Amy Braksmajer joined the Geneseo faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology.
Professor Braksmajer is the director of the Geneseo SEX[Ed] program
Geneseo SEX[Ed]
Office Hours
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Monday & Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00pm
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2013 Ph. D. in Sociology, Stony Brook University
2003 M.P.H. (Concentration: Sociomedical Sciences), Columbia University
2000 B.S. in Applied Social Sciences, Binghamton University
Publications
Braksmajer, Amy, and Andrew London. 2022a. “What Do Epidemic History and Sexual Minority Men’s
Experiences of HIV and COVID-19 Teach Us About Pandemic Preparedness?” Syracuse
University, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion Research Brief #61.Braksmajer, Amy, Rachel Kalish, and Jennifer Katz. 2022b. “The Scarlet V: How Women with
Dyspareunia Negotiate Postfeminist Discourses of Sexual Agency.” Culture, Health & Sexuality 1–
16.Braksmajer, Amy, and Andrew S. London. 2021a. “It’s History in the Making All around Us”: Examining
COVID-19 through the Lenses of HIV and Epidemic History.” Culture, Health, and Sexuality
23(11):1500–1515.Braksmajer, Amy, and Robert Cserni. 2021b. “‘It’s Just a Matter of Playing the Odds’: Navigating Risks
Associated with Sexual Behaviour in the COVID-19 Era.” Sociology of Health & Illness 43(9):2085–
2101.
Interests
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Sexual Health
- HIV prevention
- Medicalization
- Social construction of risk behaviors
Classes
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SOCL 213: Sociology of Medicine
Presents social and cultural factors influencing health and illness. Looks at the roles of health care professionals, patients, and medical settings in our society. Discusses the relationships between the current health care system and the political and economic systems.
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SOCL 281: Top:Sociology of Sexual Health
An intensive study of a topic in sociology not covered in depth in other courses or, alternatively, an attempt to integrate two or more paradigms or converging perspectives in the field to be studied.
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SOCL 314: Illness, Self & Society
Examines health and illness as social phenomena. Focuses on how individual experience with illness is influenced by social context. Topics include the social construction of health and illness, the experience of acute and chronic diseases, the nature and role of social support, and the self and illness.