Joe Bandy
Associate Professor of the Practice
Assistant Director of Center for Teaching
Joe Bandy received his Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in 1998, and was assistant and associate professor of sociology at Bowdoin College from 1998 to 2010, after which he came to Vanderbilt to serve as assistant and interim director of the Center for Teaching.
In sociology, his research focuses on the many ways that social movement organizations have forged transnational coalitions in response to the global economic and environmental changes. In his research on faculty development and critical pedagogy, he a variety of high impact teaching practices - particularly case- and problem-based methods, service learning/community engagement, and inclusive teaching.
He has been published widely in social science journals such as Social Problems, Mobilization, Critical Sociology, and Public Culture, and is the co-editor of Coalitions across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neo-Liberal Order, with Jackie Smith. In this work, he received support from the National Science Foundation, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and the Center for the Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
In his research on public scholarship and community engagement, he has collaborated and published with colleagues in Imagining America, the Professional and Organizational Development Network, and the Institute of International Education.
Specializations
- Sociology of Higher Education
- Scholarship on Teaching & Learning
- Community and Civic Engagement
- Assessment in Higher Education
- Sociology of Development
- Political Economy of the World System
- Class and Poverty
- Social Movements
- Mexico
- Environmental Sociology
- Social Psychology
- Interethnic Relations
Representative Publications
Books
- 2004 Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neo-Liberal Order. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Joe Bandy and Jackie Smith, Eds.
Book Chapters, Reports, and Features
2021
- “From Black Bottom to SoBro.” In I’ll Take You There: Nashville Stories of Place, Power, and the Struggle for Social Justice. Eds. Learotha Williams, and Amie Thurber. Vanderbilt University Press. (with Chloe Herzog and Basil Debabneh).
- “Gateway to Heritage/I-40.” I In I’ll Take You There: Nashville Stories of Place, Power, and the Struggle for Social Justice. Eds. Learotha Williams, and Amie Thurber. Vanderbilt University Press. (with Kwame Lillard, Noah Trump, Jack Lindenman, Jacob Graham, Katani Ostine-Franklin, and Barbara Clinton).
2018
- Democratically engaged assessment: Reimagining the purposes and practices of assessment in community engagement. Davis, CA: Imagining America. With Mary Price, Patti Clayton, Julia Metzker, Georgia Nigro, Sarah Stanlick, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Anna Bartel, & Sylvia Gale.
2011
- “Sociologists in Action: Joe Bandy & Elspeth Benard.” In Sociologists in Action. SAGE Publications. With Elspeth Benard. Pp. 193-7.
- “Housing and Homelessness in Maine: A Case of Public Sociology in Practice.” In Sociologists in Action. SAGE Publications. With Craig McEwen. Pp. 128-34.
- “Sociologists in Action: Joe Bandy.” In The Engaged Sociologist. Third Edition. SAGE Publications. Pp. 9-10.
2009
- “Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras.” In Contentious Politics in North America: National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration. Edited by Jeffrey Ayres and Laura Macdonald. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (reprint)
2006
- “A Place of Their Own? Women Organizers Negotiating the Local and Transnational in Nicaragua and Northern Mexico.” Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational Networks. Eds. H. Johnston and P. Almieda. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. with Jennifer Bickham Mendez. (reprint)
2004
- “So What Is to Be Done?: Maquila Justice Movements, Transnational Solidarity, and Dynamics of Resistance.” in The Social Costs of Industrial and Urban Growth on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Ed. Kathryn Kopinak. San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD.
Journal Articles
2023
- “Class Matters: Teaching about Class in Higher Education” Currents in Teaching and Learning. (with Myra Brielle Harbin).
2021
- “Teaching Race and Racial Justice: Developing Students’ Cognitive and Affective Understanding.” In Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 9(1). 117-37. (with Myra Brielle Harbin and Amie Thurber). Received Nancy Chick Article of the Year Award for 2021 from the International Society for Scholarship on Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). Listen to a summary.
2019
- "Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors," in Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice, 4(1): 1-37 (with Myra Brielle Harbin and Amie Thurber).
2017
- “Values-Engaged Assessment: Reimagining Assessment through the Lens of Democratic Engagement.” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. 23(1). (with Anna Bartel, Patti Clayton, Sylvia Gale, Heather Mack, Julia Metzker, Georgia Nigro, Mary Price, and Sarah Stanlick).
2016
- “Values-Engaged Assessment: Reimagining Assessment through the Lens of Democratic Engagement.” The SLCE Future Directions Project. Fall. (with Anna Bartel, Patti Clayton, Sylvia Gale, Heather Mack, Julia Metzker, Georgia Nigro, Mary Price, and Sarah Stanlick).
2004
- “Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras.” Social Problems. 51(3).
2003
- “A Place of Their Own? Women Organizers Negotiating the Local and Transnational in Nicaragua and Northern Mexico.” Mobilization. 8(2). June. Pp. 173-88. (with Jennifer Bickham Mendez).
2000
- “Bordering the Future: Resisting Neoliberalism in the Borderlands.” Critical Sociology. 26:3.
1997
- “Reterritorializing Borders: Transnational Environmental Justice Movements on the US Mexico Border.” Race, Gender, and Class. 5(1):80-103.
1996
- “Managing the Other of Nature: Sustainability, Spectacle, and Global Regimes of Capital in Ecotourism.” Public Culture. 8(3):539-66.