Dr. Marit A. Berntson
Dr. Marit A. Berntson
Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Office: 305 Trout Hall
Phone: 378-5186
berntson@roanoke.edu
Degrees:
B.A., St. Olaf College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Courses:
Homepage:
www.roanoke.edu/staff/berntson
Bio:
Dr. Marit Berntson joined the Roanoke faculty in fall 2002 after spending two years at Grinnell College as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow and lecturer. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and her B.A. from St. Olaf College. Dr. Berntson will teach Data Analysis, Introduction to Sociology, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Senior Seminar, and other sociology courses as needed in the department. She will contribute to the department's concentration in Information Analysis. Dr. Berntson's research intersects the areas of political sociology, social movements, race and ethnicity, and gender. Her most recent research is on women's reasons for joining France's extreme right-wing Front National political party, based on analysis of party documents, fieldwork, and interviews and correspondence conducted from 1997-2002. She explores the meaning they make of their activism and the discourses on gender, family values, nationalism, anti-immigration (particularly anti-Islam following September 11, 2001), and anti-globalization. Dr. Berntson is also conducting research on the relationship between the anti-immigration and the anti-racism movements in France from 1985-2002. Her earlier research has been on nationalism, fascism, and women in the pre-1933 Nazi Party.