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DR. MICHAEL C. KEARL,
Professor (Ph.D. Stanford University)
Dr. Kearl publishes
and teaches courses in the areas of social psychology,
death and dying, family, social gerontology, the
sociology of time, and the sociology of knowledge.
His books, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying
and Social Psychology: Shaping Identity, Thought
and Conduct (latter with Chad Gordon), have been
recognized for their scope and integration of various
disciplines. His courses are known for their
direct involvement of students in quantitative analyses
of social and cultural phenomena. His most recent work
involved contributing to and serving as an associate
editor for the two-volume Encyclopedia of Death
and Dying (Macmillan Reference USA, 2003).
Other publications include "An
Investigation into Collective Historical Knowledge &
Implications of its Ignorance"
in Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture
(2001), "You Never Have to Die: On Mormons, NDEs,
Cryonics, and the American Immortalist Ethos," in Kathy
Charmaz, Glennys Howarth and Allan Kellehear (eds.),
The Unknown Country: Experiences of Death in Australia,
Britain and the USA (London:Macmillan, 1997), "Dying
Well: The Unspoken Dimension of Aging Well" in the
American Behavioral Scientist (1996), and "Death and
Politics: A Psychosocial Perspective: in Hellelore Wass
and Robert Neimeyer (eds.), Dying: Facing the Facts
(3rd ed.). Dr. Kearl continues to explore the
pedagogical potential of the Internet with his
Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace website.
Areas
of Interest:
Thanatology: Taphology; Cultural
Immortalism & War on Death
Sociology of Time:
Generational & Life-Cycle Analyses; Collective
Remembering & Forgetting
Social Gerontology: Social &
Cultural Impacts of the Aging Revolution
Sociology of Knowlege:
Knowledge Obsolescence Rates
Popular Culture: The Sociology of Stamps;
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DR. JOHN M.
DONAHUE, Professor (Ph.D. Columbia University)
Dr. Donahue is teaching
Introduction to Anthropology and Anthropology of
International Relations for majors in our department and
also International Studies majors. He teaches courses in
Spanish in the Language Across the Curriculum Program. Dr.
Donahue's latest book,
Water, Culture and Power: Local Struggles in a Global
Context co-edited with Barbara Rose Johnston, was
published in 1997 by Island Press (reviewed in Science,
May 22, 1998).
Areas of Interest:
APPLIED
ANTHROPOLOGY:
Culture and International Relations
Primary Health Care in Developing Regions of the
World
Culture and Conflict Resolution in Water
Management
Applied Anthropology and Social Welfare Programs
Evaluation Research for Non-Profit Agencies
The Ethnography of Joggers
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DR.
CYNTHIA GENTRY, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Tulane
University)
Dr. Gentry teaches
courses in the area of crime and deviance including
sociology of law. Her primary focus is the examination
of structural predictors of crime and she is currently
examining rural crime rates. She has a chapter on
Crime Control Through Drug Control in Criminology: A
Contemporary Handbook. Dr. Gentry is a popular
speaker in community and university programs dealing
with crime and gun control.
Areas of Interest:
Crime and Delinquency
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DR.
JENNIFER MATHEWS, Associate Professor (Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside)
Dr. Mathews teaches courses on
prehistoric archaeology, Mesoamerican art, the ancient
Maya, human evolution, primatology and forensics. She is
Co-Director of the Yalahau Regional Human Ecology
Project in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico and takes
students to conduct fieldwork in the summers. She is the
co-editor on two volumes with the University of Arizona
Press, including Quintana Roo Archaeology (with
Justine Shaw) and Lifeways in the Northern Maya
Lowlands: New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatán
Peninsula (with Bethany Morrison). She also has
several recent journal articles and is working on a new
solo-authored book on the history of chicle (chewing
gum) from prehistory to present.
Areas of Interest:
MAYA
ARCHAEOLOGY:
Historic Railways in Yucatan
Ancient Roads
Archaeologists Working with Indigeneous
Peoples
Site Layout and Settlement Patterns
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DR. MEREDITH MCGUIRE,
Professor (Ph.D. The New School for Social Research)
Dr. McGuire's new
book, Lived Religion will be published soon by
Oxford University Press. Her earlier books
include: Religion: The Social Context; Health,
Illness and the Social Body (with Peter Freund);
Ritual Healing in Suburban America; and
Pentecostal Catholics. She is past-President of the
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the
Association for the Sociology of Religion. She is
on Academic Leave in 2007-2008. Her research
project focuses on Latin American rural community
development projects; that use locally-controlled
eco-tourism and sustainable agricultural practices for
their own economic development and protection of
tropical ecosystems. Dr. McGuire teaches regularly in
both the anthropology and sociology programs.
Areas of Interest:
Sociology
and Anthropology of Religion
Sociology and
Anthropology of the Body
Sociology of Health and
Illness
Human Rights Issues
Peace and
Peace Studies
Globalization, Rural Poverty, and the Environment
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DR. RICHARD REED,
Professor & Chair
(Ph.D. Harvard University)
Dr. Reed teaches
fieldwork in research methods in anthropology as well as
Economic Anthropology and South American Indigenous
Peoples. Professor Reed studies the effects of
deforestation on indigenous groups in the forests of
Paraguay. Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Reed has been
working with Guarani villages on the frontier of
expanding colonization and agriculture. His two books,
Prophets of Agroforestry and Forest Residents
and Forest Managers propose indigenous models of
land use as alternative strategies for development in
forested regions. Dr. Reed is also studying fathers and
childbirth in the United States. Dr. Reed is advisor to
ENACT, a student organization concerned with
environmental issues. He also serves on the committee
for the Environmental Studies Minor.
Areas of Interest:
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY:
Guarani Peoples of Paraguay:
Problems of Deforestation; Economic Development
Fatherhood: Rituals of
Masculinity; Father's Role in Birthing
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DR. DAVID SPENER,
Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Texas,
Austin)
Dr. Spener's areas of
expertise include comparative international development,
economic sociology, social inequality, U.S.-Mexico
border and migration studies. His book (co-edited with
Kathleen Staudt) The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending
Divisions, Contesting Identities was published in
1998 by Lynne Rienner.
Areas of Interest:
International Migration
Border Studies
Racial & Ethnic Relations
Globalization & Development
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DR. SHERYL R. TYNES,
Professor (Ph.D. University of Arizona)
Her book Turning
Points in Social Security: From "Cruel Hoax" to "Sacred
Entitlement" was published by Stanford University
Press in the spring of 1996. Her current research is on
children's welfare, from children's perspectives. She is
interested in children's welfare, the welfare state, and
political sociology. She teaches Research Methods:
Social Statistics, Sociology of Childhood and Youth, and
Sociology of Sex Roles. Dr. Tynes is the advisor for
Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honors
Society, and serves on the Women's Studies Advisory
Committee.
Areas
of Interest:
Sociology of Childhood and Youth:
Children's Right; Children's Welfare; Poverty, Race and
Locale.
Sociology of Sex Roles:
Historical & Cross-Cultural Education & Family
The Welfare State: Social
Security; U.S. Social Policy
Organinzations: Formal
Organizations, Social Movements
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DR. CHRISTINE
DRENNON, Asst. Professor (Ph.D
University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Drennon's current
research focuses on urban geography, paticularly urban
fragmentation and the consequent social reproduction of
race, class, ethinicty and genter relationships. She teaches
courses in urban studies and geography, including Urban
Studies and GIS. Dr.Drennon also serves on the Urban Studies
Advisory committee. Dr. Drennon likes dogs.
Areas of
Interest:
Urban Studies, Community
Development,Uneven Development:
Public Education in San Antonio
Urban Fragmentation
Class & Ethnic Spatial Segregation
Dr. Drennon likes dogs
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
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DR. AMY STONE (Ph.D
University of Michigan)
Dr. Stone is our newest
faculty member. She teaches Intro to Sociology and Research
Methods Social Statistics.
Areas of Interest:
Research methods
Statistics
Social Movements
Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
Japanese Studies
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
Direct Democracy and Minority Rights
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