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Dr Eric Taylor Woods
Associate Professor in Sociology
School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
In addition to lecturing at University of Plymouth, I am a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, and I sit on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including 'American Journal of Cultural Sociology', 'Nations and Nationalism', and 'Cultural Sociology'. I am also a founding editor of 'The State of Nationalism: An International Review,' which is an open-access portal for research on nationalism. Prior to joining Plymouth, I was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London. I hold a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Research
Research
Research interests
My research interests also include an abiding concern with the politics of trauma and memory in the former British Empire. For example, my recent article in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology(2019) proposes a new framework for analyzing memory politics through an analysis of Tate Britain’s 2016 ‘Artist and Empire.’ The article provides a new understanding of struggles over Britain’s imperial past, and prospects for a postcolonial national identity. My recent book for Palgrave (2016) traces a long-running struggle over collective responsibility within Canadian Anglicanism over their role in the forced assimilation and abuse of Indigenous Canadians. The book provided the basis for the 2019 ‘Tri-History’ conference – the leading conference for Anglican history in North America.
Publications
Publications
- Woods, Eric Taylor & Robert Schertzer. (2022). ‘The New Nationalism in America and Beyond: The Deep Roots of Ethnic Nationalism in the Digital Age’ (Oxford University Press).
- Woods, Eric Taylor. (2016). A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada: The Long Road to Apology. Palgrave.
- Tsang, Rachel & Eric Taylor Woods (Eds.) 2014. The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building: Ritual and Performance in the Forging of Nations. Routledge.
- Woods, Eric Taylor & Robert Schertzer (Eds.) 2012. Nationalism and Conflict Management. Routledge.
- Woods, Eric Taylor, Liah Greenfeld, Chris Hughes, Cynthia Miller-Idriss & Robert Schertzer (2020) 'Nationalism and COVID-19: A Scholarly Exchange'. Nations and Nationalism. Online first: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nana.12644
- Schertzer, Robert & Eric Taylor Woods. 2020. ‘#Nationalism: The Role of Ethno-nationalist Populism in Donald Trump’s Twitter Communication’, Ethnic and Racial Studies. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1713390
- Woods, Eric Taylor. (2019). ‘The Anatomy of Memory Politics: A Formalist Analysis of Tate Britain’s Artist and Empire and the Struggle over Britain’s Imperial Past’, American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Online First: DOI: 10.1057/s41290-019-00081-y.
- Woods, Eric Taylor. (2019). ‘Cultural Trauma: Ron Eyerman and the Founding of a New Research Paradigm’, American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 7(2): 260-74.
Woods, Eric Taylor. (2015). ‘Cultural Nationalism: a Review and Annotated Bibliography’, Studies on National Movements, 2: 1-26.
Woods, Eric Taylor and Mira Debs. (2013). ‘Towards a Cultural Sociology of Nationalism Studies’, Nations and Nationalism 19(4): 607-14.
Woods, Eric Taylor & Mira Debs. (Eds.) 2013. ‘Themed Section on Cultural Sociology and Nationalism Studies’, Nations and Nationalism 19(4).
Woods, Eric Taylor. (2013). ‘A Cultural Approach to a Canadian Tragedy: The Indian Residential Schools as a Sacred Enterprise’, International Journal of Politics, Society and Culture 26(2): 173-187.
Woods, Eric Taylor. (2012). ‘Beyond Multinational Federalism: Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Canada’, Ethnicities, 12(3): 270-92.
Woods, Eric Taylor & Robert Schertzer. (2011). ‘Ethno-national Conflict and its Management’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 49(2): 153-161. [Reprinted in Woods et al., Nationalism and Conflict Management]
Woods, Eric Taylor & Robert Schertzer (Eds.) 2011. ‘Special Issue on Nationalism and Conflict Management’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 49(2). [Reprinted in Woods et al., Nationalism and Conflict Management]
Schertzer, Robert. & Eric Taylor Woods. (2011). ‘Beyond Multinational Canada’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 49(2): 196-222.
- Woods, Eric Taylor. (2019). ‘Conclusion: Ron Eyerman and the Study of Cultural Trauma’, in R. Eyerman, Memory, Trauma, and Identity. Palgrave.
- Woods, Eric Taylor. (2017). ‘On the Making of a National Tragedy: The Transformation of the Meaning of the ‘Indian Residential Schools’ in Canada’, in B-Y. Capitaine & Karine Vanthuyne (Eds.) Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation. University of British Columbia Press.
- Woods, Eric Taylor. (2016). ‘Cultural Nationalism’, in Jeffrey C. Alexander & David Inglis (Eds.) The Sage Reader in Cultural Sociology. Sage.
- Woods, E.T. & Tsang, R. (2014). ‘Ritual and Performance in the Study of Nations and Nationalism’, in Tsang, R. and Woods, E.T. (Eds.) The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building: Ritual and Performance in the Forging of Nations. Routledge.