Eve Spangler

Eve Spangler is a sociologist at Boston College. She has always positioned her work as public sociology, at the intersection of social justice and social science. For the past decade her work has focused on violations of human rights in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She teaches a fall semester seminar on the subject, leads a winter-break trip of bearing witness for students, and has now made her analysis and experience available to readers in Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict (Sense Publishers, 2015). Her work has been widely quoted and she can be heard on NPR, and blog radio. Earlier in her career she studied the fate of blue-collar college graduates, the experiences of women in law school, and the reorganization of professional work. She spent a decade focusing on worker health and safety, especially in the post-Soviet world of Eastern and Central Europe. Her hobbies include a long-standing interest in African fiction.