Chana Teeger
Graduate Student in Sociology
Biographical Note
Chana completed her BA in Sociology and Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and her MA in Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her major research interests revolve around issues of collective memory and commemoration. In this vein, she has written about the construction of memory in the Apartheid Museum in South Africa as well as about the place of collective silences in the commemoration of slain Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin(with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi). Her current research has a more micro focus and explores whether and how South Africans introduce the past as an explanandum when talking about present crime in their country.
09/26/2008
- Research Interests
- Culture, Collective Memory and Commemoration, Perceptions of Crime, South Africa
- Previous Degrees
- B.A., Philosophy & Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); M.A., Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
| Teaching Experience | ||
|---|---|---|
| Soc 128 | Models of Social Science Research | Teaching Fellow |
| SOC179 | Crime, Justice, and the American Legal System | Teaching Fellow |
| SOC190 | Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context | Teaching Fellow |
Presentations and Publications
| Controlling for Consensus: Commemorating Apartheid in South Africa | Symbolic Interaction 30(1): 57-78. |
2007 (with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi)
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Contact
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33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office Hours
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