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Severyn T. Bruyn
Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Professor Bruyn's interests are in the areas of community
development, social economy, and cultural evolution. He was among the first
to write extensively on the philosophy and logic of participant observation.
Equally, he has been a pioneer in illuminating the sociological aspects
of business and the "social economy." Other studies in Central America,
the Caribbean, and Europe emphasize field research. He has organized a
number of conferences at Boston college around the topics of world peace,
community development and joint-degree projects with the School of Management.
His current writing concerns the idea of the "sacred" and involves an extensive
critique of the modern university.
Charles Derber
Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor Derber's central interests are politics and
social economy, the sociology of militarism and social change. His research
and teaching involve a critique of individualism and class power in contemporary
American capitalism and the prospects for a shift toward a more democratic
and communitarian society. His books include The Pursuit of Attention
(Oxford); The Nuclear Seduction (California); Power in the Highest
Degree (Oxford); What's Left? (Massachusetts); and Money,
Murder, and the American Dream, republished in a revised edition as
The
Wilding of America by St. Martin's Press.
John D. Donovan
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Donovan has published in the areas of religion,
the professions, and aging. In particular, he has written about the work
life of priests in higher education. His current interests include the
study of work, cultures of lawyers, aging and the aged in the United States
and Ireland, and the consequences of modernization processes in contemporary
Ireland. He has also been writing about the problems of identity posed
for the contemporary Catholic Church. Professor Donovan was one of the
founders of the Sociology Department and, as an acknowledgment of his contribution,
an award bearing his name is given annually to an outstanding undergraduate
student.
William A. Gamson
Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor Gamson is interested in the efforts of social
movements to change society. His earlier work focused on what kinds of
organizational and influence strategies are most likely to succeed under
what circumstances. Since coming to Boston College in 1982, he has focused
on the role of the mass media in the process of change. He works with a
group of graduate and post-doctoral students on the Media Research and
Action Project (MRAP).
His most recent book, Shaping Abortion Discourse (2002), co-authored
with Myra Ferree, Juergen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht, compares the success
of different types of groups in Germany and the United States in influencing
abortion discussions in the mass media. It also explores how well abortion
coverage in the mass media in each country meets various criteria derived
from democratic theories of the public sphere. He is currently working
on a game simulation of corporate globalization issues, tentatively titled
"Global Citizens: The Game." Professor Gamson is a past President of the
American Sociological Association and a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
Eva M. Garroutte
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native
America (2003, University of California Press) explores ways that modern
American Indian racial-ethnic identity is negotiated, modified, challenged,
and revoked. It then develops the emerging intellectual perspective of
"Radical Indigenism." Dr. Garroutte has an additional interest in medical
sociology, especially in regard to the health of American Indians. A current
project examines communication between health care providers and their
American Indian elder patients. Other work addresses the linkage of health
and spirituality in tribal contexts, the professionalization of scientists
in the nineteenth century, contemporary science education, and new directions
for textual analysis.
Paul S. Gray
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Gray offers graduate level courses in research
methodology, both mainstream and qualitative (including ethnography and
action research). He also conducts the Teaching Seminar for prospective
graduate Teaching Fellows. His advanced elective, Sociology of the 3rd
World, is available for graduate credit. Dr. Gray is a Senior Consultant
to the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, where he is
exploring the connections between social change and business, especially
the rise of a new industrial relations paradigm and the increasing emphasis
on corporate social responsibility, both within the firm and in the outside
community. Professor Gray was the first Faculty Chair of Leadership for
Change, an executive program presented in association with B.C.'s Carroll
School of Management. The emphasis of this program is "dual bottom line"
business strategies. In addition, he has conducted two quantitative studies
of the impact of higher education on the economy of Massachusetts. He served
as chief consultant to the project, "Worker Education for the 1980's,"
during which he collaborated with six different labor unions, including
the United Auto Workers. He is co-author of several articles (with colleagues
David Karp and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom) which explore family dynamics and
the college choice-making process. Dr. Gray is very interested in working
with students in the general areas of development/modernization, social
change, complex organizations, business and society, sociology of education,
and action research.
Ramón Grosfoguel
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Temple University
Professor Grosfoguel's central interests are political
economy of the capitalist world system, coloniality, global culture, race
and ethnicity, global cities and international migraiton. He has written
many articles on Caribbean migrants in the United States and Western Europe,
global cities and the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean.
He is co-editor of the book Puerto Rican Jam!: Essays on Culture and
Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 1997). He is also a Senior
Research Associate of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics,
Historical Systems and Civilizations at SUNY-Binghamton.
Jeanne Guillemin
Professor
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Early in her career Professor Guillemin studied Native
American culture. While she sustains a strong interest in an anthropological
approach, her 1978-79 Congressional Fellowship in Washington influenced
her subsequent research interests. Now, Professor Guillemin's main area
is medical sociology, with a special emphasis on inequalities in health
care. Along with Lynda Holmstrom, she has written about newborn intensive
care. She continues to study such issues as maternal and child health,
high technology, and health care reform. Recent investigations have taken
her to Russia and its health care system. Professor Guillemin is the Director
of the HealthAware project.
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor Hesse-Biber's early research was on rural-urban
migration in Sweden and she then spent several years working in the areas
of population, ecology, and demography. During the 1980s her research and
teaching interests shifted to "women and work." She is co-founder of the
Women's Studies Program and is currently interested in the area of women
and health. Since 1984 she has been conducting a longitudinal study of
eating disorders among women. Her most recent book, is Am I Thin Enough
Yet? (Oxford University Press l996). She is currently conducting research
on self-esteem and body immage issues among white and black female adolescents
in the Boston area. She has co-developed a software program called Hyper-research
which will greatly facilitate the analysis of qualitative data.
Lynda Lytle Holmstrom
Professor
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Professor Holmstrom's main interests lie in the areas
of medical sociology, the family, and gender violence. She has written
widely on these subjects and regularly teaches courses on them. She was
among the first researchers to write about the dilemmas posed by two-career
families. In the 1970s Professor Holmstrom wrote a number of books (with
Burgess) on the victims of rape and sexual assault which had a significant
impact on theory and social policy. More recently she brought her ethnographic
skills to a study of the use of technology on a neonatal intensive care
unit (along with Jeanne Guillemin). Currently, she is collaborating with
other Departmental members (Gray and Karp) on a study of family dynamics
during the college application process.
David A. Karp
Professor
Ph.D., New York University
Professor Karp's primary identification is as a social
psychologist. Most of his research involves participant observation and
in-depth interviewing. Theoretically, he is partial to symbolic interaction.
After writing about aging during the middle to late 1980s he began an investigation
of how people live with and make sense of clinical depression. This work
is summarized in his recent book Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection,
and the Meanings of Illness. Currently, along with Paul Gray and Lynda
Lytle Holmstrom, he is working on the writing phase of a longitudinal study
of family dynamics during the senior year in high school as students apply
to college. These projects, as well as earlier books on cities and everyday
life, reflect Professor Karp's enduring interest in how people invest their
daily worlds with meaning.
Robert Kunovich
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Professor Kunovich specializes in comparative ethnicity, political sociology, and quantitative methods. He offers graduate courses in advanced quantitative methods (SC704 and SC705) as well as an undergraduate course on global ethnic conflict. Professor Kunovich's research in comparative ethnicity focuses on identity formation and prejudice. He is interested in exploring how competition and conflict affect both group identity and attitudes toward out-groups. He has published articles on the repercussions of war in former Yugoslavia for ethnic and religious identity, mental health, and prejudice. In the area of political sociology, he is interested in political attitudes and behavior during economic, political, and social change. Professor Kunovich is currently working on a cross-national study of anti-immigrant prejudice and a longitudinal analysis of protest voting in Poland.
Seymour Leventman
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
One of Professor Leventman's central teaching and research
interests over the years has been in the area of race and ethnic relations.
His courses on "Ethnic Protest Movements," "Ethnic Groups in the City,"
and "Minorities and Marginality" deal with societal tensions associated
with ethnic inequality and the resultant social changes seeking to resolve
these tensions. In recent years his interest in marginality led to a number
of publications on the experiences of returning Viet Nam veterans, one
of which was nominated for the prestigious C.W. Mills Award. Among a number
of related issues, he has been investigating the class and ethnic backgrounds
of American troops killed in the Viet Nam War. He has also been writing
about the politics of the Agent Orange controversy. Most recently he has
done work in film studies, i.e., how film reflects the social construction
and reconstruction of race and ethnicity.
Ritchie Lowry
Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Professor Lowry's past and continuing research and teaching
interests include community power structures, war and the military, social
problems and public policy, corporate social responsibility, and socially
responsible consuming and investing. For many years, he has been concerned
with the issues of increasing militarism, corporate and state power, and
secret government. His approach to social problems emphasizes what is wrong
with most traditional social science paradigms and attempts to develop
new, more radical alternatives which can result in more democratic and
just social policies. Professor Lowry's latest book was Good Money:
A Guide to Profitable Social Investing in the '90s (l993). Professor
Lowry is founder and president of Good Money, Inc., which maintains web
pages for socially and environmentally concerned investors, consumers,
and businesses on the World Wide Web (http://www.goodmoney.com).
Michael A. Malec
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University
At the graduate level, Professor Malec teaches the first
required course in Statistics & Data Analysis. In alternate years,
he also offers a Seminar on Teaching Sociology. His undergraduate course
include Statistics, Sport in American Society, and Caribbean Cultures.
His writing and research interests are primarily in the areas of the sociology
of sport. He is currently (2000-2001) President of the North American Society
for the Sociology of Sport. For six years he was Editor of the Journal
of Sport and Social Issues. He is past President of Alpha Kappa Delta,
the international sociology honor society, and has served as Chair of the
ASA's Section on Undergraduate Education. Recent publications include two
books, Essential Statistics for Social Research and The Social
Roles of Sports in Caribbean Societies, as well as articles such as
"Patriotic Symbols in Intercollegiate Sports During the Gulf War," "Gender
Equity in Athletics," and "Baseball, Cricket, and Social Change."
S. M. Miller
Visiting Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor Miller is internationally known for his work
in stratification, inequality, and public policy. Having been trained in
both economics and sociology, he brings a distinctive set of insights to
the study of the social economy. He has had a life-long concern with the
ways that the crises of poverty, health, the environment, the inner city,
and economic development threaten the integrity of American society. He
is interested in how progressive policy can offer social remedies. Over
the course of his career Professor Miller has served as distinguished lecturer
and visiting professor at a number of prestigious American and European
universities. He has authored more than a dozen books and his numerous
articles have been widely reprinted. He is a past President of both the
Eastern Sociological Society and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Stephen J. Pfohl
Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Professor Pfohl teaches and writes in the areas of social
theory, cultural studies, crime and social justice, critical perspectives
on deviance and social control, social psychoanalysis, women's studies
and sociology of gender, and the sociology of art, images, and power. He
has published widely on such topics as the discovery of child abuse, the
social construction of psychiatric labels, historical images of deviance
and social control, and poststructuralist approaches to social theory and
research. His most recent work involves the study of power in postmodern
societies and of the impact of cybernetic forms of capitalism on sex/gender,
racialized, and economic hierarchies. Professor Pfohl is also a visual
artist and video-maker. His mixed-media performance/lectures represent
an experimental engagement with new mediums of sociological exchange. A
former chair of the Massachusetts Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory
Committee and founding member of the activist/research group, Sit Com International,
Pfohl has also served as Associate Editor of Social Problems and
the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, and 1991-92
President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Kerry Ann Rockquemore
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Professor Rockquemore's primary interests are in the area of race relations with a special focus on the changing nature of racial identity in the United States. Her recent book Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America explores how mixed-race people construct and maintain their racial identities. She has also conducted research on the use of narrative therapy with biracial clients, the process of racial socialization in inter-racial families, and the politics of multiracialism. Professor Rockquemore is currently working on a study of geographic differences in racial identity construction among mixed-race people.
Paul G. Schervish
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor Schervish has published in the areas of philanthropy,
the sociology of money, the sociology of wealth, labor markets, biographical
narrative, and sociology of religion. He is also Director of the Boston
College Social Welfare Research Institute (SWRI) (Social
Welfare Research Institute) He directed "The Study on Wealth and Philanthropy,"
an examination of the strategies of living and giving among 130 millionaires,
and the study, "The Contradictions of Christmas: Troubles and Traditions
in Culture, Home, and Heart." Along with John J. Havens, SWRI Associate
Director, he conducted "The 2000 Bankers Trust Study on Wealth," and with
Mary A. O'Herlihy, SWRI Research Associate and Director of Communications,
and Havens, Schervish recently completed "The 2001 High-Tech Donors Study"
He is currently directing two multi-year studies: "The Material and Spiritual
Dynamics of Wealth: Dilemmas and Decisions Surrounding the Accumulation
and Distribution of Financial Resources," funded by the T. B. Murphy Charitable
Trust" and "Millionaires and the Millennium: The Emerging Material and
Spiritual Determinants of Charitable Giving by Wealth Holders" funded by
the Lilly Endowment, Inc. He is completing work on The Modern Medici:
Strategies of Philanthropy among the Wealthy (Jossey-Bass). Schervish
is the editor of and contributor to Wealth in Western Thought: The Case
for and against Riches (Praeger, 1994); principal editor of Care
and Community in Modern Society (Jossey-Bass, 1995); and the principal
author of Taking Giving Seriously (Indiana University Center on
Philanthropy, 1993) and of Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray their
Lives (Praeger, 1994). Schervish also serves regularly as a speaker
and consultant on how to surface and analyze the moral biographies of wealth
holders, on the motivations for charitable giving, and on the spirituality
of wealth. During the 1999-2000 academic year he served as Distinguished
Visiting Professor at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy; and
during the 2000-2001 academic year he was Fulbright Professor at University
College Cork, Cork Ireland.
Juliet Schor
Professor (effective September, 2001)
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Schor's current research areas are consumer
society, trends in work and leisure, and the relationship between work
and family. Schor is the author of a numerous articles and books including
The
Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, The Overspent
American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer, and
The
Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience (co-edited
with Stephen Marglin). Her two most recent books are Do Americans Shop
Too Much?and The Consumer Society Reader(co-edited with Douglas
Holt). Schor teaches courses on consumer society, political economy, and
gender. She was a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow for a project on consumer spending.
She is also a founding member of the Center for a New American Dream, an
organization devotedto making U.S. lifestyles more sustainable. Schor is
currently at work on a new book tentatively entitled The Commercialization
of Childhood.
Eve Spangler
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Spangler's main interests lie in the intersecting
areas of work and inequality. Her current research focuses on occupational
health and safety, particularly for women workers. This is a topic in which
several themes converge: the Left's concern with the organization of production,
women's stake in controlling their lives, and the public's concern with
environmental health. This work, which is inherently global, also has led
Professor Spangler to do research, organize cross-national exchanges and
curriculum planning in Eastern Europe and South Africa. She also maintains
Visiting Scholar ties to the Harvard School of Public Health. Earlier in
her career, Professor Spangler's interests in inequality have shaped her
research on working class college students and on salaried professionals.
Diane Vaughan
Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Diane Vaughan's teaching and research areas are the sociology
of organizations, culture, deviance and social control, and science, knowledge,
and technology. She has written extensively about the dark side of organizations
- mistake, misconduct, and disaster - in her books Controlling Unlawful
Organizational Behavior, Uncoupling, and The Challenger Launch Decision.
Currently, she is writing Theorizing: Analogy, Cases, and Comparative
Social Organization. Also, she is in the data analysis phase of an
ethnographic/interview-based study of air traffic control, which is a comparison
of four air traffic facilities. This research examines the complex, dynamic
relationship between institutions, organizations, and individuals that
is the essence of the Air Traffic Control System. interface between the
human, intuitive cognitive contributions of air traffic controllers, the
technology they use, and the standardization of the system..
John B. Williamson
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Williamson has written extensively on the comparative
study of social welfare policies, particularly those dealing with the elderly.
Some of his recent work has been based on the comparative historical method
and some has been based on quantitative cross-national analysis. His current
research and writing efforts deal primarily with: (1) quantitative studies
of social, economic, and political determinants of cross-national differences
in social policy and social justice issues such as income inequality, welfare
state spending levels, physical quality of life, life expectancy, infant
mortality, suicide rates, and homicide rates, (2) the comparative study
of social security systems, and (3) the debate over generational equity
and justice between generations in connection with Social Security policy
in the United States.
Brief Profiles of Affiliated Faculty
"Affiliated faculty" are connected to our department in different ways. Most of those on this list are presently full-time faculty in other departments at Boston College. Some are research faculty connected to our department or to one of several research centers at Boston College. The term also refers to faculty with special appointments to the Boston College Sociology Department, such as Emeritus faculty and recognized senior scholars who had held previous appointments at other major universities or research centers. What all those on this list share is a desire to be affiliated with our department and a willingness to help our graduate students in one way or another. Some are willing to serve as members of a dissertation committee. Some are willing to serve as members of a Ph.D. comprehensive exam committee on a special area that links to their work. Some have positions for research assistants. Some teach courses in the department on a regular basis; others teach courses in our department from time to time. Those in other departments sometimes offer courses in their departments that will be of interest to our graduate students. A few would be willing to offer an independent study to a student with shared interests.
Banuazizi, Ali (Psychology, Professor) Areas: Conceptions of Equality & Social Justice; Religion and Political Culture in the Middle East; Cvil Society and Politics in Contemporary Iran. Email: banuazia@bc.edu
Burns, J. Joseph (Sociology, Associate Dean of A&S) Areas: Organizations and Administrative Behavior; Law and Society; and Social Change in Southeast Asia; Statistics. Email: burnsj@bc.edu
Chang, Patricia (Sociology, Associate Research Professor, Assistant Director, Center for Religion and American Public Life) Areas: Religion; Organizations; Women and Work. Email: changpc@bc.edu
Creed, W. E. Douglas (CSOM, Assistant Professor) Areas: Formal and Complex Organizations; Collective Behavior and Social Movements; Occupations and Professions. Email: creedw@bc.edu
Donovan, John (Sociology, Emeritus) Areas: Religion; Professions; Middle Years. Email: jddboppa@graber.org
Farley, Anthony (Law School, Associate Professor) Areas: Cultural Studies; Postmodern Theory; Critical Race Theory; Critical Legal Studies. Email: farleya@bc.edu
Gaiser, Ted J. (Director of Academic & Research Services, Information Technology) Areas: Research Methods; Technology & Society; Social Psychology; CyberSociety. Email: gaiser@bc.edu
Liem, Ramsay (Psychology, Professor) Areas: Social Psychology; Race/Class/Gender; Mental Health. Liem@bc.edu
Lykes, Brinton (LSOE, Professor) Areas: Community-based interventions; Psychosocial Effects of War &State-violence; Participatory Action Research; Gender and Self. Email: brinton.lykes@bc.edu
Miller, S. M. (Mike) (Sociology, Visiting Research Professor) Areas: Stratification/Mobility; Social Welfare; Political Sociology. Email: fivegood@aol.com
Pruchno, Rachel (CSOM, Research Professor, Director, Center for Work and Family) Areas: Families and Aging; Caregiving; Families and Work Email: pruchno@bc.edu
Riessman, Catherine Kohler (Sociology, Visiting Research Professor) Areas: Narrative Studies in Social Research; Medical Sociology/Health and Illness; Life eEvents and Biographical Disruption. Email: riessman@bu.edu
Ryan, Charlotte (Sociology, Associate Research Professor) Areas: Social Movements; Mass Media; Race/Class/Gender. Email: ryanc@bc.edu
Wolfe, Alan (Political Science, Professor, Director, Center for Religion and American Public Life) Areas: Political Sociology; Theory; Religion. Email: wolfe@bc.edu
Youn, Ted (LSOE, Associate Professor) Areas: organizations; (academic organizations); Academic Profession; Sociology of Education (higher education); Sociology of Political Elites. Email: yount@bc.edu
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