Forthcoming

Cadge, Wendy, Jennifer Girouard, and Laura Olson. Ambiguity in Clergy's Approaches to Homosexuality: Opinions, Actions and (Un)certainties with Jennifer Girouard and Laura Olson. Sexualities.

Cadge, Wendy and Brian Fair. Religion, Spirituality, Health and Medicine: Sociological Intersections. In Handbook of Medical Sociology. Chloe Byrd, Allan Freemon, Stefan Timmermans, and Peter Conrad Eds. Vanderbilt University Press.

Conrad, Peter and Cheryl Stults. Forthcoming. "The Internet and the Experience of Illness."  In Handbook of Medical Sociology. Chloe Byrd, Allan Freemon, Stefan Timmermans, and Peter Conrad Eds. Vanderbilt University Press.

Cunningham, David, Colleen Nugent and Caitlin Slodden. Forthcoming. "The Durability of Collective Memory: Reconciling the 'Greensboro Massacre.'" Social Forces.

Fair, Brian. Forthcoming. Morgellons: Contested Illness, Diagnostic Compromise, and Medicalisation. Sociology of Health and Illness 32(4).

Sirianni, Carmen and Diana Schor. Forthcoming. City Government as Enabler of Youth Civic Engagement: Policy Designs and Implications. In Policies for Youth Civic Engagement, James Youniss & Peter Levine, eds.

Thomas, Hannah. Forthcoming. The Assets Framework: moving towards transformative transactions? A Case Study of Coastal Enterprises, Inc. In eds. Buss, T. and Fabiani, D. Community Development in the 21st Century.

Shostak, Sara, Jennifer Girouard, David Cunningham and Wendy Cadge. Teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Research Methods: A Multi-Pronged Departmental Initiative. Teaching Sociology.

2009

Slodden, Caitlin. 2009. Book Review of Robert Klitzman's When Doctors Become Patients. In Sociology of Health and Illness.

Slodden, Caitlin. 2009. Cryonics and Body Farms.The Encyclopedia of Death and Human Experience. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc.

2008

Abutbul Selinger, Guy., Grinberg L., & Haller P., Eds. 2008. Oriental Voices: Towards a New Oriental  Discourse on Society and Culture in Israel. Massada: Tel Aviv.

Betancourt, J.B., Green, A.R., King, R. R., Tan-McGrory, A., Cervantes, M. Renfrew, Megan. 2008. Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: A Guide for Hospital Leaders. Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute for Health Policy, Disparities Solutions Center.

Bishop, C., Weinberg, D.B., Gittel, J., Leutz, W., Dossa, A., Pfefferle, S., Zincavage, Rebekah M.. 2008. Nursing assistant's job commitment: effect of nursing home organizational factors and impact on resident well- being. The Gerontologist. 48(1).

Conrad, Peter and Cheryl Stults. 2008. "Contestation and Medicalization." Contesting Illness. Ed. Pamela Moss and Kathy Teghtsoonian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Fox, Nicky. 2008. 'Their History is Part of Me:' Third Generation American Jews and Intergenerational Transmission of Memory, Trauma and History. In Yalkut Moreseh Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism.

Lutfey, K.E., Campbell, S.M., Megan Renfrew, L.D. Marceau, M. Roland, J.B. McKinlay. How are patient characteristics relevant for physicians' clinical decision making in diabetes? An analysis of qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment. Social Science and Medicine 2008; 67(9):1391-1399.

Neff, Dwight R., Rebekah M. Zincavage. 2008. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability and Prescription Drug Abuse. In S. Moskowitz Ed. Encyclopedia of Global Health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Shapiro, Tom and Hannah Thomas. 2008. "Twenty-First Century Ownership: Individual and Community Stakes." Community Investments Magazine, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Stults, Cheryl. 2008. Medicalization. In Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Sage Publications.

Sun, Ken. 2008. Masculinity and Work Practices of Photojournalists in Taiwan. Journal of Communication Research. 13: 75-115 (in Chinese).

Zincavage, Rebekah M., Dwight R. Neff. 2008. Medicaid and Medicare. In S. Moskowitz Ed. Encyclopedia of Global Health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Waggoner, Miranda. 2008. Review of Sanctioning Pregnancy by Harriet Gross and Helen Pattison. London: Routledge. Journal of Health Psychology. 13:441.

2007

Cunningham, David and Benjamin T. Phillips. 2007. "Contexts for Mobilization: Spatial Settings and Klan Presence in North Carolina, 1964-1966." American Journal of Sociology 113. 3: 781-814.

Dodson, L. and Rebekah M. Zincavage. 2007. "'It's like a family:' Caring labor, exploitation and race in the long-term care industry." Gender and Society 21(6).

Musick, Marc A. and Miranda Waggoner. 2007. Self-Initiated Volunteering and Mental Health. In Stephen G. Post Ed. Altruism and Health: Perspectives from Empirical Research. Oxford University Press.

Schor, Diana. 2007. Broadening the Horizons: Lifelong Education in Europe. A Resource Dependency Theory and Institutional Theory Approach. Brandeis Graduate Student Journal.

Sun, Ken. 2007. Internet Addiction: Emergent Medicalization of a Behavioral Problem.Brandeis Graduate Journal.

Sun, Ken. 2007. Discourse, Power and Maintenance of a Photojournalist's Work in Taiwan. Journal of Mass Communication Research. 91: 125-169 (in Chinese).

2006

Neff, D.R. and Rebekah M. Zincavage. 2006. Beveridge Scheme and Speenhamland. In M. Odekon. Ed. Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Reinharz, Shulamit and Rachel Kulick. 2006. "Feminist Content Analysis." Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Ed. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Zaidi, Yasmin and F. Ihsan. 2006. The Interplay of CEDAW, National Law and Customary Practices in Pakistan In S. A. Sardar Ed. Conceptualizing Islamic Law, CEDAW and Women's Human Rights in Plural Legal Settings:  A Comparative Analysis of Applications of CEDAW in Bangladesh, India & Pakistan. New Delhi,: Unifem, S. Asia Regional Office.

Zincavage R. Megan. & Neff DR. 2006. Louis D. Brandeis and Medicare. In M. Odekon Ed.Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

2005

Kulick, Rachel. 2005. "TeenVoices Magazine: Reappropriating Girl Talk" Cortex:  Brandeis Graduate Journal.

Timmermans, Stefan and Emily S. Kolker. 2005. Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Reconfiguration of Medical Knowledge. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45, Supplement 1:177-193.

Timmermans, Stefan and Emily S. Kolker. 2005. Medicine, Values, and Ethics. In Sal Restivo, ed., Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

2009

Better, Alison. Bodies and Ethnographies: Rethinking the Researcher's Role in Sexualities Studies. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Cadge, Wendy and Clare Hammonds. Professional Emotional Management Off the Job: The Case of Intensive Care Nurses. American Sociological Association.

Duffy, Mignon and Clare Hammonds. Did Serfdom Save the Women's Movement?: A Macrosociological Analysis of Domestic Service at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, Carework Conference.

Fox, Nicky. The Rhetoric of Tribalism in The New York Times as the Representative Cause of the Rwandan Genocide. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Fox, Nicky. Post-Genocide Politics: How Memory and Identity are Shaped in the Third Generation. First International Graduate Students' Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies hosted by The Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.

Fox, Nicky. For the Sake of a Greater Serbia: The Use of Nationalist Rhetoric in Genocide and Genocidal Rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Fox, Nicky. 'Their History is Part of me:' Post-Genocide Identity Politics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma to Third Generation Holocaust Survivors Genocide: The Future of Prevention hosted by the Sheffield Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence, University of Sheffield International Network of Genocide Scholars (INOGS), Sheffield, UK.

Girouard, Jennifer. Zoning and Land-Use Conflicts. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Green, A.R., Megan Renfrew,, A. Horta, et al. Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes: Results from an Innovative and Culturally Competent Quality Improvement Program. Poster Presentation at Society for General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting.

Hansen, Karen and Clare Hammonds. Erasing the Political Edge?: Gender, Race-Ethnicity, Anti-capitalism, and the Nonpartisan League, 1900-1925, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Lareau, Annette and Vanessa Munoz. [You] stabbed her in the back and twisted the knife: Structural conflicts between the principal and the PTA at a suburban public elementary school. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting.

Renfrew, Megan, M.J. Cohen, R. Pasinski, et al. Barriers to Care for Cambodian Patients with Diabetes: Results from a Qualitative Study. Poster Presentation at Society for General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting.

Shostak, Sara, Jennifer Girouard, David Cunningham and Wendy Cadge. Teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Research Methods: A Multi-Pronged Departmental Initiative. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Slodden, Caitlin. Life Transition Specialists: Funeral Directors and Household Movers. Eastern Sociological Society.

Smith, Jill. Eco-kosher Consumer American Sociological Association.

Smith, Jill. Eco-kosher Consumer Eastern Sociological Society.

Sun, Ken. Overseas Kinships and Parenting within Transnational Families: Comparing Taiwanese American Families with Taiwanese Parachute Kids' Families.

Sun, Ken. Negotiating the Ethics of Elder Care in the Transnational Field: A Case of Immigrants in the U.S. and their Parents in Taiwan. Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Zaidi, Yasmin. Gender & Globalization: Perspectives of Women Working in Call Centers in Pakistan. Eastern Sociological Society.

Zarhin, Dana. "These Russian Girls, For 20 Shekels, They Do Everything": Identity Formation through Boundary Work among Jewish-Israeli Street Prostitutes. Eastern Sociological Society.

Zarhin, Dana. Trafficking in Women in Israel as a Human Rights Violation: The Power of Outside Claims-makers. Association for Israeli Studies.

2008

Fair, Brian. Morgellons Syndrome: From Delusion to Disease." Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Hammonds, Clare. Unionizing Family Child-Care Providers: An Evaluation of the Legal Strategies, United Association of Labor Educators Conference.

Kulick, Rachel. Youth Channel All-City: Building a Municipal Infrastructure for Media Education, Production, and Distribution. Social Science Research Council Conference.

Lutfey K.E., S.M. Campbell, Megan Renfrew, L.D. Marceau, M. Roland, J.B. McKinlay. How are patient characteristics relevant for clinical decisions in diabetes?: Results from a cross-national experiment. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Mackie, Tom. The Health Maintenance Organization: From Solution to Social Problem." Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Munoz, Vanessa. Time Management & Intra-Occupational Boundary-Work Between Emergency Room Registered Nurses. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Renfrew, Megan. (co-author, non-presenter) "How are Patient Characteristics relevant for Clinical Decisions in Diabetes?: Results from a Cross-National Experiment." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Slodden, Caitlin. Language and Undocumented Immigration as a Social Problem: Pre- and Post-9/11. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Sun, Ken. Working like a Man: Body, Masculinity and a Photojournalist," American Sociological Annual Meeting.

Sun, Ken. "Negotiating the Meaning of 'Family' in the Transnational Field: A Case of Taiwanese Immigrants and Their Families," Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Waggoner, Miranda. "Emergence of a Gendered Profession: The Work of Lactation Consultants and New Expert Knowledge," American Sociological Annual Meeting.

Zaidi, Yasmin. Gender & Globalization: Managing Change- Women Working in Call Centers in Pakistan. Conference on Ethnographies of Gender & Globalization, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Zarhin, Dana. 2008. Trafficking in Women as a Social Problem in Israel: The Power of Outside Claims-Makers and Demand-Makers. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Zarhin, Dana. 2008. The Global Exposure of Trafficking in Women in Israel: The Power of 'Outside' Claims and Demand Makers," Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting

Zincavage, Rebekah M.. "The Contested Meanings and Politics of Marriage: Legalizing Same Sex Marriage in Massachusetts" Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting

2007

Better, Alison.. "Creating New Methodologies for Sexuality Research." University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training Inagural Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.

Bishop C., W. Leutz and Rebekah M. Zincavage. Engaging Workers in Improving Nursing Home Care: A Case Study at The Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting.

Bishop C., W. Leutz and Rebekah M. Zincavage. A Labor-Management Partnership for Transition to Person-Centered Care: A Case Study. Carework Conference.

Kulick, Rachel. From Whose Vantage Point? Transnational Feminist Visual Methods. Eastern Sociology Society.

Sun, Ken. Negotiating the Sexual Boundaries in Workplaces: the Case Study of Photojournalists' Work in Taiwan. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.

Zincavage, Rebekah M. and Dwight R. Neff. Making Work Pay: The Consequences of Moving Social Assistance and Poverty Relief into the Tax Code, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

2006

Better, Alison. Feminist Methods Without Boundaries. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Better, Alison. Empowering Orgasmic Women to Change the World: An Examination of Women-Owned Sex Shops and Their Relation to the Feminist Movement. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting.

Bishop, C., H. Gittell, D.B. Weinberg and Rebekah M. Zincavage. How High Performance Work Systems Work: Building Social Capital among Frontline Workers in Nursing Homes. Symposium on Social Capital and Outcomes, Labor and Employment Relations Association at the Annual Meeting.

Kulick, Rachel. Confronting Gendered Injustices Aesthetically: The Lure or Trap of Free Trade Zones. TRANS: A Visual Culture Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Lovejoy, Meg. "Bodily Subjectivity: Mapping A New Perspective on Women's Body Experience." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Weinberg, D.B. and Rebekah M. Zincavage. Nurses as Power Brokers: Changing Roles and Culture Change in Nursing Homes Academy of Health.

Weinberg, D.B. and Rebekah M. Zincavage., A. Dossa and S. Pfefferle. Power in the Middle: Middle Managers' Contributions to High Involvement Work Practices Eastern Sociological Society.

Zarhin, Dana. 2006. If These Girls Have It Good, They Will Not Want to Leave - Trafficking in Women in Israel in the Age of Globalization. Israeli Sociological Society.

Zincavage, Rebekah M.. Of Hearts and Markets at Society for the Study of Social Problems.

2005

Better, Alison. Best of Two Worlds: An Exploration of Identity Issues Among Gay Fathers. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

Dodson, L. and Rebekah M. Zincavage. Fictive Kinship in Long Term Care Facilities National Caring Labor Conference.

Gittell, J.H., C. Bishop, A. Dossa, W. Leutz, D.B. Weinberg and Rebekah M. Zincavage. The Role of Relationships in Nursing Homes and How Organizational Practices Support or Undermine Them, American Association of Health and Services for the Aging.

Renfrew, Megan. True Love Waits: The Christian Right and Adolescent Sexuality, Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society.

Sun, Ken. Bring the Body Back in: the Gendering of Photojournalits' Practice and Identities. Chinese Communication Society.

Zincavage, Rebekah M.. Fictive Kinship Ties. American Sociological Association.

 

Fellowships and Awards

2009

Better, Alison. Brandeis University Prize Instructorship.

Hammonds, Clare. Brandeis University Karpf & Hahn Peace Endowment Peace Award.

Sun, Ken. Brandeis Grant for Graduate Research in Women's and Gender Studies.

Sun, Ken. Brandeis Sachar Award, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Sun, Ken. Brandeis Mellon Dissertation Research Grant.

Sun, Ken. Brandeis Berkowitz Award.

2008

Better, Alison. Brandeis Pluralism Alliance Grant (with Thomas Arnott '11).

Sun, Ken. Brandeis Sachar Research Grant.

Sun, Ken. Brandeis Sachar Award for Dissertation Research.

Sun, Ken. Global Brandeis Fund Grant.

Waggoner, Miranda. Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Writing Prize.

Zaidi, Yasmin. Mellon-Sachar Dissertation Research Grant.

Zincavage, Rebekah. Wyatt Jones Fellowship.

2007

Thomas, Hannah. Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Kulick, Rachel. Spencer Foundation Fellowship.

Kulick, Rachel. Media and Communication Fellowship, Social Science Research Council.

Lovejoy, Meg. Brandeis University Prize Instructorship.

2005

Kulick, Rachel. Brandeis University Carnegie Fellowship.

Kolker, Emily. New Writer's Prize, Sociology of Health and Illness.

Lovejoy, Meg. Brandeis Dissertation Year Fellowship

Sun, Ken. Distinguished Graduate Paper Award, Chinese Communication Society.

Zaidi, Yasmin. Fulbright Fellowship.

Zarhin, Dana. Chutick Foundation, Research Grant.

Zarhin, Dana. The Institute for Social Research, Research Grant.