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Mercer
University
Langdale Hall
Macon, Georgia 31207
STATUS: Associate Professor and Chair of the Department
of Sociology, 9/96 to date.
EDUCATION:
Ph. D., University of Pittsburgh, August, 1988.
Masters of Arts in Sociology, August, 1983.
University of Pittsburgh, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Certificate of Advanced Study in Information Science, June, 1981. Interdisciplinary
Department of Information Science, School Library and Information Science,
University of Pittsburgh.
Master of Library Science, August, 1979.
School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS:
10/02 Professor of the Month. Presented by the Mercer University College
of Liberal Arts Student Government Association.
6/99 Jewish Labor Committee Fellowship: Summer Seminar in the Holocaust
and Jewish Resistance. (Included study in Poland and Israel)
9/98 Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars Abroad Program in Poland and Hungary.
"Hungary: A Consolidation Democracy" and "Poland's Reintegration
with the Western World: Old Ties and New."
8/96 C-Span Seminar for Professor, Washington, D.C.
1986 Term Fellowship. Provost Development Fund for Minorities and Women.
University ofPittsburgh.
1985 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Faculty of Arts
and Sciences,University of Pittsburgh.
1984 "Apple for the Teacher Award." Awarded in recognition of
excellence in teaching.
University of Pittsburgh.
1980 "August Alpers Award for Scholarship and Leadership. School
of Library and InformationScience, University of Pittsburgh.
1979 Elva C. Smith Scholarship in Librarianship. School of Library and
Information Science,University of Pittsburgh.
EMPLOYMENT:
4-6/01 Faculty Exchange at Seinan Jo Gakuin Junior College for Women,
Mercer's sister school in Japan. Taught course entitled, "Japanese-American
Cultural Encounters: The Role of Women in Society."
9/91 to date Associate Professor: Mercer University.
Courses include: Classical and Contemporary Theory, Sociology of Religion,
Ethnic Minorities, Marriage and Family, Medical Sociology, Social Inequality,
Introduction to Sociology.
8/89 to 6/91 Assistant Professor: Georgia Southern
University, Statesboro, GA. Courses included: Introduction to Sociology,
Social Problems. Courses introduced: Culture and
Psychopathology, the Vietnam Experience, and Global Crises.
1/89 to 4/89 Assistant Professor: University of
Pittsburgh, Institute for Shipboard Education, Semester-At-Sea. Itinerary
included travel to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Far East. Courses emphasized
comparative analysis.
8/88 to 12/88 Assistant Professor: (Sabbatical
Replacement) Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL. Courses
included: Introduction to Sociology, Criminology, and Social Problems.
9/87 to 6/88 Assistant Professor: Boston University, College of Basic
Studies, Social Science Division. Experimental course: Interdisciplinary
Introduction to the Social Sciences from an Historical
Perspective.
9/86 to 9/87 Instructor (Sabbatical Replacement): Washington and Jefferson
College, Department of
Sociology, Washington, PA. Courses included: Human Society, Classical
and
Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Problems.
1/81 to 6/87 Graduate Teaching Fellow. Sociology Department, University
of Pittsburgh. Introduction
to Sociology, Sociological Perspectives (Contemporary Sociological Theory),
Sociology of
the Family, Society and the Child.
Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Sociology, Technology and Social Change.
9/78 to 8/86 Weekend Supervisor: University Center for Instructional Resources,
University of
Pittsburgh.
9/79 to 5/80 Graduate Teaching Assistant. Interdisciplinary Department
of Information Science.
Courses included: Introduction to Information Science, Information and
Society.
9/77 to 6/78 Tutor: English as a Second Language, Remedial Mathematics.
Maywood School System,
Maywood, NJ 07607
9/75 to 6/77 Teacher, Grade Four. Teheran International School, IRANZAMIN,
Teheran, Iran.
9/72 to 6/75 Teacher, Grade Five, Remedial Reading and E.S.L, St. Columbans
School, Quinta da
Casa Branca, Lisbon, Portugal.
6/70 to 6/72 Teacher, Grade Four. Robert College Community School, Istanbul,
Turkey.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
8/02 American Sociological Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois
5/13-17/02 Faculty Participant. Mercer University Teaching and Learning
with Technology Summer Institute. Mercer University Center for Teaching
and Learning and the Office of the Provost.
4/97 Faculty Representative, American Association of Higher Education
Conference.
Orlando, FL.
10/95 Conference on Criminal Justice Education at the John Jay College
of Criminal Justice,
NYC, NY.
Chautauqua Short-courses
4/93 "African Cultures and their Representations," Museum of
Natural History, NYC, NY.
4/92 "From the Sin of Onan to the Eugenics Movement: A History of
the Idea of Unfit People."
Museum of Natural History, NYC, NY.
PRESENTATIONS:
10/6/01 "Feminism and Demographic Change in
Japan: The Consequences for Women's Higher Education." Presented
at the Georgia Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Callaway Gardens,
GA,
6/9/01 "Do You Know the Real Ann Frank?" Seinan Jo Gakuin Junior
College for Women, "Reach
Out 2001"" Seinan Jo Gakuin Cross-Cultural Seminar. Seinan Jo
Gakuin Junior College for Women, Kitakyushu, Japan.
5/01 Guest Speaker, "Gender Stratification,"
MOVE-Kitakyushu Women's Center, Kitakyushu,
Japan. May 23, 2001.
5/01 Guest Speaker, Chapel, "Religion in Everyday
Life," Seinan Jo Gakuin Junior College for Women, Kitakyushu, Japan.
11/96 "Remembering Anne Frank: The Social Construction of a Diary
and a Young Girl." Georgia Sociological Society Annual Meeting. State
University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA. (with Dr. Peter C. Brown.)
10/96 "Remembrance of What? Witness to What? Universalization of
the Holocaust in Popular Culture" Holocaust Studies Conference, Middle
Tennessee State University, Murphreesboro, TN, Oct. 5-7. (with Peter C.
Brown)
10/95 "Vietnam Veteran Identity: A Psycho-social Approach."
"Labeling Theory and Battlefield Therapy." Georgia Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, Augusta, GA
10/91 "(Re) Visions of Reality: The Long Journey Home." Canadian
Association for American
Studies. Vancouver, Canada. Oct 25-27.
10/91 "Vietnam: Pedagogy and Content Analysis." Georgia Sociological
Society Meeting.
Augusta, GA., October 17-19. (with Dr. Marc Cyr and D. J. Smith)
8/91 "Morality and War: Vietnam Revisited." Association for
the Sociology of Religion,
Cincinnati, OH., Aug 21-23,1991.
8/91 "Politics and Psychiatry: The Social Construction of Psychiatric
Categories."
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Section.
Cincinnati, OH., Aug 25-29,1991.
4/86 "Technology and Social Change." Allegheny Valley Sociological
Association Annual
Meeting, Westminster College, PA,. April 11-12,1986.
4/85 "De-Legitimation Crisis: An Interactionist Approach to Vietnam
Veteran Post-War
Adjustment." Department of the Navy, Office of Marine Corps History
Interdisciplinary
Panel on the Vietnam Veteran. Organization of America Historians Annual
Meeting,
Minneapolis, MN., April 20,1985.
3/85 "Worker Satisfaction and Structural Change in the Steel Industry."
Allegheny Valley
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA., March 28,1985.
(with Dr. Zdenek Suda).
4/84 "Vietnam Veterans." Allegheny Valley Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Slippery Rock State College, April 7,1984.
3/82 "Therapy as Control: The Medicalization of the Vietnam Veteran."
Roundtable
Discussion. Allegheny Valley Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Slippery Rock
State College, March 26,1982.
STUDENT RELATED ACTIVITIES:
At Mercer University:
Supervised the development of student research developed in class for
presentation at
Undergraduate Research Conferences at:
Georgia Sociological Society, Undergraduate Research Session
John Krauss II, "Cultural Lag or Cultural Drag: The Impact of Resource
Depletion on Social Change in Post-Modern Society," Savannah, Ga.,
Oct. 21, 2002.
John Krauss II, "Running on Empty: Societal
Implications of the End of Cheap Oil," Carrollton, Ga., October 6,
2001.
Henry Mullins, Undergraduate Paper Competition Winner, "Perceptions
of Southern Violence," Georgia Sociological Association, Jekyll Island,
Ga., 11/19/99.
Elaine Turk, Winner, Undergraduate Paper Competition Winner, "Predictors
of Academic Success at Mercer." Georgia Sociological Association,
Jekyll Island, Ga., 11/1/98.
Elizabeth Bevill, "On Erving Goffman and Asylums," Jekyll Island,
GA., Oct 1995
Wendy Muse, Undergraduate Paper Competition Winner, The Other F-Word (Feminism)
at Mercer." Wendy Muse, et. al. Oct 21-23, Macon, GA.,
1993. (First Prize in Paper Competition)
Belinda Byron, "Women in Film: A Quantitative
Analysis of Non-Acting Feminist Participation in the Film Industry."
Raymond Petren, "Durkheim and Nietzsche on the Origins and Possibilities
of the Gods."
Jeff Purvis, "Parental Attitudes Concerning Acceptable Discipline
in the Home and Classroom." (School of Education graduate student)
Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposuim, Emory University, Atlanta,
GA., March 1-2,1993.
Mylo Carbia, "After the Backlash: The Repercussions of Post-Feminist
Generations Accepting the Notion that Beauty Equals Worthiness."
Patricia Gilbert, "Max Weber's Types of Legitimate Authority and
Campaign."
Emory University, March, 1995
Wendy Muse, Undergraduate Paper Competition Winner, "Contemporary
Feminism: Revolution or Disillusion?"
At Georgia Southern University:
Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium
University of Georgia, Athens, GA., April 27-28,1992.
D.J. Smith, "Vietnam in the Media: Visions of Reality and Factors
that Blur the Vision."
Emory University, Atlanta, GA., March 5-6, 1991.
Joe Shryock, "Charisma and the Problem of the Irrational."
University of Georgia, Athens, GA., April 9-10,1990.
Joe Shryock, "Charisma: Evolution of a Concept." Third Prize
in paper competition.
Bill Colvin et al., "Another Face in the Crowd: Do Faculty Know Their
Students?"
Frank Eberhart et al., "Comparative Customs and Traditions Associated
with Newborns."
John Buffo et al.," Gender Differences in Sexual Permissiveness."
Sonja King et al., "The Reciprocity of Smiling on the Georgia Southern
Campus."
Jason Wilson et al.,"Sexual Behavior and Attitudes Among Georgia
Southern Students."
Billy Hill et al., "Academic Achievement of Students in Divorced
Families."
Georgia Sociological Society, Cohutta, GA. Oct. 26-27,1990.
Sissy Daniels, "The Statesboro Lynching: A Case Study in Smelser's
Theory of Structural Strain."
Sonja King et al., "Southern Neighborliness:
The Dynamics of Mutual Aid."
Joe Shryock, "Charisma: The Struggle with Rationality."
PUBLICATIONS CREATED AND EDITED:
10/02 "Do You Know the Real Anne Frank?" Reach Out 2001-02,
Vol. XI, Seinan Jo Gakuin Junior College for Women English Department
Research Association, Kitakyushu, Japan.
The Ogburn Journal of Sociology. Annual journal
presenting the best of student research and writing in sociology, anthropology,
and criminal justice. Mercer University (Fifth edition in preparation.
Publication will also be available on the Sociology Department Website.)
Mixed Voices: A Collection of Interviews on Gender Identity and Social
Change. An
anthology organized and developed as a class project in "Sex Roles,"
Sociology
Department, Georgia Southern University, Spring, 1990.
CONFERENCES CREATED:
1999 "Reclaiming Their Souls: Exploring the Survival Strategies of
African-American
Women." Georgia Humanities Council program grant and The National
Institute of Health program grant. Taylor Amphitheatre, Wesleyan College,
Macon, GA. March 4,
2000. (with Dr. Catherine Meeks)
1998 "Countless Thousands Mourn: Hollywood Explores Hate." Georgia
Humanities Council Program Grant. Douglass Theater, Macon, GA., October
1998. (with Dr. Catherine Meeks).
1997 Women and Gender Studies Conference. "Gender in the Workplace."
Developed conference as culminating activity for students enrolled in
"Sociology of Gender."
1997 National Endowment for the Humanities Departmental Grant for Holocaust
speaker,
Rabbi Dr. Steven Jacobs.
1996 Macon Arts Alliance, "The Music of the Holocaust." Mercer
University, April 15,1996.
1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Departmental Grant bringing
two distinguished
speakers, Dr. Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place, and Dr. Peter Conrad,
The
Medicalization of Deviance, to campus.
1992 College of Liberal Arts Media Grant for the development of a complete
inventory of slides
of the James Williams Collection of Yaka Art, African art from Zaire,
(with Dr. Gary
Blackburn)
1992 American Sociological Association-Sociologist for Women in Society,
SWS/Cheryl Miller
Lectureship Grant which brought distinguished sociologist, Dr. Judith
Lorber to Mercer
for a lecture on "The Social Construction of Sexuality and Social
Roles."
RESEARCH ASSISTANT:
"Worker Satisfaction and Structural Change in the Steel Industry:
A Cross-National
Comparison of the Steel Industries of the United States, Germany, Hungary,
and
Poland." University of Pittsburgh, (with Dr. Zdenek Suda)
"Geographic Mobility Constraints and Decision-Making
in Dual Career Families." University of Pittsburgh, (with Dr. Cynthia
Deitch.)
ACTIVITIES:
Georgia Sociological Association
6/00-6/02 Editor, Georgia Sociological Association
Newsletter, "Semaphore." Member, Executive Committee.
10/97 to 6/00 Co-editor, Georgia Sociological Association
Newsletter, "Semaphore." Member, Executive Committee.
OTHER:
1999-2002 Member, Board of Directors, Central Georgia Opera Guild, Macon,
GA.
1999 to date Member of Board of Directors, Aunt Maggie's Kitchen Table,
Macon, GA.
1997-1999 Member, Mayor's Youth Violence Prevention Task Force, Macon,
GA.
1998- to date Member, Challenge for Change, Macon, GA.
1999 Challenge for Change Program Evaluation Committee, Macon, GA.
1998-1999 Member, Advisory Board, Macon Telegraph,
Macon, GA
1999 Judge, Georgia History Day. National History
Day Competition. Georgia Humanities Council, Macon State College.
1995 Judge, "Distinguished Woman of the Year," Macon Women's
Business Association.
1993-1994 Member, City of Macon Housing and Urban Development Empowerment
Grant
Proposal Committee.
DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES:
1/03 Supervised the integration of full time sociology
faculty courses with Mercer University WebCT learning system. All courses
will be available on WebCT in 9/03.
2002-03 Courses integrated with Mercer University's WebCT learning system.
1999-to date Media Collection Development through
the Media Allocation Grant. College of Liberal Arts, Mercer University.
New courses created: American Popular Culture,
Medical Sociology. Revised curriculum, organized assessment program, developed
curriculum for potential Justice Studies Program.
Continued development efforts for African Artifacts
Collection.
1999 Supervised Departmental Program Review.
1992-1996 Organized class utilization of The New
York Times on Campus.
1992-1995 Authored grants for the "Improvement
of Teaching" in sociology. These grants have provided hardware and
software for the substantial upgrading of our sociological research laboratory.
Complied a comparative analysis of Criminal Justice
Program in the State of Georgia in conjunction with the development of
a criminal justice major in the department.
Significantly increased the number of students
pursuing individual majors in criminal justice.
1992 Authored proposal and arranged departmental
visits to the Social Sciences Laboratories at Savannah State College to
survey their use of on-line sociological data in conjunction with classroom
activities.
Initiated and authored the Sociology Club Newsletter
and served as advisor to the club. The 1/13/92 club newsletter was incorporated
into a Sociology Club Took Kit distributed by the American Sociology Association.
SERVICE to the COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS:
2002-2003 Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities
Committee.
1998-2002 National Endowment for the Humanities
Committee.
2002-to date Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Technology,
College of Liberal Arts.
2001-to date Member, College of Liberal Arts Welfare
Committee.
1999-2001 Member, Library Committee.
1998-1999 University Instructional Committee Taskforce.
1998-1999 Chair, College of Liberal Arts Welfare Committee.
1995 Member, College of Liberal Arts Welfare Committee.
1994-1995 Chair, Faculty Development Committee.
1992-1994 Member, Faculty Development Committee.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
American Sociological Association,
Georgia Sociological Association,
Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor
Society,
Beta Phi Mu, International Library Honor Society,
(Vice-President, 1997-1998),
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