Benjamin Gallati is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology with a PhD minor in psychology. Ben is a social psychologist who is interested in mental health. His dissertation examines mental health in the media, analyzing how modern Hip Hop artists do race and gender in ways that deviate from traditional displays of hegemonic masculinity in favor of more openly acknowledging struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges. His other research focuses on the stress process model and the relationship between personal values and depression.
Furthermore, Ben is an award-winning college instructor. For the past five years, he has been the instructor of record for IU's course "The Sociology of Media," where he has created an engaging curriculum and developed innovative teaching assignments that he has published on in Teaching Sociology. In addition to teaching about media, Ben has been the instructor of record for courses on social inequality, criminology, and medical sociology. Additionally, Ben has been twice served as the co-instructor for a graduate-level course designed to guide first-time instructors through their teaching experiences. Outside of IU, Ben has taught for Gonzaga University and DePauw University, where he taught on the sociology of media and an introductory sociology course. Beyond his work teaching undergraduate and graduate students, Ben is passionate about teaching professionalization, planning multiple teaching professionalization conferences at Indiana and serving on the planning committees for the American Sociological Association's Teaching and Learning Symposium and Pre-Conference.
University of Connecticut - B.A. in Sociology and Psychology
Indiana University - M.A. in Sociology
The College of Arts