Vita

JOINED VPI & SU: 1976

EDUCATION:

1965	Bachelor's	University of Oregon
1966	Master's	University of Wisconsin
1968	Master's	University of Wisconsin
1971	Doctorate	University of Wisconsin

OTHER PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Date	Name of Institution	Title
1971-1976	Vanderbilt University	Assistant Professor
1976-1980	Virginia Tech	Assistant Professor
1978	Lucknow University (India)	Fulbright Lecturer
1979	Jamia Milia Islamia (India)	Fulbright Lecturer

CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:

Research methods and Statistics
Sociology of Time
Minority Group Relations
Sociology of Religion
Introductory Sociology

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Sociology of Time, particularly of the many calendars and celebrations in India.
• Quantitative research methods, especially, optimizing coarseness of measurement of variables that are conceptually continuous but impact on behavior and attitudes in terms of a smaller number of discrete categories.

SELECTED 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.  Funded grant June 1, 2000.

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 beginning August, 1996.

Fulbright research grant for study of Hindu Functionaries:  Variety of Mediators Between Devotees and Gods, India, 1992.

Program Chair, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1991.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Hertel, Bradley R., Calendars, greeting cards, and the globalization of time in contemporary India.  Forthcoming in Journal of the Anthropological Society of India.

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

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