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Drew HalfmannAssistant ProfessorPh.D., New York University Curriculum Vitae
Phone: 752-3182 |
Research Interests
- Health Policy, Social Policy, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Social Movements
Publications
- "The Biomedical Legacy in Minority Health Policy-Making, 1975-2002" (with Jesse Rude and Kim Ebert). Research in the Sociology of Health Care, 2005, 23, 245-275.
- "Historical Priorities and the Responses of Doctors’ Associations to Abortion Reforms in Britain and the United States, 1960-1973.” Social Problems, 2003, 50: 567-92.
- "Who Voted with Hopkins? Institutional Politics and the WPA" (with Edwin Amenta). Journal of Policy History, 2001, 13(2): 251-277.
- "Wage Wars: Institutional Politics, WPA Wages and the Struggle for U.S. Social Policy" (with Edwin Amenta). American Sociological Review, 2000, 65(4): 506-528.
- "The Strategies and Contexts of Social Protest: Political Mediation and the Impact of the Townsend Movement in California" (with Edwin Amenta and Michael P. Young). Mobilization, 1999, 4(1): 1-23.
- "Bring Back the WPA: Work, Relief, and the Origins of American Social Policy in Welfare Reform" (with Edwin Amenta, Chris Bonastia, Ellen Benoit & Nancy K. Cauthen). Studies in American Political Development, 12 (Spring 1998): 1-56.
Course Syllabi
- Social Welfare (Soc 185)
- Sociology of Health and Illness (Soc 154)
- Political Sociology (Soc 118)
- Honors Thesis Seminar (Soc 194H)
- Sociology of Health and Illness--Grad Seminar (Soc 254)
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