Lyn Spillman’s research investigates long-term cultural processes in the economy and polity. She explored economic culture in Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations (University of Chicago Press, 2012), awarded the Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology and the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology. Earlier research, in Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1997) compares the long-term development of national identities in two similar settler societies. She has pursued her interest in developing cultural sociology in What is Cultural Sociology? (Polity, 2020), as editor of Cultural Sociology (Blackwell, 2002) and in articles, chapters, and special issues on cultural theory and methodology, economic culture, nationalism, and collective memory. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and she is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award. and as Visiting Fellow at the CCS, Yale and at the MaxPo Center for Instability in Market Societies, Sciences Po. Her current interests focus on public economic culture and economic nationalism.
