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DR. KROLL-SMITH APPOINTED SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT HEAD

    GREENSBORO, N.C. –  Dr. Steve Kroll-Smith has been appointed head of the Department of Sociology at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He comes to

Dr. Steve Kroll-Smith

UNCG from the University of New Orleans, where he was a research professor and director of the Environmental Social Science Research Institute.
    Kroll-Smith is author of “Illness and the Environment, A Reader in Contested Medicine” (2000, New York University Press), an edited collection of essays on the problems industrial environments pose for human health. It is a follow up to “Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge,” (1998, New York University Press), a political and philosophical essay on multiple chemical sensitivity and contemporary medical knowledge. He is writing several papers and a book on popular and medical interpretations of sleepiness as a medical and social problem. Kroll-Smith is author of three other books and numerous journal articles and book chapters, and has edited three special issues of sociology journals. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
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