Matthew Schneirov, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Sociology Department

Office: 517 College Hall
412.396.6494
schneirov@duq.edu

Dr. Schneirov has been a member of the Policy Center's faculty since 1992. Prior to coming to Duquesne, Professor Schneirov taught at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and at Hamilton College in New York.

Education

B.A., University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology and Sociology, 1974
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, Sociology, 1977
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Sociology, 1992

Research, Publications and Service

Dr. Schneirov has written two books, The Dream of a New Social Order: American Popular Magazines, 1893-1914, published by Columbia University Press, and A Diagnosis for Our Times: Alternative Health From Lifeworld to Politics, published by SUNY Press. His articles have appeared in The Sociological Quarterly and in Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.

 

Statement

My chief interests are in the social history of consumer culture, mass media and popular culture, the sociology of health and illness and, finally, contemporary social movements from a "new social movements" perspective.