Faculty and Staff Profiles

Benjamin C. Brown

Associate Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Sociology Graduate Program

420 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-0765
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: cliff.brown@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.A., Earlham College, 1987
M.A., Emory University, 1992
Ph.D., ibid., 1996

Courses Taught:
SOC 400: Introductory Sociology
SOC 444: Social Mobility and Social Change
SOC 645: Class, Status, and Power
SOC 665: Environmental Sociology
SOC 745/845: Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
SOC 980: Social Stratification

Fields of Research: 
social stratification, race and ethnic relations, comparative historical sociology, the environment and social change, the U.S. labor movement

Michele Dillon

Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department

425 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2925
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: michele.dillon@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education:
B.Sc., University College, Dublin, 1980
M.Sc., ibid., 1983
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989

Courses Taught:
SOC 611: Sociological Theory
SOC 697: Spc Top/ Sociology of Culture
SOC 797/897: Sociology of Religion
SOC 904: Sociological Methods IV
SOC 911: Sociological Theory I
SOC 912: Sociological Theory II

Fields of Research: 
religion, culture, sociological theory, aging/life course, Irish society

Cynthia "Mil" Duncan

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Carsey Institute

G05B Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3663
Fax: (603) 862-3878
E-mail: mil.duncan@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Stanford University, 1971
M.A., University of Kentucky, 1981
Ph.D., ibid., 1985

Courses Taught:
SOC 742/842: Sociology and Social Policy

Fields of Research: 
social change and development, poverty and inequality, rural families and communities, social policy

Jean Elson

Lecturer

101 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1885
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: jelson@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Boston University, 1970
M.Ed., ibid., 1971
M.A., Brandeis University, 1996
Ph.D., ibid., 2000

Courses Taught:
SOC 520: Family
SOC 630: Gender
SOC 697: Women, Health, and Illness
SOC 570: Sexual Behavior
SOC 400H: Honors Introduction to Sociology
SOC 520H: Honors Family
SOC 797/897: Special Topics/Gender and Inequality
SOC 797/897: Special Topics/Women, Health and Illness
SOC 975: Graduate Seminar in Sociology of Family

Areas of Research:
medical sociology, sociology of gender, sociology of family, sociology of sexuality, qualitative research methods

David Finkelhor

Professor of Sociology

126 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2761
Fax: (603) 862-1122
E-mail: david.finkelhor@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Harvard University, 1968
M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1971
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1978

Courses Taught:
SOC 525: Juvenile Crime and Delinquency
SOC 650: Family Violence
SOC 773/873: Sociology of Childhood
SOC 797/897: Spc Top/ Research Methods in Crime and Justice

Fields of Research: 
youth and crime, family violence

Rebecca Glauber

Assistant Professor of Sociology 

418 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1986
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: rebecca.glauber@unh.edu

Website (Carsey Institute)

Education:
B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000
M.A., New York University, 2005
Ph.D., ibid., 2007

Courses Taught:
SOC 400:  Introductory Sociology
SOC 520:  Family
SOC 697:  Family, Work, and Inequality

Fields of Research: 
families, gender, social stratification, work and labor markets

Lawrence Hamilton

Professor of Sociology

420a Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1859
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: lawrence.hamilton@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1970
M.A., University of Colorado, 1974
Ph.D., ibid., 1978

Courses Taught:
INCO 404O: Society in the Arctic
SOC 502H: Honors Statistics
SOC 697: Top/ Change in Arctic Society
SOC 901: Sociological Methods I
SOC 903: Sociological Methods III: Advanced Statistics

Fields of Research: 
the Arctic, human dimensions of climatic change, environmental sociology, statistics and data analysis

Kenneth Johnson

Professor of Sociology and Senior Demographer at the Carsey Institute

Sociology Department
441 Horton Social Science Center
Phone:  (603) 862-1958
Fax: (603) 862-3558

Carsey Institute
GO5B Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2205
Fax: (603) 862-3878

E-mail: ken.johnson@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.A., University of Michigan, 1972
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1975
Ph.D., ibid., 1980

Courses Taught:

SOC 502:  Statistics
SOC 797/897: Social Demography
SOC 901:  Methods I:  Statistics

Fields of Research: 
Demography, rural and urban sociology, quantitative analysis

Catherine Moran

Lecturer

440 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1896
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: clmoran@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of New England, 1994
M.A., London School of Economics, 1996
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 2004

Courses Taught:
SOC 400: Introductory Sociology
SOC 502: Statistics
SOC 540: Social Problems
SOC 599: Sociological Analysis
SOC 601: Methods of Social Research
SOC 697: Special Topics/Sociology of Fashion

Sharyn Potter

Associate Professor of Sociology

426 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3630
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: sharyn.potter@unh.edu

Education:
B.S., State University of New York, 1989
M.P.H., Emory University, 1994
Ph.D., ibid., 1998

Courses Taught:
SOC 502: Statistics
SOC 601: Methods of Social Research
SOC 635W: Medical Sociology
SOC 735/835: Complex Organizations
SOC 903: Advanced Statistics
SOC 797/988: Sociological Perspectives on U.S. Health Care Policy in the 20th Century

Fields of Research: 
medical sociology, organizational behavior, methodology, statistics

Cesar Rebellon

Associate Professor of Sociology

416 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-4850
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: cesar.rebellon@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Rice University, 1996
M.A., Emory University, 1999
Ph.D., ibid., 2002

Courses Taught:
SOC 515: Introduction to Criminology
SOC 525: Juvenile Crime and Delinquency
SOC 697: Special Topics/Perspectives On Terrorism
SOC 715: Criminological Theory
SOC 797/897: Special Topics/Criminological Theory
SOC 921: Crime and Conflict

Fields of Research: 
criminological theory, social psychology, quantitative methods

Thomas Safford

Assistant Professor of Sociology 

417 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1876
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: tom.safford@unh.edu

Website (Carsey Institute)

Education:
B.A., University of North Carolina, 1989
M.A., Stanford University, 1995
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2004

Courses Taught:
SOC 400: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 655: Environmental Sociology
SOC 697: Special Topics/Global Social Change
SOC 797/897: Special Topics/Community and Environment
SOC 797/897: Special Topics/Organizations, Social Movements, and the Environment

Fields of Research: 
international political economy, organizational sociology, environmental sociology, sociology of science and technology, qualitative methods, applied sociology

Murray Straus

Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory

126 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2594
Fax: (603) 862-1122
E-mail: murray.straus@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1948
M.S., ibid., 1949
Ph.D., ibid., 1956

Courses Taught:
SOC 695: Research, Family, Violence
SOC 776: Family Violence Research Seminar
SOC 797: Spc Top/Family Violence
SOC 902: Sociological Methods II
SOC 976: Violence in the Family

Fields of Research: 
family, criminology, methodology, comparative institutional analysis

James Tucker

Associate Professor of Sociology

421 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1814
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: jetucker@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.S., University of Virginia, 1981
M.A., ibid., 1987
Ph.D., ibid., 1992

Courses Taught:
SOC 655: Sociology of Law and Justice
SOC 670: Sociology and Non-Fiction Film
SOC 715/815: Criminological Theory
SOC 780/880: Social Conflict
SOC 797/897: Sociology of Suicide
SOC 912: Contemporary Sociological Theory

Fields of Research: 
social conflict, crime and deviance, law and social control, sociology of religion, documentary film

Heather Turner

Professor of Sociology

423 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3670
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: haturner@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1985
Ph.D., University of California at San Francisco, 1990

Courses Taught:
SOC 675: Sociology of AIDS
SOC 740/840: Sociology of Mental Health
SOC 760/860: Aging in Late Life Family
SOC 970: Social Stress and Health
SOC 975: Seminar/Sociology of the Family

Fields of Research:
stress processes and mental health, sociology of the family, aging and life course, AIDS, survey research

Karen Van Gundy

Associate Professor of Sociology

422 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1896
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: karen.vangundy@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994
M.A., University of Cincinnati, 1998
Ph.D., University of Miami, 2001

Courses Taught:
SOC 502: Statistics
SOC 599: Sociological Analysis
SOC 620: Drugs and Society
SOC 720/820: Sociology of Drug Use
SOC 740/840: Sociology of Mental Health
SOC 901: Sociological Methods I

Fields of Research: 
sociology of mental health, substance use, life course, gender

Sally Ward

Professor of Sociology

419 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1973
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: sally.ward@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.A., University of Maryland, 1970
M.A., Brown University, 1974
Ph.D., ibid., 1977

Courses Taught:
SOC 601: Methods of Social Research
SOC 660: Urban Sociology
SOC 790/890: Applied Sociology
SOC 794/894: Evaluation of Social Programs
SOC 902: Sociological Methods II
SOC 990: Teaching Sociology Seminar

Fields of Research: 
urban sociology, social policy, poverty and inequality, methodology, communities

Deena Peschke

Administrative Assistant

424 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2500
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: dpeschke@cisunix.unh.edu

Lynn Beaver

Administrative Assistant

424 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2500
Fax: (603) 862-3558
E-mail: lynn.beaver@unh.edu