Susan E. Bell, PhD
Susan E. Bell, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences, where she served as Department Head 2015-2020. Previously, she was Professor of Sociology and A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College.
She is a graduate of Haverford College (Philosophy), received her PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Sociology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School.
Her research specialty is the sociology of health and illness. At Drexel she teaches courses about the sociology of health and illness, global health, and classical social theory. 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.