Deborah Gould | 09.11.2017
Deborah Gould is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (and Affiliated Faculty in the Departments of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics). She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Political Science in 2000, and was a post-doctoral Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts there, 2000-04. Her book Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2009) won several awards, among them the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Best Book Award (American Sociological Association’s Political Sociology Section, 2010) and the Ruth Benedict Book Prize (American Anthropological Association, 2010). Currently she is working on another book about political emotion, Composing Collectivities: Appetite, Encounters, and the Not-Yet of Politics. Gould was involved in ACT UP/Chicago for many years, and later in Queer to the Left, and was a founding member of Feel Tank Chicago, a collaborative group of academics, artists, and activists, most famous for its “International Parades of the Politically Depressed.”