Cortese, Daniel

Paper Presentations at Professional Meetings

• 2013 “I’m a “Good” Activist, You’re a “Bad” Activist, and Everything I Do Is Activism: How Activists Describe Their Activism and (Re)Construct Meaning to an “Activist” Identity,” formal paper session at Midwestern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
• 2013 “Kooky Extremists? Passionate Effectors of Change? Or...?: Parsing the Dimensionality of ‘Activist’ Identity Politics in Social Movements,” formal paper session at Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Reno, NV.
• 2012 “Kooky Extremists? Passionate Educators? Or…?: How Movement Participants Define and Construct ‘Activist’ Identities,” formal paper session at Midwestern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
• 2012 “I’m Not an Activist But I Play One on TV: Movement Participants Who Use—But Don’t Necessarily Identify With—‘Activist’ Identities,” regular session at Pacific Sociological Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• 2011 “Restoring What Was Lost: Preliminary Findings of Pilot Study,” Work-in-Progress session at Collective Behavior/Social Movement Bi-Annual Preconference to the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV.
• 2011 “Restoring What Was Lost: Motivations in Participating in the Anti-Circumcision Social Movement,” regular session at Midwestern Sociological Association, Saint Louis, MO.
• 2011 “Motivations of Participating in the Anti-Circumcision Movement,” Gender Matters Conference, Governors State University, April 8.
• 2011 “Enticing the New Lad: Linking Masculinity, Bodies, and Tobacco Brands in the Tobacco Industry Lifestyle Magazines,” Gender Matters Conference, Governors State University, April 8.
• 2011 “Experimenting with Best Practices in Teaching Graduate Courses to Non-Traditional Student Populations: A Case Study on Governors State University, regular session at Midwestern Sociological Association, Saint Louis, MO. (Co-authored with Chelsea Haring and Jason Zingsheim, Governors State University)
• 2009 “Young Adult ‘New Lad’ Masculinity as a Product of Consumption,” regular session at American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA. (Co-authored with Pamela M. Ling, University of California – San Francisco)
• 2009: "Enticing the New Lad: Masculinity as a Product of Consumption in Tobacco Industry-Developed Lifestyle Magazines," regular session at the Midwestern Sociological Association, Des Moines, IA. (Co-authored with Pamela M. Ling, UC San Francisco).
• 2008: "Marketing Cigarettes and Snus to Upwardly Mobile Young Adults," regular session at the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA. (Co-authored with Adrienne Mejia & Pamela M. Ling, UC San Francisco).
• 2007: "Conquering Young Adult Consumers: A Documents and Content Analysis of Tobacco Industry produced Controlled Circulation Magazines," regular session at the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with M. Jane Lewis, UMDNJ & Pamela M. Ling, UC San Francisco).
• 2007: "Fired Up!: A Semiotic Analysis of Gender in Tobacco Industry Produced Controlled Circulation Magazines," poster at the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. (Co-authored with Pamela M. Ling, UC San Francisco).
• 2007: "Marlboro’s Medium: Using Gender, Psychographics, and Lifestyle Magazines to Develop a Brand," poster at the American Sociological Association, New York City, New York. (Co-authored with Pamela M. Ling, UC San Francisco).
• 2007: "Fired Up!: Hegemonic Masculinity and Heteronormative Sexuality in Tobacco-Industry-Created Lifestyle Magazines," regular session at the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California. (Co-authored with Pamela M. Ling, UC San Francisco).
• 2006: "No Joking About the ‘S’ in SAGA: Deploying a Straight Identity for Political Gain by and LGBT Organization" at the American Sociological Association, Montréal, Québec.
• 2004: "Straightening Out?: ‘Straightness’ as Identity Strategy in an LGBT Social Movement Organization," regular sessions at the Scientific Study of Social Problems Conference in San Francisco, California.
• 2004: "The Effects of Sociopolitical Environments on Grassroots Organizational Strategy," roundtable at the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.
• 2004: "‘God is on our Side’: Religion, Morality, and Organizational Culture of an LGBT Movement Organization," regular session at the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.
• 2003: "You Call This the Ghetto?: Gay Urban Space in Dallas, Texas," roundtable at the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia. (Co-authored with Julie A. Dowling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
• 2003: "Parity (in)Equality?: The Dilemma of Gender in Queer Social Movement Organizations," roundtable at the Pacific Sociological Association, Pasadena, California.
• 2002: "Lesbian Leaders in GLBT Social Movement Organizations," roundtable at the American Sociological Association, Chicago.
• 2000: "Fashioned Beauty: The Perpetuation of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Modeling Industry through Gay Sensibilities," roundtable at the American Sociological Association, Washington DC.
• 1998: "The Lesbigay Enclave of Dallas, Texas," regular session at the Southwestern Social Science Association, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Invited Lectures

• 2013: “What's Your Career Edge?: Reflections From an Alumnus on a Summer Abroad in Italy,” Invited Lecture at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, May 12.
• 2012: “Love the Way You Lie: Understanding Crime and Victims in the Media using Social Psychology,” Guest Lecture in Victims in the Justice System (CJUS 435) course, Governors State University, June 4.
• 2011: “Teaching With Technology: Using Wacom Tablets in the Classroom,” Faculty Summer Institute, Governors State University, June 6.
• 2009: “Corporate Greed: Influence of Big Pharma on Doctors’ Prescriptions,” TALE Adult Education, Governors State University, October 23.
• 2009: “Things that I Wish I Knew Before which I Know Now,” Teaching and Learning American Sociological Association Pre-Conference Workshop, San Francisco, California, August 7.
• 2008: "The Cigarette as a Symbol: How the Tobacco Industry Indirectly Markets to LGBTQ Young Adults." Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on LGBTQ Issues, University of California – San Francisco, April 17.
• 2007: "Tough, Irreverent, and Edgy: Branding Hegemonic Masculinity for Young Adult Males in the US." Tobacco Policy Research Group, University of California – San Francisco, May 16.
• 2007: "Fired Up!: The Social Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity in Tobacco-Industry-Created Lifestyle Magazines." Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California – San Francisco, March 19.
• 2006: "To Conquer or Keep a Consumer: Creating a Marlboro Branded Lifestyle Magazine to Target Young Adults." Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California – San Francisco, June 12.

Peer-Reviewed Paper Presentations with Student Mentees

• 2010 Student Presenter: Mac-Z Zurawski, Masters Student, Political and Justice Studies, Governors State University.  Title: “Labor and Media: A Strained Relationship,” regular session at the Governors State University Student Research Conference, University Park, Illinois.
• 2010 Student Presenter: Mac-Z Zurawski, Masters Student, Political and Justice Studies, Governors State University. Title: “Labor Movement and Media: A Strained Relationship,” regular session at the Midwestern Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois. 
• 2010 Student Presenter: Scott McGraw, Masters Student, Political and Justice Studies, Governors State University. Title: “Urban Renewal Processes as a Social Movement,” regular session at the Midwestern Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois.