Sociology Faculty
Dr. Cristina BrãdãţanAssistant Professor, Sociology, 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 Office: Holden Hall 68
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Dr. Charlotte DunhamAssociate Professor, Sociology, 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 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 Email: Office: Holden Hall 158a |
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Dr. D. Paul Johnson Professor, Sociology 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 Office: Holden Hall 162
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Dr. Jerome KochProfessor of Sociology 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 Office: Holden Hall 65
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Linda Larrabee
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Dr. Patricia Maloney
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Dr. Luis RamirezAssistant Professor of Sociology Areas of Specialization: Family, Criminology, Deviance Current Research Interests: Gender, ethnicity, and religion and intimate partner violence. Email: l.ramirez@ttu.edu Office: Holden Hall 161
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Dr. Alden RobertsProfessor of Sociology 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 Office: Holden Hall 63
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Dr. Andreas SchneiderAssociate Professor of Sociology 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 Office: Holden Hall 159 On Leave Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 for Fulbright Scholarship |
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Dr. Yuying ShenVisiting Assistant Professor 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 |
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Dr. Martha SmitheyAssociate Professor of Sociology 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 Office: Holden Hall 71
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