Thomas DeGloma is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Hunter College. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He specializes in the areas of culture, cognition, memory, symbolic interaction, and sociological theory. His research interests also include the sociology of time, knowledge, autobiography, identity, and trauma. Professor DeGloma’s latest book, Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities (University of Chicago Press) explores the phenomenon of anonymity and the impact of anonymous actors in various social situations and interactions. For this book, he won the Theory Prize (for outstanding contribution to sociological theory) from the American Sociological Association and the Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. His first book, Seeing the Light: The Social Logic of Personal Discovery (University of Chicago Press), explores the stories people tell about life-changing discoveries of “truth” and illuminates the ways that individuals and communities use autobiographical stories to weigh in on salient moral and political controversies. DeGloma also won the Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction for this book. Professor DeGloma has also published articles in Social Psychology Quarterly, the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Sociological Forum, and Symbolic Interaction along with several chapters in various edited volumes. In addition, DeGloma is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism (with Wayne H. Brekhus and William Ryan Force), as well as Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past (with Janet Jacobs, published by Bristol University Press), and a twelve volume book series titled Interpretive Lenses in Sociology (with Julie B. Wiest, published by Bristol University Press). He has served as President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (2017-2018) and Secretary of the Eastern Sociological Society (2016-2019).
