Also, check out our Sociology Graduate Student Club (SGSC) and Current Graduate Students .

Jessica Abbott (Ph.D. expected May 2010)

Dissertation: Cross-National Fear of Crime Among Women: An Examination of Structural and Individual-Level Causes

Committee: Dr. Rachel Whaley (Chair), Dr. Michelle H. Miller, Dr. Darren Sherkat, Dr. Jennifer Dunn, and Dr. Nancy Morris.

Research Interests: Criminology, Victimology, Gender, Quantitative Method.

Curriculum Vitae (In PDF Format)

Course Syllabi:

Sociology 108: Introduction to Sociology
Sociology 312: Elements of Sociological Research
Sociology 372: Criminology

Contact Information

            Department of Sociology
            3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524
            Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901
            Phone: 618-453-2494
            Email: ab1227@siu.edu

S.J. Creek (Ph.D. expected May 2010)

Dissertation: Ex-gay Movement Narratives and the Lived Experiences of Ex-gay Individuals in the United States

Committee: Dr. Jennifer Dunn (Chair). Dr. Robert Benford, Dr. Darren Sherkat, Dr. Chris Wienke, Dr. Craig Gingrich-Philbrook

Research Interests and Specialities: Religion, Gender, Social Movements, Sexuality, Collective Identity.

Teaching Interests: Religion, Gender, Social Movements, Sexuality, Qualitative Methods, Collective Identity, Social Problems, Queer Theory, Feminist Theory.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Course Syllabi: Introduction to Sociology Sociology of Religion Women and Men in Contemporary Society Contact Information:             Department of Sociology             3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524             Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901             Phone: 618-453-2494             Email: creek.s.j@gmail.com

Kylan Mattias de Vries (Ph.D. expected May 2010)

Dissertation: Intersectional Identities in Interaction: the Experience of Transgender Individuals.

Committee: Dr. Jennifer Dunn (Chair). Dr. Robert Benford, Dr. Michelle Miller, Dr. Chris Wienke, Dr. Jordy Jones.

Research Interests and Specialities: Race Class Gender, Inequalities, Social Psychology (emphasis in Identity, Collective Identity, and Symbolic Interactionism), Social Movements, Sexuality, Ethnographic Research, and Religion.

Teaching Interests: Race Class Gender, Sexuality, Social Psychology (particularly Identity, Collective Identity, and Symbolic Interactionism), Critical Race Theory, Statistics, Research Methods, Qualitative Methodology, Social Movements, and Social Problems.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Course Syllabi:
            WMST 491/SOC 490: Introduction to Sexual Diversity Studies
            SOC 308: Statistics for the Social Sciences
            SOC 215: Race and Ethnic Relations in the US
           
Contact Information:
            Department of Sociology
            3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524
            Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901
            Phone: 618-453-2494
            Email: kylan33@siu.edu

Stephen P. Hagan (Ph.D. May 2009)

Dissertation: We Provide the Dance Floor, You Make the Music”: E-movements, Building and Maintaining Community Through the Progressive Blogosphere.

Committee: Dr. Robert D. Benford (chair), Dr. Darren Sherkat, Dr. Jennifer L. Dunn, Dr. Tim Clark, Dr. John Downing.

Research Interests: Social Movements, Deviance, Social Problems, Culture, Leisure, Technology, Media Analysis, Religion.

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Philosophy

Course Syllabi:

Soc 108 Introduction to Sociology

Soc 303 Sociology of Deviance

Contact Information

            Department of Sociology
            3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524
            Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901
            Phone: 618-453-2494
            Email:sphagan@siu.edu

Melencia Johnson (Ph.D. expected May 2010)

Dissertation: Macro-Structural Study of Women’s Crime Rates: An Investigation using NIBRS.

Committee: Rachel Bridges Whaley (chair), Michelle Hughes Miller, M. Joan McDermott, Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Christopher Mullins.

Research Interests: Criminology, Female Crime and Violence, Intersection of Race/Ethnicity/Class/Gender and Crime, Sociology of Gender.

Teaching Interests: Criminology; Race and Crime; Feminist Criminology; General Sociology; Women, Crime and Justice; Research Methods; Sociology of Gender; Sociology of Deviance; Sociology of Religion.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Course Syllabi:
            SOC 303: Sociology of Deviance
            SOC 108: Introduction to Sociology
           
Contact Information:
            Department of Sociology
            3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524
            Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901
            Phone: 618-453-2494
            Email: johnsonm@siu.edu

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