Jean Halley
{{Short description|American writer and sociologist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Jean Halley
| image =JeanHalley.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Jean Halley
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|06|16}}
| birth_place = Washington D.C.
| occupation = Sociologist, writer
| language = English
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Colorado College
Harvard University
| notableworks = The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race
| partner= Jacob Segal
| children =Isaiah Halley-Segal
Kathleen Halley-Segal
| website = {{URL|www.jeanhalley.net}}
}}
Jean Halley (born June 16, 1967) is an American writer and sociologist based in New York City. Her work revolves around issues of social power, violence, trauma, gender, and animal studies. Halley is also a professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Sociology/Faculty-Bios/Jean-Halley Full Professor of Sociology and Anthropology] College of Staten Island Retrieved 2016-12-08
Early life and education
Halley was born in 1967, in Washington DC and grew up in Wyoming and Montana.[http://harpers.org/archive/2013/11/killing-deer/ Harper's Magazine- Memoirs- Killing dear] Harper's Magazine Retrieved on 2016-12-08 She attended Colorado College and received her bachelor's degree in psychology, with minors in Spanish and women's studies, in 1989.[https://jeanhalley.academia.edu/JeanHalley/CurriculumVitae Psychology major with minors in Spanish and women's studies from Colorado College] Retrieved 2016-12-08 She earned her master's degree in theology at Harvard University in 1992 and her doctorate in sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2003.[http://wagner.edu/newsroom/seeing_white/ Halley holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center and a master's degree in theology from Harvard University.]Wagner College Newsroom Retrieved on 2016-12-08
Career
Halley frequently uses elements of memoir in relating the topics of her books to her own biography. Her book about touching children, breastfeeding, children's sleep and contemporary childrearing advice, Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy was published in July 2007 by the University of Illinois Press.[http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/53yfd4tm9780252032127.html Boundaries of Touch Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy] The University of Illinois Press Retrieved on 2016-12-08 With Patricia Ticineto Clough, Halley coedited The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social in 2007.[https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-affective-turn The Affective Turn at Duke University Press] Duke University Press Retrieved on 2016-12-08 In "The Wire" her autoethnographic piece in that volume, Halley challenges traditional modes of storytelling that develop in linear fashion and that use binary oppositions as a way of describing or knowing the world.[https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/politicalfeeling/files/2007/09/clough-intro-affective-turn-final.pdf Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social by Patricia Ticineto Clough and Jean Halley] p.261-264. Retrieved 2016-12-08
In 2011, she co-authored Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya.[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442203082/Seeing-White-An-Introduction-to-White-Privilege-and-Race Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race at Rowman & Littlefield] Rowman & Littlefield Retrieved 2016-12-08 A second edition came out in 2022.{{Cite book|url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538143971/Seeing-White-An-Introduction-to-White-Privilege-and-Race-Second-Edition|title=Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second Edition|language=en-us}} Her fourth book The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.[http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9780230115187 The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows Meat Markets at Palgrave Macmillan] Palgrave Macmillan Retrieved on 2016-12-08 In this book, Halley weaves together a social history of the American beef cattle industry, with her memoir of growing up in Wyoming in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business.[http://qix.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/12/1077800416658065.extract Book Review: The parallel lives of women and cows, by J. Halley] Sage Journals Retrieved on 2016-12-08
Halley co-authored her fifth book, Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Sexual and Gender Privilege, with Amy Eshleman. The book was published in 2017 by Rowman & Littlefield.[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442233539/Seeing-Straight-An-Introduction-to-Gender-and-Sexual-Privilege Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Sexual and Gender Privilege] Rowman & Littlefield Retrieved on 2016-12-08 Halley has published numerous scholarly articles and in popular literary magazines including Harper's Magazine and The Antioch Review.[http://review.antiochcollege.org/summer-2013 Editors list at The Antioch Review] Retrieved 2016-12-08{{Cite web|url=http://review.antiochcollege.org/summer-2013/recalculating-berkshires|title=Recalculating the Berkshires {{!}} Antioch Review|website=review.antiochcollege.org|access-date=2019-03-26}}{{Cite journal|last1=Halley|first1=Jean|last2=Segal|first2=Lore|date=2018|title=Recalculating Amy|journal=The Antioch Review|volume=76|issue=4|pages=611–616|doi=10.7723/antiochreview.76.4.0611|issn=0003-5769|jstor=10.7723/antiochreview.76.4.0611}} She has given interviews on multiple radio stations including NPR and Northern Spirit Radio.[https://www.npr.org/2012/04/05/150062609/in-trayvon-martin-case-whos-considered-white In Trayvon Martin Case, Who's Considered White?] NPR.org Retrieved on 2016-12-08[https://www.northernspiritradio.org/spirit-action/privilege-being-and-seeing-white-making-racism-visible The Privilege of Being (and Seeing) White – Making Racism Visible] Northern Spirit Radio Retrieved on 2016-12-08{{Cite web|url=https://www.wamc.org/post/51-1593-sociologist-studies-horse-crazy-girls|title=51% #1593: A Sociologist Studies Horse Crazy Girls|last=Dunne|first=Allison|website=www.wamc.org|date=February 5, 2020 |language=en|access-date=2020-04-22}}
As a child and young adult, Halley spent much of her time horseback riding in the Rocky Mountains. Her book, Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses{{Cite book|title=Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses|isbn = 978-0820355276|last1 = Halley|first1 = Jean O'Malley|year = 2019| publisher=University of Georgia Press }} was published in 2019 with the University of Georgia Press explores the passion many girls have for horses. Most recently, in 2022, she coauthored The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants with Ron Nerio. Halley has won a number of awards for teaching and civic engagement.
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Category:American women memoirists
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers
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Category:Writers from New York City
Category:Harvard Divinity School alumni
Category:CUNY Graduate Center alumni
Category:Colorado College alumni
Category:College of Staten Island faculty