Ryan T. Steel - Academic Profile
Scholarly Work
Publications:
Steel, Ryan T. (2022). "Medicalizing the Menace? The Symbiotic Convergence of Medicine and Law Enforcement in the Medicalization of Marijuana in Minnesota." Sociology of Health & Illness. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13513.
Accepted for publication on 5/31/22.
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Steel, Ryan T. Forthcoming. “Painful Subjects, Desiring Relief: Experiencing and Governing Pain in a Medical Cannabis Program.” Journal of Health & Social Behavior.
Accepted for publication 1/14/24.
Accepted to present at 2022 ASA Annual Meeting.
Presented at the 2020 Law & Society Association annual conference.
Accepted to present at the 2020 Pacific Sociological Association conference.
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Steel, Ryan T. Under Review. “Precarious Participation: A New Materialist Mapping of a Movement Against the Privatization of Public Housing.” City & Community.
Submitted for review on 6/30/23.
Presented at 2015 ASA Annual Meeting.
Accepted to present at 2016 Social Science History Association’s annual meeting.
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Article Manuscripts In Preparation & In Progress:
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Steel, Ryan T. Preparing for Submission. “The Social-Spatial Coordinates of Stigma: A New Materialist Reading of Goffman’s Classic Concept.”
Plan to submit to Sociological Theory.
Presented at ASA 2022 Annual Meeting.
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Steel, Ryan T. Preparing for Submission. “Triangulated Physician Authority and the Medical Rigmarole.”
Plan to submit to Social Science & Medicine.
Accepted to present at ASA 2022 Annual Meeting.
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Steel, Ryan T. In Progress. “‘Proper Medicine’ or ‘Dangerous Drug’: Institutional Processes for Making Marijuana Medical.”
Plan to submit to Science & Technology Studies.
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Steel, Ryan T. In Progress. “The Embodied Pleasure and Agentic Uses of Medical Cannabis”
Plan to submit to International Journal of Drug Policy.
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Steel, Ryan T. In Progress. “Triangulated Drug, Set, and Setting: A New Materialist Model of Drug Effects.”
Plan to submit to International Journal of Drug Policy.
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Steel, Ryan T. In Progress. “Whose Health Matters? An In-Class Simulation for Teaching about Ethical Controversies and Social Movements.”
Plan to submit to Teaching Sociology.
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Laskorunsky, J., and Ryan T. Steel. In Progress. “How Agency Budget Shapes Probation Officer Attitudes and Practices on Fines and Fees.”
Accepted to present at 2021 American Society of Criminology annual meeting.
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OTHER PRESENTED PAPERS
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Steel, R. “The Politics of Marijuana in Minnesota: Learning Historical Lessons and Imagining Alternatives to the War on Drugs.” Invited Talk (4/7/23): Minnesota State University, Mankato.
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Steel R. “A Conversation on Cannabis in Minnesota.” Interview for Minnesota Daily’s “In the Know” Podcast, 8/4/23.
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Steel, R. “Governing Criminality and Health: Discourses and Aesthetics of a Marijuana Biopolitical Economy.”
Presented at 2017 annual Sociological Research Institute conference.
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Stewart, E., Steel, R. “Symbolic Boundaries and Public Opinion on the Affordable Care Act.”
Presented at 2015 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Conference.
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Stewart, E., Steel, R., Taborda, C., Edgell, P. “Comparing Public and Private Support for Same-Sex Marriage in the United States.”
Presented at 2016 Midwest Sociological Society annual conference
Presented at 2016 Eastern Sociological Society annual conference
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Gerteis, J., Edgell, P., Steel, R. “Context and Community: Volunteering in Religious and Secular Situations.”
Presented at 2015 ASA Annual Meeting
Present at 2015 Henry Institute Symposium on Religion and Public Life.
APPLIED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
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June 2014 “Community Engagement in Transit-Related Planning in the Twin Cities” [Final Report & Summary], Wilder Research (St. Paul, MN)
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Mar. 2014 “Corridors of Opportunity Final Evaluation Report” [Report & Summary], Wilder Research (St. Paul, MN)
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Mar. 2014 “Findings from the United Way of the Midlands’ Community Needs Assessment for Douglas, Sarpy, and Pottawattamie Counties” [Final Report, Regional Profile Report, & Summary], Wilder Research (St. Paul, MN)
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Nov. 2013 “Community Engagement in the Twin Cities – 2013 Interim Report on Strategies, Impact, and Potential Sustainability” [Report & Summary], Wilder Research (St. Paul, MN)
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Dec. 2012 “Community Needs Assessment: Ramsey and Washington counties. Summary of key findings from a survey of low-income residents and Community Action participants,” Wilder Research (St. Paul, MN)
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RESEARCH FUNDING, APPOINTMENTS, & AWARDS
2022 Research Assistant for Michelle Phelps’ Policing the Progressive City book.
2021 Research Assistant, Robina Institute of Law and Justice (U of M Law School)
CARES Summer Graduate Writing Grant (U of M College of Liberal Arts)
2020 Outstanding Graduate Instructor of the Year Award Winner
Research Assistant, Robina Institute of Law and Justice (U of M Law School)
Consortium on Law and Values in Health & Environment Research Grant Awardee (University of Minnesota)
Research Assistant, Writing Enriched Curriculum (Dept. of Sociology)
Teaching Assistant of the Year, Nominee (Social Statistics)
2019 Anna Welsch Bright Research Grant Awardee
Graduate Instructor of the Year, Nominee (Sociological Research Methods)
Teaching Assistant of the Year, Nominee (Social Statistics)
2018 Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program Grant Awardee
2017 Research Assistant, Ban-the-Box Policy Research (Phil Goodman, U of Toronto)
2016 Kris Nelson Community-Based Research Program Grant Awardee
Research Assistant, American Mosaic Project
2015-16 Recipient of the Edelstein American Mosaic Project Fellowship
2014 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Awardee
2012 Winner of “Friends of Bethel Library” Undergraduate Research Contest