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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: 9:00-11:00
Thursdays: 2:00-4:00
Updated:
8/27/07
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Brian Mayer
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 Cornel 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.
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.
