J Sterphone

Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College

J Sterphone is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

They received their PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Their research explores how members of society (re)produce social categories and manage actions that are accountable by virtue of the category memberships of relevant participants. In their dissertation, they examined the development and co-constitution of racial and national categories in Germany. Their book project, developed from this dissertation, synthesizes ethnomethodologically-informed historical and conversation analytic methods to analyze the racialization of religious and national categories in Germany beginning in the German imperial era.

Their work on racial categories and nationalist-populist politics in Germany has been published in Patterns of Prejudice, German Politics & Society, and Journal of Sociolinguistics. Work on US racial formations and the development of the binary racial order can be found forthcoming in an entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia on Race and Racism co-authored with G. Reginald Daniel, as well as in a book co-authored with Rebecca Romo and G. Reginald Daniel that is under contract and currently under review with University of Nebraska Press. Additional work on the mutual co-constitution of category and action has been published in Language and Communication They are also a former visiting Fulbright Fellow at Universität Bielefeld.