Kali-Ahset Amen
Degree: B.A. Columbia University (African Studies), M.A. University of Maryland, College Park (Sociology)
General Research Area: Global Analysis, Comparative Political Economy, Qualitative Research Methods. Specific Interests: African Diaspora migrations, transnational communities
Awards & Honors: Graduate Diversity Fellowship, Emory University, 2006-2011; C. Wright Mills Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2004-2006; Centre for African Research Transformation International Fellowship, University of Natal, South Africa, 1997
Franziska Bieri
Degree: B.A., Georgia State University (Political Science and Sociology)
General Research Area: Comparative Political Economy & Global Analysis
Specific Research Area: international social movements and nongovernmental organizations, political sociology, and comparative welfare states.
Current Research: I am currently conducting a study of campaigns against blood diamonds and INGO involvement in the effort to produce an international certification process for conflict-free diamonds; a quantitative analysis on determinants of female labor force participation rates in welfare state regimes.
Selected Publications: “Globalization” (with John Boli and Michael Elliott), in George Ritzer, ed., Handbook of Social Problems, 2003.
Laura Braden
Degree: B.A., Trinity University (English & Sociology)
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General Research Area: Culture
Specific Research Area: community planning & development, neighborhood associations, identity construction, literature, religion, theory, economics, and stratification
David V. Brewington
Degree: B.A., University of California, Davis (Sociology)
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General Research Area: Culture
Specific Research Area: Globalization, Religion, Theory
Current Research: Religious liberty, religious organizations, human rights
Selected Publications: "Religious Organizations" (with John Boli) Forthcoming in Globalization, Religion and Culture, edited by Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
Dissertation: At the Nexus of Human Rights and Religion: Global Religious Liberty in the Long 20th Century
Awards & Honors: George W. Woodruff Fellowship, Emory University, 2002-2007. SIRE Fellowship 2007-2008.
Leslie Brody
Degree: B.A., Brandeis University (Sociology; Womens Studies; Peace and Conflict Studies)
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General Research Area: Social Psychology; Sex and Gender
Specific Research Area: Justice, families, feminism
Current Research: When and how individuals pursue justice on behalf of others.
Jake Bucher
Degree: B.A., Baker University (Sociology, Philosophy,Religion); M.A., University of Memphis (Criminology).
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General Research Area: Social Psychology; Minor Area: Criminology
Specific Research Area: Semantics in definining and understanding criminality and deviance, theory, gender, victimization, religion
Master Thesis: "When Screams are not Released or Received: An Examination of the Criminalization of Acquaintance Rape Situations."
Presentations: 2005 American Society of Criminology, 2003 American Society of Criminology, 2000 American Philosophical Association.
Monique Carry
Degree: B.A., Howard University (Sociology)
General Research Area: Sex and Gender; Medical Sociology
Specific Research Area: Understanding ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality promote and/or hinder health service provision, access, promotion and health behaviors
Current Research: Resilience and positive identity formation among LGBT identified adults.
Presentations: 2007 American Sociological Association, "The Role of Relationship-Based Power, Individual Status Characteristics and Gender Ideology in Women's Condom Use and HIV Testing Decisions"
Selected Courses Taught
Carrie E. Coward
Degree: B.A, Furman University (Sociology)
General Research Area: Social Psychology
Specific Research Area: Homeless youth, Identity construction, Culture
Charity Crabtree
Degree: B.A., University of North Carolina at Asheville (Sociology and Women’s Studies)
General Research Area: Culture
Specific Research Area: Culture and Social Movements, Collective Identity and Action, Culture and the Reproduction of Inequality, Qualitative Research Methods
Current Research: My current research addresses social movements and the cultural factors that promote or sustain them. Works in Progress include "'God Don’t Make No Junk!': Social Movements, the Moral Order, and Pornography."
Selina Cruz-Charrez
Degree: B.A. Wellesley College (Sociology)
General Research Area: Culture
Specific Research Area: Social Movements
Current Research: Consumer Movements in Healthcare and the Marketing of Experience, Strategies, Communication, and Performance in Protest Movements
Awards & Honors: Graduate Diversity Fellowship, Emory University, 2006-2011
Tiffany Davis
Degree: B.A., Dartmouth College (Sociology)
General Research Area: Stratification
Specific Research Area: Urban Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, Interracial Marriage, Criminology
Gianluca De Fazio
Degree: M.Sc., University of Reading (Sociology and Research Training - UK), M.A. University of Trento (Sociology and Social Research - Italy), B.A., University of Trento (Sociology - Italy)
General Research Area: Political Sociology, Criminology
Specific Research Area: Social Movements, Repression, Policing, Northern Ireland
Current Research: Dynamics of Contention in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974
Michael A. Elliott
Degree: M.A., San Jose State University (Sociology); B.A., San Jose State University (Sociology)
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General Research Area: globalization, historical/comparative sociology, institutional analysis, social theory
Selected Publications: "Globalization" (with John Boli and Franziska Bieri) in International Handbook of Social Problems, George Ritzer (ed.). Sage Publications, 2003.
Dissertation: "A Cult of the Individual for a Global Society: The Development and Worldwide Expansion of Human Rights Ideology."
Master Thesis: "Betwixt and Between: Exploring the Utility of the Concept 'Semiperiphery'"
Margaret Farrow
Degree: B.S., Prairie View A & M (Physics)
General Research Area: Stratification
Specific Research Area: Race and Ethnicity; Intergroup Relations; Capacity development within communities; Health Disparities by race and gender
Current Research:
Selected Publications: "Interpersonal Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Women" (co-author) in Health Issues of Incarcerated Women, Rutgers Press, forthcoming; Every Black Woman Should Wear a Red Dress (assisted La Francis Rodgers-Rose and Delores P. Aldridge in compiling the chronology of the International Black Women's Congress) September 2003.
Presentations: "The Design of an Environmental Health Literacy in The Gambia, West Africa," American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2005. "Let's Be Friends - A Look Into the Context of Black-White Female Relationships on the Job," Conference -Black Women's Studies and the Academy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2003.
Alison Faupel
Degree: B.A., Auburn University (Sociology)
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General Research Area: Social Movements; Culture
Specific Research Area: Social Movements; Gender; Comparative Historical Sociology; Qualitative Methods
Current Research: The individualization of the women's suffrage movement.
Selected Publications: "'When a Woman Gets the Blues': A Comparative Analysis of Feminist Discourse in Blues and Rap," Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 2003.
Dissertation: Wave or Trough? The Transformation of the U.S. Feminist Movement, 1910-2005.
Awards & Honors: Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Emory University
Selected Courses Taught
Kendralin Freeman
Degree: B.A., Case Western Reserve University (Psychology,Religion)
General Research Area: Stratification
Specific Research Area: Comparative International Education. Specific Interests: Early childhood achievement, early childhood mental health, election studies, Social Movements, Quantitative Methods
Current Research: Social capital and Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Mental Health and Achievement, The Role of Religion in American Elections since 1960.
Presentations: "Strategic Alliances, Legitimating Authority and The Longevity of Health Movement Organizations" 2006 SSS, " Political Partisanship and Pension: Long-run and Short-run Determinants" 2006 ASA.
Sarah Friedman
Degree: B.A., Brandeis University (Sociology; Women’s Studies; Peace and Conflict Studies)
General Research Area: Culture
Specific Research Area: Social Movements; Gender; Qualitative Research Methods
Current Research: Recruitment and Mobilization to Activism in the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Movements
Kristy Gordon
Degree: BA, Furman University (Sociology); MA, Emory University (Sociology)
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General Research Area: Stratification
Specific Research Area: Sociology of Education
Current Research: My current research focuses on the impact of educational reform on the teaching environment and teachers' career trajectories. In addition, I am working on several papers examining gender and race dynamics in public school systems.
Selected Publications:
Gordon, Kristin J. 2006. “Teachers.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer (ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell (in press).
Gordon, Kristin J. 2008. "Tightening the Ship or Slowly Sinking? The Impact of Accountability on Teachers’ Perceptions of School Working Conditions". Research in Sociology of Education. Bruce Fuller and Emily Hannum (eds.). Elsevier. (in press)
Presentations: "Men in Elementary Education: Teaching in a Feminized Profession", American Sociological Association, August 2003. "Fit to Teach? Demographic Dynamics and Teacher Control", Southern Sociological Society, April 2005. “Relative Expectations: School Composition, Context and Teachers’ Perceptions of Control”, Southern Sociological Society, April 2006
Awards & Honors: Mellon Foundation Graduate Teaching Fellow at Morehouse College (2007-2008), National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant recipient (2007), Emory University Graduate Fellow for National Research Council Assessment of Graduate Programs (2006-
Paul Jean
Degree: M.C.P., Georgia Tech (City Planning); B.A., University of Nevada Las Vegas (Philosophy)
General Research Area: Organization & Stratification
Specific Research Area: Culture; Social Change; Community
Selected Publications: "Making More of Faculty Culture: An Experiment in Building Intellectual Community (with Susan H. Frost)." Tertiary Education and Management (TEAM), 2000, 6:227-243. Co-author with Rebecca Chopp, Susan H. Frost. "What's Old is New Again: Alternative Strategies for Supporting Faculty." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, Nov/Dec 2001: 43-46. Co-author with Susan H. Frost. "Bridging the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Discourse and Faculty Scholarship." Journal of Higher Education, V. 74, 2,(March/April, 2003) 119-149. Co-author (second) with Susan H. Frost, Daniel Teodorescu, and Amy Brown. "Research at the Crossroads: How Intellectual Initiatives across Disciplines Evolve." Forthcoming in the Review of Higher Education, June, 2004. Frost, S.H., Jean, P.M., Teodorescu, D, and Brown, A.B. Crossing Boundaries: How Intellectual Initiatives across Disciplines Evolve. Review of Higher Education, Summer, 2004, 27 (4), 461-479. Jean, P.M. and Teodorescu, D. Crossing Boundaries: How Intellectual Initiatives Form and Flourish. Academic Exchange, September, 2004, 7 (1), 12-13.
Dissertation: Intellectual Community in the Academy: Opportunities and Barriers for Faculty Engagement.
Master Thesis: "Distances between Disciplines: Influences of Interdisciplinary Conversation on Intellectual Community, Faculty Culture and Scholarship at One Research University."
Selected Courses Taught
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Current Position: Associate Director of New Research Initiatives, Emory College Office of Research.Shelley Keith Matthews
Degree: M.S., Florida State University (Sociology); B.A., Emory University (Anthropology)
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General Research Area: Social Psychology
Specific Research Area: Criminology
Selected Publications: "Gender Bias and Feminist Consciousness among Judges and Attorneys: A Standpoint Theory Analysis." (with Patricia Yancey Martin and John R. Reynolds) in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, 2003, 27(3): 665-702. "Extending Deterrence Theory: Do Delinquent Peers Condition the Relationship Between Perceptions of Getting Caught and Offending?." (with Robert Agnew) Forthcoming in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Master Thesis: Gendered Judges, Judging Gender.
Selected Courses Taught
Barret Michalec
Degree: M.A. East Carolina University (Sociology); B.A. Emory University (Sociology and Psychology)
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General Research Area: Social Psychology, Medical Sociology, Mental Health
Specific Research Area: Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, Emotion Management Techniques, Human Flourishing
Current Research: Examining the changes in Americans' supportive behavior between 1995 and 2005, identifying the emotional and cognitive processes of the experience of empathy, and my dissertation research regarding mechanisms and experiences within medical training that may influence medical students' attitudes and perceptions.
Selected Publications: "The Race Gap in Support Group Participation by Breast Cancer Survivors: Real or Artifact?" Evaluation Review. April 2004. By Barret Michalec, Marieke Van Willigen, Ken Wilson, Ann Schreier, and Susan Williams. "Examining the Multidimensional Benefits of Breast Cancer Support Groups" Forthcoming, Journal of Psychosocial Oncology "Social Support and Health-Related Quality of Life among Older Adults-Missouri Older Adults Needs Assessment Survey, 2000." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review(MMWR), May 2005. By Kobau, Rosemarie, Hatice Zahran, Matthew M. Zack, Eduardo J. Simoes, Corey L. M. Keyes, and Barret Michalec.
Dissertation: (tentative title) "Learning to Care: Explicit and Implicit Medical School Curriculum and its Potential Impact on Medical Students' Empathy"
Master Thesis: "Examining the Multidimensional Benefits of Breast Cancer Support Groups"
Presentations: "Examining the Multidimensional Benefits of Breast Cancer Support Groups." Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Atlanta, GA., 2004. "Strained: Exploring Potential 'Limiting Mechanisms' for Social Support for African American Breast Cancer Patients" Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Charlotte, NC. 2005 "Ink & the Individual: The Emergence of the Tattoo Renaissance" Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Charlotte, NC. 2005.
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Nital Patel
Degree: Ed.M, Boston University (Health Education); B.A., Boston University (Biology)
General Research Area: Major Area: Stratification & Organization; Minor Area: Criminology
Current Research: Communities and Crime -- explaining variations in crime rates across communities and elaborating on the role of hypersegregation in high-crime areas. Violence Against Women -- developing an integrated approach to exploring gender-based violence through the incorporation of criminological, rape, and domestic violence literatures. Labor Market Inequality -- examining earnings inequality and the sex/race gap, and identifying factors influencing the likelihood of being located in certain segments of the income distribution.
Diogo Lemieszek Pinheiro
Degree: BA, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (Economics)
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General Research Area: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Knowledge, Political Economy, Theory
Current Research: The social construction of country risk ratings; the commercialization of Bossa Nova in the United States.
Selected Publications: D. Pinheiro. “The Rhythm from Ipanema: Bossa Nova in the United States.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
Awards & Honors: Coca-Cola Latin American Graduate Fellowship; Social Science History Association - Rockefeller Travel Award.
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Caddie Putnam Rankin
Degree: B.A., Connecticut College
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General Research Area: Organizations and Social Movements; Specific Interests: international human rights organizations and human rights social movements, positive organizational scholarship, organizational change.
Current Research: I am investigating how positive organizational characteristics influence organizational performance.
Melissa Scardaville
Degree: B.A. Vassar College (Sociology)
General Research Area: Culture
Selected Publications: "Accidental Activists: Fan Activism in the Soap Opera Community." in American Behavioral Scientist, 2005, 48 (7): 881-901
Heather Scheuerman
Degree: B.A., State University of New York College at Geneseo (Sociology, Psychology, Spanish)
General Research Area: Social Psychology and Criminology
Specific Research Area: Status, Power, Justice, Gender, and Legitimacy
Current Research: Examining the nuances of how status and power operate in an organizational setting.
Presentations: "High Maintenance: How Gender, Status, and Power Affect the Perceptions of the Custodial-Teacher Relationship," presented at the 2008 Southern Sociological Society Conference
"Role Conflict: The Clash of Traditionalism and Egalitarianism," presented at the 2005 Midwest Sociological Society Conference
Awards & Honors: Office of University-Community Partnerships Summer Research Fellowship, 2008
Julia Schwent
Degree: B.A. Rice University (Sociology and English)
General Research Area: Stratification and Culture
Specific Research Area: Race and Ethnic relations, Multiracial or Multicultural identities, immigration, and education
Christina Shreckengost
Degree: A.M. University of Chicago (Social Sciences/Committee on Human Development); A.B. University of Chicago (Psychology)
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General Research Area: Culture
Specific Research Area: Higher Education and Organizations, Social Movements, Collective Memory
Awards & Honors: George W. Woodruff Fellowship, Emory University
Beth Tarasawa
Degree: B.S., Portland State University (Sociology)
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General Research Area: Stratification
Specific Research Area: Sociology of Education, Race and Ethnic Relations
Current Research: Examining the formation of language assistance programs for Limited English Proficient students in Georgia.
Awards & Honors: Graduate Fellow. Office of University-Community Partners, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Selected Courses Taught
Sherod Thaxton
Degree: M.A., Emory University (Sociology); B.A., University of California - Davis (Political Science)
General Research Area: Social Psychology
Specific Research Area: Criminological Theory; Juvenile Delinquency; Race and Criminal Justice (particularly capital punishment); Religion and Deviance.
Current Research: "Racial Differences in Criminal Offending over the Life Course: A General Strain Theory Explanation;" "Marginality and Murder: Towards an Integrated Theory of African American Intra-Racial Homicide;" "Strain, Criminogenic Traits, and Crime: Using General Strain Theory to Predict Membership in Different Offender Classes (with Ellison Cale and Cesar Rebellon);" "Islamic Identity in the Bible Belt (with Caitlin Benhaim-Killian)."
Selected Publications: "A General Strain Theory Approach to Families and Delinquency (with Robert Agnew and Cesar Rebellon), " In Families, Crime and Criminal Justice, 2000, Edited by Greer L. Fox and Michael L. Benson;"Current Data With Regard To Death Penalty Cases - State of Georgia." Technical Report prepared for the Multi-County Public Defender Office (1998 - 2000).
Dissertation: "Beyond Guilt and Innocence: An Empirical Examination of the Influence of Legal and Extra-Legal Factors on the Dispositions of Capital Murder Cases in Georgia."
Master Thesis: "Al-Islam and Alcohol Use: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Islamic Religiosity on Alcohol Use and Abuse at American Colleges and Universities."
Awards & Honors: A. Worley Brown Southern Studies Dissertation Fellowship (2001 - 2002); Culpeper/CTC Teaching and Technology Fellowship (2000).
Sylvia Turner
Degree: B.A., Social Policy, Agnes Scott College
Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
General Research Area: Stratification and Organizations
Specific Research Area: social control, race, class, gender.
Awards & Honors: Graduate Fellow. Office of University-Community Partners, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Selected Courses Taught
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Preliminary Exams: Stratification (major); Race and Ethnic Relations (specialty).
Thesis Research: "Assessing the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Program as a Function of Social Control"
Lesley Watson
Degree: B.A., University of Tulsa (Psychology)
General Research Area: Social Psychology and Culture
Specific Research Area: Identity Construction and Resocialization
Awards & Honors: Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University
Adria Welcher
Degree: A.M. Stanford University (Sociology); M.A. University of Michigan (Higher Education); B.A. Spelman College (Theatre with minor in Mathematics)
Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
General Research Area: Stratification
Specific Research Area: Race, class, and education
Current Research: Social and cultural capital in academic achievement
Awards & Honors: Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University
Krysia Wrobel Waldron
Degree: M.A., Columbia University (Social-organizational psychology); B.B.A. University of Georgia (Management)
Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
General Research Area: Social psychology
Specific Research Area: Family, Organizations
Current Research: Identity construction; justice
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