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The goal of the UAB Department of Sociology is to be ranked among the best programs in medical sociology in the nation. Resources are in place to accomplish this through the Department’s current research links and opportunities with faculty in UAB’s medical school that is consistently ranked by U. S. News & World Report as one of the top twenty-five such schools nationally and with the many research centers and clinical programs that exist on campus.
In order to help meet this objective, the Department intends to add three additional medical sociologists, open rank, with outstanding potential beginning in 2014-15 to develop their own research agendas and cooperate with faculty in medicine and public health on projects of mutual interest. Recruiting will begin for these position in Summer, 2013.
Faculty News
The Editorial Team for Social Theory & Health notified Bill Cockerham that his 2007 article "A Note on the Fate of Postmodern Theory and its Failure to Meet the Basic Requirements for Success in Medical Sociology," Social Theory & Health 5, 285-296 - was one of their top ten articles for number of web page views for 2012.
New Faculty (2013-14)
Shawn Bauldry, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill 2012; postdoc UNC-Chapel Hill)
Jonathan Daw, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill 2011; postdoc University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Genetics)
JD Wolfe, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. expected, Indiana University 2013)
UAB-Department of Sociology
Graduates of UAB's Medical Sociology doctoral program have a history of doing well in the job market. Currently, 100% of all graduates have jobs and most found positions quickly.
Recent graduates and their new jobs include:
- David Buys, UAB - Preventive Medicine (post-doc)
- Yue Cao, Medical College of South Carolina
- Colin Ferrell, Saginaw State University
- Tim Hale, Harvard University Medical School (post-doc)
- Tara Jones, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Akilah Dulin Keita, Brown University Medical School
- Xiaofei Qiao, UAB- Spain Rehabilitation Center
- Elizabeth Yost, College of William and Mary
Graduate News
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation's leading philanthropy on health and health care, has awarded UAB Medical Sociology Ph.D. graduate Akilah Dulin Keita, Brown University Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, a 24-month grant through the New Connections program. Keita is among a select group of Junior Investigators to receive one of the 24-month grants from New Connections. The grant will allow Keita, who studies health disparities at the Brown Institute for Community Health Promotion, to examine the risk and protective factors for childhood obesity among Southeast Asians.
Congratulations to graduate students Tuba Demir and Haley Medved Kendrick, who have been chosen to participate in an exchange program with Hacettepe University in Turkey this summer. The students will learn about health care and nursing, as well as share their expertise from research and medical sociology. The program is supported by UAB's School of Public Health, Sparkman Center for Global Health, College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Health Professions
Congratulations to Dr. Xuanping Zhang, 2002 Ph.D. graduate of our program, who is now a Health Scientist at the CDC. His paper on diabetes was cited in the Supreme court decision regarding the Affordable Care Act the week of June 28, 2012. (The article is at Diabetes Care 2008;31:1748-1753).
Our Vision
The Department of Sociology aspires to be one of the leading Medical Sociology programs in the country, providing the highest quality teaching and research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Our Approach
The focus of instruction at the graduate level is the sociology of health and medicine. Students are trained broadly in theory and methods, but the primary goal is to train medical sociologists. We encourage an interdisciplinary approach and seek to maintain and grow our partnerships with the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and campus interdisciplinary research centers. At the undergraduate level, we offer a general degree in sociology, with concentrations available in social psychology and medical sociology.
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