Jean-Pierre (J.-P.) Reed | SIU

J.-P. Reed received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined Sociology at SIU in 2009, became an Affiliate of Africana Studies in 2010, and since 2023 he has been an Africana Studies faculty. Dr. Reed teaches courses on W.E.B. Du Bois, Racial Inequality, the Civil Rights Movement, and Race and Ethnic Relations. Thus far, his scholarship has focused on understanding revolutionary/political agency, much of it centered on subjective factors: political emotions, popular culture/ideology (e.g., religion), and narrative. His scholarship also underscores the significance of contingency (events) as an equally important dimension of revolutionary/political agency/mobilization.

Dr. Reed is a Research Associate at the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA) at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Managua, Nicaragua and the Center for Critical Research on Religion; holds memberships at the Editorial Boards for Critical Sociology, Critical Research on Religion, and PArtecipazione e COnflitto (PaCo), a Working Paper Series at Center of Studies on Politics and Society, University of Salento, Italy; and is an officer at the American Sociological Association (ASA), a national sociological organization. Dr. Reed is also a Visiting Professor (Non-Residential) at the Doctoral Program in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Among other journal venues, his work has been featured in Theory and Society, Critical Sociology, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, and Critical Research on Religion.

Current Research

Present Research

• International collaborator (co-investigator consultant), “Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms of Protest Cycles and Social Outbursts” (“Mecanismos autoreforzantes de los ciclos de protesta y los estallidos sociales”) with Rodrigo A. Asún, Universidad de Chile (National Fund for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile, Fondecyt-Chile, grant # 1220385).

Edited Book Project

• Social Movements and Positive Emotions: Concepts and Latin American Cases (with Karina Navarro and Rodrigo A. Asún, Universidad de Chile). Under Contract at Routledge.