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Dr. Cristina Brãdãţan

Assistant Professor, Sociology,
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2004

Areas of Specialization: Family and fertility, Migration, Statistical methods

Current Research Interests: Highly educated immigrants in the US and European Union, Migration patterns in the European Union, Cohabitation in Eastern Europe.

Email: cristina.bradatan@ttu.edu
Website: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/crbradat
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 68

 

 

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Dr. Charlotte Dunham

Associate Professor, Sociology,
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1989

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Aging and the Life Course, Family Sociology, Gender and Social Psychology

Current Research Interests: The life course and the family; the long-term effects of political activism on intergenerational relations and life course timing; predictors of political activism; life course and predictors of sexual behavior; grandparents and their relationship with grandchildren; employed women who are caring for family members with dementia.

Email: charlotte.dunham@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 66

 

 

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Dr. Jennifer Dunn

Professor, Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1999

Areas of Specialization: Social Psychology, Deviance, Social Problems, Social Movements, Sociology of Emotions, Cultural Sociology, and Victimology

Current Research Interests: Social History of Survivors' Movements in the U.S., Content Analysis of Media Representations of Intimate Violence, Intensive Interviewing of Victim Advocates for a Comparative Study of Advocacy in Community-Based and Criminal Justice Organizations

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Office: Holden Hall 158a

 

Dr. D. Paul Johnson

Professor, Sociology
Director, Religion Studies Minor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1969

Areas of Specialization: Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, Deviance, and Social Organization

Current Research Interests: Social theory and sociology of religion; currently writing a book (with Robert Beckley and Jerome Koch, under contract with Springer) that incorporates a multi-level perspective on religion, spirituality, and morality in the contemporary global context; continuing long-term focus on role of religious organizations in promoting social service activities in local communities and strengthening civil society; currently analyzing data from extended interviews with sample of key participants in Gülen movement in southeastern Turkey.

Email: d.paul.johnson@ttu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 162
Phone: 806-742-2401 x250

 

 

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Dr. Jerome Koch

Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1994

Areas of Specialization: Religion, Medicine, Alcohol/Drugs, Bio-ethics

Current Research Interests: Clergy and congregational ministries to people with AIDS. Social outreach in religious congregations. College students, tattoos, and body piercing.

Email: jerome.koch@ttu.edu
Website: http://courses.ttu.edu/jkoch/
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 65

 

 

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Linda Larrabee

Instructor

Areas of Specialization: Social Mobility; Deviance and Criminology; Inequality; Family and Marriage

Email: linda.k.larrabee@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall Room 70

 

 

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Dr. Patricia Maloney

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2012

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Education, Qualitative Methods, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, and Urban Sociology. My current research interests include Teach For America, alternative teacher certification, and teacher mentoring. I also focus on online communities such as those found on pro-anorexia websites. Additionally, I'm researching conservative Christians and their group identities, as well as their views on sexual education.

Email: patricia.maloney@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall Room 69

 

Dr. Luis Ramirez

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 2002

Areas of Specialization: Family, Criminology, Deviance

Current Research Interests: Gender, ethnicity, and religion and intimate partner violence.

Email: l.ramirez@ttu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 161

 

 

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Dr. Alden Roberts

Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1975

Areas of Specialization: Statistics and Methodology, Social Psychology, Intergroup Relations

Current Research Interests: Analysis of religion and College Life Data, Reference groups and religion, deviance and religion, self-efficacy and religion, sociobiology and religion and Vietnamese Refugee data analysis.

Email: alden.roberts@ttu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 63

 

 

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Dr. Andreas Schneider

Associate Professor of Sociology
Member of the Institutional Research Board at TTU
Faculty advisor for the Secular Student Society at TTU
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997

Areas of Specialization: social psychology, symbolic interactionism, cross-cultural comparative perspective, international management, deviance: violence and sexuality, authoritarianism.

Current Research Interests: Cross-cultural study of emotions and developments in authoritarianism and conservatism; contemporary masculinity; social support of pain management.

Email: andreas.schneider@ttu.edu
Website: http://courses.ttu.edu/aschneid/
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 159

On Leave Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 for Fulbright Scholarship

 

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Dr. Yuying Shen

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of North Texas, 2012

Areas of Specialization: Globalization & Comparative Sociology; Medical Sociology; Social Gerontology; Research Methods & Statistics; Development & Social Change; Sustainable Communities.

Current Research Interests: Social capital and health among older adults in China; cross-cultural study of social factors and elderly people's health; universality of social science knowledge.

Email: yuyingshen@my.unt.edu

Office: Holden Hall

 

Dr. Martha Smithey

Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Texas A & M University, 1994

Areas of Specialization: Social Science Research Methods and Statistics; Criminology; Family Violence, Gender.

Current Research Interests: Family and intimate partner violence; social measures and the social construction of expectations of intimate partnership and parenting; criminal justice practices for reducing domestic violence; cross-cultural research on parenting; and infant homicide.

Email: m.smithey@ttu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 71

 

 

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