Adler, Peter	Colomy, Paul	Drabek, Thomas E.	Gordon, Hava
Lin, Jeffrey	Mahoney, Anne R.	Martinez, Lisa M.	Miller, Dorene
Pasko, Lisa J.	Phillips, Scott	Reich, Jennifer A.	Reichman, Nancy
Rosenbaum, Michael	Sefiha, Ophir	Sheikh, Christine

Ophir   Sefiha

• Lecturer/Post-Doc
• Sturm Hall 418
• 303.871.2253
• Ophir.Sefiha@du.edu

Background:

Ophir Sefiha received his PhD in 2010 from Arizona State University. Dr. Sefiha's research centers on the interplay among deviance and social control, consumer culture, media, and crime. His current research focuses on cultural constructions of performance-enhancing drug use and the role of enhancement technologies in society. In particular, he is interested the creation, maintenance, and resistance of social control measures adopted to respond to the use of particular enhancement technologies. His most recent publication titled,  "Now's When We Throw Him Under the Bus: Institutional and Occupational Identities and the Coverage of Doping in Sport," explores the labor processes involved in producing performance enhancing drug related texts and the ways that media inform public understandings of the modern sport celebrity.  He is currently completing a number of journal articles based on his dissertation that details the results of his cross-cultural study of attitudes and understandings of drug use among elite cyclists from the United States and Belgium. Dr. Sefiha currently teaches Criminology and Legal Actors and Institutions. 

Sefiha Curriculum Vitae