M.A. in Sociology at Lehigh University


Graduate Studies Program of Study List of Courses Program Admission Research Thesis Careers Financial Aid Deadlines Community Fellows Program Work as a Community Fellow and earn a Masters Degree in one year! Faculty John Gatewood Roy Herrenkohl Heather Johnson Jackie Krasas Judith Lasker James McIntosh Ziad Munson Robert Rosenwein David Small Nicola Tannenbaum Elizabeth Vann Contact Us News Stories		Graduate Faculty John B. Gatewood (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1978) Culture and cognition, including especially the social organization of knowledge, social network analysis, and systematic data collection; fisheries social science; heritage tourism and tourists' motivations. Sample Recent Publication: Gatewood, John B. and Catherine M. Cameron (2004) Battlefield Pilgrims at Gettysburg National Military Park. Ethnology, 43, 193-216. Roy C. Herrenkohl (Ph.D., New York University, 1966) Evaluation research, social ecology, family. 20-year longitudinal study of the effect of abusive child rearing practices on children's later development. Personal and group influences on employee performance in business and industry with specific attention to the role of teamwork in business and industry. Sample Recent Publication: Herrenkohl, Roy C. and Mary Jean Russo (2001) Abusive Early Child Rearing and Early Childhood Aggression. Child Maltreatment, 6, 3-16. Heather Beth Johnson (Ph.D. Northeastern University, 2001) Social stratification/mobility; race and class; qualitative methodology; poverty and wealth. Examine the roles of asset inequality, school choice decision-making, and dominant ideologies in the reproduction of race and class stratification in the contemporary United States. Sample Recent Publication: Johnson, Heather Beth (2003) Good Neighborhoods, Good Schools: 'Good' Choices and Race in the Minds of Whites, in Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds., White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism, Routledge. Jackie Krasas (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1995) Gender and racial inequality; organizations, occupations, and work; non-standard employment; social theory; qualitative methods. Sample Recent Publication: Kevin D. Henson and Jackie Krasas Rogers (2001) "Why Marcia, You've Changed!" Male Clerical Temporary Workers Doing of Masculinity in a Feminized Occupation. Gender & Society, 15, 218-238. Judith N. Lasker (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976) Medical sociology, women and health, urban sociology. Effects on families of pregnancy loss, infertility, and high technology conception. The effect of community organization on citizen health status. AIDS prevention for the elderly. Sample Recent Publication: Lasker, Judith N. and Lori Toedter (2003) The Impact of Ectopic Pregnancy; A Sixteen Year Follow Up Study, Health Care for Women International, 24, 80-97. James R. McIntosh (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1970) Delinquency, social theory, deviance. Costs of different interventions programs in prisons in comparison to the cost of incarceration. Alcohol use and abuse among students. Sample Recent Publication: McIntosh, James R. (2003) "Gin Craze" and "Alcoholism," in Alcohol and Temperance in Modern Life: An International Encyclopedia, in press. Ziad W. Munson (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002) Political sociology, social movements, sociology of religion, research design, sociology of the Middle East. Research focus on the dynamics of social movement mobilization and activism, especially in conservative and/or religous movements; origins and development of political Islam (Islamic fundamentalism), relationship between science, politics, and public opinion. Sample Recent Publication: Munson, Ziad W. (2001) Islamic Mobilization: Social Movement Theory and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, The Sociological Quarterly, 42, 487-510. Robert E. Rosenwein (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1970) Science studies, popular culture, human communication, social interaction in cyberspace, small groups. Multi-cultural communication in college environments and its relation to patterns of maturation in college students. Race, ethnicity, popular culture, and the problem of social change. Sample Recent Publication: Rosenwein, Robert E. (1998) Modes of Relationing in the College Classroom, in E. Godfrey, ed., Teaching Sociology at Small Institutions. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association Publications, 165-175. David B. Small (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1983) Archaeology of complex societies, especially state formation; archaeological theory; architecture and culture. Sample Recent Publication: Small, David B. (2003) Factoring the Countryside into Urban Populations, in G. Storey, ed., Populations and Preindustrial Cities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, in press. Nicola B. Tannenbaum (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1982) Economic anthropology; cognitive anthropology; religion; ethnographic fieldwork methods; Southeast Asia, especially Thailand. Sample Recent Publication: Tannenbaum, Nicola B. and Cornelia Kammerer, eds. (2003) Founder's Cults in Southeast Asia: Ancestors, Agriculture, and Polity, Yale University Southeast Asia Program Monograph Series, No. 52, New Haven, CT. Elizabeth F. Vann (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2003) Cultural anthropology, global capitalism, transnationalism, medical anthropology, Asian economics, material culture studies; Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam. Sample Recent Publication: Vann, Elizabeth F. (2003) Production Matters: Consumerism and Global Capitalism in Vietnam, in N. Dannhaeuser and C. Werner, eds., Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 22: Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration. JAI Press.

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