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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
Phone: 806-742-2401 x229

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00–11:00 am, or by appointment.

 

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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
Phone: 806-742-2401 x226

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:00–11:45 am, or by appointment.

 

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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 278A
Phone: 806-742-2401 x250

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays,1:00–3:00 pm, or by appointment

 

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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
Phone: 806-742-2401 x232

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30–9:30 pm, or by appointment.

 

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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
Phone: 806-742-2400 x225

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursdays, 11:00 am–12:30/1:00 pm or by appointment

 

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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
Phone: 806-742-2400 x255

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays, 11:00 am–12:00 pm, or by appointment.

 

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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

Office: Holden Hall 63
Phone: 806-742-2400 x230

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00–2:00 pm, or by appointment.

 

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Dr. Andreas Schneider

Associate Professor of Sociology
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.

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

Office: Holden Hall 159
Phone: 806-742-2400 x231

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Wednesdays and Fridays, 10:00–11:00 am, or by appointment.

 

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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
Phone: 806-742-2400 x254

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:00–11:30 am, or by appointment.

 

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Dr. Yung Mei Tsai

Professor of Sociology
Director, Community and Urban Studies
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1973

Areas of Specialization: Urban, Technology and Society, Comparative, Globalization.

Current Research Interests: Impacts of globalization on occupational dynamics and local communities, urban redevelopment and revitalization, globalization, telecommunication and urban development.

Email: yung.mei.tsai@ttu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 162
Phone: 806-742-2400 x235

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00–2:00 pm, or by appointment.

 

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Dr. Jason Wasserman

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007

Areas of Specialization: Homelessness, ethography, medical sociology, bioethics, epistemology, documentary film

Current Research Interests: I am currently working on several projects which include the medicalization of homelessness and a documentary film on homelessness, pedagogical approaches for incorporating social science into medical education, innovative qualitative methods using fractals, and some work on the sociology of art and music.

Email: jason.wasserman@ttu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Holden Hall 69
Phone: 806-742-2400 x227

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am–12:00 pm, or by appointment.

 

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