Our Community
Our community includes 11 faculty members, 4 affiliated faculty members,36 graduate students and about 120 undergraduate majors.
"Professor Cadge has really helped me to develop my skills as a writer and thinker." --A former student of Sociology Professor Wendy Cadge, recipient of the 2008 Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching.
"Professor Cunningham is an outstanding mentor; one of the smartest, most modest people that I have ever met; and a great teacher. He is always willing to get involved in the Brandeis community outside of the classroom, and he has been an inspiration to me." --A former student of Sociology Professor David Cunningham, recipient of the 2007 Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.
2007--Professor Gordon Fellman was the recipient of the Student Union Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence Contributing to Bettering the Brandeis Community.
Faculty
Back row (L to R):Shula Reinharz, Peter Conrad, Karen V. Hansen (chair), Carmen sirianni, David Cunningham, chandler rosenberger
Front row (L to R): laura miller, sara shostak, Gordie fellman, Ana Villalobos, wendy cadge, judy hanley
Absent from photo: Gila Hayim, Cheryl Hansen
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Wendy Cadge, Director of Graduate Studies Expertise: Sociology of religion, culture, health and medicine, immigration, gender, sexuality, organizations, research methods. |
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Peter Conrad conrad@brandeis.edu Expertise: Medical sociology, deviance, qualitative research methods. |
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David Cunningham, Undergraduate Advising Head dcunning@brandeis.edu Expertise: Social movements/collective action, community structure, organizations, quantitative inquiry, youth culture. |
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Gordon Fellman fellman@brandeis.edu Expertise: Peace, conflict, and coexistence studies; empowerment, social class, Marx and Freud, psychoanalytic sociology, masculinities, Israeli-Palestinian confrontation. |
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Karen V. Hansen, Department Chair khansen@brandeis.edu Expertise: Gender, feminist theory, sociology of families, historical sociology, networks and communities. |
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Gila Hayim hayim@brandeis.edu Expertise: Social theory, sociology of law, sociology of religion, sociology of culture, existential sociology. |
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Charles Kadushin, Visiting Research Professor of Sociology kadushin@brandeis.edu Expertise: Networks, sociology of religion, survey research and the combination of sociological theory and methods. |
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Marty Wyngaarden Krauss (The Heller School and University Provost) krauss@brandeis.edu Expertise: Disability policy, family caregiving, mental retardation, human services. |
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Laura J. Miller lamiller@brandeis.edu Expertise: Sociology of culture, mass media, consumption and marketing, urban and suburban studies. |
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Shulamit Reinharz reinharz@brandeis.edu Expertise: Qualitative research methods, feminist research, Jewish women's studies, social psychology, group dynamics. |
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Chandler Rosenberger crosen@brandeis.edu Expertise: Nationalism, ethnicity, sociology of culture, sociology of religion, political dissent, terrorism, modern European politics. |
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Theodore Sasson, Visiting Research Professor of Sociology sassont@brandeis.edu Expertise: Political sociology with an emphasis on political discourse, social problems and diaspora studies. |
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Thomas Shapiro (The Heller School) tshapiro@brandeis.edu Expertise: Stratification, race, political sociology. |
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Sara Shostak sshostak@brandeis.edu Expertise: Sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, body and society, sociology and bioethics, environmental health and justice, qualitative research methods. |
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Carmen Sirianni sirianni@brandeis.edu Expertise: Political sociology, community and civic democracy, organizations, public policy for democracy, work. |
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Ana Villalobos anavilla@brandeis.edu Expertise: Sociology of the family. Sociology of gender. Sociology of education. Qualitative research methods. |
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Janet Zollinger Giele (Retired in 2004) giele1@brandeis.edu Expertise: Women's changing roles, sociology of the life course, social movements. |
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George Ross (Retired in 2009) gross@brandeis.edu Expertise: European integration, European politics and social policy, comparative industrial relations, sociology of advanced capitalist societies researching and analyzing the development of this new Europe. |