GABRIEL ROSSMAN

Department of Sociology, UCLA
287 Haines Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Phone 310.206.8904
Fax 310.206.9838
rossman@soc.ucla.edu

2007-2009. Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology. Harvard University
2005-present. Assistant Professor of Sociology. University of California, Los Angeles.

2005 Ph.D. Sociology Princeton University
Dissertation: The Effects of Ownership Concentration on Media Content Committee: Paul DiMaggio (chair), Scott Lynch, and Paul Starr
2002 M.A. Sociology Princeton University
Exams: Culture and Mass Media, Inequality, and Organizational Theory
1999 B.A. Sociology UCLA
(Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Honors)

forthcoming, July 2012. Climbing the Charts: How Songs Get to be Radio Hits. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
2010. “I’d Like to Thank the Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality” with Nicole Esparza and Phil Bonacich. American Sociological Review 75:31–51.
2009. “Hollywood and Jerusalem: Christian Conservatives and the Media.” in Steven Brint and Jean Schroedel. Conservative Christians and American Democracy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2008. “Modeling Diffusion of Multiple Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves: Payola in Pop Music Radio” with Ming Ming Chiu and Joeri Mol. Sociological Methodology 38:201–230.
2008. “By the Numbers: Lessons from Radio,” in William Ivey and Steven Tepper. Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life. New York: Routledge, 2008.
2008. “Changing Arts Audiences: Capitalizing on Omnivorousness” with Richard A. Peterson, in William Ivey and Steven Tepper. Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life. New York: Routledge, 2008.
2004. “Elites, Masses, and Media Blacklists: The Dixie Chicks Controversy” Social Forces 83:61–78.
2000. co-editor, with Michael Suman. Advocacy Groups and the Entertainment Industry. Westport, CT: Praeger. Also contributed solo-authored chapter, “Hostile and Cooperative Advocacy.”
1997. “In Response to Donald Wildmon,” in Michael Suman (ed.). Religion and Prime Time Television. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

2011–2012. UCLA Senate Faculty Research Grant
2009–2011. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Industry Studies Fellow.
2007–2010. National Science Foundation, Program on Innovation and Organizational Change, “Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation: Drawing Lessons from the Radio Industry” (Award # SES-0724914)
2007–2008. Social Science Research Council, “Assessing the Impact of the Spitzer Payola Investigation”
2006–2007. UCLA Senate Faculty Research Grant
2004–2005. Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Cultural Policy, through the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
2003–2004. Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows Awarded to Princeton University graduate students in the social sciences whose work addresses public policy.
2003. Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Investigate Cultural Conflict, through the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
2001–2003. Princeton University Graduate School Summer Research Grants 1999-2003. Princeton University fellowship

2010. “FSX: Stata module to show names of files in compact form (Unix-friendly defaults),” with Nicholas Cox, Statistical Software Components S457194, Boston College Department of Economics.
2010. “DIFFUSION,” Net Logo User Community Models, Center for Connected Learning, Northwestern University.
2010. “SHUFFLEVAR: Stata module to shuffle variables relative to the rest of the dataset,” Statistical Software Components S457116, Boston College Department of Economics.
2009. “GRAPHEXPORTPDF: Stata module to produce PDF graphics on non-Windows systems,” Statistical Software Components S457036, Boston College Department of Economics.
2009. “STATA2PAJEK: Stata module to export data to Pajek .net format,” Statistical Software Components S457075, Boston College Department of Economics.