EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY (2021)
Committee Chair: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Ph.D.
M.A., Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY (2015)
B.A., Social science, Hiram College, Hiram, OH (2012)
Major focus: Communication
POSITIONS HELD
*Currently held*Instructor (2024-present)
Department of Social Sciences, SUNY Westchester Community College
Assistant Research Scientist (Spring 2024)
Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor of Sociology (2022-24)
Department of Academics, Eastern Gateway Community College
Division Chair of Sociology, History, and Political Science (2019-24)
Department of Academics, Eastern Gateway Community College
Instructor in Sociology (full time) (2018-22)
Department of Academics, Eastern Gateway Community College
Adjunct Lecturer (2017)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, CUNY College of Staten Island
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Sunderman, Zachary V. 2024. Dilemmas of Allyship: White Anti-Racists and the Challenges of Social Justice. New York: Routledge.
CONFERENCES: PAPERS PRESENTED
Sunderman, Zachary V. 2011. “Rhetorical Justice: Bush Administration Fear Appeals and the Justification of Human Rights Violations Committed by the United States.” Presentation at the 75th Annual Meetings of the Ohio Communication Association, panel on “Rhetorical Justice and Tea Party Discourse: Collective Perspectives on the Republican Party,” Findlay, OH, September.
CONFERENCES: AS DISCUSSANT
March 31, 2018. “Authentic Myths, Fabricated Truths, and the Ordering of Society”: Annual Sociology Student Conference, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Discussant for panel on “Discourse and Hierarchies in Media."
March 31, 2018. “Authentic Myths, Fabricated Truths, and the Ordering of Society”: Annual Sociology Student Conference, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Discussant for panel on “Digital Communities: Knowledge and Ideology.”
March 14, 2018. “Peter L. Berger, His Biography and His Sociology: A Memorial Retrospective.” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. Discussant for presentation “Sociology Meets Biography: Peter Berger and the Social Construction of Both Continuous and Discontinuous Selves” by Eviatar Zerubavel and supplementary paper by Thomas DeGloma.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS & APPEARANCES
“Disrupting Injustice: An Action Plan to Mobilize Social Change Within Psychology.” The New School, New York, NY, April 24, 2018. Invited appearance in this series in conversation with Shanelle Matthews, former Director of Communications for Black Lives Matter, discussing “Black Lives Matter and White Allyship.”
COURSES TAUGHT
*Also designed course
SUNY Westchester:
*Introduction to Sociology
Eastern Gateway Community College (EGCC):
*Introduction to Sociology
*Social Problems
College of Staten Island:
*Introduction to Sociology
MEMBERSHIPS & APPOINTMENTS
American Sociological Association (2021-present)
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (2024-present)
HONORS & AWARDS
Professional:
Honored faculty, Eastern Gateway Community College (2023)
Graduate study:
Prize Fellowship, The New School for Social Research (2015-18)
High pass, Master's comprehensive examination (2015)
Undergraduate study:
Summa cum laude
Alpha Society, Hiram College (2011-12)
Lambda Pi Eta (Zeta Lambda chapter), National Communication Association (2011-12)
Top Undergraduate Paper, Ohio Communication Association (2011)
ADDITIONAL WRITINGS (SELECTED)
"America the Troubled" (Public Seminar, November 12, 2016)
"On Dylan Anxiety" (Public Seminar, October 16, 2016)
"The Disability Paradox" (Public Seminar, October 14, 2015)
"The Utopia of Art" (Public Seminar, July 5, 2015)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Editor, Public Seminar (2014-18)
Research Assistant, Public Seminar (2013-14)
Contract research work for CoraGroup including collection and analysis of qualitative data (2014)
AREAS OF RESEARCH & INTEREST
Sociological approaches to selfhood and identity
Sociologies of knowledge and culture
Existential sociology and philosophy
Discourse, rhetoric, semiotics, and hermeneutics
Social movements and politics
Qualitative/interpretive methods
