Danielle M. Currier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology

 

B.A., Grinnell College

M.S., Virginia Commonwealth University

Ph.D., University of Connecticut

 

Women and violence, gender in a global perspective, sociology of sport
 

Sociology Faculty

Paula S. Brush, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair

 

B.A., University of West Florida

M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ph.D., University of Chicago

 

Social theory, social movements, sociology of education, gender and feminism 

Kevin D. Everett, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology

On leave

 

B.A., Kenyon College

M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Social inequality, minority groups, work and the economy

 

                                Department of

                           Sociology and  Anthropology

                             

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Elizabeth Lyman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology

 

B.S., University of Rhode Island

M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
 

Social inequality, sociology of education, organizational theory

Jeanne Mekolichick, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology

 

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University

 

Social psychology, research methods, undergraduate education, family violence, sociology of sport

Roby Page, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology

 

B.S.J., M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida

 

Deviance, delinquency, social problems, general sociology

Carole Seyfrit, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Graduate & Professional Studies;
Professor of Sociology

B.A., Indiana Institute of Technology
 M.S., Utah State University
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Rural sociology, environmental sociology, arctic social sciences,
social psychology, research methods
 

Jeffrey G. Toussaint
Instructor of Sociology

 

B.S., Old Dominion University

M.A., Old Dominion University and Norfolk State University

Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

 

Social inequality, race relations, education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Howard D. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

 

A.B., MacMurray College

M.A., Boston University

M.P.H., Yale University

Ph.D., University of Virginia
 

Sociology of film, medical sociology, aging, social problems,
occupations and professions
 

 

 

 




 

 

 

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Adjunct Faculty

 

Kathryn E. Van Patten

Instructor of Sociology

 

B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

M.S., Radford University

 

Race relations, deviance, research, criminology, mental illness and violent behavior

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Duncan

Instructor of Sociology

 

B.S. (2), M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 

International development, political economy, social inequality,

social movement theory