Lena holds an MA, MPhil, and PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, and a BA from Colgate University. She is also a member of the Research Advisory Committee for the Social Science Research Council’s Arts Research with Communities of Color. She is elected member and chair of the Personnel Sub-Committee of Teachers College’s Faculty Executive Committee. She also serves on the board of the journal DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society, the Columbia University Press Faculty Publication Committee. As former co-editor of the journal Poetics, she remains on its board. She is Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society, and is co-editor (with Frederick Wherry) of a book series, Culture and Economic Life, published by Stanford University Press. She currently works as an Associate Professor and Program Director of Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University and has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. Jennifer C Lena is a cultural sociologist who studies classification, particularly the organizational and institutional conditions for the creation, modification, or elimination of cultural categories like genres.
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