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 Dr. Nadine BarrettPrior to joining the UCF faculty, Dr. Barrett was a post doctoral fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. She received her PhD from Texas Woman’s University in 2005. Dr. Barrett’s overarching area of interest is Medical Sociology and research that incorporate the intersections of race, class, and gender toward addressing health disparities among disadvantaged populations. Within this framework her primary foci are HIV/AIDS and STDs, mental health, and substance abuse. Dr. Barrett’s current projects examine cultural competence and race disparities in healthcare , women and substance abuse treatment, health and behavioral healthcare in the criminal justice system and its impact on communities of color, and the Black community and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Scott CarterJ. Scott Carter earned his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2003. His areas of interest are racial and gender inequality, race and politics, attitudinal construction and measurement, urban and region subcultures, and religious fundamentalism and modernization.  Dr. Carter's web page
Dr. Penelope CananDr. Penelope Canan from the University of Denver joins the faculty of UCF Department of Sociology In Fall 2006. Canan recently served as the Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. She is the recipient of the Ozone Layer Protection Award of the US EPA (2000), the Distinguished Practice Award of the Pacific Sociological Association, the Durham Lectureship Award from Oklahoma State University (2006), and the Driscoll Master Teacher Award at the University of Denver. She and socio-legal scholar Nancy Reichman co-authored Ozone Connections: Expert Networks in Global Environmental Governance (Greenleaf 2002), published in Japanese by Nippon Hyoronsha in 2005. Canan served as lead author on the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel of the UNEP Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozon e Layer, chair of the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, vice president of the Society for Applied Sociology, and director of the International Institute for Environment and Enterprise at DU. She will continue as a board member of the Colorado Energy Science Center and president of the board of the SLAPP Resource Center. The latter affiliation stems from her 20-year collaborative work on SLAPPs (“Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation”), that is, the use of civil lawsuits to silence political speech, as summarized in her book with law professor George Pring, entitled SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out (Temple University Press, 1996). Dr. Ida J. CookIda J. Cook received her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Her teaching areas are social change, alcoholism/drug abuse, political sociology, program design and evaluation and research methods. Her published work has examined alcoholism, political and community action, domestic violence, gerontology and social change. Her current research interests include studies of health care delivery for the elderly, public perceptions of domestic violence, and substance abuse. Dr. Cook's web page
Dr. Jay CorzineJay Corzine received his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington University (St. Louis). His areas of teaching interest and research specialization include criminology, deviance, social psychology, violence and substance use/abuse. Recent papers and publications include works on the relationship between homicide and suicide, the racial pattern of lynchings in postbellum Louisiana, regional differences in homicide and the effect of substance treatment programs on recidivism rates of probationers. Dr. Tracy L. DietzTracy L. Dietz received her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in 1995 and completed a post doctoral research fellowship at the University of New Hampshire's Family Research Laboratory. Her teaching and research interests are in aging, medical sociology, race and ethnicity, family, and family violence. Recent publications focusing on the experiences of older Mexican Americans appear in The Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Family Issues, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, and Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Dr. Dietz's web page
Dr. Jason A. FordJason A. Ford received his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University, with a major area of concentration in criminology/ deviance and a minor area of concentration in quantitative methodology. His teaching interests include criminology, juvenile delinquency, deviance and social control, substance use, statistics, and research methodology. His research interests include the factors related to onset, stability, and change in offending behavior over the life course, the relationship between substance use and criminal behavior, the etiology of violent offending, and sports participation and delinquency. Dr. Ford's web page
Dr. David A. GayDavid A. Gay received his Ph.D. from Duke University. His teaching areas are life course studies, social psychology, quantitative methods and the sociology of religion. His published work has examined black political participation, the relationship between region, religious commitment and life satisfaction among Black Americans, and the effects of religious affiliation and commitment on subjective well-being. His current research include the effects of cohort size on the subjective well-being of the baby-boom cohort and changes in attitudes toward abortion across religious groups. Dr. Gay's web page
Dr. Elizabeth GrauerholzDr. Grauerholz received her PhD from Indiana University in 1985. Her primary areas of interest include the scholarship of teaching and learning, gender, family and childhood, and social psychology. Her current research focuses upon the goals and means of sociology instruction, and public responses to feminist research. She is also editor of Teaching Sociology. Dr. Lin Huff-CorzineLin Huff-Corzine received her Ph.D. from Washington University (St. Louis.) Her teaching areas are criminology, women's issues, and juvenile delinquency. Her published work has focused on structural and cultural explanations of homicide and suicide, recidivism among probationers and foodways. Dr. Jana L. JasinskiJana L. Jasinski received her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire (1996) where she was also a National Institute of Mental Health Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Family Research Laboratory (1997). Dr. Jasinski's research interests are in the areas of both lethal and non-lethal interpersonal violence, substance abuse, the response of the criminal justice system to violence, and the negative consequences of child sexual assault. Her research appears in Child Abuse & Neglect, Violence and Victims, Social Science Quarterly, and Journal of Interpersonal violence. She is also the co-editor of two books: Out of the Darkness: Contemporary Perspectives on Family Violence and Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research. Dr. Jasinski's web page
Dr. John P. LynxwilerJohn P. Lynxwiler received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His teaching areas are deviant behavior, social psychology and popular culture. His published work has examined abortion attitudes and behaviors, regulatory policy making, social control, identity management, and social problems construction. Dr. Lynxwiler's web page
Dr. Joan M. MorrisJoan M. Morris received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her teaching areas include social inequality, and research methods. Her published work has examined the role of texts in defining scientific communities; outcome and effects of working-class culture (e.g., work and political attitudes, marital power), and occupational mobility and job satisfaction. Her current research interests include class origins and academic careers, and homelessness. Dr. Morris' web page
Dr. Elizabeth E. MustaineElizabeth E. Mustaine received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Her teaching interests include Criminology, Deviance, Juvenile Delinquency, and the specialty topics of Criminal Victimization, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Women, Crime, Law and Culture, Research Methods, Program Evaluation, Policy and Gendered Issues/topics. Her areas of research interest include Victimization, Routine Activities Theory, Domestic Violence, Stalking Issues in Criminology, Violence, the impact of tructural characteristics and social disorganization on crime/incarceration, Women, Crime, culture, and Social control and Program Evaluation. Dr. Mustaine's web page
Dr. Heili Pals (Coming Soon!) Dr. Fernando RiveraFernando I. Rivera, Ph.D. received his doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003. Before assuming his duties as assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, Dr. Rivera was a post doctoral fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of mental health, family, and health, with a special emphasis on Latino groups. Currently he is involved in several projects analyzing Latino mental health issues including: the link between physical and mental health among a national sample of Mexican adults, and the effects of several socio-cultural factors (such as family support, perceived discrimination, gender, and education) on depression levels among Latino children and adults. Dr. Elzbieta Sikorska-SimmonsElzbieta Sikorska-Simmons received her PhD. from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1998. Her teaching and research interests are medical sociology, sociology of aging, organizational theory, and long-term care policy. Her published work has focused on organizational determinants of resident satisfaction with assisted living, the hospice movement in Poland, and psychosocial aspects of cancer care. Her current research examines the influence of organizational procesess and structures on resident autonomy in assisted living. Dr. James WrightJames D. Wright (Ph.D, Wisconsin, 1973) is an author, educator, and Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He has published seventeen books on topics ranging from guns to poverty to drugs to natural disasters to American Politics to research Methods to the NASCAR Winston Cup. In addition, he is the author or co-author of more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, essays, reviews, and polemics. His current research interests include the "divorce reform" movement, health aspects of homelessness, urban poverty and inequality, and violence. He has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Social Science Research since 1978. Dr. Wright's web page
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