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Patricia Hill Collins, Brandeis University PhD 1984 Preeminent social theorist and scholar on race and gender, recipient of the ASA Distinguished Book Award in 2007 for Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. President of the American Sociology Association 2008-9. |
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Dimitri Rupel, Brandeis University PhD 1984 Doctoral Thesis "Slovene Literature as an Instrument of National Liberation." Prolific author and former professor of sociology at the university of Ljubljana, Slovenia, former Slovenia Ambassador to the US, presently Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia and a key figure in the 2008 Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. |
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Fatima Mernissi, Brandeis University PhD 1974 Author of, most recently of Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Fatima Mernissi is Professor of Sociology at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, a leading authority on women in the Muslim world and a pioneering Islamic feminist. |
Some Alumni/aeBrandeis Sociology PhDs are spread all over the U.S. and the world in universities, think tanks, NGOs, and government positions. Among them are... |
1970s |
| Barrie Thorne, PhD 1971 Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Barrie has written extensively on family and gender. She is the U.S. Editor of Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, a past Chair of the ASA's section on the Sociology of Children and Youth. In 2002 she received the ASA's Jessie Bernard Award. Her recent books include Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement, (ed. with Barbara Laslett), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Donald Light, PhD 1970 An economic sociologist, Donald Light is Professor of Comparative Health Care Systems at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Founding Fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Light has also been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for the Advancement of Science. Among his many publications on medicine and healthcare, he is co-author of Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) Nancy Chodorow, PhD 1975 Nancy is a leading feminist sociologist and psychoanalytical theorist. She was Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and is presently a practicing analyst in Boston. Among her publications, her classic book, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978), was derived from her doctoral dissertation. Rubén Rambaut, PhD 1978 Rubèn is a leading sociologist of contemporary immigration in the United States, is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. His Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation, with Alejandro Portes (Berkeley and New York: University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2001) won the 2002 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and the 2002 Thomas and Znaniecki Award for best book in the immigration field. Judith Stacey, PhD 1979 Stacey is Professor of Sociology, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University. As a leading sociologist of gender and family in the US she has published In the Name of the Family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age ( Boston: Beacon Press, 1996). |
1980s |
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Shulamit Reinharz, PhD 1983 Professor of Sociology and Founding Director, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. Among her publications are Feminist Methods in Social Research (Oxford University Press, 1992) and American Jewish Women and the Creation of the State of Israel, with Mark A. Raider (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England. 2002). Lynn Davidman, PhD 1985 Professor, Judaic Studies, American Civilization and Gender Studies at Brown University. Lynn is a qualitative sociologist who works in the fields of gender studies and the sociology of religion. She has published three books: Tradition in a Rootless World (U. California Press, 1991), which won a National Jewish book Award, Motherloss,(U of Calif Press, 2000), and Feminist Perspectives in Jewish Studies (Yale, 2004), co-edited with Shelly Tenenbaum. Lew Friedman, PhD 1985 Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications University of Wisconsin, Madison. Sociology of Civic Engagement and Mass Communications. Lew has recently published, with Carmen Sirianni, Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001) and Public Journalism: Past and Future. (Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation, 2003). |
1990s-present |
| Johnny Williams, PhD 1993 A sociologist of race and religion in the US, Johnny is Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College. Cameron McDonald, PhD 1998 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Cameron, who focuses on the sociology of work, gender, and social stratification has recently published Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering (University of California Press, 2007). Victoria Pitts, PhD 1999 Associate Professor of Sociology, Queen's College and Graduate Center, CUNY Victoria is the author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2007) and In the Flesh: the Cultural Politics of Body Modification (2003, Palgrave), as well as many articles and book chapters on social and cultural aspects of the body. She has won an Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association. Valerie Leiter, PhD 2001 Associate Professor and Director, Health and Society Program at Simmons College. Valerie's research focuses on children and youth with disabilities, their families, and public programs that provide services to them. She received the Irving K. Zola award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies in 2004 for her work on "Parental Activism, Professional Dominance, and Early Childhood Disability." She is currently a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar, working on a five-year project examining the transition to adulthood among youth with disabilities. Kay Jenkins, PhD 2002 Assistant Professor of Sociology, The College of William and Mary. A sociologist of religion and the family, Kay has published Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ (Rutgers University Press, 2005). She was recently chosen as an Engaged Scholar Fellow with the Congregational Studies |