Jean Halley (Professor of Sociology) teaches at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her books include Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy (2007); The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets (2012); Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses (2019); co-authored with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya, Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race (2011; second edition 2022); and with Amy Eshleman, Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege (2017). She also assisted Patricia Ticineto Clough in editing The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (2007). Her book coauthored with Ron Nerio, The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa’s Community of Migrants came out with Fordham University Press in 2022. Halley and her horse, Snipaway, grew up in the rural Rocky Mountains.
Degrees
PhD, Sociology Program; Women’s Studies Certificate Program, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City, February 1, 2003
Master of Theological Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1992
BA, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Psychology major with honors; Women Studies minor Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Books completed
The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa’s Community of Migrants. Ron Nerio and Jean Halley. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2022.
Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege. Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2017.
The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race. Jean Halley, Amy Eshleman and Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011; second edition, 2022.
Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2007.
Sample of peer reviewed articles
“Teaching About Institutional Discrimination and Personal Responsibility,” Amy Eshleman, Jean Halley and Victoria Felix. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI): Innovation and Collaboration Across Disciplines. Edited by S. B. Storms, Sarah Donovan, & T. P. Williams, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2020).
“Self-Identified Feminist Mothers’ Naming Practices for Their Children: Accepting Being ‘as Feminist as Everyone’ Else,” Women’s Studies (An Inter-disciplinary Journal). Amy Eshleman and Jean Halley, 45: 1-15, April 2016; scientific journal ranking .121, more information about the journal can be found at (http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=24329&tip=sid&clean=0).
