Marci D. Cottingham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College, USA. She was previously Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and a visiting fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Germany. Her research focuses on the sociology of emotions, social inequalities, and health and healthcare. Her book, Practical Feelings, was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. In it, she traces emotions across work, leisure, social media, and politics, countering old myths to show how emotions are practical resources for tackling individual and collective challenges. Her work has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and news coverage from The New York Times, The Chronicle for Higher Education, and National Public Radio.

Feelings Anew: What Neo-Emotions Reveal about Culture, Crisis, and Change 

Publications (selected) 

2024   

Cottingham, Marci. “Viral Fear or Panic Myth? Emotions in Ebola News and Social Media Responses.” Symbolic Interaction 47(3):389-409. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.681.

Cottingham, Marci D. "Neo-Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda." Emotion Review 16(1): 5 – 15. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739231198636.

2023    

Cottingham, Marci D. and Ariana Rose. “Tweeting Jokes, Tweeting Hope: Humor Practices during the 2014 Ebola Outbreak.” Health Communication 38(9):1954-1963. Student coauthor. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2045059.

2022   

Cottingham, Marci D. Practical Feelings: Emotions as Resources in a Dynamic Social World. Oxford University Press.  

2020   

Cottingham, Marci D. and Rebecca J. Erickson. “Capturing Emotion with Audio Diaries.” Qualitative Research 20(5):549-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794119885037.

2016 

Cottingham, Marci D. “Theorizing Emotional Capital.” Theory and Society 45(5): 451- 470. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-016-9278-7