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2007

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Justin Denney
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Social Determinants of Health and Mortality; Race/Ethnic and Sex Inequities in Health; Risky Behaviors; Research Methods; Survey Methodology; and Contextual Analyses
Traci Garrett   Capital punishment; criminology; secondary effects jurors experience after serving death penalty jury
Brandi Gilbert   Environmental sociology; qualitative research methods;; disaster studies within a social context, and the study of providing assistance to disaster survivors through educational and community organizations
Alexandra Jordan   Environmental sociology; societal and governmental preparation for and response to natural and man-made disasters, perceptions of environmental risk, and human-induced environmental feedback systems
Tracy Kirkland   Environmental sociology; environmental inequality; food security and population pressure; the rising urban agriculture movement; and various other human-environment interactions
Gita Lee   Qualitative research methods; Asian folk traditions and identity formation
Painz   Criminology, social inequalities
Roark   Intimate partner violence and the impact of addiction and trauma histories on female offenders.
Jenny Vermilya   Qualitative research with particular interest in human-animal studies within sociology; animal-assisted therapy and animal industries.


2006

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-Public policy for Children; Demographic Research; social movements -specifically the relationship between political space, governmental rhetoric, demographic change; and quantitative methodology.

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-Social Inequalities in Health, Population Studies, and Gender

Ezekiel McCaslin  

-Media, in particular video games. Study of impact gaming has on culture.

McKinzey  

-Criminology and its ramifications for society; affects of death penalty on the attorneys and investigators involved; qualitative methods and feminist criminology.

Morningstar  

-Qualitative research methods; gender; family.

O'Brien  

-Crime & deviance, social psychology, drug use, qualitative methods .

Sheila O'Hare   -Criminal justice, capital punishment, deviance, and legal research in a multi-state context.
 

-Medical sociology; environmental sociology.

 

-Gender and class based studies of inequality; studying gender from the theoretical perspective of intersectionality; deviance and social capital.

Sennott  

-Population studies; disparities in health outcomes of disadvantaged populations; social impact of AIDS; globalization & inequality

Jesse Smith  

-Theory, qualitative methods, sociology of religion, epistemology.

 

-Theory, epistemology, and environmental sociology.

 

-Crime and Deviance concentration.

 

-Environmental Sociology and Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods; study of human dimensions of environmental change, social movements.

 

-Issues around community formation and design, including environmental aspects of community; incorporating organizational considerations; identity within activist or community groups; qualitative/ interpretive sociology.


2005

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Research Interests
  -Environmental Sociology, Militarism, Sociology of Science, and Theory
  Sex & Gender (Feminist Theory, Inter-locking Oppressions); Criminology (Juvenile Delinquency, the Death Penalty, Prisons); Education (Hip Hop Pedagogy)
Race & Ethnicity; Stratification & Inequality

Conley   -qualitative and feminist research methods, narrative and life history interviewing


- criminology, sociology of education, stratification and juvenile delinquency
  -stratification and health/health behaviors
  -stratification/inequality, race, gender, and ethnicity -
immigration, theory, teaching sociology online, using science fiction to teach sociology.

  -criminology, qualitative/interpretive, deviance/criminology.
  -gender, human needs, culture and religion, and qualitative sociology. 
   
  -collective behavior, disasters, evacuation modeling
  -gender socialization and program development in juvenile justice.
   


2004

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  -disasters (natural, technological, and human-induced), environmental sociology, social network analysis, reseach methods, quantitative analyses
  -environmental Sociology,
Qualitative Methods, and Social Theory

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  - technology, labor power and globalization, white-collar automation, human interface design, corporate ethics, management culture, workplace inequality, management/labor relations, corporate/consumer relations, consumer complicity in labor exploitation and environmental degradation
  -sociology of power, social construction of the environment and energy, energy policy and perceptions
   
  -criminology, juvenile delinquency, criminal justice, quantitative methods.
  -gender, sexuality, and feminist theory.
  -social psychology, ethnography and interpretive sociology, gender, sexuality, health and illness



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  -environmental sociology, public perceptions of environmental problems
   


2003

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Duke Austin

-Stratification of Race, Class, and Gender; Disasters; Environmental Sociology
  -Teaching Sociology, Social Psychology, Qualitative Methods, and Teaching with Technology
E. David  
-Gender and sexualities; social theory; qualitative sociology; social movements

 

Elaine DeCastro-McFarland   -medical sociology, bioethics, race and gender
  -political activism, 'virtual' social movements, collective identity
  -crime, punishment and social control; the intersection of religion and punishment

-Social Psychology, Narrative, Sociocultural Linguistics, Everyday Life, Social Theory
  -racial identity and race, class, and gender inequality


2002

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Jade Aguilar   -gender, social movements, community studies
  -environmental decision making, place attachment, natural hazards
  -criminology, gender, juvenile
delinquency
Ali Hatch   -sociology of gender, family, animals & society
Jackie Raska   -social psychology, sexualities, gender
Aaron Johnson   -power/empowerment, education and social change & development
Megan Murphy   -environmental sociology, energy efficiency and poverty
Tara Opsal   -criminology, violence against women, rural sociology
  -Deviance, Sociology of
Drugs, Qualitative Methods and Social Theory
  -deviance, sociology of religion; New Religious Movements, and social psychology of Self & Identity
  -the development of the diagnosis of and treatments for PTSD. Criminology. Researcher for LEAP program - examines gender and academia.


2001

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-drugs and gambling
-drugs, death penalty, crime and gender
Jadi Morrow Vitae -gender, feminist theory, feminist research methods


2000

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Drugs in Society (esp. Methamphetamine); Gender and Drugs; Clandestine Meth Labs; Policing; Social Construction of Deviance; Criminological & Justice
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1996 and earlier

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-aging, death and dying, and gender