Debra Street

PhD

Debra Street.

Debra Street

PhD

Debra Street

PhD

Research Interests

Health and Income Security; Long-term Care; Families, Aging and the Life Course; Comparative Public Policies/Welfare State; Mixed-methods Research Design

About

Debi Street, PhD, is a professor in the UB Department of Sociology. She is the recipient of the 2011 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the CISP 2016 Award for Contributions to International Education. Her most recent co-edited books explore gender and extended working lives, the output from a cross-national research initiative funded by the European Research Council.

For additional information on the UB Semester in London program or the London Winter Session course Sociology of Food, students may contact her directly or contact the UB Study Abroad office for further details.

Education

  • Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Fellow, University of Michigan, 1996-98
  • PhD, Florida State University, 1996
  • MS, Florida State University, 1992
  • BA, The University of West Florida, 1990

Recent Courses

Undergraduate instruction:

  • SOC 477 Sociology of Social Policy
  • SOC 467 Sociology of Health Care
  • SOC 358 Sociology of Food
  • SOC 322 Medical Sociology
  • SOC 304 Sociology of Aging

Graduate instruction:

  • SOC 555 Sociology of Aging: Theory and Research
  • SOC 542 Social Organization of Health Care
  • SOC 541 Sociology of Health and Illness