Andrew Abel

• Ph. D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008
• B.A. , University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1991
  

Dissertation: "It's the People Here: A Study of Ritual, Conversion, and Congregational Life Among Chines Christians"

Greg Adams

adams@soc.umass.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005
• M.A., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002
• B.A., Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1990
• Dissertation: Narcotic Addiction in Post-Soviet Ukraine (with distinction)
  
  Current research areas:
  
  - Deviant behavior
  - Addiction
  - Social contexts of public health
  - Problems associated with international data collection and comparison

Current Position:
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Sociology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-2068

Amy Armenia

Amy.Armenia@hofstra.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. 2006.

• M.A., Sociology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. 2002.

• B.S., University of Massachusetts - Amherst. 1997.

Current Research Areas:

• Family

• Work

• Gender

Current Position:

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY

Cathryn Brubaker

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007

Dissertation: "Doing Health, Doing Gender: Testing a Social Constructionist View of Health and Risk Behavior Engagement"

Eric Cheney

cheneye@cwu.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005
• B. A. , Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1993

Dissertation:  Done Deal:  Socially Expected and Contested Duration in the Corporate Merger and Acquisition Market.

Current Position:

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Central Washington University

Ellensburg, WA

Michael DeCesare

mdecesare@csun.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 2004.
• M.S., Sociology, Southern Connecticut State University. 1999.
• B.A., Sociology, Certificate in Criminal Justice, University of Connecticut. 1997.

Dissertation:
Preaching Science or Promoting Citizenship? Teaching Sociology in High School

Current Position:

Merrimack College
Department of Sociology

307F Sullivan Hall North Andover, MA 01845

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Heather-Lyn Haley

Heather-Lyn.Haley@umassmed.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, September 2003.

Dissertation:
The Impact of Child Care Choices on the Social Networks of Working-Class Couples Across the Transition to Parenthood

Current research areas:

• culturally competent health care - how to teach it; how to measure it
• teacher identity among primary care physicians
• teaching about medical errors
• building research capacity through mentoring programs
• commitment to change teaching behaviors of primary care clinican-educators and evaluation of faculty development programs for clinical preceptors

Current position:

Director of Evaluation and Research
Community Faculty Development Center
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Afshan Jafar

• PhD - September 2006

Dissertation: "Lofty Ideals and Ground Realities: Feminism, Activism, and

NGOs in Pakistan"

Hilton Kelly

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 2007
• M.A., Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dissertation:  Jim Crow's Teachers:  Race, Remembering, and the Geopolitics of Teaching in the North Carolina Coastal Plains.

Current position:

Assistant Professor of Education

Davidson College

Davidson, NC  28035

Clifton Shawn McGuffey

mcguffey@bc.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst,  2005

Dissertation: 

Current Position:

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

Boston College

Boston, MA

Kim Price

kim.price@uconn.edu

• Ph. D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst , February 2003
• M.A., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2001
• B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1994

Dissertation:
Gender, Context, and Ritual: An Ethnography of Stripping

Current Postion:

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Connecticut
One University Place
Stamford, CT 06901-2315

Louis Prisock

• Ph.D.,University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007
• M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1996
• B.S., Drexel University, 1990

Dissertation: "Uneasy Alliance: The Participatioin of African Americans in Conservative Social, Political, and Intellectual Movements"

Current position:
Instructor of Sociology
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY

Natasha Sarkisian

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst  2005

Dissertation:  Assessing the Debates on Social Support Among Euro and African Americans

Current Position:

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

Boston College

Boston, MA 

Ingrid Semaan

ingrid.semaan@uconn.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, February 2006
• B.A., Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton
  Dissertation:  Beyond Staying and Leaving:  Battered Women's Responses to Abuse.

Gender, Sociology of Families, Domestic Violence, Sociology of Work, Class/Race/Gender.

Current Position:
Director of Women's Studies
University of Connecticut-Stamford
One University Place
Stamford, CT  06901-2315

Elizabeth Souza

e.souza@verizon.net

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, February 2004.
• M.A ., Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 2004.

Dissertation:
The Launch Pad: Middle Class Families and the Transition to College  (with distinction)

Katherine Walker

• Ph.D. Sociology, University of Massachusetts, 2007.

Dissertation: "Not Even Past: Race and Commemoration in a Southern City"

Amy Wilkins

• Ph. D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2004.
• B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 1994.

Dissertation:  Sex and Sensibility:  Gender, Race, And Class in Three Youth Cultures

Current Position:

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO

Ieva Zake

zake@rowan.edu

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, September 2004.
• M.A., Women's Studies, Ohio State University. 1999.
• B.A. in Philosophy, University of Latvia. 1997.

Dissertation:
The Development of Latvian Nationalist Ideology and the Role of Intellectuals

Current position:
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 08028