Dr. J. Lotus Seeley joined the department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. She has a Master’s in Women’s Studies from The Ohio State University (2007) and a PhD in Women’s Studies and Sociology from University of Michigan (2016). Her work focuses on gender, work, and organizations, with an emphasis on the mundane interactional processes through which identities and social statuses are (re)produced. Key research interests are feminist theory, economic sociology, sociology of gender and sexuality, the sociology of emotions, and microsociology. She is a qualitative researcher who engages in both ethnography and unstructured interviewing. Generally, her research emphasizes how gender is socially-constructed, organizationally-structured, performative, and generative of social inequality. She has examined experiences of women and men administrative professionals and IT support workers, focusing on how organizations structure their performances of gender and status.

At FAU, Dr. Seeley teaches classes on sociological theory, qualitative research methods, gender and society, gender and work, sociology of work, and microsociology. As an instructor in sociology, her goal is to teach students how to benefit from applying their sociological imaginations to their own lives and immediate circumstances. Her mission is to help students understand how macro-level forces structure their lives so that they can develop more useful ways of looking at the world than the individualism that dominates our culture.