Sociology Faculty Directory
Eve Spangler
Associate Professor
Eve Spangler
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall 402
Telephone: 617-552-4146
Email: eve.spangler@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Courses
SOCY3306/UNCP55340: Making History in a Changing World
OCY1072 – Inequality in America
SOCY2215 – Social Theory
SOCY3305 – Capstone: Case Studies of Lives in Context
SOCY7715 – Classical Theory Proseminar
SOCY3367 – Human Rights and Social Justice in Israel & Palestine
SOCY3366 – Health and Human Rights in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(summers only)
Research Interests
Inequality and Intersectionality; Classical Sociological Theory; Health, Human Rights and Social Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Work Organization: Health and Safety in the Global Economy.
Department
Biography
I have always positioned my work within public sociology, using scholarly methods to contribute to the struggle for social justice. Class inequality has been the focus of much of my work. I have investigated the career patterns of blue collar college graduates (they rarely catch up to their more privileged classmates); the experiences of professionals as their work is reorganized from independent to salaried forms (they lose autonomy); and the safety and health of workplaces (generally better served by labor militancy than by managerial enlightenment). Through these studies, I have also become interested in gender, e.g. around issues of sexual harassment at work, and in issues of race, especially as Islamophobia, an emerging form of racism, complicates American participation in a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. My most recent work is focused on human rights and social justice struggles in Palestine and Israel.
Within the community, I serve as a board member of the Human and Civil Rights Organizations of America, a founding board member of American Jews for a Just Peace, a teacher for Jewish Voices for Peace adult education programs, and a frequent evaluator of applied academic programs (e.g. The Center for Women and Politics, and the Center for Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Program in Applied Sociology, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota).