Gatson, Sarah
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
- Associate Professor, Women & Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts
education and training
- Ph.D. in Sociology, Northwestern University - (Evanston, Illinois, United States) 1999
- M.A. in Sociology, Northwestern University - (Evanston, Illinois, United States) 1992
- B.A. in Sociology, Cornell College - (Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States) 1991
selected publications
Academic Articles13
- Kim, Y., Yu, S., Li, D., Gatson, S. N., & Brown, R. D. (2022). Linking landscape spatial heterogeneity to urban heat island and outdoor human thermal comfort in Tokyo: Application of the outdoor thermal comfort index. Sustainable Cities and Society. 87, 104262-104262.
- Gatson, S. N. (2011). Self-Naming Practices on the Internet: Identity, Authenticity, and Community. Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies. 11(3), 224-235.
- Gatson, S. N. (2011). Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City. 40(4), 431-432.
- Gatson, S. N. (2010). Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds. 39(5), 596-598.
Books1
- Gatson, S. N., & Zweerink, A. (2004). Interpersonal Culture on the Internet Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community.
Chapters6
- Gatson, S. N. (2011). The Methods, Ethics, and Politics of Representation in Online Ethnography. Denzin, N., & Lincoln, Y. (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research. 513-527. Sage.
- Gatson, S. N. (2007). Assessing the Likelihood of Internet Information-Seeking Leading to Offline Drug Use by Youth. Murguia, E., Tackett-Gibson, M., & Lessem, A. (Eds.), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online. 99-120. Lexington Books.
- Gatson, S. N. (2007). Illegal Behavior and Legal Speech: Internet Communities Discourse about Drug Use. Murguia, E., Tackett-Gibson, M., & Lessem, A. (Eds.), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online. 135-159. Lexington Books.
- Gatson, S. N. (2007). The Body or the Body Politic?Risk, Harm, Moral Panic, and Drug Use Discourse Online. Murguia, E., Tackett-Gibson, M., & Lessem, A. (Eds.), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online. 23-44. Lexington Books.
- Gatson, S. N. (2006). Living, Breathing, Teaching Sociology: Using the Micro to Illuminate the Macro. Stanley, C. (Eds.), Faculty of Color Teaching in Predominantly White Institutions. 153-165. Anker Publishing, Inc..
Conference Papers5
- Gatson, S. N., Stewart, R. H., Laine, G. A., & Quick, C. M. (2009). A case for centralizing undergraduate summer research programs: the DeBakey Research-Intensive Community. The FASEB Journal. 23(S1), 633.8-633.8.
- Coughlin, D. J., Greenstein, E. E., Widmer, R. J., Meisner, J. K., Nordt, M. F., Young, M. F., ... Bowden, R. A. (2007). e-Research: a novel use of the Internet to perform live, remote animal research. The FASEB Journal. 21(5), A595-A595.
- Nordt, M., Meisner, J., Dongaonkar, R., Quick, C., Gatson, S., Karadkar, U. P., & Furuta, R. (2006). eBat: A Technologyenriched Life Sciences Research Community. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 43(1), 1-25.
- Gatson, S. N., Meisner, J. K., & Young, M. F. (2005). The eBat project: a novel model for live-animal distance learning labs. The FASEB Journal. 19(5), A1352-A1352.
- Gatson, S. N. (2004). Youth, drugs, Internet discourse: a new arena of community and citizenship. 162-167.
Repository Documents / Preprints1
- Roberts, A., Potvin, S., Hankins, R., Gatson, S., Laddusaw, S., Muise, I., ... Davis, C. B. (2021). The Gulf Coast Heritage Preparedness Initiative: Proposal to the Texas A&M University President's Excellence Fund.
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- RPTS404 Soc Of The Community Instructor
- SOCI210 Soci Of Tech & Science Instructor
- SOCI212 Sociology Of Popular Culture Instructor
- SOCI229 Qualitative Methods Instructor
- SOCI285 Directed Studies Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Scott, Chad (2015-12). Artists, Artistic Culture, and Community: A Multi-sited Ethnography of Meaning-making within Three Artistic Communities. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Guillen, Jennifer Cassandra (2014-09). Racial and Ethnic Identities Among Mexican-White Couples in Texas. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Varela, Kay S (2014-05). "I Never Thought It Would Happen Here": White Privilege and Assumptions of Safety. (Master's Thesis)
- Davis, Jennifer 1983- (2012-12). Conditions Affecting the Relationship between Power and Identity Verification in Power Imbalanced Dyads. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Williams, Simon 1984- (2012-12). Nerds of Colors Assemble: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Fandom. (Master's Thesis)
Email
gatson@tamu.edu
First Name
Sarah
Last Name
Gatson
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Sociology; 4351 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4351
USA