Jacqueline L. Hogan
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Tasmania
M.A., Anthropology, University of Iowa B.A., English Literature and Linguistics, California State University-ChicoBiography
Jackie Hogan is professor of sociology and anthropology and Director of ADVANCE BU, an NSF-funded program to identify and address intersectional inequities in the faculty ranks. She also teaches courses in the Women’s Studies program, and contributes to the University’s Study Abroad program, and to Bradley’s Body Project, a collaborative effort by Bradley faculty, students and staff to promote healthy body image and combat eating disorders.
Dr. Hogan came to Bradley in fall of 2000 from the University of Tasmania in Australia, where she earned her Ph.D. in sociology. Her research focuses on the links between gender, race and national identity in the US, UK, Australia and Japan; on the commodification of bodies in consumer societies; and on structured inequalities in the professorate. She earned her master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Iowa, where she focused on Japanese culture and society.
Teaching
Dr. Hogan teaches a variety of courses pertaining to global cultures and to issues of diversity and social inequality. She offers courses in both sociology and anthropology, as well as seminars on “imagined communities” death practices around the world, and body commodification. Through her work on the Intellectual and Cultural Activities Committee, she also helps bring a wide variety of speakers to campus each semester.
Scholarship
Books
- Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies (2025)
- Roots Quest: Inside America’s Genealogy Boom (2019)
- Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America (2011)
- Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood (2009)
Select Articles and Chapters
- “On Makeover Culture, Status Degradation Ceremonies, and Challenging the Beauty Industries,” Journal of Autoethnography (2025).
- “Thinking Bodies: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Bodies and Embodiment,” in Hogan, J. & S. Whetstone (eds) Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies. Routledge, New York (2025).
- “Risky Bodies: BRCA-Testing, Risk, and the Duty to Be Well,” in Hogan, J. & S. Whetstone (eds) Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies. Routledge, New York (2025).
- “Anatomy of a Rape: Sexual Violence and Secondary Victimization Scripts in U.S. Film and Television, 1959-2019,” Crime, Media, Culture (2021).
- “Comparing Cabals: The Role of Conspiracy Ideation in Right-Wing Populist Groups of the U.S. and U.K.,” in FernandoLopez-Alves (ed) National Populism in Europe and the Americas, Routledge, New York & London (2018).
- “Floods, Invaders, and Parasites: Immigration Threat Narratives and Right-Wing Populism in the US, UK and Australia,” Journal of Intercultural Studies, 36, No. 5, 520-543 (2015).
- “Gendered and racialised discourses of national identity in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia,” Journal of Australian Studies 34 (2010).
- “Staging the nation: gendered and ethnicized discourses of national identity in Olympic opening ceremonies.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 27: 100-123 (2003).