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Nancy T. Ammerman | Professor

Emily Barman | Associate Professor

Jeff Coulter | Professor

Susan Eckstein | Professor

Julian Go | Associate Professor

Liah Greenfeld | Professor

Alya Guseva | Associate Professor

Stephen Kalberg | Associate Professor

Nazli Kibria | Associate Professor

Ashley Mears | Assistant Professor

Sigrun Olafsdottir | Assistant Professor

Laurel Smith-Doerr | Associate Professor

John Stone | Professor

David Swartz | Assistant Professor

Peter Yeager | Associate Professor

 

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Susan | Adjunct Professor

Patricia Rieker | Visiting Professor

 

Emeritus Faculty

Brigitte Berger

Peter Berger

Sally Whelan Cassidy

Adelaide M. Cromwell

Mark G. Field

Murray Melbin

S.M Miller

George Psathas

James Teele

Paule Verdet

Eugene Walter

 

Senior Teaching Fellows

Cara Bowman | Economic Sociology

Courtney Feldscher | The Workplace

Don Gillis | Boston's People

Itai Vardi | Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations

 

 

 

Elizabeth Markson
Adjunct Professor
PhD, Yale University (1966)

Sociology 265 | 617.358.0637 | hezikih@bu.edu

BIO AND RESEARCH
Elizabeth Markson's research focuses on the sociology of aging and on women and aging.

PUBLICATIONS
Markson, EW.  "Menopause."  In Encyclopedia of Aging (4th edition). N.Y:  Springer Publishing Co., 2006. 

Markson EW. "Social Problems." In Encyclopedia of Aging (4th edition). NY: Springer Publishing Co. 2006.

Markson, EW.  "Beth Hess."  In Encyclopedia of Sociology.  Blackwell, 2006.

Markson, EW and Melichor, DY.  Older Women: An Annotated Bibliography.  Washington DC: Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, 2004.

Markson, EW.  "The Female Aging Body through Film."  In Faircloth, C. A.  The Aging Body: Meanings and Perspectives.  Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira, 2003.

Markson, EW. Social Gerontology: An Introduction. Los Angeles CA: Roxbury, 2003.

Markson, EW. and Hollis-Sawyer, L.(eds).  Intersections of Aging.  Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, (now available through Oxford University Press) 2000.

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