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Jennifer Jordan

  • Professor, Sociology
  • Professor, Urban Studies
  • Affiliate Professor, History

Education

  • PhD, University of California–San Diego

Office Hours

  • Bolton Hall, Office 746
  • Wednesdays 12:00-2:00pm

Courses Taught

  • USP 983: Contemporary Urban Social Structure and Change
  • SOCIOL 923: Seminar on the Sociology of Culture
  • SOCIOL 715: Systematic Sociological Theory
  • SOCIOL 380: Honors Seminar - The Sociology of Beer and Brewing
  • SOCIOL 495: Seminar in Sociology - Beer and Brewing
  • SOCIOL 375: Social Theory
  • SOCIOL 101: Introduction to Sociology

Research Interests

  • Urban Sociology
  • Sociology of Culture
  • Theory
  • Europe/Germany
  • Sociology of Food
  • Beer and Brewing

Media Interviews

Jennifer Jordan on Women and Hops, on the Beer Ladies Podcast:

Jennifer Jordan on Tomatoes and Collective Memory, on RadioWest/KUER with Doug Fabrizio:

Selected Publications

Jennifer A. Jordan, Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. 
Jennifer A. Jordan. Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Jordan, Jennifer A. “Apples, Identity, and Memory in Post-1989 Germany” Debating German Cultural Identity 1989 -2009 Ed. Fuchs, Anne, and James-Chakraborty, Kathleen. Camden House. (2011).
Jordan, Jennifer A. “Landscapes of European Memory: Biodiversity and Collective Remembrance” History and Memory 22.2 (2010): 5-33.
Jordan, Jennifer A. “Elevating the Humble Dumpling: From Peasant Kitchens to Press Conferences” Ethnology 47.2 (2009): 20-41.
Jordan, Jennifer. “The Heirloom Tomato as Cultural Object: Investigating Taste and Space” Sociologia Ruralis 47.1 (2007): 20-41.
Jennifer A. Jordan. Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond. Stanford University Press. 2006.