Susan J. Ferguson (born 1961) is a professor of

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

Grinnell College Grinnell College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalis ...

. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Political Science from

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University Syst ...

in 1984, as well as her 1988 M.A. in sociology; she received her Ph.D. in sociology in 1993 from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. She specializes in the areas of

sociology of the family Sociology of the family is a subfield of sociology in which researchers and academics study family structure as a social institution and unit of socialization from various sociological perspectives. It can be seen as an example of patterned soci ...

Asian women The evolution and history of women in Asia coincide with the evolution and history of Asian continent itself. They also correspond with the cultures that developed within the region. Asian women can be categorically grouped as women from the Asia ...

medical sociology Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of health, Illness, differential access to medical resources, the social organization of medicine, Health Care Delivery, the production of medical knowledge, selection of methods, the study of action ...

women's health Women's health is an example of population health, where health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". Often treated ...

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

and teaching. She received the 2018 Hans O. Mauksch Award at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Philadelphia for her contributions to the teaching and learning of sociology through program development, student advising, and assessment of curriculum and teaching materials.

Publications

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Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class Dimensions of Inequality and Identity
', Fourth Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (2023) *
Shifting the Center Understanding Contemporary Families
', Sixth Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (2022) *
Mapping the Social Landscape Readings in Sociology
'' Ninth Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (2020) * ''Families in the 21st Century Series'' (4 volumes), (2008–2010), series editor * Editor. ''Contemporary Family Perspectives Series''. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 2011–2016. * Editor.
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic
'. New York: Palgrave. Co-editor is Anne S. Kasper. December 2000.

External links

Grinnell College faculty homepage

References

1962 births Colorado State University alumni Living people Grinnell College faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumni American sociologists American women sociologists 21st-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Medical sociologists {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub