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Sociology

Neale R Chumbler (Chair)

Campus Address: CA
Email: nchumble@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology;
Research Scientist and Associate Director Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-based Practice, Roudebush VA Medical Center
Academic Interests: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Care Coordination and Home-Telehealth strategies to improve patient centered outcomes (e.g., improvement in functional independence; health related quality of life) and avert preventable health services for older adults with chronic diseases and central nervous system damage and their informal caregivers.

Developing and Implementing effective strategies by which to deliver accessible and appropriate health services for functionally impaired and cognitively impaired seniors and their informal caregivers.


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L Louise Watkins (Office Coordinator)

Campus Address: CA301
Phone: (317)278-5226
Fax: 317-278-3654
Email: llwatkin@iupui.edu
Appointments: Office Coordinator
Academic Interests: Non-Profit Management

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David C Bell (Graduate Director)

Campus Address: CA 141/CA 301
Phone: (317)278-1336
Fax: 278-3654
Email: dcbell@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology
Website: http://myprofile.cos.com/dcbell9
Academic Interests: Social networks; HIV/AIDS; Family
Teaching: Research methods, theory, statistics

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Ain Haas (Graduate Advisor)

Campus Address: CA 303K
Phone: 274-2418
Email: ahaas@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: sociology of work, comparative social systems, sociological statistics, juvenile delinquency, control of crime, workplace democracy, labor reform, social inequity, urban restoration, Sweden, Estonia and sociology of war

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David A. Strong (Undergraduate Advisor)

Campus Address: CA 243A
Phone: 274-8981
Fax: 317-278-3654
Email: dastrong@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer and Department Director of Service Learning, Sociology
Academic Interests: Social movements; Historical sociology; and Family

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Patricia Ann Wittberg (Undergraduate Advisor)

Campus Address: CA 303G
Phone: (317)274-4478
Fax: (317) 278-3654
Email: pwittber@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: sociology of religion, formal organizations, urban sociology, community, and church and nonprofit organizations
Teaching: sociology of religion, formal organizations, urban sociology, community, sociology capstone

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Robert Aponte

Campus Address: CA 301A
Phone: 274-2536
Fax: 317-278-3654
Email: raponte@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology
Academic Interests: Demography, especially Latin American immigration, Latino Studies, Poverty and Social Policy, Race and Ethnicity .

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Wan-Ning Bao

Campus Address: CA 303H
Phone: (317)274-2665
Email: wbao@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: International/comparative criminology; juvenile delinquency in China; criminological theories; family and adolescent development
Teaching: Criminology/deviance; control of crime; victimology

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Betsy Erbaugh

Campus Address: CA 303
Phone: (317)274-8981
Email: berbaugh@iupui.edu
Appointments: Visiting Research Associate, Institute for Research on Social Issues; Associate Faculty, Sociology
Academic Interests: social movements, sexuality, gender, reproductive health, violence, research methods, queer theory
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology (SOC R100), Families and Society (SOC R314), Gender and Society (SOC R325)

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Carrie E. Foote

Campus Address: CA 306A
Phone: (317)278-8454
Email: foote@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: Research: HIV/AIDS; Social Construction and Experience of Health, Illness, and Disability; Traumatic Combat Injury; Reproductive Health.
Teaching: AIDS and society; Sociology of Health, Illness, and Disability; Qualitative Research Methods; Social theory.

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David A. Ford (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 127F
Phone: (317)274-2449
Fax: 317-278-7919
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Founding Director, Liberal Arts Institute for Research on Social Issues
Website: http://irsi.iupui.edu/
Academic Interests: crime and society, control of crime, violence and victims, domestic violence against women
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Carol Brooks Gardner

Campus Address: CA 303E
Phone: 274-2703
Fax: 278-3654
Email: cgardne@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and American Studies
Academic Interests: Sociology of everyday life, gender & family, current qualitative sociological theory & methods, disability

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William P. Gronfein

Campus Address: CA 303D
Phone: (317)274-3669
Fax: 278-3654
Email: iyjf100@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director, Minor in Medical Sociology
Academic Interests: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Mental Illness, Sociology of Deviance and Social Control, the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Social Organization of Health Care, Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, Sociolgy of Health, Illness, and Healing,Deviance and Social Control, Social Factorsin Health and Illness

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Linda L. Haas

Campus Address: CA 303M
Phone: 274-7384
Fax: 278-3654
Email: lhaas@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology
Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies
Academic Interests: linkages between work, family and gender in industrialized societies,especially in Sweden

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James R. Hunter (Retired)

Appointments: Lecturer in Sociology (Retired)
Academic Interests: social problems and theory
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Tamara G.J. Leech

Campus Address: CA303
Phone: (317)278-5204
Fax: (317)278-3654
Email: tleech@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor, Sociology Department
Academic Interests: Adolescent Health Risk Behavior
Urban Communities and Neighborhoods
Racial and Gender Contexts
Health Disparities

Teaching: Social Factors in Health and Illness(R381), Quantitative Methods(R551), Community(R330)

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Marci Bounds Littlefield

Email: mlittlef@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: Economic development, religion and entrepreneurship, women and the media, marriage and families

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Lynn Blinn Pike

Campus Address: 303 Cavanaugh Hall
Phone: (317)274-8704
Email: pikel@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: Adolescents, youth at risk, program evaluation, adolescent sexuality, adolescent gambling, mentoring, visual research methods
Teaching: Visual Sociology” **G “Social Problems” “Sociology of Death and Dying” “Family and Social Policy” “Families and Society”

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Peter J. Seybold

Campus Address: CA 303B
Phone: (317) 278-2290
Fax: 317278-3654
Email: pseybold@indiana.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Sociology
Academic Curriculum Specialist - University College (1/3 time. Director, IU Division of Labor Studies, 1994-2001.
Academic Interests: Political Sociology, Sociology of Work, Social Change, Inequality and Society, Sociology of Knowledge, Social Theory, Critical Pedagogy, the American Labor Movement.

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Robert W. White

Campus Address: CA 503L
Fax: (317)278-2525
Email: rwwhite@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology Director, Motorsports Studies
Academic Interests: political sociology, social movements, political violence, and terrorism

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Colin J. Williams

Campus Address: CA 303J
Phone: 274-4454
Email: cjwillia@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology
Academic Interests: sociology of deviant behavior, human sexuality, sociological theory, and sociology of sexual behavior (especially human sexual variations)

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Aimee Zoeller

Campus Address: 4601 Central Avenue Columbus, IN
Phone: (812)348-7330
Fax: (812)348-7370
Email: anzoelle@iupuc.edu
Appointments: Lecturer in Sociology
Academic Interests: Gender

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Associate Faculty ( Sociology )

J. Meryl Krieger

Campus Address: CA303
Phone: (317)274-8981
Email: kriegerj@indiana.edu
Appointments: Adjunct Lecturer
Website: http://indiana.academia.edu/merylkrieger
Academic Interests: popular culture, new and social media, cyberculture, performance, gender, language and power dynamics.
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology (Soc R100), Social Problems (Soc R121), Women and Health (Soc R321), Gender and Society (Soc R325)

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