Discipline(s):
Sociology

Area(s) of Expertise:
Environment, Climate Change, Qualitative Methods, Documentary Filmmaking, Social Movements, Development

E-Mail:
sabrina.mccormick@gmail.com

Background:
Sabrina McCormick’s areas of expertise are in environmental and medical sociology, science and technology studies, social movements and development. She is primarily interested in the social contestation, politics and science that inform understandings of environmentally-induced illness. Dr. McCormick is currently completing her first book, No Family History: Finding the Environmental Links to Breast Cancer (Rowman & Littlefield), which explores the conflicts and controversies over shifting paradigms of breast cancer causation. She is directing a documentary film by the same title (www.nofamilyhistory.org) that will be released with the book. As a Health and Society Scholar, she will be studying one of the most pressing public health issues of the twenty-first century – illnesses induced by climate change. She will study the social, economic and scientific aspects, including current policies and interventions, programs funded by private corporations, and dynamics of scientific change engendered by the need to address illness outcomes. She completed her PhD in Sociology at Brown University in 2005 and has since been jointly appointed in the Department of Sociology and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Sabrina McCormick’s available publications in PubMed.

Books:

		McCormick, Sabrina. No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
		McCormick, Sabrina. Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation and the Remaking of Knowledge. Temple University Press, 2009