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Sander L. Gilman

Sander L. Gilman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
10599
World Ranking
4326
National Ranking
2069

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Sander L. Gilman is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and the arts and humanities, with a focus on Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Identity and Society, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, History of Science and Medicine, Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies, and Religion, Theology, History including Judaism and Christianity, as well as German History and Society.

Their contributions include numerous recent papers with published work spanning from 2020 to 2022. Notable publications include:

  • Placing the Blame for Covid-19 in and on Ultra-Orthodox Communities (2020), published in Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
  • Michaël D. Gordin. Einstein in Bohemia (2021), published in The American Historical Review
  • Communities Are Complicated; Indeed, They May Not Even Be Communal (2022), published in The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

Their frequent coauthors include James M. Thomas, Dorothy Nelkin, Xun Zhou, Karen Remmler, and Uwe M. Schneede.

Gilman's publication venues frequently include:

  • Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
  • Journal of Medical Humanities
  • Jewish Culture and History
  • Social Research
  • The American Historical Review

Regarding books, Gilman has published with New York University Press eBooks and Princeton University Press. Titles include Are Racists Crazy? (2020) and Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany (2020) from New York University Press eBooks, as well as Freud, Race, and Gender (2021) and Making the Body Beautiful (2021) from Princeton University Press.

Their scientific fields predominantly cover Social Sciences with 24 publications and Arts and Humanities with 12 publications. Within subfields, their work often relates to Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science, Demography, Political Science and International Relations, and Philosophy.

Awards received by Gilman include being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1972.

Best Publications

  • Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature

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  • The Jew's Body

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Hysteria Beyond Freud

    Sander L. Gilman;Helen King;Roy Porter;G. S. Rousseau

  • Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Freud, race, and gender

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Jewish Self-Hatred. Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews

    Penny Milbouer;Sander Gilman

  • Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche;Sander L. Gilman;Carole Blair;David J. Parent

  • Degeneration : the dark side of progress

    J. Edward Chamberlin;Sander L. Gilman

  • Seeing the insane

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Placing blame for devastating disease.

    Dorothy Nelkin;Sander L Gilman

  • Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Germany's Colonial Pasts

    Eric Ames;Marcia Klotz;Lora Wildenthal;Sander L. Gilman

  • The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle

    Sander L. Gilman

  • AIDS and Syphilis: The Iconography of Disease

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence

    Sander L. Gilman

  • Jewish Self-Hatred

    Sander Gilman

  • Disease and representation

    Sander Gilman

  • Franz Kafka, the Jewish patient

    Sander L. Gilman

  • From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era.

    Sander L. Gilman;Edward Shorter

  • The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought. By Marouf Arif Hasian Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xii, 265 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1771-3.)

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  • Sexual science: the Victorian construction of womanhood.

    Sander L. Gilman

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred I. Tauber
Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

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