Joshua Gamson Explained

Joshua Gamson (born November 16, 1962) is an American scholar and author. A graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of California, Berkeley,^[1] he served on the faculty of Yale University^[2] before becoming a professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco. His work has appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, Newsday, Gender & Society, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Sociological Inquiry.^[1] He is the son of sociologists William and Zelda F. Gamson.^[3]

Gamson received the 2006 Stonewall Book Award for nonfiction for The Fabulous Sylvester,^[4] his biography of disco singer and activist Sylvester, which was also shortlisted for the 2005 Lambda Literary Awards.^[5] In a mostly positive review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau lamented the gaps in Gamson's knowledge of music history, but praised his "details and insights" into Sylvester's life.^[6] Kirkus Reviews called the book "worshipful, occasionally overenthusiastic, yet engaging and sometimes surprisingly insightful."^[7]

He was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow^[8] and received a Placek Award from the American Psychological Association in 1995.^[9]

Bibliography

• Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (1994)
• Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (1998)
• The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The Seventies in San Francisco (2005)
• Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship (2015)

External links

• Profile at the Guggenheim Foundation
• www.joshuagamson.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Joshua Gamson: Profile. 2014. College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco. 2014-01-26. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140403060055/http://www.usfca.edu/facultydetails.aspx?id=4294969632. 2014-04-03.
2. Web site: Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (review). Ochs. Robyn. 1999. Anything That Moves. 2014-01-26.
3. Web site: Keeping it in the family. Gamson. Joshua. Summer 2013. Contexts. 2014-01-26.
4. Web site: 2006 Stonewall Book Award winners announced. Staff report. May 11, 2006. The Bay Area Reporter. 2014-01-26.
5. Web site: 18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards . Gonzalez Cerna . Antonio . April 9, 2005 . Lambda Literary Foundation . 2014-01-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131211105334/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/09/lambda-literary-awards-2005/ . December 11, 2013 .
6. Web site: Robert Christgau: Disco Heat. www.robertchristgau.com.
7. Web site: THE FABULOUS SYLVESTER | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
8. Web site: USF Sociologist Wins Guggenheim. Carpenter. Edward. May 27, 2009. USF Newsroom. 2014-01-26. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131003185002/http://www.usfca.edu/newsroom/Research/USF_Sociologist_Wins_Guggenheim/. October 3, 2013.
9. Web site: Recipients of the Wayne F. Placek Award. 2014. Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis. 2014-01-26.