Department of Sociology
Peeter Tammeveski
Visiting Assistant Professor
Appointments in the Department of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
I completed my Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. Before joining the Sociology Department, I taught graduate research methods courses in the College of Education at MU. My areas of interest include: reproduction, gender, race, and trans-nationalism; immigrants, refugees, and diaspora communities; aging, family, and life course; and research methodology and qualitative methods.
My broad research interest is in critical, feminist, and historical perspectives on nationalism and transnationalism. More specifically, however, I am interested in how nationalism and transnationalism influence three area of human life: sexual relations and biological reproduction; family; and aging. For instance, I have looked at how the lives of first-generation older Estonians in the US have been shaped by their engagement in the construction of Estonian (trans)nationalism. I am in the process of completing a paper, where I examine the role of collective memory in diasporic images of nation, family, and reproduction. I am also working on a project, where I analyze gender, reproduction, eugenics, and nationalism in the interwar Estonian Republic (1920-1940).
Courses Taught
Race and Ethnic Relations
Sociology of Aging
Adult Development and Aging
Overview of Research Methods
Qualitative Research Methods
Feminist Theory
Gender, Activism and Citizenship in Globalization
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