Sociology Faculty

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, PhD, University of California-Berkeley. Research interests include international migration, border controls, human smuggling, the penal state, race relations, ethnographic methods, and social theory; current project examines the role of states, smugglers, vigilantes, and NGOs in regulating clandestine migrations at the United States-Mexico border; recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Program in Latin American Sociology, Social Science Research Council, and Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California-Berkeley. SLC, 2007–

BA, Kinnaird College, Pakistan. MA, Punjab University, Pakistan. MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Special student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Academic specialization in historical sociology, with emphasis on the mass media, gender, and political economy. Author of Shifting Body Politics: Gender/Nation/State, 2004; co-editor, Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt, 2000; contributor to books and journals on South Asia and the Middle East. Visiting faculty, University of Hawaii at Manoa and the American University in Cairo. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Contributions to Indian Sociology, and past member, Editorial Committee, Middle East Research and Information Project. Past consultant to the Middle East and North Africa Program of the Social Science Research Council, as well as the Population Council West Asia and North Africa Office (Cairo). Recipient of grants from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and the Council on American Overseas Research Centers. SLC, 1987–

BA, Wesleyan University. MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Areas of expertise include medical sociology, the sociology of science and knowledge, gender and sexuality, and the mass media; special interests in interactions among experts, laypersons, and social movements; current project, entitled “Claiming Knowledge: Gay Communities, Science, and the Meaning of Genes,” explores how ideas about biology and sexuality have been produced, circulated, contested, and negotiated within and outside of science; recipient of GLAAD Center for the Study of Media & Society grant for research on coverage of the politics of sexuality in regional media; taught at the University of Maine and Kent State University; recent articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication and the American Journal of Public Health. SLC, 2005–