Virginia Kuulei Berndt, PhD
Thank you for visiting! I am an assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), where I teach undergraduate courses in Sociological Theory, Sociology of Disasters, and Health, Medicine, & Society. I have also taught graduate courses in Women, Gender, & Health, the Sociology of Health and Illness, and the Sociology of Reproduction.
I earned my PhD in sociology at the University of Delaware, where I was also an affiliate of the Disaster Research Center (DRC). I am also an alum of Lehigh University (MA), Millersville University (BA), and HACC: Central Pennsylvania's Community College (AA).
The core theme among my presented and published research is health and illness. In this area, I examine dimensions of reproductive health as it relates to disasters, the environment, the body and embodiment, provider-patient interactions, and sociological theory. I have experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods on interactional, national, and global scales. My dissertation examined women's embodied experiences with contraception and its medicalization.
I earned my PhD in sociology at the University of Delaware, where I was also an affiliate of the Disaster Research Center (DRC). I am also an alum of Lehigh University (MA), Millersville University (BA), and HACC: Central Pennsylvania's Community College (AA).
The core theme among my presented and published research is health and illness. In this area, I examine dimensions of reproductive health as it relates to disasters, the environment, the body and embodiment, provider-patient interactions, and sociological theory. I have experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods on interactional, national, and global scales. My dissertation examined women's embodied experiences with contraception and its medicalization.