Faculty Biography - Seth Feinberg

Assistant Professor
Sociology Department
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9081
Arntzen Hall 531
Phone: (360) 650-3864
Fax: 360-650-7295
Seth.Feinberg@wwu.edu

Seth Feinberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2003, and was an Assistant Professor at Montana State University before coming to Western in 2005. His research interests include neighborhood social organization in response to mortality and disaster, the National Football League as a labor market, media socialization, patterns of suburban crime, and broader issues of social justice and injustice.

His teaching interests include deviance, criminology, as well as research methodology. Seth also enjoys traveling through the global village, and likes to incorporate his interest with undergraduates via study abroad courses.

Recent Publications

Dufur, Mikaela J. and Seth L. Feinberg. 2007. “Invasive Evaluation: Artificially Restricted Labor Markets and Assaults on Worker Dignity.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36: 505-36

Browning, Christopher R., Danielle Wallace, Seth L. Feinberg, and Kathleen A. Cagney. 2006. “Neighborhood Social Processes, Physical Conditions, and Disaster-Related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave.” American Sociological Review 71: 661-78.

Feinberg, Seth L. 2006. “Community Social Organization as a Predictor of Mortality: Analyzing Chicago Neighborhoods.” Crime Prevention and Community Safety 8(3): 150-68.

Browning, Christopher R., Seth L. Feinberg, and Robert Dietz. 2004. “The Paradox of Social Organization: Networks, Collective Efficacy, and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods.” Social Forces 83(2): 503-34.

Feinberg, Seth L. 2002. “Media Effects: The Influence of Local Newspaper Coverage on Municipal Police Size.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 26(2): 249-68.

Scanlan, Stephen J. and Seth L. Feinberg. 2000. “The Cartoon Society: Using The Simpsons to Teach and Learn Sociology.” Teaching Sociology 28(2): 127-39.