Mailing Address:
PENN STATE BEHREND
170 KOCHEL CENTER
ERIE, PA 16563
Biography
Dr. Molly Monahan Lang is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology. She received her B.A. in Sociology with a minor in English from Penn State University (1995), and her M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) in Sociology from North Carolina State University. She taught previously at Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea, OH and Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA.
Research Interests
The intersections of race, social class, and gender within social institutions such as families, health care, and the law, particularly focusing on marriages and death/dying.
Publications
Seeing Social Problems: Readings on Contemporary Issues in the United States - 2018
Collaborator: Brandon Lang, Co-Editor
"Death Always Seems to Be Around Me": Loss Privilege and Loss in Abundance in Contemporary America - 2018
Social Class and Diverging Family Structures - 2018
Education
Ph D, Sociology, North Carolina State University
MS, Sociology, North Carolina State University
BS, Sociology, Pennsylvania State University