Eve Spangler
Associate Professor
Biography
I have always positioned my work within public sociology, using scholarly methods to contribute to the struggle for social justice. Class inequality has been the focus of much of my work. I have investigated the career patterns of blue collar college graduates (they rarely catch up to their more privileged classmates); the experiences of professionals as their work is reorganized from independent to salaried forms (they lose autonomy); and the safety and health of workplaces (generally better served by labor militancy than by managerial enlightenment). Through these studies, I have also become interested in gender, e.g. around issues of sexual harassment at work, and in issues of race, especially as Islamophobia, an emerging form of racism, complicates American participation in a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. My most recent work is focused on human rights and social justice struggles in Palestine and Israel. Within the community, I serve as a board member of the Human and Civil Rights Organizations of America, a founding board member of American Jews for a Just Peace, a teacher for Jewish Voices for Peace adult education programs, and a frequent evaluator of applied academic programs (e.g. The Center for Women and Politics, and the Center for Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Program in Applied Sociology, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota).