Christina Weber

Christina Weber is working on an historical ethnographic study on how photography and visual ethnography impacted and shaped historical understanding of the Great Depression. Her work with women and the dustbowl is an extension of this project and emphasizes her interests in the sociology of memory and trauma. She has applied for an NEH grant and an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention grant, both of which expand on her interests in how war and trauma impact veterans and their families (and is the theme of her book, Social Memory and War Narratives: Transmitted Trauma among Children of Vietnam Veterans, which was published by Palgrave Press).

Weber also works extensively in the area of mentoring, training students and junior faculty in the college of AHSS in a variety of ways. She works closely with sociology masters students, mentoring them through their theses (four of her students earned their masters degree this calendar year). She established a mentoring group for pre-tenure faculty in her department to support their tenure progress. As Associate Dean of Faculty Development in AHSS, she has developed and facilitated mentoring programs for first through third year faculty, pre-tenure mentoring panels, and a college development day.

Ph.D. in Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY)--Buffalo, 2005

M.A. in Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY)--Buffalo, 2001

B.A. in Sociology, University of Washington, 1999