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Brandeis University
415 South Street
M.S. 071
Waltham, MA 02453-2728

Faculty of the Department of Sociology

2009-2010 Back row (L to R): Judy Hanley, Shula Reinharz, Peter Conrad, Carmen Sirianni, Karen V. Hansen (Chair), and Gordon Fellman Front row (L to R): David Cunningham, Gila Hayim, Wendy Cadge, Chandler Rosenberger. Missing from photo: Laura Miller and Sara Shostak

Wendy Cadge
email: wcadge@brandeis.edu
Sociology of religion, culture, health and medicine, immigration, gender, sexuality, organizations, research methods.

Peter Conrad
email: conrad@brandeis.edu
Medical sociology, deviance, qualitative research methods.

David Cunningham, Director of Graduate Studies
email: dcunning@brandeis.edu
Social movements/collective action, community structure, organizations, quantitative inquiry, youth culture.

Gordon Fellman
email: fellman@brandeis.edu
Peace, conflict, and coexistence studies; empowerment, social class, Marx and Freud, psychoanalytic sociology, masculinities, Israeli-Palestinian confrontation.

Janet Zollinger Giele (Emerita) (Retired from the Brandeis Faculty '04)
email: giele1@brandeis.edu
Women's changing roles, sociology of the life course, social movements.

Karen V. Hansen, Department Chair
email: khansen@brandeis.edu
Gender, feminist theory, sociology of families, historical sociology, networks and communities.

Gila Hayim
email: hayim@brandeis.edu
Social theory, sociology of law, sociology of religion, sociology of culture, existential sociology.

Sharon A. Hewitt
email: shewitt@brandeis.edu
Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Utilitarianism.

Charles Kadushin
email: kadushin@brandeis.edu
Networks, sociology of religion, survey research and the combination of sociological theory and methods.

Marty Wyngaarden Krauss (The Heller School and University Provost)
email: krauss@brandeis.edu
Disability policy, family caregiving, mental retardation, human services.

Laura J. Miller, Undergraduate Advising Head
email: lamiller@brandeis.edu
Sociology of Culture, mass media, consumption and marketing, urban and suburban studies.

Shulamit Reinharz 
email: reinharz@brandeis.edu
Qualitative research methods, feminist research, Jewish women's studies, social psychology, group dynamics.

Chandler Rosenberger
email: crosen@brandeis.edu
Nationalism, Ethnicity, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Political Dissent, Terrorism, Modern European Politics.

Theodore Sasson
email: sassont@brandeis.edu
Political sociology with an emphasis on political discourse, social problems and diaspora studies.

Thomas Shapiro (The Heller School)
email: tshapiro@brandeis.edu
Stratification, race, political sociology.

Sara Shostak
email: sshostak@brandeis.edu
Sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, body and society, sociology and bioethics, environmental health and justice, qualitative research methods.

Carmen Sirianni
email: sirianni@brandeis.edu
Political sociology, community and civic democracy, organizations, public policy for democracy, work.