JACLYN CARROLL

carrolct@bc.edu

Education

  • PhD Candidate, Sociology | Boston College (Expected Completion: Spring 2023)

    • Dissertation: “The Detox Diet Phenomenon: Deviant Health Discourse and Digital Market Building Against Mainstream Medicine.”

    • Committee: Natasha Sarkisian & Stephen Pfohl (Co-Chairs), Sara Moorman

    • Area Exams: Sociology of Crime, Deviance & Social Control, Sociology of Communication

  • M.A. Communication & Advocacy Studies | James Madison University | 2015    Concentration: Environmental CommunicationB.A. Sociology | The College of William & Mary | 2013

Research & Teaching Interests

  • Health Culture | Science, Knowledge & Technology | Deviance & Deviant Behavior | Trust & Expertise | Misinformation | Health & Environmental Risk and Regulation | Digital Discourse

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Under Review: Carroll, J.D. “Donors as Savvy Investors: Media Accounts of Nonprofit Charity Evaluators (1995-2005).” Under Review, Social Problems  

  • Carroll, J.D. & Bsumek, P.K. 2021. “All This Regulatory Uncertainty in the Air: The Indispensability of Public Hearings in Guarding and Guiding Public Deliberation.” Frontiers in Science & Environmental Communication* Awarded Boston College’s John B. Williamson Award, for work co-authored with faculty 

  • Carroll, J. D. 2017. “Winking Back at Eastern State: ‘Temporal Drag’ and the Hyper-Real.” CTheory.

Published Reviews

  • Carroll, J.D. 2022. “Review: ‘Does Not Compute’.” Teaching Sociology.

Papers in Progress

  • Carroll, J. D. “The Alternative Medicine to Anti-Vax Pipeline: Why Some Online Health Influencers Became CDC-Adversaries During the Covid-19 Pandemic”

  • Carroll, J.D. “Market Building Against Traditional Medicine: Perceptions of Value, Quality, and Scope of Practice Among Online Health Coaches” Preparing for Submission SSM – Qualitative Research in Health

  • Carroll, J. D. “Detox Disinfo: Managing Truth, Trust, and Confidence in the Promotion of Expert-Contested Health Information.” Preparing for Submission to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

  • Carroll, J.D. “Tofu Panic: Female Hormones & the Men that Eat Them.” Preparing for Submission to Men & Masculinities

Academic Awards

  • 2022     Ivan Brown Graduate Research Grant

  • 2021     John Williamson Award, for co-authored work, Boston College Sociology 

  • 2021     Boston College Morrissey Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship

  • 2021     Ivan Brown Graduate Research Grant

  • 2021     Boston College Sociology Summer Research Fellowship

  • 2021     Passed with Distinction, Dissertation Proposal Defense

  • 2019     Boston College Sociology Summer Research Fellowship

  • 2019     Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy Graduate Fellowship

  • 2018     Boston College Sociology Summer Research Fellowship 

  • 2018     Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy Graduate Fellowship

  • 2017     Passed with Distinction, Area Exam: Sociology of Crime, Deviance, and Social Control 

  • 2012     William & Mary Office of Community Engagement & Scholarship Summer Research Grant

Teaching Excellence Awards

  • 2020     Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College Sociology

  • 2020     Boston College Dean of Summer Session Teaching Fellowship

  • 2019     Woods College of Advancing Studies Spring Teaching Fellowship

  • 2019     Woods College of Advancing Studies Summer Teaching Fellowship

  • 2017     Woods College of Advancing Studies Summer Teaching Fellowship

  • 2015     James Madison University School of Communication Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award

  • 2015     Voted one of James Madison University’s “Top 10 Diversity Educators”

Teaching Experience

Instructor                    

  • Boston College Department of Sociology

    •  Building the American Body: Sex, Food & Fitness | Fall 2020 

    • Statistics | Spring 2020

    • Sexuality & Society | Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2020

      • Advanced Elective in Medical Humanities Program

    • Deviance & Social Control | Spring 2020 

  • Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College 

    • The Age of Misinformation? | Upcoming Spring 2023

    • Intro to Sociology | Upcoming Fall 2022

    • Social Problems | Summer 2017 

    • Deviance & Social Control | Spring 2020, Summer 2020 Sessions I & II                            

  •  James Madison University School of Communication

    • Fundamentals of Human Communication | Fall 2014, Spring 2015

Teaching Assistant      

  • Boston College Department of Sociology

    • Deviance & Social Control (Stephen Pfohl)

    • Peace or War (Charles Derber)

    • Social Theory (Eve Spangler)

    • Women & The Body (Sharlene Hesse-Biber)                            

  • James Madison University School of Communication

    • Fundamentals of Human Communication (Lori Britt & Tim Ball)

Research Employment

  • Research Assistant        Weiss Asset Management | 2018-2019

    • Data management & research assistance at Boston-based hedge fund 

  • Research Assistant        Boston College Sociology Dept, Stephen Pfohl | 2017

    • Assisted in research and paper development in the areas of Deviance and Suggestion 

  • Research Assistant        William & Mary Sociology Department, Brent Kaup | 2012

    • Assisted in data collection and organization, Sociology of Development & The Environmental 

Conference Presentations 

  • Carroll, J. D. (August 2022) “Discerning Detox: Evaluations of Information and Expertise Within Unregulated Health Movements.” Seventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies. Galway, Ireland & Virtual. 

  • Carroll, J. D. (August 2020) “Men without Organs: Female Hormones and the Bodies that Contain Them.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Virtual, 2020. 

  • Carroll, J. D. & Bsumek, P. (November 2019) “All this Regulatory Uncertainty in the Air: Off-Book Strategies in Coal Plant Resistance.” Individual Competitive Paper. Accepted to the National Communication Association: Environmental Communication Division. 

  • Carroll, J. D. (August, 2017). “’Your Dollars Put to Maximum Use’: Surveillance Culture, Investment Ideologies & the Emotional Politics of Philanthropy.” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Montreal, 2017.  

  • Carroll, J. D. (August, 2017). “Constructing Transgender Health in the Absence of Evidence-Based Best: A Qualitative Exploration of Doctor-Patient Communications.” Poster Presentation. National LGBTQ Health Conference. Chicago, IL, April 2017.  

  • Davenport, A. K. & J.D. Carroll. (2016). “Exploring Hipster Temporality, or hipster quotation cigarettes ironic.” Roundtable Discussion, Research in Identities. National Communication Association. Philadelphia, PA, November 2016. 

  • Carroll, J. D. (2016). “The Upside of Radical Negativity.” Panel Presentation. Qualitative Inquiry. Champaign-Urbana, IL. May 2016.  

  • Carroll, J. D. (2015). “’Letting her know she still had power’: Out-of-hospital birth workers and juxtapositional rhetoric.” Submitted to the 2015 Health Communication Conference, Washington D.C.  

  • Carroll, J. D. (Accepted, 2015). “Soysage fests & the fragile sex: Paranoid eating in Men’s Health Magazine.” Individual Competitive Paper. Performance Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Conference, Spokane WA.  

  • Carroll, J. D. (2014). “’A tropological mind’: Restorative justice, negotiated representation & the metonymic subject.” Individual Competitive Paper. National Communication Association: Peace & Conflict Division, Chicago, IL. November 2014. 

  •  Carroll, J. D. (2014). “’Against the wind’: The parameters of consensus decision making.” Individual Competitive Paper. National Communication Association: Great Ideas for Teaching Students. Chicago, IL. November 2014. 

  • Carroll, J. D. (2014). “Resisting epidemic rhetoric: De-medicalizing size and reclaiming fatness on fat-positive blogs.” Panel Presentation. National Communication Association: Feminist & Women’s Studies Division. Chicago, IL. November 2014.  

Departmental Service

  • Graduate Representative, Graduate Studies Committee | Boston College Sociology | 2018

  • Social Chair, Graduate Student Association | Boston College Sociology | 2017

Professional Memberships

  • American Sociological Association, Student Member

    • Section Memberships: Medical Sociology, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology, Science, Knowledge, and Technology

Community Service & Advocacy

  • 2021 Invited Lecture                      Magis Learning: Situating Theology Series, “Christianity & The Birth of Prisons”  

  • 2020 Invited Workshop                  Girls LEAP: Lifetime Empowerment and Awareness Program, “Community Action Research Methods”  

  • 2017 Invited Workshop                  Northeastern University Social Justice Resource Center, “Deconstructing Whiteness: A Conversation on White Privilege” 

  • 2013 Invited Workshop                  St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Anti-Oppression & Eco-Activism Weekend Intensive 

  • 2013 Invited Workshop                  Sierra Student Coalition Summer Program, Baltimore MD, “Anti-Oppression & Eco-Activism” 

  • 2013 Invited Workshop                  Appalachia Rising, National Conference, Washington D.C.  2012 - 2013                                   

  • National Committee Chair, Anti-Oppression Committee, Sierra Student Coalition 2012 - 2013                                   

  • Summer Program Director, Organizer, and Trainer for Week-Long Intensive, Sierra Student Coalition 2011                                             

  • Event Coordinator and Trainer for Week-Long Intensive, Mountain Justice, West Virginia 2010                                             

  • Summer Program Organizer and Trainer for Week-Long Intensive, Sierra Student Coalition

Software Proficiency

  • Stata, NVivo, SPSS, Some experience with GIS, Bloomberg and Python