Amy Braksmajer

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Bailey Hall 244
585-245-6201
abraksmajer@geneseo.edu

Amy Braksmajer joined the 麻豆传媒团队 faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology.

Professor Braksmajer is the director of the  

Amy Braksmajer

麻豆传媒团队 SEX[Ed]

Office Hours

  • Monday & Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00pm

     

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 2013 Ph. D. in Sociology, Stony Brook University

  • 2003 M.P.H. (Concentration: Sociomedical Sciences), Columbia University

  • 2000 B.S. in Applied Social Sciences, Binghamton University

Publications

  • Braksmajer, Amy, and Andrew London. 2022a. 鈥淲hat Do Epidemic History and Sexual Minority Men鈥檚
    Experiences of HIV and COVID-19 Teach Us About Pandemic Preparedness?鈥 Syracuse
    University, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion Research Brief #61.

  • Braksmajer, Amy, Rachel Kalish, and Jennifer Katz. 2022b. 鈥淭he Scarlet V: How Women with
    Dyspareunia Negotiate Postfeminist Discourses of Sexual Agency.鈥 Culture, Health & Sexuality 1鈥
    16.

  • Braksmajer, Amy, and Andrew S. London. 2021a. 鈥淚t鈥檚 History in the Making All around Us鈥: Examining
    COVID-19 through the Lenses of HIV and Epidemic History.鈥 Culture, Health, and Sexuality
    23(11):1500鈥1515.

  • Braksmajer, Amy, and Robert Cserni. 2021b. 鈥溾業t鈥檚 Just a Matter of Playing the Odds鈥: Navigating Risks
    Associated with Sexual Behaviour in the COVID-19 Era.鈥 Sociology of Health & Illness 43(9):2085鈥
    2101.

Interests

  • Gender
  • Sexuality
  • Sexual Health
  • HIV prevention
  • Medicalization
  • Social construction of risk behaviors

Classes

  • SOCL 213: Sociology of Medicine

    Presents social and cultural factors influencing health and illness. Looks at the roles of health care professionals, patients, and medical settings in our society. Discusses the relationships between the current health care system and the political and economic systems.

  • SOCL 314: Illness, Self & Society

    Examines health and illness as social phenomena. Focuses on how individual experience with illness is influenced by social context. Topics include the social construction of health and illness, the experience of acute and chronic diseases, the nature and role of social support, and the self and illness.

  • SOCL 361: Field Research Methods

    Techniques of social research conducted in natural settings, including observation, interviewing, and unobtrusive methods, are examined and skills in using them are developed. Procedures for analyzing information obtained and for presenting findings are addressed. Prerequisites: Any 100-level Sociology course or permission of instructor. Offered every fall