Sarah
Sobieraj
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. SUNY Albany, M.A. American University
Office phone: 617-627-2472
Expertise:
Political Sociology, Mass Media; Civil Society and the
Public Sphere; Sociology of Culture; Social Movements
Biography and Interests:
Sarah Sobieraj is a specialist in media, politics, and
culture who joined the department in 2005. Her
forthcoming book explores activist groups' struggle for
political voice, highlighting the political and cultural
costs of "media-centered activism" around presidential
campaigns. Her newest work (with political scientist
Jeff Berry) examines political speech intended to
provoke and emotional response (e.g., fear, anger, moral
indignation), focusing on blogs, talk radio, and cable
news programming. She is an award-winning teacher, and
her most recent publications can be found in
Sociological Theory, Sociological Inquiry, The
Sociological Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. In
her free time she enjoys baking cookies, talking
politics, and nurturing her love hate relationship with
popular culture - purely a scholarly interest, of
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