DISC Faculty

Mary G Hovsepian
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Sociology

Mary G Hovsepian

Office Location: 263 Soc/Psych
Office Phone: (919) 660-5612
Email Address: mhov@soc.duke.edu

Specialties:
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Education:
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987
BA, Birzeit University, West Bank - The Occupied Territories, 1982

Areas of Interest:
Economic Change and Third World Development
Globalization
Political Sociology
Gender and Work
Area Studies: Middle East

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • SOCIOL 145.01, Nat/reg/global economy Synopsis
    Gray 228, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
  • SOCIOL 191BS.01, Gender, labor, & globalization Synopsis
    Soc/psych 331, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • SOCIOL 180S.01, Sociology of the middle east Synopsis
    Languages 312, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
  • SOCIOL 191BS.01, Gender, labor, & globalization Synopsis

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Hovsepian, Mary G., Politics of Gendered Labor in OPT (tenatative title) (2011) .
  2. Hovsepian, Mary G., Israeli Fashion and Palestinian Labor during the Intifada, in Globalization and America, edited by Hattery, Embrick, and Smith (2008), Rowman and Littlefield .
  3. Hovsepian, Mary G., Intifada, edited by William A. Darity, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition (IESS) (2007), The Gale Group, Inc. Macmillan Reference USA .
  4. Hovsepian, Mary G., Palestinians, edited by William A. Darity, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition (IESS) (2007), The Gale Group, Inc./ Macmillan Reference USA (under contract.) .
  5. Hovsepian, Mary G., Sewing Other People’s Clothes: Gender, Nation, and Subcontracting Across the Border between the Palestinian Territories and Israel (2004), University of Wisconsin, Madison (Ph.D. thesis.) .