Kim Price Assistant Professor, Sociology Department: Sociology Stamford Office: 361 Phone: (203) 251-8433 Storrs Office: Manchester Hall, 313 Phone: (860) 486-9157 Email: kim.price@uconn.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts--Amherst, 2003

MA, University of Massachusetts--Amherst, 2001

BA, Ohio Wesleyan, 1994

Background:

Kim Price joined the sociology department at the University of Connecticut in the fall of 2004, after completing her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health. She currently teaches research methods, the sociology of gender and the sociology of families at the Stamford campus. Her research addresses the intersections of gender, labor and health.

Kim's dissertation, Stripped: Women, Men and Labor in an American Strip club, (forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press) explores the deep structure of gender in the local economy of a strip club through ethnographic and interview methods.

Using qualitative and quantitative methods, ongoing research on health includes studies of menopause in Worchester, Massachusetts, and Madrid, Spain (part of a multi country study including Morocco, Lebanon, Spain, and the United States) and medication use in Western Massachusetts (part of a multi country study of use in Mexico, Uganda, the Philippines, and the United States) conducted with Carla Obemeyer.

In addition to continuing research on the social organization of work in strip clubs, Kim has two other projects. The first explores health care professionals’ curriculum on violence against women and the other examines the work of contract nurses.

As an active participant in Women's Studies on the Stamford campus, Kim is a member of the Women's Studies Advisory Group and regularly offers cross-listed courses, advising to Women's Studies minors and campus programming around women's issues. For more information on the Stamford Women's Studies program and the Center for Women's Studies: http://www.stamford.uconn.edu/ws.htm