Faculty
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Lisa Curch
Associate Professor
Office: 233C Fitzelle
Email: curchlm
Phone: 436-3380
Lisa Curch received her M.A. in 1997 from the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL and her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. Dr. Curch teaches courses in aging, medical sociology, social policy, social psychology, and sociology of food and eating. She is also the coordinator for the Gerontology Studies major. Her research interests involve social aspects of aging and health (particularly related to food and eating), residential/spatial issues of aging, and media and aging. She currently is working on research in representations of aging and older adults in television animation. Dr. Curch is the author of Food and Eating Experiences of Older Women in a Retirement Community: A Sociological Analysis (2006), in addition to several articles and presentations.
Jeffery Dennis
Assistant Professor
Office: 205A Human Ecology
Email: dennisjp
Phone: 436-3527
Jeffery P. Dennis received his Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook in 2001. He is interested in the intersection of deviance and criminology with issues of gender, masculinity, and sexuality, especially the historical representation of deviant youth and bullying, harassment, and delinquency among LGBT youth today. Dr. Dennis is the author of Queering Teen Culture (2006), We Boys Together: Teenagers in Love before GIrl-Craziness (2007), and many chapters, articles, and research presentations.
Gregory Fulkerson
Assistant Professor
Office: 415 Fitzelle
Email: fulkergm
Phone:
Gregory Fulkerson received his Ph.D. in Sociology from North Carolina State University in 2006. He is interested in issues related to globalization, rurality, community, agriculture, and the environment. His current research investigates the local and global processes leading to environmental degradation and the social response to these problems.
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Ho Hon Leung
Associate Professor
Office: 409 Fitzelle
Email: leungh
Phone: 436-2239
Ho Hon Leung received his Ph.D. in Sociology from McGill University, Canada. His main research areas include ethnic studies, immigration and immigrants, comparative ethnic aging. He recently develops a research interest in ethnic identity and architecture. Collaborated with Raymond Lau, an architect in London, UK, he has research projects in Canada, US, Hong Kong, Greece, China, and Macau. He is the co-editor of a book entitled Investigating Diversity: Race, Ethnicity, and Beyond (Linton Atlantic Books, Ltd, 2008). He is also the chair of steering committee of Center for Social Science Research, which encourages multi- and inter- disciplinary studies on a wide range of topics.
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Marilyn Helterline
Professor
Chair of Women's & Gender Studies Department
Office: 315A Milne
Email: helterm
Phone: 436-3225
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Nancy Kleniewski
Professor
President of the College
Office: 301 Netzer
Email: klenien
Phone: 436-2500
Nancy Kleniewski received her master’s and doctoral degrees from Temple University. Her areas of specialization are urban sociology, social policy, and social inequality. She has written or edited five books; the most recent are Cities, Change, and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life, 3rd edition (Wadsworth) and Cities and Society (Blackwell).
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Brian Lowe
Assistant Professor
Office: 233B Fitzelle
Email: lowebm
Phone: 436-3046
Brian M. Lowe received his BAH and Master’s in Sociology from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia. Dr. Lowe’s research and teaching interests include sociological theories, animal and society, cultural and comparative-historical sociology and spectacular conflicts. He is the author of Emerging Moral Vocabularies: The Creation and Establishment of New Forms of Moral and Ethical Meanings (Lexington books, 2006) and several articles. In 2008 Lowe became Chair of the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association.
Fida Mohammad
Associate Professor
Chair of the Department
Office: 419 Fitzelle
Email: mohammf
Phone: 436-2166
Stephen Ostertag
Assistant Professor
Office: 205E Human Ecology
Email: ostertsf
Phone: 436-3528
Stephen Ostertag’s (Ph.D. 2008, University of Connecticut) scholarship focus on the intersections of media, crime, justice and democracy. His research examines how people use the media to “know” the social world. He is currently investigating the relationship between people’s media use and their understandings of crime and imprisonment, immigration, and the war in Iraq. Insights from this line of work should help explain public support of various social policies and political candidates.
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Alexander R. Thomas
Associate Professor
Office: 416 Fitzelle
Email: thomasa
Phone: 436-2149
Alex Thomas received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Thomas has interests in historical-comparative sociology, particularly related to urban-rural relations, and deviant behavior. His current research focuses on the development of cities and their relationship to the hinterland in the Ancient Near East and the lessons to be learned for modern cities. He is the author of In Gotham's Shadow (2003) and Gilboa (2005) and the co-author of Spotlight on Social Research (2003) and Upstate Down (2009); as well as several articles and presentations.
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Adjunct Faculty
Darwin Davis
Teaches Sociology & Gender Studies
Lecturer of Sociology
Telephone: 436-3512
E-mail: davisd
Sherry Frohman
Teaches Social Work & Supervises Social Work Internships
Lecturer of Sociology
Telephone: 436-3512
E-mail: frohmn @nyscadv.org
Aleksandras Gedmintas
Teaches Sociology
Professor of Sociology
Telephone: 436-3512
E-mail: GEDMINAL @ delhi.edu
Stephen Koonz
Teaches Sociology & Criminal Justice
Lecturer of Sociology
Telephone: 436-3512
E-mail:
Anne Marie Mills
Supervises Social Work Internships
Lecturer of Sociology
Telephone: 865-6522, ext. 15
E-mail: millsam
Faculty Emeriti
Donald Nielsen
Ph.D., New School for Social Research
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Eugene Obidinski
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Martin Spencer
Ph.D., New School for Social Research
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Edward Wesnofske
M.S., New School for Social Research
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
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