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Terry Boychuk,
Associate Professor and Chair
BA Carleton College 1986, MA Princeton University 1990, PhD Princeton
University 1994
Terry Boychuk took his undergraduate studies in Sociology and
Anthropology at Carleton College and received his PhD in Sociology
from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty at Macalester
College in 1996, Professor Boychuk directed the Health Policy
Certificate Program at the Center for Health Policy Research Education
at Duke University. Professor Boychuk has taught a wide range
of courses that reflect his research interests in the historical
development of social policies: Affirmative Action Policy, American
Social Policy, Comparative Health Systems, Medical Sociology,
Nonprofit Organizations, Politics of Health Policy, and Sociology
of Philanthropy. He commonly leads sections of Introduction to
Sociology each year and has taught the department’s quantitative
methodology class, Science and Social Inquiry. He has recently
led the Senior Seminar in Sociology, the capstone experience for
department majors. Professor Boychuk also teaches Comparative-Historical
Sociology, one of the three methods course offered in sociology.
His doctoral and postdoctoral research on the comparative history
of American and Canadian health policy was published as The Making
and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada,
appearing in 1999 under the imprint of the University of Michigan
Press. More recently Professor Boychuk has devoted his attention
to a study of the historical origins of the legal frameworks that
define the nature and scope of the charitable nonprofit sector
in the UK, US, and the British Commonwealth.
Mahnaz Kousha, Professor
BA Iran-Tehran 1978, MS University of Kentucky 1985, PhD University
of Kentucky 1990
Professor Kousha took her undergraduate studies at the College
of Fine Arts in Tehran and received her PhD in Sociology from
the University of Kentucky. She joined the Macalester sociology
department in 1991. Professor Kousha teaches the department’s
methods of field research course, Interpretive Sociology, as well
as a range of classes on race, ethnicity, and gender. These courses
include Family Bonds, Images of Asians and Asian Americans, Images
of Women in the Middle East, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Professor Kousha’s latest publication, Voices from Iran:
the Changing Lives of Iranian Women (2002), focused on women's
lives in Iran within the family as well as the larger society.
The book explored intimate family relationships between mothers
and daughters or fathers and daughters; this exploration took
into account the much broader socio-cultural changes that were
happening in the country during the last three to four decades.
Professor Kousha’s current work is an attempt to explore
issues regarding men and their relationship with their parents.
This study will provide a close look at male gender socialization
in Iranian families and will situate the findings within the much
larger body of literature to provide a comparative context. Professor
Kousha is co-founder of the Center for Critical Studies of the
Middle East, a member of the Board of Directors and co-founder
of the journal, Critique: Critical Studies of the Middle East,
and co-organizer of the Annual Conference: Life and Politics in
the Middle East.
Erik Larson, Assistant Professor
BA Hamline University 1992, MA University of Minnesota 1997, PhD
University of Minnesota 2004
Erik Larson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Macalester
College. His fields of interest include sociology of law, political
sociology, economic sociology, and comparative-historical sociology.
He received his B.A. from Hamline University and his Ph.D. from
the University of Minnesota. His courses at Macalester include
Law and Society, Criminal Behavior / Social Control, Political
Sociology, Economic Sociology, Indigenous Peoples’ Movements
in Global Context, and Science and Social Inquiry (the department’s
quantitatively-oriented research methods course). His research
focuses on the emergence and transformation of legal, economic,
and political institutions in relation to the global and national
developments. For this research, he has traveled to Fiji, Ghana,
Iceland, Switzerland, and Japan. Recent and current research projects
include analysis of the political contention concerning economic
affirmative action policies targeted on the basis of indigenous
status; examination of the establishment and operation of new
young stock exchanges; investigation of the nexus between the
global indigenous rights movement and national and regional indigenous
rights movements; and study of the preparation, presentation,
and interpretation of evidence for international treaty reporting
and monitoring bodies. In addition, Professor Larson has collaborated
with Macalester students to study the Ainu rights movement in
Japan in relation to the global indigenous rights movement and
to examine factors associated with school-wide performance on
standardized tests in Minnesota.
Khaldoun Samman, Assistant Professor
BA George Washington University 1988, MA SUNY Binghamton 1996, PhD
SUNY Binghamton 2001
Khaldoun Samman took his undergraduate studies at George Washington
University in Washington D.C. and received his PhD in Sociology
from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He joined
the Macalester sociology department in 2002. Professor Samman
teaches the department’s Social Theory course, Islam and
the West, Secularism and Its Discontents, as well as a range of
classes on social problems and social inequalities. Professor
Samman’s latest publication, Cities of God and Nationalism:
Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities (2007), tackles
the controversial thesis that modernity, far from bringing in
an age of tolerance, creates the social bases of exclusion. The
central thesis of the book is that our real problem is the rigid
conceptions of national spaces and peoples that have recently
been forced upon these sacred spaces. The book uses three major
sacred cities to explore how modernity, through the apparatus
of nationalism and the nation-state, redefined our constructs
of self and other in fundamental ways, having major implications
for the way Rome, Mecca, and Jerusalem are conceived by the inhabitants
of the world who identify with them. Professor Samman’s
current work will explore the nationalist discourses of Kemalists,
Zionists, Arab nationalists and contemporary Islamists. Samman
argues that all of these movements are a response to the incorporation
of the region into the matrix of modernity, with Zionism and Kemalism,
in their secular orientation, ascribing to the dictates of modernizing
and Occidentalizing nationalist identities while the latter, especially
the Islamist, prefer an alternative orientation, what Samman identifies
as an Orientalizing modernity. This latter project is especially
important because it symbolizes the slow evaporation and eventual
deligitimization of the racialized discourses of the Enlightenment
and the modernist/nationalist projects which, through their developmentalist
and modernizing projects, reproduced the racial schemes of their
colonial masters. Recently, professor Samman collaborated with
a number of his students and published together their sociologically
informed biographries in the journal Human Architecture: The Journal
of the Sociology of Self Knowledge (2005, Volume 3). He hopes
to do something similar for his Spring 2007 course, Islam and
the West.
Deborah Smith, Visiting Professor
PhD Candidate UMN
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