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Environmental Health
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Contact Information:
Dr. Brian Mayer
Turlington Hall 3338
(352) 392-0265 x228
bmayer@ufl.edu
Mailing Address:
University of Florida
PO Box 117330
Gainesville, FL 32611
Office hours
Mondays: 10:30am-12:00pm
Wednesdays: 2:00-4:00pm
Updated: 1/20/09
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Brian Mayer
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Brian Mayer
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Brown University, 2006
About
Me
Labor and environmental alliances, or blue-green coalitions, are rapidly
changing the face of social movement organizing in the United States. My
book, Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and
Healthy Communities, from Cornell University Press in 2008 examines three cases of
successful coalitions and finds that together, the two movements are capable
of more than either has been alone. Pieces of my blue-green research have
been published in Organization and Environment and Sociological
Inquiry. Blue-Green Coalitions has been featured in a number of
news outlets including Mid-Florida Public Radio and Environmental Health and
Safety Today.
My other research areas include environmental sociology, medical
sociology, social movements, and the sociology of science. I am principally
interested in the intersection of these sociological disciplines, where
social movement actors contest with scientists and policy makers over
environmental causes of disease. I am also interested in social
stratification and inequality, especially as these concern the distribution
of environmental inequalities in our society. As I continue to work in these
fields, I am beginning a new project which looks at the past and current
state of chemical security and safety in the United States.
I recieved my PhD in Sociology from Brown University in 2006. While at
Brown, I was a member of the Contested
Illnesses Research Group - a multidisciplinary project created in 1999 to
study disputes over environmental causes of disease. After completing the PhD
program at Brown, I joined the faculty at the University of Florida in the
Fall of 2006.
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