and Alicia Carter. “The-Author-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”: Transphobic Social Media Posts and Identity Change in the Harry Potter Fandom” Southern Sociological Society. April 2024.
• Turgeon, Brianna, Tierra James, Jacob Church, Leonela Martinez Ramirez, and Ariel Vicars. ‘“Reactions to Transphobic Creators: Harry Potter Fans’ Identity and Behavior Change to the Author “Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”’ Sociologists for Women in Society. January 2024.
• Turgeon, Brianna, Leonela Martinez Ramirez, and Ariel Vicars. ‘“She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”: Harry Potter Fans’ Identity and Behavior Change amid the Author’s Transphobia.’ JSU Faculty Research Symposium. November 2023.
• Turgeon, Brianna, Leonela Martinez Ramirez, and Ariel Vicars. ‘“She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”: Harry Potter Fans’ Identity and Behavior Change amid the Author’s Transphobia.’ Harry Potter Academic Conference. Virtual Conference. October 2023.
• Turgeon, Brianna, Leonela Martinez Ramirez, and Ariel Vicars. ‘“She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”: Harry Potter Fans’ Identity and Behavior Change amid the Author’s Transphobia.’ Mid-South Sociological Association. New Orleans, LA. October 2023.
• Turgeon, Brianna and Jennifer Pate. "Representations of Mothering in Southeastern Newspapers," Southern Sociological Society. Myrtle Beach, SC. April 2023.
• Turgeon, Brianna and Sarah Donley. “Intersectional Monopoly as a Sociological Teaching Tool” Southern Sociological Society. Myrtle Beach, SC. April 2023.
• Turgeon, Brianna. “Striving Towards Anti-Racist Teaching in the South (STARTS). Discussant for closed workshop. Southern Sociological Society. Myrtle Beach, SC. April 2023.
• Turgeon, Brianna. “Harry Potter Fans’ Identity Negotiation Amidst Transphobia.” Sociologists for Women in Society. New Orleans, LA. January 2023.
• Donley, Sarah and Brianna Turgeon. “Beyond Race, Class, and Gender: Integrating Intersectionality into Monopoly Simulations.” JSU Faculty Research Symposium. Jacksonville, AL. November 2022.
• Attended: Harry Potter Academic Conference. Virtual Attendance. October 21-22, 2022.
• Turgeon, Brianna. “Striving Towards Anti-Racist Teaching in the South (STARTS). Discussant for closed workshop. Southern Sociological Society. Birmingham, AL. April 2022.
• Donley, Sarah and Brianna Turgeon. “Beyond Race, Class, and Gender: Integrating Intersectionality into Monopoly Simulations.” Southern Sociological Society. Birmingham, AL. April 2022.
• Turgeon, Brianna. ““It Means to You What it Means to You”: Harry Potter Fans’ Identity Negotiation Amidst Cancel Culture.” Sociologists for Women in Society. Santa Ana, NM. April 2022.
• Turgeon, Brianna, "Rediscovering the Social Justice Roots of Sociology,” Teaching Panel. Mid-South Sociological Association Charlotte, NC. October 22, 2021.
• Turgeon, Brianna, Katelynn Shadoan, and Faith Myers. "Representations of Mothering at the Margins in Southeastern Newspapers," Southern Sociological Society. Virtual Conference. April 9, 2021.
• Turgeon, Brianna and Sarah Donley. “Beyond Race, Class, and Gender: Integrating Intersectionality into Monopoly Simulations” Sociologists for Women in Society. Virtual Conference. January 27-31, 2021.
• Rider, Erin and Brianna Turgeon. “Drawing on the Calls for Diversity and Inclusion: Building Engaging Courses on Race and Intersectionality.” Mid-South Sociological Association. Virtual Conference. October 14-17, 2020.
• Turgeon, Brianna and Sarah Donley. “Beyond Race, Class, and Gender: Integrating Intersectionality into Monopoly Simulations” Mid-South Sociological Association. Virtual Conference. October 14-17, 2020.
• Turgeon, Brianna. Curious Reader. “Author Meets Curious Reader Session.” Reformed American Dreams: Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism by Shiela Katz. Southern Sociological Society. Jacksonville, FL. Spring 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID)
• Turgeon, Brianna. “Welfare Managers’ Use of Racially-Coded Language to Preserve Controlling Images.” Southern Sociological Society. Jacksonville, FL. Spring 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID)
• Shadoan, Katelynn, Faith Myers, Brianna Turgeon, and Sarah Donley. “Ladies Do Not Pass Go: Changing Cultural Gender Beliefs Through a Monopoly Simulation.” Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association. Montgomery, AL. February 27-28, 2020.
• Turgeon, Brianna, Kaitlyn Root, Jacob Church, and Kasey Ray. “Ohio Welfare Managers’ Identity Work.” Sociologists for Women in Society. San Diego, CA. January 31- February 2, 2020.