Christopher T. Conner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri Columbia. He is co-editor of Conspiracy Theories and Extemeism in New Times with Rowman and Littlefield (release date August 2024). He is also co-editor of a special issue of Frontiers in Sociology titled Paranoid Publics, with Matthew Hannah (release date July 2024). He is also working on an edited volume titled The Spectacle of Online Life with Danielle Hidalgo (release date March 2024). He is also working on a book monograph on QAnon and what we can do to stop the increasing political polarization that seems to have infected our daily lives (due out in August 2025). You can find his work in The Sociological Quarterly, Sexualities, Teaching Sociology, Deviant Behavior, and Symbolic Interaction.
Experience
2023–present
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia
2022–2023
Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
2022–2022
Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA
2019–2022
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
2018–2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, Knox College
Education
2015
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Sociology - PhD
2010
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Sociology - MA
2008
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Sociology - BA
Publications
2024
Conspiracy Theories and Extremism in New Times, Rowman and Littlefield
2023
Electronic dance music: From deviant subculture to culture industry, Rowman and Littlefield
2023
QAnon, authoritarianism, and conspiracy within American alternative spiritual spaces , Frontiers in Sociology
2022
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise, Deviant Behavior
2022
How Sexual Racism and Other Discriminatory Behaviors are Rationalized in Online Dating Apps, Deviant Behavior
2021
Are You a Werewolf? Teaching Symbolic Interaction Theory through Game Play , Teaching Sociology
2021
Queer Expectations: An Empirical Critique of Rural LGBT+ Narratives, Sexualities
2021
The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle, Lexington Books
2021
The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement, Critical Sociology
2020
Electronic Dance Music: From Spectacular Subculture to Culture Industry , Young Volume: 28 issue: 5, page(s): 445-464
2019
The gay gayze: Expressions of inequality on Grindr , The Sociological Quarterly 60 (3), 397-419
2019
Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists, Lexington Books
Grants and Contracts
2022
QAnon Interview Study
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Midwest Sociological Society
Professional Memberships
Symbolic Interaction
American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Midwest Sociological Society
Honours
Patricia Hill Collins Intersectionality Award (Honorable Mention); Kathy Charmez Early In Career Award 2023