Education:

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sociology Harvard Medical School
• PhD, Sociology Brandeis University
• MA, Sociology Brandeis University
• BA, Philosophy Haverford College

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Sociology of health and illness
• Global and transnational health
• Reproductive health, rights and justice
• Experience of illness
• Narrative
• Visual sociology

Bio:

Susan E. Bell, PhD, is Professor and Department Head in the Department of Sociology. Her research specialty is the sociology of health and illness. Since the 1970s her scholarship has examined the interaction between patient cultures and embodied health movements, on the one hand, and the changing culture and structure of biomedicine on the other. In her research she investigates the experience of illness, women's health, and narrative representations of the politics of cancer, medicine, and women's bodies. She also investigates the global flow of biomedical knowledge and spatial permeability by listening to and analyzing stories constructed in interactions between immigrant patient populations and staff in U.S. hospital outpatient clinics. She teaches courses about global health and the social and cultural dimensions of health, illness and medical care as well as courses that explore social life through a visual lens.

Previously Professor Bell was Professor of Sociology and A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. While at Bowdoin she also taught hospital-based seminars for the Maine Humanities Council, “Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care” from 2000-2010. She served as Chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2013-2014) and is a Board Member of Research Committee 38 (Biography & Society) of the International Sociological Association (2014-2018).

Specialization:

Sociology of health and illness; global and transnational health; reproductive health, rights and justice; experience of illness; narrative; visual sociology

Selected Publications:

Research Projects

• Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship, “Permeable Hospitals, Transnational Communities: A Global Hospital Ethnography in Maine,” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM June – Aug. 2013
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• Scholars Award, “Permeable Spaces and the Global Flow of Biomedical Knowledge,” STS Program, NSF, $186,201 Aug. 2012 – July 2013
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• Co-Principal Investigator, Fund to Advance the Discipline, “Zika Social Science Network: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice,” The American Sociological Association, 2016-2017
• Co-Investigator, Society & Ethics Small Grant Award. “Zika Social Science Network: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice,” The Wellcome Trust (UK), 2016-2017

Books and Journals

• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert, editors. 2015. Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements. Routledge
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• Alan Radley and Susan E. Bell, guest editors. 2011. “Another Way of Knowing: Art, Disease, and Illness Experience.” special issue of health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 15:3.
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• Susan E. Bell. 2009. DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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Articles

• Susan E. Bell. 2018. “Placing care: Embodying architecture in hospital care for immigrant/refugee patients.” Sociology of Health & Illness, 40(2): 314-326.
• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert. 2012. “Medicalization and pharmaceuticalization at the intersections: Looking backward, sideways and forward.” Social Science and Medicine, 75(5): 775-783.
• Mary Ellen Bell and Susan E. Bell. 2012. “What to do with all this stuff?: Memory, family, and material objects.”  Storytelling, Self, Society, 8(2): 63-84.
• Susan E. Bell. 2011. “Claiming justice: Knowing mental illness in the public art of Anna Schuleit’s ‘Habeas Corpus’ and ‘Bloom’.” health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 15(3): 313-334.
• Alan Radley and Susan E. Bell. 2007. “Artworks, collective experience, and claims for social justice: The case of women living with breast cancer.” Sociology of Health & Illness, 29(3): 366-390.

Book Chapters

• Susan E. Bell, “Bringing Our Bodies and Ourselves Back in: Seeing Irving Kenneth Zola’s Legacy,” in Sara Green and Sharon Barnartt, eds. Research in Social Science and Disability. 9:143-158, 2017
• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert. 2015. “Moving sideways and forging ahead: Re-imagining –izations in the 21st century.” Pp. 19-40 in Bell and Figert, eds., Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics. Routledge.
• Anne E. Figert and Susan E. Bell. 2014. “Big pharma and big medicine in the global environment.” Pp. 456-470 in Daniel Kleinman and Kelly Moore, eds., Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, Routledge.
• Susan E. Bell. 2014. “Disrupting scholarship.” Pp. 119-140 in Rosanna Hertz, Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson, eds., Open to Disruption: Practicing Slow Sociology. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
• Susan E. Bell. 2013. “Seeing narratives.” Pp. 142-158 in Molly Andrews, Corrine Squire and Maria Tamboukou, eds., Doing Narrative Research, second edition. London: Sage Publications, Ltd.
• Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert. 2010. “Gender and the medicalization of health care.” Pp. 107-122 in Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale, eds. Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Susan E. Bell. 2010. “Visual methods for collecting and analysing data.” Pp. 513-535 in Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Raymond DeVries, and Robert Dingwall, eds., The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research. Sage Publications.

Education:

• BS, Marine Biology, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• MA, Sociology, New School for Social Research
• MS, Natural Resources, University of Michigan
• PhD, Sociology, George Washington University, 1995

Research Interests:

• Critical Theory
• Social Movements
• Social Change
• Environmental Sociology

Bio:

Robert Brulle is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science in the Department of Sociology and an affiliate Professor of Public Heath in the School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has also taught at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, at the University of Uppsala, Uppsala Sweden, and George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. In addition, in 1996 and 1997 he served as a consultant to U.S. National Research Council/Marine Board regarding their studies of maritime risk.

He has a BS degree in Marine Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, an MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, an MS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Sociology from George Washington University.

His research focuses on the U.S. environmental movement, critical theory and public participation in environmental policy making. He is the author of over fifty articles in these areas and is the author of Agency, Democracy and the Environment: The U.S. Environmental Movement from the Perspective of Critical Theory, as well as co-editor, with David Pellow, of Power, Justice and the Environment.

In his current position he developed and implemented two academic programs leading to both a BS Degree in Urban Environmental Policy and an MS Degree in Environmental Policy. Prior to his employment in the academic field, Brulle served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for twenty four years, where his area of expertise was in the field of environmental response and pollution prevention.

Specialization:

Environmental policy and politics, critical theory, marine risk, social movements, environmental sociology.

Selected Publications:

• Brulle, Robert J. From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialogue: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 4(1). March 2011.
• Brulle, Robert J. and Jenkins, J.C. Civil Society and the Environment: Understanding the Dynamics and Impacts of the U.S. Environmental Movement. In Understanding 21st Century NGOs. Thomas Lyon (Ed.). RFF Press. 2010.
• Brulle, Robert J. Science, Democracy, and the Environment: The Contributions of Barry Commoner. Organization & Environment, 22:1, March 2009.
• Pellow, David and Brulle, Robert J. (Eds.) Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2005.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, Bowling Green State University
• MA, Sociology, Bowling Green State University
• BA, Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests:

• Family demography
  
  

Bio:

Jessica Cohen, PhD, recently joined the ranks of Drexel University’s faculty in the fall of 2016. She was born and raised in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, but has spent the past five years serving as assistant professor of sociology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.  She is excited to have moved closer to home and looks forward to getting to know Philadelphia and the Drexel campus once more. Professor Cohen earned her PhD in sociology from Bowling Green State University, specializing in family demography, having served as a research fellow at the National Center for Family and Marriage Research. She has published in the leading sociology and interdisciplinary journals including Population Research and Policy Review, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and Social Science Research. Her research primarily uses quantitative secondary data analysis and the life course perspective to explore the contemporary courtship process, sexual debut, cohabitation, marriage and childbearing decisions of the Millennial generation. Cohen is passionate about teaching sociology and her catalogue of courses includes Introductory Statistics, Research Methods, Family Sociology and Introduction to Demography. She is inspired to promote academic excellence, professionalism and the utmost commitment to the ethical treatment of others.  In achieving this goal, she encourages her students to value the process of conducting empirical research and challenges them to exercise their sociological imaginations.

Specialization:

Family demography

Selected Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

• Manning, Wendy D. and Jessica A. Cohen. Forthcoming. “Teenage Cohabitation, Marriage and Childbearing.” Population Research and Policy Review. DOI: 10.1007/s11113-014-9341-x
• Cohen, Jessica A. 2015 “What is the Difference Between a Private Trouble and a Public Issue? Exploring the Sociology Imagination.” Class Activity adapted from 2010. Class Activity by D. S. Adams. “Technique 4: Sociological and Individualistic (or Non-sociological) Explanations for Human Behavior” published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. (http://trails.asanet.org)
• Cohen, Jessica A. 2014 ““What is a Brony?” Challenging Modern Day Definitions of Masculinity in the Classroom.” Class Activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. (http://trails.asanet.org)
• Manning, Wendy D. and Jessica A. Cohen. 2012. “Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: The Significance of Marriage Cohort.” Journal of Marriage and Family 74(1): 377-387. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00960.x
• Manning, Wendy D., Jessica A. Cohen, and Pamela J. Smock. 2011. “The Role of Romantic Partners, Family and Peer Networks in Dating Couples’ Views about Cohabitation.” Journal of Adolescent Research 26(1):115-149. DOI:10.1177/0743558410376833
• Cohen, Jessica A. and Wendy D. Manning. 2010. “The Relationship Context of Premarital Serial Cohabitation.” Social Science Research 39(5):766-776. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.04.011

Other Publications

• Cohen, Jessica A. “Demographic Changes: Cohabitation Rates.” (2014). In Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, and Geoffrey J. Golson (Eds.), The Social History of the American Family. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Cohen, Jessica A. (2011). Children in Cohabiting Unions, (FP-11-07), National Center for Marriage & Family Research. Retrieved from http://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/FP-11-07.pdf

Selected Conference Presentations

• Cohen, Jessica A. 2013. “Childbearing after First Marriage Dissolution: Does Union Status Matter ?” Paper accepted into the 14th Annual Research Symposium and Creative Activities Exhibition at St. Mary’s University (in poster format), April, San Antonio, Texas.
• Cohen, Jessica A. 2010. “Fertility Intentions Following Marital Dissolution.” Paper presented (in poster format) at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, April, Dallas, Texas.
• Cohen, Jessica A. 2009. “Cohabitation Following Marital Dissolution: Does Premarital Cohabitation Matter?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, April, Detroit, Michigan.
• Cohen, Jessica A. and Wendy D. Manning. 2008. “Serial Cohabitation: The Long and Winding Road to Marriage.” Paper presented at the National Survey of Family Growth Conference, October, Hyattsville, Maryland.
• Cohen, Jessica A. 2007. “Race/Ethnicity and Nativity Status: Marital Expectations among Cohabiting Men and Women.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, April, New York, New York.

National Service

• Committee member, The American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Family section, Graduate Student Paper Award Selection Committee, 2013-2014
• Reviewer for the Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011-present
• Graduate Student Representative for the American Sociological Association’s council of the Section on the Sociology of Population, 2011-2013
• Session Presider, New Demographic Data and Research Approaches to Studying Families, American Sociological Association annual meeting August 2012, Denver, CO
• Session co-organizer of the Sociology of Population Roundtable Session, American Sociological Association annual meeting August 2012, Denver, CO

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Surrey, 2006

Curriculum Vitae:

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Research Interests:

• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Emerging Technologies and Biocapital
• Media and Democratic Cultures
• Radical Social Movements
• Sociology of Markets
• Political Sociology
• Ethnographic Methodologies

Research Projects

• Two-Year Colleges and the Invention of Nano-Labor: Between Promise and Possibility. Co-Principal Investigator. A collaborative research project with Dr. Amy Slaton (History & Politics, Drexel University) with support from the Nation Science Foundation (NSF) investigating technical education in nanomanufacturing and the links to the development of a nanotech-based economic sector in the Philadelphia region.
• Translational machines: Nanobiotechnologies in two postindustrial regions, Philadelphia and Milan. Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Prof. Paolo Milani (Physics, University of Milan) on technological transfer in the nanobiotech sector as it is emerging in Philadelphia and Milan. Support provided by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Faculty Development and Equity, Drexel University.
• Pharmaceutical advertising and ethnography of marketing. Principal Investigator. Support provided by the Advertising Educational Foundation, New York, NY.

Bio:

Mary Ebeling is associate professor of sociology and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Drexel University. Mary is an ethnographic sociologist and researches the intersections of marketing, health, biomedical science and digital life. Her new book, Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) is focused on data brokers, data mining, marketing surveillance, private health data, and algorithmic identities.

Her work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the European Union (5th Framework Programme). She has been awarded a Regional Faculty Fellowship at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2017-18 academic year.

She collaborates with scientists, artists and urban farmers to reimagine presents and futures, particularly Paolo Milani, Rachel Ellis Neyra, RAIR, the Mill Creek Farm in West Philadelphia and alternative art spaces and collectives, such as Beta-Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden, and several artists’ collectives in Philadelphia including Grizzly Grizzly and Vox Populi.

More information about Mary can be found at: maryebeling.net

Specialization:

Sociology of science and technology, data brokers and big data, healthcare privacy, marketing communication, medicine, health, knowledge and power in late capital, the production of value and alternatives, anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces, collectives and feminist methodologies

Selected Publications:

• Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects (Palgrave, 2016)
• Ebeling, M. and Amy Slaton (2016) “Promise Her Anything: Education for Work in the American ‘Nano-economy’ International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice and Peace, Volume 5 (in press).
• Ebeling, M. (2014) “Marketing Mediated Diagnoses: Turning Patients into Consumers,” in Jutel, A. and Dew, K. (eds.) Sociology of Diagnosis: A Guide for Practitioners. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Ebeling, M. (2011) "'Get with the Program!': Pharmaceutical marketing, symptom checklists and self-diagnosis," Social Science and Medicine 73 (2011): 825-832.
• Ebeling, M. (2010) “Marketing Chimeras: The biovalue of rebranded medical devices,” in Aronczyk, M. and Powers, D. (eds.) Blowing Up the Brand Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishers. Pp. 241-259.

Education:

• PhD, Boston University

Research Interests:

• Urban sociology
• Gentrification
• Cultural sociology
• Economic Sociology
• Narratives of place
• Ethnography

Bio:

Sarah S. Hosman, PhD, is a visiting assistant teaching professor in the Department of Sociology. She received her PhD from Boston University and her dissertation project is an urban ethnography of Boston’s student neighborhood, specifically examining how neighborhood actors deploy cultural narratives to orient the neighborhood’s past and shape its future. In so doing, locals perpetuate a precarious housing market and neighborhood inequality. Previous research has focused on Taqwacore, a subculture of Muslim and Arab American punk rockers, who have forged community, identity and resistance in the post-9/11 context.

One current research project focuses on the role of universities in shaping neighborhood outcomes, especially via the framing of local investment practices and cultural narratives. Additional research examines how and when adjacent neighborhoods forge coalitions for political gain and how and when they insist on neighborhood distinctions, and to what ends. She has taught Introduction to Sociology, as well as courses on urban sociology, popular culture and society, and the media.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Hosman, Sarah Siltanen (2019). Book review of Gender Inequality In Metal Music Production by Pauwke Berkers and Julian Schaap. Gender & Society.
• Hosman, Sarah S. (2018). Allston Christmas: How Local Rituals Reproduce Neighborhood Temporality and Deter Gentrification. Urbanities: Journal of Urban Ethnography, 8, 2. 
• Hosman, Sarah S. (2013). Taqwacore: Punk Islam in the USA. In S. T. Horsfall, J-M. Meij, & M. Probstfield (Eds.). Ritual, Authenticity and Globalization in Music: An Introduction to the Sociology of Music. Paradigm Press.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, Boston University

Research Interests:

• South Asia
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Transnationalism

Bio:

Sonali Jain, PhD, joined the sociology department at Drexel in the fall of 2019 as an associate teaching professor. Between 2013-2019 she transitioned from assistant to associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She was born and raised in India, and earned her PhD in Sociology from Boston University. Her research and teaching interests include South Asia, ethnicity and gender. Her research is published in journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Jain, Sonali and Arun Swamy. “Government Engagement, Hindu Nationalism, and the Indian Diaspora in the United States.” The Wiley Blackwell Companion (Core Concepts) on Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. (forthcoming)
• Jain, Sonali. 2018. “Transnational Ties and Ethnic Identities in the Parental Homeland: Second-generation Indian Americans in India.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 1-19.
• Jain, Sonali. 2013. “For Love and Money: Second-generation Indian-Americans ‘Return’ to India.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 36(5): 896-914.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, Boston College
• BA, Anthropology, Brown University

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Aging
• Healthcare and Medicine
• Qualitative Social Science Methods
• Science and Technology Studies

Bio:

Kelly Joyce, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Drexel University. Professor Joyce is the author of the award winning book "Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency" (Cornell University Press, 2008) and is co-editor of "Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness through an Aging, Science, and Technology Lens" (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010). Joyce studies the social, cultural and political dimensions of medical technology innovation. Her research is situated at the crossroads of medical sociology and science and technology studies. Professor Joyce's research on the ethics of algorithms, big data and smart textiles has been funded by awards from the National Science Foundation and the NIH.

Joyce previously was an associate professor of sociology at the College of William and Mary. She also served as a program director for the Science, Technology, and Society program and the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program at the National Science Foundation during 2009-2011. She received the Director's Award for Collaborative Integration for contributing to the education of ethical scientists, interagency collaboration and extraordinary efforts in integrating ethical expertise with scientific knowledge in 2011.  More recently, she served as the Director for the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Drexel University in 2012-2018.

Specialization:

Political, cultural and organizational dimensions of clinical medicine, social dimensions of technological innovation, and technology, science and aging

Selected Publications:

Special Journal Issue

• Kelly Joyce and Laura Senier, guest editors. 2017. Environmental Exposures: Technologies, Techniques, and Politics. Environmental Sociology 3(1).

Books

• Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe, editors. 2010. Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness through an Ageing, Technology, and Science Lens, 16th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
• Kelly Joyce. 2008. Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. *Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award given by the Medical Sociology section, American Sociological Association, awarded 2010.

Articles

• Kelly Joyce, Dalton George, Kendall Darfler, Jason Ludwig, and Kris Unsworth. 2018. “Engaging STEM Ethics Education.” Engaging Science, Technology and Society 4: 1-7.
• Diane Sicotte & Kelly Joyce. 2017. “Not a 'Petro Metro': Challenging Fossil Fuel Expansion.” Environmental Sociology DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2017.1344919.
• Kelly Joyce & Laura Senier. 2017. “Why Environmental Exposures?” Environmental Sociology 3(1): 1-6.
• Fahmida Chowdhury and Kelly Joyce. 2011. “Pushing the Boundaries of Transdisciplinary Science Through Cyber-Enabled Research,” American Journal of Preventative Medicine,40(5S2): S103–S107.
• Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe. 2010. “A Sociological Approach to Ageing, Technology and Health,” Sociology of Health and Illness 32(2): 171-180.
• Kelly Joyce. 2006. “From Numbers to Pictures: The Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Visual Turn in Medicine,” Science as Culture 15(1): 1-22. *Honorable mention winner, IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology, awarded 2007.
• Kelly Joyce. “Appealing Images: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of Authoritative Knowledge,” Social Studies of Science, 35(3): 437-462.
  Reprinted and translated into Korean in Brain, I, and US: What Does Neuroscience Tell Us About Ethics?, 2010, edited by S. Hong and Dayk Jang, 257-304. Seoul: Badabooks.

Handbook Entries

• Kelly Joyce, Alexander Peine, Louis Neven and Florian Kohlbacher. 2016. “STS and Aging: Theorizing the Socio-Material Construction of Later Life” in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouche, Clark Miller and Laurel Smith-Doerr, 915-942. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Kelly Joyce, Meika Loe and Lauren Diamond-Brown. 2015. "Science, Technology and Ageing" in the Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, edited by Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin, 157-164. UK: Routledge.

Reports & Notes

• Patricia White, Roberta Spalter-Roth, Amy Best, and Kelly Joyce. 2016. A Relational Model for Understanding the Use of Research in the Policy Process Report, 148 pages. (Funded by NSF Award #1441446).
• Patricia White, Roberta Spalter-Roth, Amy Best, and Kelly Joyce. 2015. “Social Science Research and Public Policy,” ASA Footnotes 43(3): 3.

Book Chapters

• Kelly Joyce. 2011. “On the Assembly Line: Neuroimaging Production in Clinical Practice,” In Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences, edited by Martyn Pickersgill and Ira Van Keulen, 75-98. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• Kelly Joyce. 2010. "The Body as Image: An Examination of the Economic and Political Dynamics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of Difference" in Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the United States, edited by Adele Clarke, Jennifer Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Fishman, and Janet Shim, 197-217. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Kelly Joyce and Laura Mamo. 2006. “Graying the Cyborg: New Directions in Feminist Analyses of Aging, Science, and Technology” in Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking, edited by Toni Calasanti and Kathleen Slevin, 99-121. New York: Routledge.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Toronto, 2005

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Social Network Analysis
• Qualitative/Quantitative Research
• Medical Sociology
• Social Epidemiology
• Social Demography
• Sociology of Development
• Communication and Information Technology
• Community and Urban Sociology

Bio:

Emmanuel Koku is a sociologist with interests in the social networks, sexual health behaviors, new media use and knowledge/learning networks. Prior to completing his PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto (Canada), Koku spent 5 years working in the fields of sexual health (Toronto Public Health Department), health informatics (Medical Decision Logix, Baltimore, MD), and teaching (Temple University, Philadelphia).

His current research examines socio-demographic determinants of HIV risk in Africa, the lived-experiences of persons living with HIV in Africa and US, as well as professional and informal networks of academic researchers and policy makers.

Aside from his scholarly pursuits, Koku is actively engaged in applied and policy-related initiatives. He is currently working with the Office of Minority Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) on addressing health-related disparities in African immigrant communities in the United States.

Specialization:

Social Network Analysis, Qualitative/Quantitative Research, Medical Sociology, Social Epidemiology, Social Demography, Sociology of Development, Communication and Information Technology

Selected Publications:

• Emmanuel Koku. HIV-Related Stigma Among African Immigrants Living with HIV/AIDS in USA. Sociological Research Online, Volume 15, Issue 3, August, 2010.
• Dimitrina Dimitrova and Emmanuel Koku. Research Communities in Context: Trust, Independence and Technology in Professional Communities. In Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis edited by Demosthenes Akoumianakis. IGI Global, USA, pp. 350-375, 2009.
• Ifeanyi Ezeonu and Emmanuel Koku. Crimes of Globalization: the Feminization of HIV Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Global South, 2. 2: 112 – 129, 2008.
• Koku, Emmanuel, Nancy Nazer, and Barry Wellman. Netting Scholars: Online and Offline. American Behavioral Scientist 44:1752-74, 2001.
• Wellman, B, K. Hampton, and Emmanuel Koku. Virtual Communities. In The Encyclopedia of Psychology, edited by A. E. Kazdin. Washington: Oxford University Press, pp. 170-72, 2001.

Education:

• BA, Psychology and Communication Studies (Joint Honours), Tel-Aviv University, 2000
• MA, Department of Sociology, Goldsmith College, University of London, UK, 2002
• PhD, Department of Sociology, New York University, 2017

Research Interests:

• Political Economy
• Social Movements
• Middle East Studies
• Gender Studies
• Revolutions
• Inequality

Bio:

I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Global Studies and Modern Languages and Sociology. My research interests are in political economy, social movements and gender studies; I primarily investigate questions of structural inequality and social change in the Middle East.

I am currently working on a manuscript entitled "The Road to Tahrir: Origins and Sustainment of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011". I examine the background conditions and the social forces that brought about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. By studying changes in Egyptian capitalism and state policies since the 1980s, I highlight the structural changes that facilitated the generation of a revolutionary process in Egypt in the 2000s. I then look closely at how the Egyptian youth and democracy movements took advantage of the political opportunity and mobilized against the regime.

In a related project, I have written a paper on gender and labor in Egypt; and I have also co-authored a paper on the Second Palestinian Intifada, which is published in the European Journal of Sociology.

Selected Publications:

• Matta, Nada and Rene Rojas. 2016. “The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena”, European Journal of Sociology, 57 (01): 65-113.
• Matta, Nada. 2003. “Postcolonial Theory, Multiculturalism and the Israeli Left: A Critique of Post-Zionism.” Holy Land Studies, 2 (1) 85-107.
• Achcar, Gilbert and Nada Matta. 2016. “Gilbert Achcar On the Arab Upheaval: Facts and Fiction.” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 18 (1): 1-15. (translated to Arabic in Bidayat Journal).
• Matta, Nada. 2005. “Disparities Between Arab and Jewish Local Authorities in the Social Welfare Ministry Budget.” Sikkuy Report.

Bio:

Professor McGhee Hassrick is an assistant professor with the Life Course Outcomes Research Program at the A. J. Drexel Autism Institute. She received her masters and doctoral degrees in Sociology from the University of Chicago and a masters in Education from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Before her career as an academic researcher, she was a classroom teacher for 10 years in public and private schools in the United States and abroad. She has held faculty research positions at the University of Chicago and Weill Cornell Medical College. Her research, investigating collaboration networks across home and school settings, has been published in peer review journals and funded by grants from the Health Resource and Services Administration, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Spencer Foundation and the National Academy of Education.

Professor McGhee Hassrick is currently investigating social network interventions that promote positive outcomes for people with ASD, their families and communities. Her research tracks the interactional and organizational dynamics that sustain or disrupt networks of diverse expertise that shape the ongoing treatment of people diagnosed with ASD. Using dynamic social network analysis, coupled with sensory and qualitative data collection, she maps how parents, extended family members, community providers, clinicians and teachers of different social classes and racial groups learn from one another about how to manage a particular person's autism treatments. She is particularly interested in how differently configured school and clinics shape inequalities in services for youth with ASD. Professor McGhee Hassrick is currently conceptualizing, adapting and pilot testing digital, sensory and face to face social network interventions that track and intervene on cooperative infrastructures across home, school and clinical settings for youth with ASD.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
• MS, Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
• BA, Politics and Environmental Studies, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, 2008

Research Interests:

• Environmental Sociology
• Political Economy
• Place and Space
• Rural-Urban Interface
• Qualitative and historical methodologies

Bio:

Amanda McMillan Lequieu, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches courses related to Environmental Sociology, as well as the department’s introductory course.

McMillan Lequieu is an environmental sociologist of work and home. Her qualitative research interrogates the relationship between the mobility of natural resource capital and the relative stability of social life. Specifically, she is interested in how working-class communities impacted by natural resource economies (broadly understood) adapt to globalizing economies and changing environments across rural and urban contexts. She is currently working on a book project about the long-term residents of post-industrial iron and steel communities.

Prior to coming to Drexel, she was a Visiting Scholar at both the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara and at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center for the Study of Instability in Society. She has received awards from the American Sociological Association’s sections on Environmental Sociology and Public Sociology, the Society for the Study of Social Problem’s Labor and Community Development Networks, and the Rural Sociological Society.

Specialization:

Environmental sociology, political economy, place and space, rural-urban interface, qualitative and historical methodologies

Selected Publications:

• McMillan Lequieu, A. “'We made the choice to stick it out': Negotiating a stable home in the rural, American Rust Belt.” Journal of Rural Studies 53, pgs. 202-213, 2017.
• McMillan Lequieu, A. “Keeping the farm in the family name: Patrimonial narratives and negotiations among German-heritage farmers,” March 2015, Rural Sociology 80(1), pgs. 39-59, 2015.

Book Chapters:

• McMillan Lequieu, A. “The everyday sociological imagination: Co-creating new knowledge through story and radio,” In Routledge International Handbook on Public Sociology. L. Hossfeld, B. Kelly, and C. Hossfeld (Editors). Routledge: NY, 2019.
• McMillan Lequieu, A. and M. M. Bell. “Power, politics, and rurality.” In Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. M. Scott, N. Gallent and M. Gkartzios (Editors). Routledge: NY., 2018.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of California-San Diego
• MA, Social and Cultural Studies, University of California-Berkeley
• BA, History, Stanford University

Research Interests:

• race/sexuality/gender
• social movements/community advocacy
• HIV/AIDS
• racial health disparities
• science and technological studies
• Black Studies

Bio:

Kevin M. Moseby, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Sociology. His research specialties and teaching interests are in the areas of the social and cultural studies of biomedicine/health, particularly as those domains intersect with and through the institutions of race/sexuality/gender, social movements/community advocacy, HIV/AIDS, racial health disparities, science and technological studies, and Black Studies. His current research examines the salience of race over the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, documenting how HIV/AIDS prevention practices and knowledge “crossed the color line.”

Recently, Moseby was an invited participant at a meeting of scholars, grantmakers, and AIDS activists to begin a dialogue leading to an agenda for new histories of HIV/AIDS: "Foundations, Nonprofits, and HIV/AIDS in the United States: New Histories of an Epidemic" Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York, June 13-15, 2017. In addition to teaching courses within his specialty areas, Moseby teaches the course Introduction to Sociology.

Prior to joining Drexel in the very cold winter quarter of 2015/16, Moseby was a UC President Postdoctoral Fellow in the (Medical) Sociology program of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. In his dissertation years, he also spent time as a Fellow in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before all of his training in California, Moseby was born in Little Rock and raised in rural Arkansas in counties within and just outside of the Mississippi Delta.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Moseby, Kevin M. 2017. “Two Regimes of HIV/AIDS: The MMWR and the Socio-Political Construction of HIV/AIDS as a Black Disease.” Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 39 No. 7, pp. 1068–1082 doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12552

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015
• MS, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
• BA, Humanities Honors and Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2008

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Urban and Community Sociology
• Sexualities Studies
• Qualitative Methodologies
• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• Social Psychology
• Social Theory

Bio:

Jason Orne, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses related to urban sociology, as well as the department's introductory course. His book "Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago" was published with University of Chicago Press. Boystown examines the importance of sex to queer male communities and the transformation of gay enclave neighborhoods, “gayborhoods.”

He currently is working on two related projects. The first project examines racial disparities in PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and how they relate to urban patterns of consumption in bars, clubs, and the unique sexual networks, “sexy communities,” he described in his earlier work. The second project studies the social experience of inebriation within communities with high rates of alcohol abuse, as in queer male communities, and how regulations like liquor laws shape these experiences.

He specializes in qualitative methods, including interviewing, focus groups and ethnography. Before joining Drexel's faculty, he co-founded the academic consulting firm, Qualitative Health Research Consultants, which collaborates with medical and public health faculty on the qualitative components of nationally-funded research.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Orne, Jason. 2017. Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
• Orne, Jason and Michael M. Bell. 2015. "An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork: A Multilogical Approach". Routledge: New York.
• Orne, Jason. 2013. “Queers in the Line of Fire: Goffman’s Stigma Revisited.” The Sociological Quarterly. 54(2): 229–253.

Education:

• AB, History and Literature, Harvard, 1988
• MA, Sociology and Historical Studies, New School For Social Research, 1993
• PhD, Sociology and Historical Studies, New School For Social Research, 1997
• Honorary Doctoral Degree in Sociology, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2015

Curriculum Vitae:

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Research Interests:

• Mobilities Research: travel, transport, mobile communication, mobile art
• Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice: low-carbon transitions and futures
• Caribbean Studies: citizenship, democratization, tourism, geo-ecologies
• Urban Theory and Planetary Urbanization

Bio:

Mimi Sheller, AB Harvard University (1988), MA (1993) and PhD (1997) New School for Social Research, is a professor of sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is the past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (2014-2017), co-editor of the journal Mobilities, which she co-founded in 2006, and associate editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies.

She is author of twelve books, including most recently Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018); Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014) and Citizenship from Below (Duke University Press, 2012); and the co-edited volumes Mobilities and Complexities (2018); Mobilities Intersections (2018); The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2013) and Mobility and Locative Media (2014). As founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, Associate Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, co-editor of "Mobile Technologies of the City" (2006) and "Tourism Mobilities" (2004), and author of several highly cited articles, she helped established the new interdisciplinary field of mobilities research.

She is currently completing the book Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene, for Duke University Press, about post-disaster recovery and climate adaptation, with a focus on Haiti. With a production grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Research in the Fine Arts she is co-producing a documentary film on bauxite mining and aluminum, Fly Me to the Moon, with director Esther Figueroa.

In Fall 2016 she was Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication. She was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from Roskilde University, Denmark (2015) and has held Visiting Fellowships at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, UK (2005-2012); the Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (2008); Media@McGill, Canada (2009); the Center for Mobility and Urban Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark (2009); and the Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania (2010).

She has been awarded research funding from the US National Science Foundation for two projects collaborating with engineers and hydrologists on post-earthquake humanitarian responses in Haiti (2010-2012) and adaptation to climate change in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2012-2013). Based on this work she was invited to co-chair the NSF review of all Haiti RAPID grants, and served as an expert advisor to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction in its preparation of a report with the Government of Japan on the Japanese Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.

She also was awarded grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the New School’s Janey Program, and the University of Michigan’s Center for African and African-American Studies to support her PhD dissertation and first book, Democracy After Slavery (Macmillan, 2000), winner of the Choice outstanding book award. In the UK she was awarded grants from the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her book Consuming the Caribbean (Routledge, 2003), a history of transatlantic circulation and consumption. Her recently complete research project, ImagineTrains, was supported by the Mobile Lives Forum (Paris), where she also serves on the International Scientific Board.

Specialization:

Sustainable mobility and mobility justice: new cultures and infrastructures of travel, transport, mobile communication, and urbanism; Caribbean Studies: history, culture and political theory of the region, including intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class; Caribbean mobilities: the relation between tourism, migration and air travel across the U.S.-Caribbean borders; tracing the histories and forecasting the futures of cultures of mobility and wider mobility regimes, including theorizing transitions in complex systems.

Selected Publications:

Sole-authored Books

• M. Sheller Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018)
• M. Sheller Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014)
• M. Sheller Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Duke Uni Press, 2012)
• M. Sheller Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (London & NY: Routledge 2003)
• M. Sheller, Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (London & Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2000; Miami: Univ. Press of Florida, 2001)

Edited Books

• Büscher, M., Sheller, M., and Tyfield, D.  (eds) Mobilities Intersections (Routledge, 2018).
• Jensen, O.B., Kesselring, S. and Sheller, M. (eds) Mobilities and Complexities: Reflections on John Urry (Routledge, 2018).
• Hannam, K. and Sheller, M. (eds) Crossing Borders (Routledge, 2017).

• A. de Souza e Silva and M. Sheller (eds), Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile communication in hybrid spaces. Routledge, 2015
• Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (London: Routledge, 2014).
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Materialities and Mobilities, Special Issue of Environment and Planning A, 38 (London: Ashgate, 2006).
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Mobile Technologies of the City, (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) Networked Cities Series.
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play, (London and New York: Routledge, 2004)
• S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, AM Fortier, and M. Sheller (eds), Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003) (25%)

Journal Special Issues Co-Edited

• M. Büscher, M. Sheller & D. Tyfield (eds) 10th Anniversary Special Issue: ‘Mobility Intersections: Social Research, Social Futures’, Mobilities 11 (4) Sept. 2016.
• M. Sheller, (ed.) E-Special Issue: John Urry, Theory, Culture & Society (August 2016).
• J. Nicholson and M. Sheller (eds) Special Issue: ‘Race and Mobilities’, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2016.
• L. Aceti, H. Iverson, M. Sheller (eds) Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: LA Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2016).
• JC Freeman & M. Sheller (eds) Public Art Dialogue, SI: Digital Art, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2015).
• M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Materialities and Mobilities, Special Issue of Environment and Planning A, 38 (London: Ashgate, 2006).

Selected Refereed Journal Articles

• Sheller, M. ‘Theorising Mobility Justice’, in Tempo Social: Revista Sociologica da USP, 2018.
• Hildebrand, J. and Sheller, M. ‘Media Ecologies of Autonomous Automobility: Gendered and Racial Dimensions of Future Concept Cars’, Transfers: Journal of Mobility Studies, 8.1, 2018.
• Sheller M. ‘From Spatial Turn to Mobilities Turn’, Current Sociology 65: 4 (2017): 623-39.
• Sheller, M. and Urry, J. ‘Mobilising the New Mobilities Paradigm,’ Applied Mobilities 1 (1), (2016): 10-25.
• Nicholson, J. and Sheller, M. ‘Introduction: Race and the Politics of Mobility’, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 6: 1 (2016): 4-11
• Sheller, M. ‘Uneven Mobility Futures: A Foucauldian Approach,’ Mobilities, 11 (1) 2016: 15-31.
• Sheller, M. ‘Connected Mobility in a Disconnected World: Contested Infrastructure in Post-Disaster Contexts’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, SI on Geographies of Mobility, ed. Mei-Po Kwan
• Sheller, M. and Deleón, Y. ‘Uneven Socio-ecologies of Hispaniola: Asymmetric Capabilities for Climate Adaptation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic’, Geoforum, Special Issue on Climate Justice & the Caribbean, eds. A. Baptiste and K. Rhiney (2015).
• Sheller, M. ‘Racialized Mobility Transitions in Philadelphia: Urban Sustainability and the Problem of Transport Inequality’, City and Society, SI on Cities and Mobilities, ed. M. Freudendal-Pederson, 27 (1): 70-91 (April 2015).
• Sheller, M. ‘How to be seen while being unseen: Finding the un-visible Bahamas in the (dis)assembled works of Tavares Strachan’, E-misphérica: Performance and Politics in the Americas, Special Issue on Rasamblaj, ed. Gina Ulysse, Vol. 12, No. 1 (May 2015).
• Sheller, M., S O'Connor, HC Galada, FA Montalto, PL Gurian, M Piasecki, ‘Participatory Engineering for Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti’, Engineering Studies, SI on Engineering Risk and Disaster, eds. SG Knowles and G. Downey.
• Sheller, M. ‘Mobility, Debordering and Territoriality on a Haitian-Dominican Border’, Sociologica, Special Issue on Moving boundaries of mobilities research, 1/2014, Issue 23, eds. J. Caletrio and G. Mandich. Sheller, M. ‘Global Energy Cultures of Speed and Lightness: Materials, Mobilities and Transnational Power’, SI Theory, Culture and Society: Energizing Society, 31 (5): 2014.
• Sheller, M., ‘The New Mobilities Paradigm for a Live Sociology’, Current Sociology, 62: 6 (2014): 789-811.
• Sheller, M. ‘News Now: Interface, Ambience, Flow, and the Disruptive Spatio-Temporalities of Mobile News Media’, Journalism Studies, 16 (1) 2014: 12-26.
• Sheller, M. ‘The Vital Materiality of Aluminum: light modernity and the global Atlantic’ Atlantic Studies, Global Currents, Vol. 11, No, 1 (2014), pp. 67-81.
• Galada, HC; Montalto, FA; Gurian, PL; Sheller, M; Ayalew, T; and S O'Connor ‘Assessing Preferences Regarding Centralized and Decentralized Water Infrastructure in Post-Earthquake Leogane, Haiti.’ Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled, 2014, 1:5 (12 February 2014).
• Jensen, O.B., Sheller, M., and Wind, S. ‘Together and Apart: Affective Ambiences and Negotiation in Families’ Everyday Life and Mobility’, Mobilities, 2014.
• Galada, HC, PL Gurian, , FA Montalto, M Sheller, M Piasecki, T Ayalew, S Oconnor, ‘Attitudes toward Post-Earthquake Water and Sanitation Management and Payment Options in Leogane, Haiti’, Water International, Vol. 38, No. 6 (Sept. 2013): 744–757
• Sheller, M. ‘Aluminum Across the Americas: Caribbean Mobilities and Transnational American Studies’, Journal of Transnational American Studies: Caribbean Issue, eds. B. Edmondson and D. Francis, Vol 5, Issue 1, 2013.
• Sheller, M., HC Galada, FA Montalto, PL Gurian, M Piasecki, S O'Connor, T. Ayalew, ‘Gender, Disaster and Resilience: Assessing Women’s Water and Sanitation Needs in Leogane, Haiti, Before and After the 2010 Earthquake’, wH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water, 2 (1), May 2013.
• Vukov, T. and Sheller, M. ‘Border Work: surveillant assemblages, virtual fences, and tactical counter-media’ in ‘Charting, Tracking, and Mapping: New Technologies, Labor, and Surveillance’, a special issue of Social Semiotics, Vol. 23, No. 2, (May 2013): 225-241.
• Sheller, M. ‘The Islanding Effect: Post-Disaster Mobility Systems and Humanitarian Logistics in Haiti’, Cultural Geographies, 20 (2) April 2013: 185-204.
• Sheller, M. ‘Mobility’, Sociopedia (2011) (published by the International Sociological Association with ‘state-of-the-art’ entries in social sciences).
• Sheller, M. ‘Air Mobilities on the US-Caribbean Border: Open Skies and Closed Gates’, The Communication Review, Vol. 13: 4 (2010): 269-288.
• Sheller, M. ‘The New Caribbean Complexity: mobility systems, tourism and the re-scaling of development’, The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 30 (2009) pp. 189-203.
• Sheller, M. ‘Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Software, Mobilities and the Architecture of Caribbean Paradise’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 41 (2009), pp. 1386-1403.
• Sheller, M. ‘Bodies, Cybercars and the Production of Automated-Mobilities’, Social and Cultural Geography, 8: 2 (2008): 175-197.

Bio:

An applied sociologist since earning his PhD in 1961 at Princeton University, Art Shostak, PhD, was an exemplary professor at Drexel from 1967 to 2003. He introduced courses in futurism, race and ethnic relations, social implications of 20th century technology, and urban sociology, and was the first to teach via Drexel Online. During his tenure, he sought and received research grants from the Ford Foundation, German Marhshall Fund, National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. He was the only social scientist to participate in Drexel’s first major effort to secure a large nanotechnology research grant.

Shostak has generously funded the Arthur Shostak Sociology Student Achievement Award, given annually to a graduating Drexel senior, as well as the Annual Drexel Hillel Lectureship, which he established in honor of his parents. He was the recipient of the Drexel University Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence. He was a faculty sponsor of the first LGBT Student Club and he aided in the development of and served on the Advisory Boards of the Judaic Studies and Honors Programs. He served on the Faculty Senate and Chaired its Student Affairs Committee.

Shostak has held many prestigious appointments, including President of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society, Chair of the Sociological Practice Section of the American Sociological Association and of the Philadelphia Committee on Civic Policy. He was also the recipient of the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award in Sociological Practice from the American Sociological Association. He served as a consultant to the New Communities Section of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Program, and labor unions and school systems across the country.

During his career, Shostak has authored more than 200 articles and edited (25), authored (6) or co-authored (3) thirty-four books. His most recent book is "Stealth Altruism: Forbidden Care as Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust" (2017).

Education:

• BS, Sociology, Portland State University
• MA, Sociology, Arizona State University
• PhD, Sociology, Arizona State University, 2003

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Environmental Sociology
• Environmental inequality and injustice (using both qualitative historical and quantitative geographical methods)
• Political Sociology
• Social Stratification and Inequality
• Urban social inequalities of race, class and gender

Bio:

Diane Sicotte, PhD is an environmental sociologist with research interests in environmental injustice and inequality. She teaches courses on environmental justice, environmental sociology, sociology of disasters, and social movements. She combines sociological research methods with geographic and historical methods to investigate the role of race/ethnicity, social class, labor and waste disposal technologies in the development of environmental inequalities.

She is currently researching issues related to natural gas extraction, including labor union members’ preferences for natural gas or alternative energy sources; the connection between hydraulic fracturing and plastics production; and the role of natural gas infrastructures in technological lock-in that will ensure continued use of fossil fuel as an energy source.

She is the author of "From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region" (Rutgers University Press, 2016).

Specialization:

Multimethods research on environmental inequality; sociology of the environment; urban sociology; social inequalities; the political ecology of energy.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Sicotte, Diane.  2016.  From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region (Rutgers University Press).

Articles

• Diane Sicotte and Robert J. Brulle. 2018. “Environmental Justice and Social Movement Theory,” in Handbook of Environmental Justice, edited by Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty and Gordon Walker, pp. 25-36. London and New York: Routledge Press.
• Diane Sicotte and Kelly Joyce. 2017. “Not a ‘Petro Metro:’ Challenging Fossil Fuel Expansion.” Environmental Sociology, 3, 4: 337-347.
• Sicotte, Diane.  2016.  “The Importance of Historical Methods for Building Theories of Urban Environmental Inequality,” Environmental Sociology, 2, 3: 254-264.
• Sicotte, Diane. 2014. “Diversity and Intersectionality among Environmentally Burdened Communities in Philadelphia MSA, USA.” Urban Studies, 51, 9: 1850-1870.
• Sicotte, Diane. 2010. “Some More Polluted Than Others: Unequal Cumulative Industrial Hazard Burdens in the Philadelphia MSA, USA.” Local Environment, 15, 8: 761-774.
• Sicotte, Diane. 2010. “Don’t Waste Us: Environmental Justice through Urban Planning in Philadelphia, USA.” Environmental Justice, 3, 1: 1-5.
• Sicotte, Diane. 2009. “Power, Profit and Pollution: The Persistence of Environmental Injustice in a Company Town.” Human Ecology Review, 16, 2: 141-150.
• Sicotte, Diane and Samantha Swanson.  2007.  “Whose Risk in Philadelphia? Proximity to Unequally Hazardous Industrial Facilities.” Social Science Quarterly, 88, 2: 515-534.

Book Chapters

• Sicotte, Diane and Robert J. Brulle.  2017.  “Environmental Justice and Social Movement Theory,” (requested contribution to the Handbook of Environmental Justice, edited by Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty and Gordon Walker, forthcoming from Routledge Press).
• Sicotte, Diane. 2012. “Saving Ourselves by Acting Locally: Environmental Justice Activism in The Philadelphia Area, 1981-2001,” in Brian Black and Michael J. Chiarappa (editors), Nature’s Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds.  University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 231-249.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
• BA, Psychology, Case Western Reserve University

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

Medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production

Bio:

Kelly Underman received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine prior to joining the faculty at Drexel. She is a qualitative researcher whose interests include medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production. Her work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Society and Sociological Forum. Her awards include the Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section.

Specialization:

Medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production

Selected Publications:

• Underman, Kelly, Paige L. Sweet, and Claire Laurier Decoteau. 2017. “Custodial Citizenship in the Autism Omnibus Proceeding,” Sociological Forum, 32(3): 544–565.
• Underman, Kelly, and Laura E. Hirshfield. 2016. “Detached Concern?: Emotional Socialization in Twenty-First Century Medical Education.” Social Science & Medicine, 160: 94–101.
• Underman, Kelly. 2015. “Playing Doctor: Simulation in Medical School as Affective Practice.” Social Science & Medicine, 136: 180-188.
• Underman, Kelly. 2011. “It’s the Knowledge That Puts You in Control”: The Embodied Labor of Gynecological Educators. Gender amp; Society, 25(4): 431-450.