VITA

November 2004

Gerald E. Markle, Professor

Department of Sociology

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008

Office phone(616) 387-5290

email: gerald.markle@wmich.edu

Education

B.A. Wayne State University, biology, 1964

M.A. Wayne State University, microbiology, 1966.

Thesis: "Some effects of thymine dimers on the photoreactivation of Escherichia coli" (Rosario Teodoro, advisor).

a.b.d. Florida State University, molecular biology, 1968.

Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship in Molecular Biophysics, 1967-1968

M.A. Florida State University, sociology, 1969.

Thesis: "An analysis of attitudes and issues concerning the future prospects of sex predetermination."

Ph.D. Florida State University, 1972.

Dissertation: "Sex predetermination: Its potential impact on fertility" (Charles B. Nam, advisor).

Honors and Awards

Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, 1991.

Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociology, Michigan Sociological Association, 2000

Other Academic Appointments

Visiting Professor, Joint appointment in the Program on Science, Technology and Society, and the Department of Sociology, Cornell University, 1988

Areas of Special Interest

Comparative Historical, Holocaust Studies, Sociology of Science and Knowledge, Social Movements

Publications: Books

Science, Politics and Cancer: The Laetrile Phenomenon. American Association for the Advancement of Science Selected Symposia Series, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980 (with James Petersen).

Cigarettes: The Battle Over Smoking. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1983 (with Ronald Troyer).

Translated into Japanese as Tabako no Shakai: Shien o Meguru Kobosen (Kyoto: Sekai Shisosha, 1992).

Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons Protest in America. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications, 1989 (with Frances McCrea).

Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, 1991

Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Newbury Park, California: Official Publication of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications, 1995 (with Sheila Jasanoff, James Petersen and Trevor Pinch).

Revised 2^nd Edition, 2001

Translation into Chinese. Beijing Institute of Technology Press, 2004

Meditations of a Holocaust Traveler. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Books: Translated

Cigarettes: The Battle Over Smoking. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1983 (with Ronald Troyer). Translated into Japanese as Tabako no Shakai: Shien o Meguru Kobosen (Kyoto: Sekai Shisosha, 1992).

Books: In Progress

What If? A Thought Experiment on the Disappearance of Medicine, 4 of 11 chapters completed.

Books: Unpublished Novels

(represented by Quicksilver Literary Agency)

Odessa Journal.

Marko's Daughter

Drowned in the Bosporus

Operation Gomorrah

Publications: Articles and Original Chapters

"Sex predetermination: its impact on fertility" (with Charles B. Nam). Social Biology, 18: 73-83, 1971.

Reprinted as one of "fifty most cited articles" in the William H. Osborne Memorial issue, Social Biology, 29:168-179, 1983.

"Family disruption and delinquent conduct: multiple measures and the effect of sub-classification" (with Roland Chilton), American Sociological Review, 37: 93-99, 1972.

"Norms and nicotine: the re-emergence of a deviant behavior" (with Elane Nuehring), Social Problems, 21: 513-526, 1974.

Reprinted in Malcolm Spector (ed.), Readings in Social Problems, pp. 117-129. Lexington, Mass: Ginn Publishing, 1980.

Also published as "Even Kools are no longer 'cool': nicotine, norms and emerging deviant behavior." In Armand Mauss and Julie Wolfe (eds.), This Land of Promises: The Rise and Fall of Social Problems in America, pp. 297-315. New York: J.P. Lippencott, 1977.

"Sex ratio at birth: values, variance and some determinants," Demography, 11: 131-142, 1974.

"The development of family size and sex composition norms among U.S. children" (with Robert Wait), Papers of the East-West Population Institute, No. 39, September, 1976, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Also published as: "Children anticipate their future families: developmental patterns in the acquisition of future family size and sex composition norms," Center for Educational Studies, July, 1976, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

"Family limitation among the old order Amish" (with Sharon Pasco), Population Studies, 31: 267-280, 1977.

"Notes from the cancer underground: participation in the Laetrile movement" (with James Petersen and Morton Wagenfeld), Social Science and Medicine, 12: 31-37, 1978.

"Politics and Science in the Laetrile Controversy." Social Studies of Science, 9: 139-166, 1979 (with James C. Petersen).

"Notes from the cancer underground: health attitudes and practices of participants in the Laetrile movement" (with Morton Wagenfeld, Yvonne Vissing, and James Petersen), Social Science and Medicine, 13A: 483-85, 1979.

"The Laetrile controversy." In Dorothy Nelkin (ed.), Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions, pp. 159-180. Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1979 (with James C. Petersen).

Second Edition, pp. 175-196, 1984.

"Smoke gets in your eyes: cigarette smoking as deviant behavior." Social Problems, 26: 611-625, 1979 (with Ronald Troyer).

Reprinted in Malcolm Spector (ed.), Readings in Social Problems, pp. 130-142. Lexington, Mass: Ginn Publishing, 1980.

Edited version titled "Cigarette smoking as deviant behavior," Pp. 82-90 reprinted in Ronald A. Farrell and Victoria Swigent (eds.), Social Deviance (3rd Edition), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1987.

Edited version with original title reprinted in William Feigelman (ed.), Readings in Social Problems: Probing the Extent, Causes and Remedies of America's Social Problems, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1991.

Reprinted in Peter and Patti Adler (Eds.), Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context and Interaction, Chapter 8. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2nd Ed., 1996.

"Social context of the Laetrile phenomenon." In Gerald E. Markle and James C. Petersen (eds.), Politics, Science and Cancer: The Laetrile Phenomenon, pp. 151-174. AAAS Selected Symposia Series. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980 (with James C. Petersen).

"The Laetrile phenomenon: an overview." In Gerald E. Markle and James C. Petersen (eds.), Politics, Science and Cancer: The Laetrile Phenomenon, pp. 1-10. AAAS Selected Symposia Series. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980 (with James C. Petersen).

"Controversies in science and technology: a protocol for comparative research," Science, Technology and Human Values, 5: 26-30, 1981 (with James C. Petersen).

"Expansion of conflict in cancer controversies." In Louis Kriesberg (ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 4, pp. 151-169. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981 (with James C. Petersen).

"Creating deviance rules: a macroscopic model," Sociological Quarterly, 23: 157-170, 1982 (with Ronald Troyer).

"The estrogen replacement controversy in the U.S. and the U.K.: Different answers to the same question? Social Studies of Science, 14: 1-26, 1984 (with Frances B. McCrea)."Coffee drinking: An emerging social problem? Social Problems, 13: 403-416, 1984 (with Ronald Troyer).

Reprinted in Peter and Patti Adler (Eds.), Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context and Interaction, Chapter 6. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993.

"Biotechnology and the social reconstruction of molecular biology." Science, Technology and Human Values (with Stanley Robin) 10, 70-79, 1985.

Reprinted in Bioscience 35: 220-226, April, 1985.

Also reprinted pp. 111-122 in Daryl Chubin and Ellen Chu (eds.), Science off the Pedestal: Social Perspectives on Science and Technology. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1989

"Resolution of the Laetrile controversy: past attempts and future prospects." In H.T. Englehardt, Jr. and Arthur Caplan (eds.), Scientific Controversies: Studies in the Resolution and Closure of Disputes Concerning Science and Technology, pp. 315-332. Cambridge University Press, 1987 (with James C. Petersen).

"Consensus development in medicine: The liver transplant controversy." Milbank Quarterly 65: 1-24, 1987 (with Daryl Chubin).

"Let no one split asunder: Controversies in human genetic engineering," and "Recombinant reflections: response to critics." Politics and the Life Sciences 6:3-26, 1987 (with Stanley Robin).

"Controversies in science and technology." Pp. 5-18 in Daryl Chubin and Ellen Chu (eds.), Science off the Pedestal: Social Perspectives on Science and Technology. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1989, (with James C. Petersen).

"Atomic scientists and social protest: the Bulletin as a social movement organization. Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change 11: 219-235, 1989 (with Frances McCrea).

"Forgetting and Remembering: Bitburg and the social construction of history." Perspectives on Social Problems 2: 143-159, 1990 (with Frances McCrea).

"Justify My Ideology: Madonna and Traditional Values." Popular Music and Society, 16: 75-84, 1992 (with Janelle Wilson).

"Minutes to Midnight: Problems and Promises." Sociological Focus, 25: 167-173, 1992 (with Frances McCrea).

"From Auschwitz to Americana: Texts of the Holocaust." Sociological Focus, 25: 179-202, 1992 (with Mary Lagerwey, Tod Clason, Jill Green and Tricia Meade).

"Edith Wharton's Sick Role." Sociological Quarterly 35: 121-134, 1994 (with Mary Lagerwey).

"Madonna in the Classroom." Pp. 153-154 in Monika Reuter and David Walczak (Eds.), Songware II: Using Popular Music in Teaching Sociology: Washington, D.C.: The American Sociological Association, 1994 (with Janelle Wilson)

"Medjugorje and the War in Yugoslavia." Pp. 197-208 in William H. Swatos (Ed.), Politics and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: Traditions and Transitions. New York: Praeger Press, 1994 (with Frances B. McCrea).

"Past or Future? A Reformulation of Ortega's Question." ETC: A Journal of General Semantics 53: 152-161, 1996 (with Janelle Wilson).

"The Instrumental Rationality of Murder." Peace Review 8: 213-218, 1996 (with Frances B. McCrea).

"The Holocaust and Sociology. Pp. 33-40 in Peter Hayes (Ed.), Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Memory, Memorialization, and Denial. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999.

References

Christopher Browning, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Sheila Jasanoff, Kennedy School for Public Policy, Harvard University, Boston, MA

Allan Mazur, Professor, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

James Petersen, Dean of the Graduate College, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.