I Love Sociology is created and run by independent scholar, Keri E. Iyall Smith, PhD.

Dr. Iyall Smith earned her MA (1999) and PhD (2003) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked as a college professor for over twenty years, teaching undergraduates about introductory sociology, social theory, human rights, environment and society, Native women’s health, criminal law on Indian reservations, and more. She is the author of numerous academic articles, one book, and the co-editor of several books. Dr. Iyall Smith is an enrolled citizen of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

Since leaving traditional academia, Dr. Iyall Smith has been enjoying time with family, reading Star Wars books, and listening to Taylor Swift. She is excited to share her love of sociology here and is also working on a book project (or three).

Selected Publications

“The Resistance Flower: A Teaching Partner to Strmic-Pawl’s White Supremacy Flower.” Forthcoming. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

We Need Another Path: Indigenous Approaches to Sustainability. 2021. Confluence Project.

Recreating Our Communities to Respond to the Climate Emergency. 2021. The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture and Politics.

Understanding and Promoting the Human Rights of Autistic People. 2021. Societies Without Borders.

Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19. 2020. American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sociologists Respond to COVID-19. 2020. American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sociology for Human Rights: Approaches for Applying Theories and Methods. Co-edited with David L. Brunsma and Brian K. Gran. 2019. Routledge.

Human Rights Of, By, and For the People: How to Critique and Change the US Constitution. Co-edited with Louis Edgar Esparza and Judith R. Blau. 2017. Routledge.

Author of chapters: “Constituting Human Rights in the US” and “For a Decolonized US Constitution.”

Movements for Human Rights: Locally and Globally. Co-edited with David L. Brunsma and Brian K. Gran. 2016. Routledge.

Institutions Unbound: Social Worlds and Human Rights. Co-edited with David L. Brunsma and Brian K. Gran. 2016. Routledge.

Reflective Analysis of Reflexive Knowledge in Precarious Engagements. A Book Review of Precarious Engagements: Combat in the Realm of Public Sociology. 2015. Sociology.

Expanding the Human in Human Rights: Toward a Sociology of Human Rights. Co-edited with David L. Brunsma and Brian K. Gran. 2015. Routledge.

Review of Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration. 2014. Human Rights Quarterly.

Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights. Co-edited with David L. Brunsma and Brian K. Gran. 2013. Routledge. (Publisher kindly misspelled my name on this page…)

Discussing Sociology of Globalization. With Annie Sepucaia. 2012. New Books Network Podcast.

Sociology of Globalization: Cultures, Economies, and Politics. 2012. Routledge.

To Be a Sociologist Without Borders. Interview with Judith R. Blau. 2012. Societies Without Borders.

Notes from the Field: ‘Breathing Life’ Into the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 2011. Societies Without Borders

Teaching & Learning Guide for: A Review of the Study of the Political Status of Indigenous Peoples in the Global Context. 2009. Sociology Compass.

Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations. Co-edited with Patricia Leavy. 2009. Haymarket Books.

“Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” 2008. Chapter 9 in The Leading Rogue State edited by Judith Blau, David Brunsma, Alberto Moncada and Cathy Zimmer.

“Comparing State and International Protections of Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights.” 2008. American Behavioral Scientist.

Core and Periphery Relations: A Case Study of the Maya. Co-authored with Stephanie Teixeira. 2008. Journal of World-Systems Research.

Review of Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life. 2008. Contemporary Sociology.

A Review of the Study of the Political Status of Indigenous Peoples in the Global Context. 2007. Sociology Compass.

“New Agoras and Old Institutions: The Case of Human Rights.” 2007. Systemic Practice and Action Research.

Public Sociologies Reader. Co-edited with Judith R. Blau. 2006. Rowman and Littlefield.

Author of chapter: “Indigenous to Itself to Indigenous For Itself.”

The State and Indigenous Movements. 2006. Routledge.

“The Impact of Indigenous Hybridity on the Formation of World Society.” 2006. World Society Focus Paper Series.

“Response to Rodriguez: ‘A Long Walk to Freedom’ and Democracy?” 2004. Social Forces.

Review of The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity. 2004. Social Forces.

Review of Doctors Within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan. 2004. Contemporary Sociology.

“Managing Emotions in the College Classroom: The Cultural Diversity Course as an Example.” Co-authored with Alison Roberts. 2002. Teaching Sociology.

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