Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
Jamie L. Mullaney is Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Goucher College. Prior to serving as Associate Provost, she chaired the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for many years and was the inaugural director for the Center for People, Politics, and Markets. She joined the Goucher faculty in 2002, teaching courses in sociological theory, deviance, masculinities, and identity. She earned her doctorate in Sociology from Rutgers University in 2003. In 2013, she received the Caroline Doebler Bruckerl ‘25 Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
In her current role as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, she oversees the Center for Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching (CAST) and Goucher’s Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program (PBPM), and her work touches and supports almost every aspect of faculty life, including recruitment and onboarding, mentoring, professional development, as well as reappointment, promotion, and tenure processes.
Her research interests and projects largely focus on issues of time, emotion, and identity. In addition to numerous journal articles, she is the author of two books: Everyone is NOT Doing It (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales (with Janet Hinson Shope, Rutgers University Press, 2012).
