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ELI REVELLE YANO WILSON

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor (current). Department of Sociology & Criminology, University of New Mexico

Secondary Appointment: Organizations, Information & Learning Sciences, University of New Mexico.

Visiting Research Scholar (2025-2026). Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. UCLA.

EDUCATION

2017   PhD Sociology, UCLA

Published Research - Books

Wilson, Eli R. 2024. Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer. (University of California Press).

Wilson, Eli R. and Asa B. Stone.2022. Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us. Lexington Press (Rowman & Littlefield).

Wilson, Eli R. 2021. Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers. New York: New York University Press.

Published Research - Journal Articles (Selection)

Schoenbachler, Adam and Eli R. Wilson. 2026. “Balancing Acts: Composite Careers in Nashville’s Music and Service Industries.” Work and Occupations.

Wilson, Eli R. and Ellen T. Meiser. 2026. “‘What's Authentic to Me, Doesn't Mean It's Authentic to You’: Relational Authenticity Work in the American Culinary Field.” Cultural Sociology.

Wilson, Eli R. “Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry.” Social Problems.

Meiser, Ellen T., and Eli R. Wilson. 2023. “Avoiding, Resisting, Enduring: Responses to Workplace Violence in Professional Kitchens.” Work, Employment and Society: 1-22.

Wilson, Eli R. 2022. "Privileging Passion: How the Cultural Logic of Work Perpetuates Social Inequality in the Craft Beer Industry." Socius.

Wilson Eli R. 2022. “'It Could Never Be About Just Beer': Race, Gender, and Marked Professional Identity in Craft Beer.” Journal of Professions and Organization.

Wilson, Eli R. and David Schieber. 2022. “Sticking to It or Opting for Alternatives: Managing Contested Work Identities in Nonstandard Work.” Qualitative Sociology.