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MICHELA MUSTO
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Southern California, expected 2017
Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies
M.A.
Sociology, University of Southern California, 2013
B.S.
Sociology and Statistics, University of Michigan, 2010
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Gender
Methods
Families
Education
Children & Youth
Sport
BOOKS
Messner, Michael A. and Michela Musto, Eds. (In Press). Child’s Play: Sport in Kids’
Worlds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Musto, Michela and PJ McGann. “Strike a pose! Hegemonic femininity and the ponytail
effect in collegiate women athletes’ roster photographs.” Forthcoming at the
Sociology of Sport Journal.
Cooky, Cheryl, Messner, Michael and Michela Musto. “‘It’s dude time’: A quarter century
of missing women in televised sports news and highlights shows.” Forthcoming at
Communication and Sport.
Messner, Michael A. and Michela Musto. (In press). “Sport in Kids’ Worlds: A response to
Laurendeau and Konecny.” Sociology of Sport Journal 32(3). (Invited response).
Musto, Michela. 2014. “Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual
Construction of Gender in Co-Ed Youth Swimming.” Gender & Society 28(3): 359–80.
*Winner of the ASA Sex & Gender Section Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper
Award
*Honorable Mention, ASA Children & Youth Section Graduate Student Paper Award
Messner, Michael A. and Michela Musto. 2014. “For the Sociology of Sport: Where Are
the Kids?” Sociology of Sport Journal 31(1): 102-22.
JUNE 2015
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MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW & IN PREPARATION
Musto, Michela. “The War Against Boys? Gender Inequality in Middle School
Classrooms.” In Preparation.
Musto, Michela. “Academic course sequences and students’ interest and performance in
math.” In Preparation.
GRANTS
2015 – 2016
2015 – 2016
2014
2013
2013
Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; John Randolph and Dora
Haynes Foundation ($20,000)
USC Graduate School Endowed Fellowship (declined)
USC Sociology Department Research Grant
USC Sociology Department Summer Research Grant
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Lee Student Travel Grant
AWARDS & HONORS
2013
ASA Sex and Gender Section’s Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award
2013
Honorable Mention; ASA Children and Youth Section Graduate Student Paper
Award
2013
Distinction on Qualifying Exam in Gender; University of Southern California
Sociology Department
2012
Student Paper Award; Sport, Leisure and the Body Division of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems
2012
Louise Kerckhoff Prize; University of Southern California Award for Best Paper
Related to Gender Studies
2010
First Place; Midwest Sociological Society Undergraduate Paper Competition
2010
Eita Krom Undergraduate Student Paper Award; University of Michigan Sociology
Department
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015
JUNE 2015
“The war against boys? Gender inequality in middle school classrooms.”
Accepted for presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association. Chicago, IL.
2/5
2015
“Gender In televised sports: The 25th anniversary update.” Submitted for
presentation at the International Sociology of Sport Conference. Paris, France
(with Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner).
2015
“Gender and class inequality in youth sports.” Accepted for presentation at the
Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association. Long Beach, CA (Invited
Presentation).
2014
“Group interviews as a feminist research method” (with Jess Butler). Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
2013
“The contextual construction of gender on a co-ed youth swim team.” Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association. New York City, NY.
2013
“Competing perspectives on carefree childhoods” (with Hyeyoung Kwon). Annual
Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York City, NY.
2013
“Athletes in the pool, girls and boys on deck: Gender & youth swimming.” USC
Conference on Sports: Gender and Sports (Invited Presentation). Los Angeles,
CA.
2012
“’When girls really wanna race, they can’: The affirmation and contestation of the
gender binary in co-ed youth sports.” Annual Meetings of the North American
Society for the Sociology of Sport. New Orleans, LA.
2012
“Rethinking the gender gap within youth sports,” Annual Meetings of the Society
for the Study of Social Problems. Denver, CO.
2011
“Athletic yet apologetic: The heterogendered appearances of collegiate women
athletes” (with PJ McGann). Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems. Las Vegas, NV.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
2015
Presider for Roundtable on “Youth Sexualities,” Annual Meetings of the American
Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.
2015
Organizer for Panel on “Leisure and Recreation Across the Life Course,” Society
for the Study of Social Problems. Chicago, IL.
2014
Co-Organizer for Panel on “Body & Embodiment,” Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
JUNE 2015
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2014
Organizer for Panel on “Gender & Sexuality in Sport,” Annual Meetings of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, CA.
2013
Organizer for Panel on “Youth Sports,” Annual Meetings of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems. New York City, NY.
2012
Moderator for Panel on “Sport & Media: New Media Theories & Media,” Annual
Meetings of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. New Orleans,
LA.
2012
Moderator for Panel on “Sport & Media: Constructing & Negotiating Sporting
Identities in New Media,” Annual Meetings of the North American Society for the
Sociology of Sport. New Orleans, LA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Social Issues in Gender (Spring 2013)
Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts (Fall 2012)
Changing Family Forms (Summer 2012; Summer 2013)
Analyzing Sociological Statistics (Fall 2011; Spring 2012; Fall 2014)
Sociological Research Methods (Fall 2014)
Quantitative Methods I (Graduate Seminar; Spring 2012, Spring 2015)
Quantitative Methods and Statistics II (Graduate Seminar, Fall 2011, Spring 2015)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014 – 2015
Research Assistant to Dr. Michael A. Messner, University of Southern
California & Cheryl L. Cooky, Purdue University for Gender &
Televised Sports Study.
2010 – 2012
Research Assistant to Dr. Michael A. Messner, Sociology Department,
University of Southern California
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2014 – 2016
2015
JUNE 2015
Student Council Member, American Sociological Association’s Sex &
Gender Section
Member of the Sport, Leisure and the Body Section’s Student Paper
Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems
4/5
MANUSCRIPT REFEREE FOR PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
Gender & Society; Sociology of Sport Journal; International Review for the Sociology of
Sport; Sociological Spectrum
DEPARTMENTAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2012 – 2013
2010 – 2011
USC Sociology Department Graduate Student Mentor
USC Sociology Department Graduate Committee Student Representative
PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
Musto, Michela. 2015. “The fart bush: Conducting group interviews with children.”
Sociologists for Women in Society’s Gender & Society blog. February 26.
https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-fart-bush-conducting-groupinterviews-with-young-athletes/
Musto, Michela. 2014. “Athletes in the pool, girls and boys on deck.” Sociologists for
Women in Society’s Gender & Society blog. June 12.
https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/athletes-in-the-pool/
MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Pacific Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociologists for Women in Society
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