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Tom Waidzunas
Postdoctoral Fellow
1812 Chicago Ave. Room 109
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: (847) 491-3202
t-waidzunas@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: (Winter 2012)
Tuesday 11:00-12:00 and Wednesday 1:00-2:00
Areas of Interest
Social movements
Sexuality Studies
Science Studies
Biography
Tom Waidzunas, Ph.D., is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University and is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Sociology. His research brings together approaches from the sociology of social movements, sexuality studies, and science studies, and he is generally interested in the construction of scientific knowledge of human sexuality in various domains. He recently earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in Sociology and Science Studies, and his dissertation is titled “Drawing the Straight Line: Social Movements and Hierarchies of Evidence in Sexual Reorientation Therapy Debates.” He is currently working on extending this research to understand the ex-gay and gay rights movements as transnational networks in relation to the production of knowledge of sexual orientation within different national contexts. In sociology, he will be teaching the courses “Technology and Society,” and “Global Health and Transnational Social Movements.”
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 376 / GEN STU 374: Special Topics: Gender, Sexuality, and Work in Technoscience
SOCIOL 376: Global Health and Transnational Social Movements Syllabus
SOCIOL 376: Technology and Society
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
