Biography:
Joshua Bernstein is a first-year M.A. student in the Department of Performance Studies and originally from Nashua, NH. His degrees include both a B.A. in Sociology and B.S. in Human Development from the University of Maine. His undergraduate honors thesis was entitled “Well, He Just Lost Man Points in My Book: The Absence of Volunteerism among First-Year College Men.”
Joshua’s research interests include the sociology of gender, philosophy of religion and the impact of culture on social behavior and individual personality. Within the graduate program he is generally interested in the performance of everyday life and more specifically prosocial and altruistic behavior. His current ethnographic research examines narratives related to service participation.
