CONTACT INFORMATION

Research Division, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1 World’s Fair Drive, Somerset, NJ 08873

asiafriedman [at] gmail [dot] com

CURRENT POSITION

National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Division, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Somerset, NJ (June 2010 – present).

Two year position providing advanced training in qualitative research methods and data analysis. Substantive focus: cognition and health care, electronic health records.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Gender and Sexuality, Social Psychology, The Sociology of the Body, Medical Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Sociological Theory and Cultural Sociology, Race and Ethnicity.

EDUCATION

Ph.D.         Rutgers University, Department of Sociology, 2010

Dissertation committee: Eviatar Zerubavel (Chair), Karen Cerulo, Arlene Stein, Judith Gerson, Lynn Chancer (Hunter College, CUNY)

M.A.          Rutgers University, Department of Sociology, 2004

Graduate Certificate, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, 2003

M.A.          New York University, Draper Institute, 2001

B.A.           Sarah Lawrence College, Liberal Arts, 1997