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Dr. Brian Mayer
Turlington Hall 3338
(352) 392-0265 x228

bmayer@ufl.edu


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Gainesville, FL 32611


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Updated: 8/27/07
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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 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.

   
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