Home Courses · Environmental Health · Social Movements · Environmental Inequality CV Useful Links 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 Wednesdays 10-12 and by appointment Updated: 7/1/11 Website maintained by Brian Mayer	Brian Mayer Assistant Professor of Sociology   Ph.D., Brown University, 2006 Research in the Gulf Beginning in the Fall of 2011, I will be working in communities along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Mexico as part of research grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The five-year $1.3 million dollar grant, “Health Impacts of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Eastern Gulf Coast Communities: A Community-Based Assessment of Vulnerability and Resiliency,” examines how communities were affected by the BP oil spill. Utilizing community-based participatory research, I am collecting interviews, focus groups, and social network analyses from four resource-based communities along the Gulf. Specifically, I am working in Cedar Key, Apalachicola, Pensacola in Florida and Bon Secour in Alabama. We hope our results produce better indictors of social vulnerability and community resiliency that will aid communities throughout the Gulf be prepared for future disasters. About Me My primary 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. 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.   I received 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.