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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

Website

Office: 419 Fitzelle

Email: mohammf

Phone: 436-2166

Stephen Ostertag

Assistant Professor

Website

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

Website

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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