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BOOK
Wohl, Hannah. 2021. Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Academic Coverage: American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Work and Occupations, Symbolic Interaction, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, Eastern Sociological Association Author Meets Critics, and Social Science History Association Author Meets Critics
Public Coverage: The New York Times, Art Collector, Two Coats of Paint, Consume This!, New Books Network, The Sociology Show, The Social Breakdown, The Conversation Art Podcast, The Annex, The Queens Podcast Lab, Cultural Studies Podcast, Deeper Social Studies, and the Berkshire Jewish Voice
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Hanley, Margot, and Hannah Wohl*. 2025. “Producing Shifting Personhood: How Designers Anthropomorphize Artificial Intelligence.” Big Data and Society. (Accepted)
Wohl, Hannah, and Max Besbris. 2024. “Relational Brokerage: Interaction and Valuation in Two Markets.” Qualitative Sociology 47: 1-21.
Winner of the 2025 Consumers and Consumption Section Best Scholarly Publication Award
Wohl, Hannah. 2022. “Innovation and Creativity in Creative Industries.” Sociology Compass. DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12956.
Wohl, Hannah. 2021. “Mapping Multivocality: How Critics Communicate Complex Meaning Through Metaphor.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. DOI: 10.1057/s41290-021-00143-0.
Gary Alan Fine, Hannah Wohl, and Simone Ispa-Landa. 2020. “Reading Routines: Strategies of Recall in Graduate Education.” Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. DOI 10.1108/SGPE-12-2019-0086.
Buchholz, Larissa, Gary Alan Fine, and Hannah Wohl*. 2020. “Art Markets in Crisis: How Personal Bonds and Market Subcultures Mediate the Effects of COVID‑19.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00119-6.
Wohl, Hannah. 2020. “Performing Aesthetic Confidence: How Contemporary Art Collectors Maintain Status.” Socio-Economic Review 18(1): 215-233.
Wohl, Hannah. 2019. “Creative Visions: Presenting Aesthetic Trajectories in Artistic Careers.” Poetics. DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2019.03.003.
Winner of the 2017 ASA Consumers and Consumption Section Best Student Paper Award
Fine, Gary Alan, and Hannah Wohl. 2018. “Reading and Reputation: Sense, Sensibility, and Status in Graduate Education.” Qualitative Research 18(5): 554–564.
Wohl, Hannah, and Gary Alan Fine. 2017. “The Active Skim: Efficient Reading as a Moral Challenge in Post-Graduate Education.” Teaching Sociology 45(3):220-227.
Wohl, Hannah. 2017. “Somatic Security: Negotiating Appropriateness in Sexualized Interactions.” Qualitative Sociology 40(2):237-257.
Winner of the 2014 Herbert Blumer Graduate Student Paper Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Wohl, Hannah, and Gary Alan Fine. 2017. “Reading Rites: Teaching Textwork in Graduate Education.” The American Sociologist 48(2):215-232.
Mosser, Gianna, Hannah Wohl, and Gary Alan Fine. 2016. “Alone in Publand: Leaving Academics to Themselves.” The American Sociologist 47(2):238-252.
Wohl, Hannah. 2015. “Community Sense: The Cohesive Power of Aesthetic Judgment.” Sociological Theory 33(4):299-326.
Winner of the 2016 ASA Sociology of Culture Section’s Peterson Award for Best Student Paper
Winner of the 2016 ASA Sociological Theory Section’s Shils-Coleman Award for Best Student Paper
Winner of the 2016 Winch Award for Best Student Paper in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University
Griswold, Wendy, and Hannah Wohl*. 2015. “Evangelists of Culture: One Book Programs and the Agents who Define Literature, Shape Tastes, and Reproduce Regionalism.” Poetics 50:96-109.
Reprinted in Reading Practices, Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, vol. 31, edited by W. Fluck, G. Leypoldt & P. Löffler (2015). Tubingen, Germany: Narr Francke Attempto.
* Denotes equal authorship
OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Wohl, Hannah. 2022. Review of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy, by Fiona Greenland. American Journal of Sociology (in press).
Wohl, Hannah. 2022. Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries, by Michael Siciliano. Contemporary Sociology (in press).
Wohl, Hannah. 2021. Review of Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times, by Phillipa K. Chong. American Journal of Sociology 126(4):975-977.
Wohl, Hannah. 2019. Review of The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers, by Alison Gerber. Contemporary Sociology 48(1):62-64.
Wohl, Hannah. 2017. Review of Artistic Practices: Social Interactions and Cultural Dynamics, by Tasos Zembylas (ed.). The European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 4(1):126-130.
Wohl, Hannah. 2015. “Artist Communities.” Pp. 133-135 in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society, edited by F. F. Wherry and J. B. Schor. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Wohl, Hannah, and Gary Alan Fine. 2015. “The Arts of Together.” Pp. 248-267 in Order on the Edge of Chaos: Social Psychology and the Problem of Social Order, edited by E. Lawler, S. Thye, and J. Yoon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
PUBLIC WRITING
Wohl, Hannah. 2025. “The Market’s Judgment on OnlyFans Has Nothing to Do with Money.” Barron’s, September 20.
Cameron, Lindsey, Julia Ticona, and Hannah Wohl. 2025. “The Hidden Dangers of Eliminating Taxes on Tips.” July 24.
Wohl, Hannah. 2025. “Americans have been Dangerously Misled about Porn Age-Verification Laws.” The Hill. June 24.
Wohl, Hannah. 2025. “Deepfake Porn is a Labor Issue.” Fast Company. April 9.
Wohl, Hannah, and Lindsey Cameron. 2025. “Unlikely Bedfellows: How Platform Companies Shortchange Porn Performers and Ride-Hailing Drivers Alike.” The Conversation. January 7.
Wohl, Hannah. 2023. “How Curators Make Prestige.” Art Collector.
Wohl, Hannah. 2022. “On Liking it Before it was Cool.” Art Collector.
Wohl, Hannah. 2022. “What is Creativity?” Art Collector.
Wohl, Hannah. 2022. “Why Originality Matters.” Art Collector.
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