Sharon Lang Ph.D.
Department Chair
Sociology & Anthropology, Faculty Experts
Education
- M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
- B.A., Boston University
Academic Interests and Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology of death and dying
- Construction of identity
- Cultural studies of dance
- Honor killings and other forms of violence against women
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Middle East studies
- Peace and conflict resolution
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Publications
- Lang, Sharon. Shaking Hands with the Enemy: The Quest for Honor among Israeli-Palestinian Men. Routledge Press, 2005.
- Lang, Sharon. "Micaela's Love." HOPE (an online SIDS publication), August 2004.
- Lang, Sharon. "Sulha Peacemaking." In Together: Communicating Interpersonally: A Social Construction Approach, edited by John Stewart, 6th ed. Roxbury Publishing Co., 2004.
- Lang, Sharon. "The Resiliency of Ethnography: Qualitative Methodology in Education and the Social Sciences." Journal of Resiliency Research, 2002. Invited inaugural address of peer-reviewed journal.
- Lang, Sharon. "Sulha Peacemaking and the Politics of Persuasion." Journal of Palestine Studies 31 (2002).
- Lang, Sharon. "Conflict Resolution among Israeli-Palestinians." Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences Proceedings, 2002.
Awards and Service
- Ben Halpern Biennial Award in Israel Studies
- University of Redlands Outstanding Service Award
- Harvard University Grants awarded by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Anthropology
- Doctoral Research Award (U.S. Department of Education)
- FLAS
- Mellon Fellowships
- Harvard University Merit Scholarship
- Boston University Merit Scholarship