Gerald E. Markle (M.A. Molecular Biology, Ph.D. Sociology) is Professor of Sociology. He has published in a wide variety of areas of sociology, including deviance, social movements, medical sociology, and comparative-historical research, with a special emphasis on Holocaust studies. In 1991, he received the North Central Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award.

In 2000, he was recipient of the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociology. He is author of numerous and widely reprinted scholarly articles and original chapters, as well as six books. One of his books, Cigarettes: The Battle Over Smoking (Rutgers University Press) has been translated into Japanese; another, Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, of which he is one of four editors, was translated into Chinese in 2004. He is author of "A Thought Experiment on the Disappearance of Medicine."  In the past ten years, five of his students have published their dissertations as monographs.

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