Diane S. Shinberg, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)

I teach a broad range of courses at IUP, including:

Principles of Sociology (SOC 151)

Medical Sociology (SOC 442/542, formerly SOC 342)*

Sociology of Gender (SOC 363)

Disability and Society (SOC 452/552)

Sociology of Work (SOC 348)

Research Design and Analysis in Public Health (PUBH 306)*

Proseminar (SOC 700/LDSR 800)

Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences (SOC 707/807)

Sociology of Health Care (SOC 721/821)

Analysis of Social Data (SOC 762/862)

Survey Research Methods (SOC 767/867)

* Required in the Public Health major

Previously, I’ve taught graduate seminars on:

Gender and Health

Sociology of Aging and the Life Course

From 2017-2020 I served as the inaugural Director of IUP’s multidisciplinary Bachelor of Science Program in Public Health.

What is Public Health? – a fact sheet from the American Public Health Association

I served as Membership Chair of the Section on Disability and Society of the American Sociological Association from August 2018 through August 2020. From August 2014-2017, I was Section’s Secretary/Treasurer.

For the 2016-2017 Academic Year, I served as Chair of IUP’s University-wide Sabbatical Leave Committee.

From 2012 through 2016 I served as coordinator for our Sociology MA Program, overseeing our admissions decisions, graduate assistantship awards, student advising, thesis & non-thesis options, internships and independent study.

Contact me…

Email: shinberg@iup.edu

Phone: 724-357-4769

(Please leave a voicemail message. Texting and missed calls log are not available.)

Fax: 724-357-4842

Office: McElhaney Hall, Room 112B

Department of Sociology

Mail: College of Humanities and Social Sciences

441 North Walk

Indiana, PA 15705

USA

Last updated: August 2020