Assistant Professor

Office: CFO 309
940-898-2064  phone | 940-898-2067 fax | email: gsulik@twu.edu

Education

PhD 2004; State University of New York at Albany

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:

• Introduction to Sociology
• Health and Illness

Graduate:

• Medical Sociology

Selected Publications

Sulik, Gayle A. (2010, forthcoming) Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health. New York: Oxford University Press. This research was funded in part by a 2008-2009 research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Sulik, Gayle A (2010, forthcoming). "Managing Biomeidcal Uncertainty: The Technoscietific Illness Identity." Sociology of Health and Illness.

Sulik, Gayle A. 2009. “Fetal Rights/Public Fetus.” In Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Volume 2, edited by J. O’Brien, J. Fields, and E. Shapiro. New York: Sage.

Sulik, Gayle A. and Astrid Eich-Krohm. 2008. “No Longer a Patient: The Social Construction of the Medical Consumer.” Pp. 3-28 in Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 10: Patients, Consumers and Civil Society, edited by S. Chambre and M. Goldner. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Sulik, Gayle A. 2007. “The Balancing Act: Care Work for the Self and Coping with Breast Cancer.” Gender & Society 21(6):857-877.

Sulik, Gayle A. 2007. “On the Receiving End: Women, Caring, and Breast Cancer.” Qualitative Sociology 30 (3): 297-314.

Jacobs, Ronald N. and Gayle A. Sulik. 2003. "Ethnic and Gender Stereotypes in the Media." Pp. 587-596 in Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, edited by D. Johnson. San Diego: Acdemic Press.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Presentations

 

Sulik, Gayle A. and Amber Deane. 2008. “Coping in Pink: Representations of Breast Cancer Support and Survivorship in Women's Magazines.” Refereed roundtable, American Sociological Association, Boston, August 1-4.

Keys, Jennifer and Gayle A. Sulik. 2008. “Classroom Policies to Communicate Expectations and Sociological Ideas.” Concurrent roundtable, Pre-conference Workshop for New Teachers of Sociology, American Sociological Association, Boston, July 31.

Sulik, Gayle A. 2007. “The Biomedicalization of Breast Cancer.” Paper presentation, American Sociological Association, New York, August 11-14.

Sulik, Gayle A. 2007. “Gendered Commitments and Coping with Breast Cancer.” Paper presentation, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, New York, August 11-14.

Sulik, Gayle A. 2007. “Unraveling the Pink Ribbon.” Paper presentation, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 15-18.