Bradley Hertel
Associate Professor Emeritus
Joined Virginia Tech: 1976
EDUCATION:
| Bachelor's | University of Oregon |
| Master's | University of Wisconsin |
| Doctorate | University of Wisconsin |
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Changes in calendar usage and in orientations toward time in India
The new immigrant health paradox
Optimizing coarseness of measurement of continuous data
RECENT AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Charles Good, P.I., Bradley Hertel, Investigator, "Moving In, Staying Well: How Refugees and New Immigrants Negotiate and Experience Health and Place in America." 2000-2004.
Clifford A. Shaffer, James B. Campbell, John M. Carroll, Neil Hauenstein, and Bradley R. Hertel, "Integrating Statistics and Models across the Social Sciences Curricula." Funded by USDOE for 3 years, 1996-1999.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Hertel, Bradley R. and Mark C. Russell. "Examining the absence of a gender effect on abortion attitudes: Is there really no difference?" Sociological Inquiry, vol.69, 1999.
Hertel, Bradley R. "Complementariness of the Positive and Negative Sacred in Hindu Cosmology and Ritual Practice," pp. 15-37 in Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi (ed.), The Indian Village in Anthropology and Literature. Naples: Instituto Universitario Orientale. 1998.
Hertel, Bradley R. "The Variety of Hindu Priests and Assistants -- A Brief Introduction," in Madeliene Cousineau, (ed.), pp. 79-87 in Religion in a Changing World: Comparative Studies in Religion. New York: Praeger, 1998.
Hertel, Bradley R. and Meeta Mehrotra. "Authenticity in Hinduism -- Who, What, How?" Pp. 229-50 in Lewis F. Carter (ed.) Religion and the Social Order: The Issue of Authenticity in the Study of Religions. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996.