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Biography
Health movements
Social history of the media
Cultural sociology
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1992M.A., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1977
B.A., Antrhopology and Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1974
Profile Information
- Social Movements
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Cultural Anthropology
- Minorities and Public Policy
- Mass Media and Society
- Race and Ethnicity
- Anti-Semitism (interdisciplinary course)
- Perspectives on the Holocaust (interdisciplinary course)
The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America: 1893-1914 (Columbia University Press, 1994)
A Diagnosis for our Times: Alternative Health--From Lifeworld to Politics (SUNY Press, 2003)
Publications in The Sociological Quarterly and Health.
"Beyond the Culture Wars: The Politics of Alternative Health," in The Politics of Healing, ed. Robert D. Johnston (Routledge, 2004)
- Summer Institute at Cornell, Social Movements Seminar, 1992
- Alternative and Complimentary Health Research Network Conference, Key Note Speaker, York England, 2009
- Yad Vashem, Holocaust Educators Seminar, 2009
- President, Duquesne University AAUP Chapter