Faculty Profiles
Jonathan (Nate) Redman
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
—Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
M.A., University of Arkansas
B. A., Rhodes College
Areas of Expertise
- Social Theory
- Criminology
- Ethnography
- Social Movements
- Technology
Research Interests
- Preppers
- Uncertainty
- Risk and Disaster
- Temporality
- Expertise
Courses Recently Taught
- Crime, Criminalization, and Society
- Social Movements and Social Change
- Statistics for Behavioral Sciences
- Qualitative Methods
Professional Experience
- Lecturer, Department of Sociology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (2021-2026)
- Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine (2021)
- Research Fellow, Proyecto Chinikiha' de Arqueologia Domestica (PCAD), Rhodes College (2010-2014)
- Research and Exhibits Assistant, Rogers Historical Museum (2009-2012)
Creative and Scholarly Work
- Polletta, Francesca and J.N. Redman. 2020. “When do stories change our minds? Narrative persuasion about social problems. Sociology Compass 14(4):1-11.
- Polletta, Francesca, Dylan Gray, and J.N. Redman. 2022. “Collective Identity” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Sociology.
Professional Memberships
- American Sociological Association – 2014-Present
- Society for the Study of Social Problems – 2016-Present
- Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction – 2016-Present