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  • Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance

    Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated…

    September 11, 2019

  • Daniel Butler published in Journal of Criminal Justice

    Daniel Butler, assistant professor of sociology, is the sole author of a study titled, “An Examination of Inmate Adjustment Stratified by Time Served in Prison,”  published in the Sept. 5 online edition of the Journal of Criminal Justice. In the study, Butler uses the Differential Coercion and Social Support (DCSS)…

    September 5, 2019

  • Susan Stewart is editor, writer for sociology book about stepfamilies

    Susan Stewart, professor of sociology, is an editor and contributing writer of “Multicultural Stepfamilies,” a book published by Cognella that provides students and researchers in the fields of sociology, social work and family studies with new theories, data and insight into the composition and diversity of modern stepfamilies. Specifically, Stewart…

    September 5, 2019

  • Matt DeLisi published in Journal of Forensic Sciences

    Matt DeLisi, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor and professor of sociology, has published a paper titled “Homicidal Ideation and Forensic Psychopathology: Evidence From the 2016 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS)” in the Aug. 12, 2019, online edition of the Journal of Forensic Sciences. DeLisi’s co-authors are Jason…

    September 4, 2019

  • Katherine A. Rafferty published in Health Communication

    Katherine A. Rafferty, assistant teaching professor of psychology has been published in Health Communication. Her publication, You are not alone: Advice giving for parents of children living with complex chronic conditions was recently published online. Health Communication is an outlet for scholarly intercourse between medical and social sciences.

    September 3, 2019

  • Katherine A. Rafferty published in The Qualitative Report

    Katherine A. Rafferty, assistant teaching professor, has been published in The Qualitative Report, 24, 2102-2121.  Her publication, “When black and white medicine turns gray: Exploring the interplay and meaning of discourses about parenting a child with a complex chronic condition” can be viewed here. The Qualitative Report is…

    September 3, 2019

  • Daniel Butler publishes “An Examination of the Influence of Exposure to Disciplinary Segregation on Recidivism”

    Daniel Butler, assistant professor of sociology, has published “An Examination of the Influence of Exposure to Disciplinary Segregation on Recidivism” in the Aug. 13, 2019, online edition of the Crime & Delinquency Journal. His co-authors are Benjamin Steiner, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Matthew Makarios, University of Northern Iowa; and Lawrence…

    September 3, 2019

  • Jeff Bouffard published in Crime & Delinquency Journal

    Jeff Bouffard, professor of criminal justice studies in the Department of Sociology, and co-author LaQuana Askew, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, have published the article “Time-Series Analyses of the Impact of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law Implementation and Subsequent Modifications on Rates of Sexual Offenses” in the Crime…

    September 3, 2019