Rachel Skaggs
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
30
Citations
191
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
10
Publishing since 2017
Rachel Skaggs studies the working lives of artists and creative professionals, including how they build careers, respond to industry change, and navigate labor markets in fields like music, dance, and visual art. Her work often draws on sociology of work and cultural policy to examine issues such as arts entrepreneurship, creative labor inequality, and public perceptions of artists. Much of her research is empirical, using surveys, interviews, and policy analysis to understand how creative economies function and affect the people working within them.
Publication output has been relatively steady over the past five years (averaging about 2-3 papers per year), following a higher initial burst in 2017, with a brief gap in 2024 followed by renewed output in 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Arts Entrepreneurial Work in Changing Contexts
Artivate A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts · 2025
- Connecting creative aging research with context and practice: Commentary on “Creativity, aging, context and culture: Reimagining creativity in everyday life in older adults”
Possibility Studies & Society · 2025
- Horowitz, R. <i>Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career</i> HorowitzR. (2024). Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 306 pp. $32.00 (paper).
Work and Occupations · 2025
- Socially distanced artistic careers: Professional social interactions in early, established, and late career stages during COVID-19
Poetics · 2023
- Workers and Work in the Arts: Definitional Challenges and Approaches to Collective Action Among Arts and Creative Workers
Work and Occupations · 2023
- U.S. public perceptions of artists during the COVID-19 pandemic
International Journal of Cultural Policy · 2023
- A Social Geography of Craft Breweries:
University of Arkansas Press eBooks · 2023
- Trend accommodation in heteronomous fields: How established artists respond to changing conventions
Poetics · 2022
- Out of office
2022
- Wohl, H. (2021). <i>Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged</i>
Work and Occupations · 2022
- How 360° Deals Homogenized Country Music
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022
- Innovative and artistic: Conceptions of creativity among the American public
Poetics · 2021
- American Perspectives on Public Funding for Artists
The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society · 2021
- The Story and the Data: Using Narrative Policy Framework to Analyze Creative Economy Reports
Artivate A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts · 2021
- The Story and the Data
Artivate A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts · 2021
- Work and Occupations×5
- Artivate A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts×4
- Poetics×3
- The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society×3
- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions×1
- Michael Rushton
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Joanna Woronkowicz
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Douglas S. Noonan
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Courtney Hunt
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Lindsay Weinberg
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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