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Dr. Brian Mayer
Turlington Hall 3338
(352) 392-0265 x228

bmayer@ufl.edu

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University of Florida
PO Box 117330
Gainesville, FL 32611

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Mondays: 10:30-12:00
Wednesdays: 2:00-4:00

Updated: 8/27/07
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Brian Mayer

Brian Mayer
Assistant Professor of Sociology

About Me

My research areas include environmental sociology, medical sociology, social movements, and the sociology of science. I am principally interested in the intersection of these sociological disciplines, where social movement actors contest with scientists and policy makers over environmental causes of disease. I am also interested in social stratification and inequality, especially as these concern the distribution of environmental inequalities in our society. As I continue to work in these fields, I am beginning a new project which looks at the past and current state of chemical security and safety in the United States.

I am currently teaching a course entitled "Illness and the Environment," which examines how the state of the scientific evidence regarding the potential link between health the environment is constructed and stakeholders interact to manage and create public policy to protect the public's health.

I recieved my PhD in Sociology from Brown University in 2006. While at Brown, I was a member of the Contested Illnesses Research Group - a multidisciplinary project created in 1999 to study disputes over environmental causes of disease. After completing the PhD program at Brown, I joined the faculty at the University of Florida in the Fall of 2006.