Faculty Highlights
Faculty Research and Interests
Dr. Veronica Tichenor, Sociology Program Coordinator
Interests
Gender and Power Dynamics in Families
Violence in Intimate Relationships
Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Identity
Recent Publications
“Predictors of Power.” 2009. In Harry T. Reis and Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
“Argent, Pouvoir et Genre: Les Dynamiques Conjugales dans les Couples ou la Femme Gagne plus que Son Conjoint.” [Money, Power, and Gender: Marital Dynamics in Couples where Wives Earn More.] L’Usage de l’argent dans le couple: Pratiques et perceptions des comptes amoreux. Helene Belleau and Caroline Henchoz (Eds.) L’Hartmann: Paris, 2008.
Julia McQuillan, Arthur Greil, Karina Schreffler, and Veronica Tichenor. “The Importance of Motherhood among Women in the Contemporary US.” Gender and Society, August 2008.
Interests
Global Environmental Crisis
Links Between Unemployment and Crime
On Leave
Dr. Kathryn Stam (Anthropologist)
Interests
Social, organizational and ethical aspects of information technology
Cross-cultural perspectives on health
Cultural Diversity and Thai/Lao studies
Recent Publications
Stam, K. and Stanton, J. (2009). Events, Emotions, and Technology: Examining Acceptance of Workplace Technology Changes. Information Technology and People. (in press).
Guzman, I. and Stam, K (2008). Book chapter, “Human factors in Security: the role of the information security professionals within organizations,” with Indira Guzman and S. Hans, Submitted for D. K. J. Knapp (Ed.), Cyber-Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions: IGI Global.
Stam, K. and Scialdone, M. (2008). “Where Dreams and Dragons Meet: An Ethnographic Analysis of Two Examples of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs),” Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet- Special Issue: Being Virtually Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies’ Perspective, 3(1).
Guzman, I., Stam, K. and Stanton, J. (2008). “The Occupational Subcultures of IS/IT Personnel Within Organizations,” ACM SIGMIS Database Journal, 39 (1) Feb.
Interests
Applied Sociology
Sociology of Health and Illness
Social Psychology
Select Publications
Weber, L.R. and Carter, A.I. (2003.) The Social Construction of Trust. A Volume in the series Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice, Bruhn J.G. (Ed.) New York: Plenum/Kluwer Academic.
Weber, L., Miracle, A., Rosicky, J. and Crow, T. (2001). Bonding to Youth Clubs and Delinquency. Sociological Practice: A Journal of Clinical and Applied Sociology 3, 4:319-339.
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