Matthew Schneirov, Ph.D
Associate ProfessorMcAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Department of Sociology
College Hall 517
Phone: 412.396.6494
schneirov@duq.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1992M.A., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1977
B.A., Antrhopology and Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1974
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)
Health movements
social history of the media
cultural sociology
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