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Sharon Lang
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Sharon Lang

Sharon Lang Ph.D.

Department Chair
Sociology & Anthropology

Education

  • M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
  • B.A., Boston University

Academic Interests and Areas of Expertise

  • Middle East Studies

  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  • Peace and conflict resolution

  • Construction of identity

  • Honor killings and other forms of violence against women

  • Cultural studies of dance

  • Anthropology of death and dying

  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Courses Taught

  • SOAN 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • SOAN 259 The Middle East
  • SOAN 265 Death and Dying
  • SOAN 313 Anthropological Theories
  • SOAN 345 World Ethnographies
  • SOAN 365 The Anthropology of Dance

Publications

Lang, Sharon. (2005). Shaking Hands with the Enemy: The Quest for Honor among Israeli-Palestinian Men Routledge Press.

Lang, Sharon. (August, 2004). "Micaela's Love." HOPE (an on-line SIDS publication)

Lang, Sharon. (2004). "Sulha Peacemaking." in Together: Communicating Interpersonally: A Social Construction Approach, ed. John Stewart, 6th edition. Roxbury Publishing Co.

Lang, Sharon. (2002). "The Resiliency of Ethnography: Qualitative Methodology in Education and the Social Sciences." Journal of Resiliency Research, Invited Inaugural Address of peer-reviewed journal.

Lang, Sharon. (2002). "Sulha Peacemaking and the Politics of Persuasion." Journal of Palestine Studies, Issue 31.

 

Lang, Sharon. (2002). "Conflict Resolution Among Israeli-Palestinians." Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences Proceedings.

Awards, Honors, Grants

  • 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 (US Department of Education)
  • FLAS
  • Mellon Fellowships
  • Harvard University Merit Scholarship
  • Boston University Merit Scholarship