From left to right: Karl Kunkel, John Harms, Lorene Stone, Lora Vess, Tricia McTague, Marvin Prosono, Mike Stout, and Tim Knapp.
Sociology Program Coordinator and Professor (Ph.D. 1985, University of Kansas)
Areas of specialization: social theory, political economy, economic and environmental sustainability, sociology of work
Courses taught: Work, Industry and Society; Social Deviance; Introduction to Sociological Theory; Advanced Sociological Theory; Senior Seminar
Professor (Ph.D. 1990, Univeristy of Kansas)
Areas of specialization: class, race, and gender stratification; the scholarship of teaching and learning; economic restructuring; research methods; classical sociological theory
Courses taught: Introduction to Society; Gender, Self and Society; Research Methods; Social Inequality; Service-Learning; Senior Seminar
Professor and Department Head (Ph.D. 1989, University of Missouri-Columbia)
Areas of specialization: justice and inequality; the prison-industrial complex, crime theory and policy; the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Courses taught: Crime, Class, Race and Justice; Crime Theory and Policy
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2010 (expected), North Carolina State University)
Areas of specialization: public sociology; work and organizations; qualitative methods; race, class, & gender
Courses taught: Introduction to Society; Sociology of Gender
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2007, Penn State University)
Areas of specialization: civic engagement and political participation; social capital; research methods; public sociology
Courses taught: Statistics for Social Research, Race and Ethnic Relations, Introduction to Society, Senior Seminar
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2008, University of Oregon)
Areas of specialization: environmental sociology; sociology of health; social movements; social inequality; public sociology
Courses taught: Introduction to Society, Introduction to Society Honors, Social Movements, Environmental Sociology
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