Wendy M. Christensen

 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

Spring 2012

  • Intermediate Independent Study in Africana Studies (AFRS 291)
  • Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101A)
  • War and Media (SOC 226)
Phone 725-3268
Title Visiting Assistant Professor
Department Sociology And Anthropology
Work Location 402 Adams Hall
E-Mail wchriste@bowdoin.edu
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Education

Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
M.S. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
B.S. in Sociology, State University of New York-Stony Brook, 2002

Research Areas

Political discourse, social inequality, gender, war and the military, and new media technologies.

Previous courses taught

Gender and Politics, Sociology of the Family, War and Media, and Sociology of Gender

Publications

Christensen, Wendy M. "Technological boundaries: Defining the personal and the political in military mothers' online support forums" (PDF) Women's Studies Quarterly: Special Issue on Technology, Spring/Summer 2009, 37:1&2, pp 146-166.

Christensen, Wendy M. and Myra Marx Ferree. "Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate" (PDF) Qualitative Sociology: Special Issue on Political Violence, September 2008, 31:3, pp. 287-306.

CV online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3547257/Curriculum-Vitae