LYNDA
J. AMES
Department
of Sociology
(Abreviated)
EDUCATION
University of California
Doctor of Philosophy
Santa Barbara
Sociology
1986
University of California
Master of Arts
Santa Barbara
Sociology
1982
University of California
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
Los
Angeles
Sociology
1976
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Academic
Employment:
Professor
2002-present
Affirmative
Action
Officer
2004-present
Associate
Professor
1997-2002
Assistant Professor
1991-1997
Department of Sociology
State
University of New York
Plattsburgh,
NY 12901
Research
Sociologist
1989-1992
The AIDS Institute
New York State Department of Health
ESP Corning Tower
Albany, NY 12237
Assistant
Director of Research
1988-1989
Center for Women in Government
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY 12222
Research
Associate
1987-1988
Hubbard and Revo-Cohen, Inc.
Human Resource Consultants
Reston, VA 22090
Statistician
1986-1987
National Center for Health Statistics
Hyattsville, Maryland
HONORS
AND AWARDS
1999
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
State University of New York
1996 Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha Delta Chapter Outstanding Professor Award
1994 Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Leave Award
GRANTS
RECEIVED
2000
National Institute of Justice, Evaluation of Grants to Encourage Arrest
Policies, $71,317
2003 US Department of Justice, Grants to Reduce Violent Crimes Against Women on Campus, $200,000
2006 US Department of Justice, Grants to Reduce Violent Crimes
Against Women on Campus, $400,000
Consortium, PSU and Clinton Community College
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Ellsworth,
Jeanne and Lynda J. Ames (eds.). 1998.
Critical Perspectives on Project
Head Start: Revisioning the Hope
and Challenge. Albany, NY:
SUNY Press.
Ames,
Lynda J. with Jeanne Ellsworth. 1997.
Women Reformed, Women Empowered:
Poor Mothers and the Endangered Promise of Head Start.
Philadelphia: Temple
University Press.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1993.
Erase the Bias:
A Pay Equity Guide to Eliminating Race and Sex Bias From Wage Setting
Systems. National Committee on Pay Equity:
Washington, DC.
ARTICLES
IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
Ames,
Lynda J. and Katherine T. Dunham. 2002.
“Asymptotic Justice: Probation
as a Criminal Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence”.
Violence Against Women 8:6-34.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1996.
"Contrarieties at Work: Women's
Resistance to Bureaucracy". NWSA Journal
8(2):37-59.
Ellsworth,
Jeanne and Lynda J. Ames. 1995.
"Power and Ceremony: Low-Income
Mothers as Policy Makers in Head Start".
Educational Foundations 9(4):5-23.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1995.
"Fixing Women's Wages: Public
Policy and Equitable Wages". Industrial and Labor
Relations Review 48(4):709-725.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1995.
"When Sense is Not Common: Alternatives
to Hierarchy at Work". Economic and Industrial
Democracy 16(4):553-576.
Ames,
Lynda J., Alana B. Atchinson, D. Thomas Rose.
1995. "Love, Lust,
Fear: Sexual Decision Making Among
Gay Men". Journal
of Homosexuality 30(1):53-73.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1992.
"Implementing Comparable Worth on Campus".
College and University Personnel
Association Journal 44:39-46.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1991.
"Legislating Equity: A
Comparison of Provincial Legislation in Manitoba and Ontario Requiring Pay
Equity". International Journal of Public Administration 14:871-892.
Ames,
Lynda J. "Equal Pay for Work
of Comparable Value: Issues to
Consider when Beginning an Initiative".
1990. Visual
Resources Vol. VI:401-14.
BOOK
CHAPTERS
Ames,
Lynda J. and Jeanne Ellsworth. 1998.
“Reform and Empowerment: Rural
Mothers and Head Start”, in Ellsworth and Ames (eds.)
Critical Perspectives on Project Head Start: Revisioning the Hope and Challenge. Albany, NY: SUNY
Press.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1996.
"Homo-Phobia, Homo-Ignorance, Homo-Hate: Heterosexism and AIDS".
E.D. Rothblum and L.A. Bond (eds.),
Preventing Heterosexism and
Homophobia. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications.
(Named an “Outstanding Book” by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of
Human Rights in North America)
NON-REFEREED
ARTICLES:
Ames, Lynda J.
"Teaching Inequality", Faculty
Forum SUNY Plattsburgh, Summer 1992.
BOOK
REVIEWS:
Ames,
Lynda J. 1998.
Deborah M. Figart and Peggy Kahn Contesting
the Market: Pay Equity and the
Politics of Economic Restructuring. Work
and Occupations 25:374-375.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1997.
Lisa Aronson Fontes Sexual Abuse in
Nine North American Cultures; Carolyn Swift Sexual Assault and Abuse. Violence
Against Women 3:332-336.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1997. Dorothy Allison Skin: Talking About Sex,
Class, & Literature. Journal
of Lesbian Studies 1:138-140.
Ames,
Lynda J. 1996.
Annelise Orleck Common Sense and a
Little Fire: Women and
Working-Class Politics; Janet Zandy Liberating
Memory: Our Work and Our Working
Class Consciousness; and Julia Penelope Out
of the Class Closet. NWSA
Journal 8(3).
Ames,
Lynda J. 1994.
Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A Posner Private Choices and Public Health:
The AIDS Epidemic in an Economic Perspective. The Journal of Psychiatry and Law Vol. XXII (3):411-423.
Ames, Lynda J. 1993. Paula England Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. Work and Occupations 20:472-484.
PAPERS
PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
NATIONAL
MEETINGS
“The
Dilemmas of Policy Success: Evaluating Domestic Violence Programs” Presented
at Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, August 2000, Washington,
DC
"Empowering Poor
Mothers" (Lynda J. Ames and Jeanne Ellsworth) Presented at the Annual
Meeting, American Educational Studies Association, November 1996, Montreal,
Canada.
"Unionizing Head
Start", Presented at the Annual Meetings, American Sociological
Association, August 1995, Washington, DC.
"Helping Poor Women"
(Lynda J. Ames and Jeanne Ellsworth) Presented at the Annual Meetings, Society
for the Study of Social Problems, August 1995, Washington, DC.
"Women, Devotion, and
Social Class", Presented to Workplace 2000 Conference, Cornell University,
School of Industrial-Labor Relations, May 1995, New York City.
"Women, Community, and
Head Start: A New Chance" (Lynda J. Ames and Jeanne Ellsworth),
Presented to the National Women's Studies Association Conference, June 1994,
Ames, Iowa.
"Community
and Politics Among Gay Men: Empowerment
Through AIDS?" (Lynda J. Ames, Alana B. Atchinson, D. Thomas Rose), Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
August 1994, Los Angeles.
"No Miracles Here",
Presented to The New Jersey Project National Conference, April 1993, Parsippany,
New Jersey.
"Love,
Lust, Fear: Sexual Decision Making
Among Gay Men" (Lynda J. Ames, Alana B. Atchinson, D. Thomas Rose)
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
August 1992, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"Hostility in the
Feminist Classroom", Presentation to the National Women's Studies
Conference, June 1992, Austin, Texas.
"Equity
at the End of the Day: Analyzing
the Effects of Public Policy Provisions", Presented at the Annual Meetings
of the American Sociological Association, August 1990, Washington, DC.
"What
the Other Guys Do: Peer Support and
AIDS Risk Reduction" (Lynda J. Ames and Carolyn Beeker), Presented at the
Annual Meetings of the American Public Health Association, October 1990, New
York City.
"Continuing
Risk Behavior Among Bisexually Active Men" (Lynda J. Ames and Carolyn
Beeker), Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Public Health
Association, October 1990, New York City.
"Overcoming
Bureaucracy: Alternative
Workplaces", Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association, August 1989, San
Francisco, California.
"Research
on Resistance to Sexual Assault" (Ellen C. Schell and Lynda J. Ames)
Presented at the Annual Conference of the National Coalition Against Sexual
Assault, July 1989, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Changing
the Value of Women's Work", Presented at the National Women's Studies
Association Conference, June 1989, Towson, Maryland.
"Pay
Equity: What Works?",
Presented at the Annual Women's Policy Research Conference, May 1989,
Washington, DC.
"The
Iron Cage That is Myth and Ceremony: A
Study of Hierarchy as Common Sense", Paper presented at the annual
meetings, American Sociological Association, August 1987, Chicago, Illinois.
"When
Sense is Not Common: Social
Structure and Everyday Life in a Democratic Workplace"
(Lynda Ames LaFontaine), Presented at the Employee Ownership and
Participation Conference for Educators, October 1984, Greensboro, North
Carolina.
"Methodological
Issues in the Micro-Interactional Study of Criminal Justice"
(Don H. Zimmerman, Lynda Ames LaFontaine, Donileen Loseke), Paper
presented at the annual meeting, Law and Society Association, June 1983, Denver,
Colorado.
INTERNATIONAL
MEETINGS
"The
Men Who Got Away: Characteristics
of Gay/Bisexual Cohort Volunteers Lost to Follow-Up" (Lynda J. Ames and
Carolyn Beeker), Presentation at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS,
June 1990, San Francisco, California.
"Gay
Men in Small Cities: How Risky Are
They?" (Lynda J. Ames and Carolyn Beeker), Presentation at the Sixth
International Conference on AIDS, June 1990, San Francisco, California.
"Marginal
Men, Mainstream Risk" (Carolyn Beeker, D. Thomas Rose, and Lynda J. Ames),
Presentation at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, June 1990, San
Francisco, California.
REGIONAL
MEETINGS
“Poverty,
Community, and Wife Abuse in the North Country”, Presented at New York State
Sociological Association, October 1999, Rochester, NY.
"Homo-Phobia,
Homo-Ignorance, Homo-Hate: Heterosexism and AIDS", Presented to the Vermont
Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology, June 1995, Burlington,
Vermont.
"Academe and the
Community: A Dangerous
Border", Presented at New York Women's Studies Association Conference,
April 1995, Plattsburgh, New York.
"Meetings, Moms, and
Mastery: Working Class Women and
Hierarchical Organization", Presented to the Eastern Sociological Society,
March 1994, Baltimore, Maryland.
"Empowering Women:
Head Start in a Rural County", Presented to the Eastern Sociological
Society, March 1994, Baltimore, Maryland.
"Alternatives
to Bureaucratic Workplaces, or Revenge of the Hierarchy", Presented at the
Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 1989, Baltimore,
Maryland.
"Maintaining
Methodological Rigor in Applied Settings: Or
How to Survive an Oversight Taskforce Meeting", Presented at the Annual
Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 1989, Baltimore, Maryland.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITY
CONSULTATIONS:
Canadian Human Rights
Commission (2002), on the matter of gender equity in the pay system of BC Tel.
Canadian Human Rights
Commission (1998), on the matter of gender equity in the pay system of the
Canadian federal government.
Office of the Auditor General
of Canada (1994-current), on the matter of gender equity in the pay system of
the Canadian federal government.
Office of the Legislative
Auditor, State of Hawaii (1994) With
the firm of Hubbard and Revo-Cohen, Inc., on the matter of pay equity within the
state workforce.
EXPERT
EVIDENCE IN MATTERS BEFORE THE ONTARIO PAY EQUITY TRIBUNAL:
Group of
Nurses vs. Ontario Public Service (1990-1998)
Ontario
Secondary School Teachers' Federation and Ottawa Board of Education (1994-1998)
Ontario
Nurses' Association and City of Windsor (1994-1995)
Ontario
Secondary School Teachers' Federation and Carleton Board of Education
(1994-1995)
Group of
Nurses vs. Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital (1993-1995)
Parkwood
Hospital vs. Ontario Nurses' Assoc. (1991-1995)
Hospital
for Sick Children vs. Magee, et al. (1990-1995)
Municipality
of Haldimand-Norfolk vs. Ontario Nurses' Assoc. (1988-1991)