Amy Agigian, Associate Professor

Amy Agigian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

 

Mailing address:
Department of Sociology
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, Massachusetts 02108

Phone: 617.573.8487
Fax: 617.994.4278
aagigian@suffolk.edu

Office:  73 Tremont Street, 5th Floor, Room 585

Office Hours, Spring 2009

Monday and Wednesday, 2:30-3:30PM      

Research Interests

Sociology of Reproduction. Gender and Women’s Studies. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. Health and Human Rights.

Education

Ph.D.  Brandeis University, Department of Sociology. 1998.
M.A.   Brandeis University, Department of Sociology. 1993.
B.A.   University of California at Santa Cruz, Majors in Women’s Studies and Comparative Religion. 1987.

Employment

Associate Professor, Suffolk University, Sociology Department. 2004-present.
Assistant Professor, Suffolk University, Sociology Department. 1999-2004.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Suffolk University, Sociology Department. Spring 1999.
Senior Lecturer, Suffolk University, Sociology Department. Fall 1998.
Tutor, Harvard University, Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies, and History of Science Department. 1997-1998.
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies. 1994-1998.
Lecturer, Brandeis University, Sociology Department. 1993-1997.

Selected Publications

"Holistic sickening: breast cancer and the discursive worlds of complementary and alternative practitioners.” With Susan Sered. Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 30 No. 4 2008: 616– 631.
Baby Steps: How Lesbian Insemination is changing the World. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. Paper edition, 2005.
“Stratified Reproduction.” Entry in the Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, 2005.

Recent Oral Presentations

“Women’s Mental Health and Well-Being: How a Human Rights Perspective Helps.” Keynote address at the conference “Women’s Mental Health and Well-Being: (How) Does a Human Rights Perspective Help?” Suffolk University. Boston. January 2007.

 “Health, Human Rights, and Hurricane Katrina.” Presentation in the Health and the Environment panel, Boston Meets Katrina: Anniversary Symposium. University of Massachusetts, Boston. September 2006.

“Silence, Ideology, Enforced Stories, and Hidden Agendas: Laws & Policies regarding Lesbian AI And their Implementation.” Thematic Session Panelist, American Sociological Association Conference. Montreal. August 2006.

Professional Activities

Director, Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights
Director, Master of Arts in Women’s Health program
Academic Director, Practicum in Advocacy at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

Other Activities

Principal and Steering Committee Member, Massachusetts CEDAW Coalition
Board Member, Jobs with Justice, Workers’ Rights Board

Courses Taught

Graduate Courses:
• Sociology of Women’s Health and Illness
• Sociology of Reproduction
Undergraduate Courses:
• Introduction to Sociology.
• Law, Health, and Human Rights.
• Medical Sociology.
• Seminar in Health and Human Services.
• Sociology of Aging.
• Women and Health.
• Women in Contemporary Society.
• Women in Struggle on Film.