Ariane Prohaska
Associate Department Chair
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
- (205) 348-1792
- aprohaska@ua.edu
- Farrah Hall 425
- Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D., University of Akron, 2006
- M.A., University of Akron, 2001
- B.A., Baldwin-Wallace College, 1999
About
Research Interests
- Gender inequality
- Sexual deviance
- Masculinity
- Disaster sociology
- Sociology of poverty
Selected Publications
Articles
- Prohaska, Ariane and Bronwen Lichtenstein. 2014. “Losing a Home to Mortgage Foreclosure: Temporary Setback or Chronic Stressor?” Social Justice Journal 40: 67-81.
- Prohaska, Ariane. 2014. “ ‘Help me Get Fat!’ Feederism and Communal Deviance on the Internet.” Deviant Behavior 35 (4): 263-274.
- Prohaska, Ariane. 2013. “ ‘Beyond My Imagination’: Learning the Sociology of Poverty through Service After the Tuscaloosa Tornado.” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship 6 (1): 19-27.
- Prohaska, Ariane. 2013. “Feederism: Transgressive Behavior or Same Old Patriarchal Sex?” International Journal of Social Science Studies 1 (2): 104-112.
- Gailey, Jeannine A. and Ariane Prohaska. 2011. “Power and Gender Negotiations During Interviews with Men About Sex and Sexually Degrading Practices.” Qualitative Research 11 (4): 365-380.
- Prohaska, Ariane and John F. Zipp. 2011. “Gender Inequality and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.” Journal of Family Issues 32 (11): 1425-1428. Published online April 4, 2011.
- Prohaska, Ariane and Jeannine A. Gailey. 2010. “Achieving Masculinity Through Sexual Predation: The Case of Hogging.” Journal of Gender Studies, 19(1): 13-25.
- Prohaska, Ariane and Jeannine A. Gailey. 2009. “Fat Women as ‘Easy Targets’: Achieving Masculinity through Hogging.” In E. Rothblum & S. Solovay (Eds.), The Fat Studies Reader. New York: NYU Press.