| Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
Dmitri N. Shalin, ed. (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009)
| Introduction |
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| Harold Bershady, Erving Turned to Me and Said, "You Know, Elijah Anderson Is Really a Professional Sociologist, He Is Not a Professional Black" |
| Joel Best, Goffman Told Me, ‘It Is Really Hard to Do That Kind of Thing Well,’ and That Was About All the Advice I Ever Got from Him |
| Meyer Brownstone, Erving Should Not Be Judged in Any Way and Certainly Not by Students Who Saw or Knew Very Little of Goff |
| Sherri Cavan, Remembering Erving Goffman |
| Aaron Cicourel, Remembering Erving Goffman |
| Adele Clark, One of Erving’s Writings Influenced Bob to Write a Basic Article on Higher Education |
| Walter Clark, Erving and Ira Were Counting Cards When Two Biggest Men They Ever Saw Came up and Said, “We Don’t Want Your Play, Partner” |
| Arlene Daniels, Erving Always Behaved Like A Guttersnipe, Teasing and Mocking With His Back Against the Wall |
| David Dickens, A Small Unassuming Man Walked up to Me, Shook My Hand and Told Me, “I Really Enjoyed Your Paper” |
| Robert Dingwall, "Erving Needs a Pee. . . " |
| Russell Dynes, I Had the New President, So I Said, “OK, Erving, I Am Sending Over a Reporter" |
| Andy Fontana, Marvin Scott Warned Me That Goffman Did Not Like People Writing About Him, That We Should Only Write About Dead People |
| Renee Fox, Erving Goffman Was a Brilliantly Imaginative Sociologist and a Pathmaking Ethnographer, Who Had a Deep Influence on His Students |
| David Franks, Remembering Greg Stone and Erving Goffman |
| William Gamson, A Stranger Determined to Remain One |
| Carol Gardner, I Don’t Have Words Enough to Describe Goffman’s Generosity |
| Charles Glock, Losing Erv, I Recognized, Would Be a Severe Blow to the Department |
| Jeffrey Goldfarb, Then Maurice Janowitz Came Over and Said to Goffman, “Cut It Out, Erving” |
| Joseph Gusfield, Erving Was a Brillinat Scholar and a Mensch |
| Robert Habenstein, He Was a Heck of a Nice Guy, Kind of Shy, and the Kids Liked Him |
| Gerald Handel, Remembering Erving Goffman |
| Samuel Heilman, As Goffman Was Talking about Remedial Interchanges, He Took a Glass of Water and Spilled it on Rosenberg’s Lap |
| Travis Hirschi, A “Variable” Researcher’s Memories of Erving Goffman |
Ruth Horowitz, Goffman Turned to Me and Said With Some Surprise, "You Like Doing Fieldwork?"
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| Joan Huber, Erving Goffman's Presentation of Self as ASA Pesident |
| John Irwin, Goffman Was by Far the Smartest, Most Interesting, Complex, Though, at Times, Snide or Disparaging Individual I Have Ever Known |
| Rachel Kahn-Hut, To My Surprise Goffman Called Himself a Functionalist, But His Former Students Assured Me That He Was Only Playing With Us |
| Louis Kriesberg, In Writing These Reflections, I Realize I Should Re-read Goffman for New Insights on Contemporary Conflict Resolution Issues |
| Gladys Lang, Erving Got the Keys for His Office and Handed Over Them to Me, Saying, “Use My Office, I Can Work at Home” |
| Kurt Lang, Goffman Converted His Personal Neurosis or Inferiority Complex into a Very Productive and Creative Solution |
| Victor Lidz, I Found Goffman Talented, Original, Rewarding to Read, but Basically Problematic |
Peter Manning, Encounters with Erving Goffman
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| Saul Mendlovitz, Erving Was a Jew Acting Like a Canadian Acting Like a Britisher |
| Calvin Morrill, Turns out Goffman Had Been Observing Students the Whole Time and Used the Notes He Had Taken While Observing Their Behavior |
| Robin Room, Only Someone Who Had Trouble with Sociability Would Be So Keen an Observer |
| Jordan Scher, Erving Disavowed Psychiatric Functioning at St. Elizabeth’s, and I Explored Role-Playing and the Presentation of Self in Schizophrenia |
| Deborah Schiffrin, Erving Said That the Rigor and Formal Nature of Linguistics Could Add Status to the Just-Beginning Study of Social Interaction |
| Vladimir Shlapentokh, The Pen of a Genius Is Mightier Than the Writer Himself |
| Neil Smelser, At the End of That First Year or So I Would Say That I Became as Close to Erving as Anyone Else in the Sociology Department |
| Rodney Stark, Goffman Was Trying to Get Away with the Descriptions of Those Fairly Sane People as He Laid Out His Notion of Mental Illness |
| Jack Whalen, I Read Presentation of Self, and It Was Like Nothing I Ever Read – “Oh, My God, That Is Sociology?” |
| Jacqueline Wiseman, Having a Genius for a Friend |
| Eviatar Zerubavel, Studying with Erving Goffman |
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| Dmitri Shalin, Goffman's Biography and the Interaction Order: A Study in Biocritical Hermeneutics |
* The Erving Goffman Archives (EGA) is the web-based, open-source project that serves as a clearing house for those interested in the dramaturgical tradition in sociology and biographical methods of research. The EGA is located in the Intercyberlibrary of the UNLV Center of Democratic Culture, http://www.unlv.edu/centers/cdclv/archives/interactionism/index.html. Postings on the website are divided into four partially overlapping sections: “Documents and Papers,” “Biographical Materials,” “Critical Assessments,” and “Comments and Dialogues.” For inquiries regarding the EGA projects, please contact Dr. Dmitri Shalin, shalin@unlv.neva.edu. When you cite the materials collected for the EGA, please use the following reference: Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, Dmitri N. Shalin, ed. (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009). |