This document is Laura Vance's curriculum vitae. It summarizes her educational background, including a Ph.D. in Sociology from Simon Fraser University and positions held as a professor of sociology and gender studies at various universities. It also lists her areas of research focus, publications, conference presentations, grants received, and media interviews given on topics related to religion, gender, and women's studies.

1. Laura Vance
Curriculum Vitae
January 2015
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Faculty of Sociology/Anthropology and
Director of Gender and Women’s Studies 311 Sand Hill Rd.
Warren Wilson College Asheville, NC 28806
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Email: lvance@warren-wilson.edu
EDUCATION:
October 1994
Ph.D. in Sociology
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Dissertation Title: Adventism in Crisis: An Examination of Gender and
Sectarian Change in Seventh-day Adventism
Recipient of the C. D. Nelson Memorial Scholarship
May 1991
M.A. in Anthropology
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Thesis Title: Strength in Our Sisterhood: Role Conflict and Mediation Among
Women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
June 1989
B.A. in Anthropology
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Cum Laude, Outstanding Graduate in Anthropology, Recipient of The Writing
Scholarship
POSITIONS HELD:
Professor of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies
Warren Wilson College
May 2007-present
Recipient of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2013. Director of Gender
and Women’s Studies, July 2007-July 2014. Supervisor of campus Women’s
Center and Women’s Center student work crew (later called Empower), July
2007-May 2010.
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2. POSITIONS HELD (Cont.)
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of Women’s Studies
Georgia Southwestern State University
September 1994-May 2007
Recipient of the Vice President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 2007.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Georgia Southwestern State University
Tenure granted.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Georgia Southwestern State University
September 1994-May 1998
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Sociology of Religion, Gender/Women’s Studies, Social Inequality, Sociological Theory,
Feminist Theory, Women’s Roles in Religious Movements, New Religious Movements,
Anthropology, Mass Media, Research Methods.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Vance, Laura. Women in New Religions. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Vance, Laura. “Gender” in Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet, edited by Terrie
Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land, and Ronald L. Numbers. Oxford University Press,
2014.
Vance, Laura L., Seventh-day Adventism in Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change in an
Emerging Religion. Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Vance, Laura L. (2008), “Converging on the Heterosexual Dyad: Changing Mormon and
Adventist Sexual Norms and Implications for Gay and Lesbian Adherents,” Nova
Religio 11(4):56-76.
Vance, Laura L. (2007), “Review Essay: Recent Studies of Mormon Women,” Nova
Religio 10(4):113-127.
Vance, Laura L. (2002) “Evolution of Ideals for Women in Mormon Periodicals, 1897-
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3. 1999,” Sociology of Religion. 63(1):91-112.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES (Cont.)
Vance, Laura L., (1997) “Denominationalism and Changing Gender Ideals in the
Adventist Review: An Examination of Weber’s Theory of Religion of the
Disprivileged Classes, 1850-1993,” Nova Religio I(1):50-71.
Vance, Laura L., (1997) “Gender and Sectarian Change in Seventh-day Adventism,”
Adventist Heritage: Journal of Adventist History 17(2):31-44.
INVITED REVIEWS
Vance, Laura L. (2015) “Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys
of a Mormon Academic,” Nova Religio. Forthcoming.
Vance, Laura L. (2011) “Re-Riting Woman: Dianic Wica and the Feminine Divine,”
Nova Religio 15(2):130-131.
Vance, Laura L. (2010) “Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White, 3rd
ed. and
Charisma and Routinisation in a Millennialist Community” Nova Religio
14(1):132-134.
Vance, Laura L. (2009) “American Religion and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope
with Modernization and Democracy,” Nova Religio 12(3):117-119.
Vance, Laura L. (2007) “Religion and Healing In America,” Nova Religio 10(4):138-39.
Vance, Laura L. (2007) “Black and Mormon,” Nova Religio 11(1):111-12.
Vance, Laura L. (2007) “Religion and Healing in America,” Nova Religio 10(4):138-39.
Vance, Laura L. (2007) “Cycles of Faith: The Development of the World’s Religions,”
Nova Religio10(3):130-31.
Vance, Laura L. (2007) “Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender
Battles,” Nova Religio 10(3):133-34.
Vance, Laura L. (2006) “Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives,”
Nova Religio 10(2):130-31.
Vance, Laura L. (2005) “Religion as a Chain of Memory,” Nova Religio 8(3):128-9.
Vance, Laura L. (2005) “Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American
World Religion,” Nova Religio 8(2):133-4.
Vance, Laura L. (2004) “More Wives Than One: The Transformation of the Mormon
Marriage System, 1840-1910,” Nova Religio 8(2):115-6.
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4. INVITED REVIEWS (Cont.)
Vance, Laura L. (2004) “The Religious Imagination of American Women,” Nova Religio
8(2):103-4.
Vance, Laura L. (2002) “Hallelujah Lads and Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in
America, 1880-1930,” The Journal of Religion. 82(3):453-4.
Vance, Laura L. (2001) “Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the
Mormons,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 40(4):784-5.
Vance, Laura L. (2000) “Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962,” Nova Religio 4(1):151-2.
Vance, Laura L. (2000) “Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists,”
Nova Religio 4(1):170.
Vance, Laura L. (2000) “Financing American Religion,” Nova Religio 3(2):400.
Vance, Laura L. (1999) “Lost Daughters: Recovered Memory Therapy and the People it
Hurts,” Nova Religio 3(1):175-6.
Vance, Laura L. (1999) “The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace and the Sixties Spiritual
Awakening,” Nova Religio 2(2):308-10.
Vance, Laura L., (1998) “Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious
Women,” Review of Religious Research 40(1):82-83.
Vance, Laura L. (1998) “Mormon Identities in Transition,” Nova Religio 1(2):317-18.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Vance, Laura L., (2013) “From Eternal Gender to Outer Darkness: A Journey of
Scholarship and Activism.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association,
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, April 18-20.
Vance, Laura L., (2012) Session Organizer and Chair, SEWSA LGBTQ Caucus Session,
“Action Toward Transformation: Building Enduring Practices for Change in the
Southeastern U.S.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, George Mason
University, Washington, DC, March 29-31.
Vance, Laura L., (2012) “Developing a Pedagogy of Transformation and Practice.”
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, George Mason University,
Washington, DC, March 29-31.
Vance, Laura L., (2011) Session Organizer and Chair “Queer Progress in the South:
Taking Stock.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, Georgia State
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5. University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 24-26.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Cont.)
Vance, Laura L., (2010) “Socio-Historical Limitations on Empowerment: the Case of
Ellen White.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, University of South
Carolina-Columbia, South Carolina, March 25-27.
Vance, Laura L., (2010) Session Chair “Media Representations of Race, Gender, and
Sexuality.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, University of South
Carolina-Columbia, South Carolina, March 25-27.
Vance, Laura L., (2009) “’Not a Hand Should be Bound, Not a Soul Discouraged’: Ellen
White’s Writings on Women,” book chapter for The Ellen White Project, Portland
Maine, October 22-25.
Vance, Laura L., (2009) “The Evolution of Sexual Norms in Mormonism and Seventh-
day Adventism.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, Appalachian State
University, North Carolina, April 2-4.
Vance, Laura L., (2009) “From Polygamy to Proposition 8: Evolving Sexual Norms in
Mormonism and Adventism.” Queer Art/Queer Actions (Politics of Possibility),
University of North Carolina, Asheville, March 26-28.
Vance, Laura L., (2008) “Voices for Change: A Community Readers Theater”
(Organizer). Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, Charlotte, North
Carolina, April 5.
Vance, Laura L., (2006) “Religious Evolution and the Delineation of Gender Ideals for
Mormon Women: Content Analysis of the Improvement Era and Ensign.”
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, Valdosta, Georgia, March 31.
Vance, Laura L., (2004) “Prevalence, Incidence and Responses to Intimate Partner
Violence in the Rural South.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association,
Savannah, Georgia, March 25.
Vance, Laura L., (2003) “From Poverty to Self-Sufficiency in Georgia and Beyond.”
Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta State University, Georgia.
Vance, Laura L., (2002) “JoAnna ‘Lynn’s’ Story: Students Examine Domestic Violence.”
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, Valdosta State University, Valdosta,
Georgia.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Cont.)
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6. Vance, Laura L., (2001) “Employing the Sociological Imagination: Students Examine
Domestic Violence in the Rural South.” Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta
State University, Georgia.
Vance, Laura L., (2000) “Religious Evolution and the Delimitation of Gender Ideals for
Mormon Women: Content Analysis of the Improvement Era and the Ensign.”
Religious Research Association and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,
Houston, Texas.
Vance, Laura L., (2000) “Equality to Servitude: Evolution of Ideals for Mormon Women
in LDS Periodicals.” Association for the Sociology of Religion, Washington, DC.
Vance, Laura L., (2000) “Independence to Servitude: Representations of Women in
Mormon Periodicals, 1897-2000.” Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta State
University, Georgia.
Vance, Laura L., (1999) “Implications of Religious Change for Women Serving in the
Pastorate.” Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta State University, Valdosta,
Georgia.
Vance, Laura L., (1998) “Declining Opportunities: Seventh-day Adventist Women in
Leadership.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious
Research Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Vance, Laura L., (1998) “Religious Change and Marginalization of Women: The Case of
Seventh-day Adventism.” Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta State
University, Georgia.
Vance, Laura L., (1997) “Drawing the Line: Gender and Attitudes Toward Sexuality
among Seventh-day Adventists,” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and
the Religious Research Association, San Diego.
Vance, Laura L., (1996) “Gender and Religious Identity in the Adventist Review, 1850-
1993.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research
Association, Nashville, Tennessee.
Vance, Laura L., (1995) “Equity Through Ordination? Adventist Women and Ministry.”
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research
Association, St. Louis, Missouri.
Vance, Laura L., (1994) “Role Conflict and Mediation among Women of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” American Academy of Religion, Pacific
Lutheran University, Washington.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Cont.)
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7. Vance, Laura L., (1993) “Rethinking Women’s Groups and Religious Subordination.”
American Academy of Religion, University of Alberta at Edmonton.
Vance, Laura L., (1992) “Toward a Feminist Theoretical Approach to the Sociology of
Religion,” American Academy of Religion, Walla Walla College, Washington.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
Vance, Laura L., (2010) “The Evolution of Sexual Ideals in Mormonism and Seventh-
day Adventism,” and “Ellen White’s Writings on Women,” Metro New York
Adventist Forum, New York, NY, October 9.
Vance, Laura L., (2005) “’A Great Work is to be Done, Every Talent is to be Used’: The
Evolution of Women’s Roles in Adventism,” 23rd
International Meeting of the
Association of Adventist Women, St. Louis, Missouri, June 28.
Vance, Laura L. (2001) “From Priestess to Housewife: Gender Evolution in Two
Religious Traditions,” National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting
Scholar, Otterbein University, Ohio.
Vance, Laura L., (1999) “Seventh-day Adventist and Latter-day Saint Women in
Historical Perspective: Changing Gender Roles in Emerging Religions,”
Distinguished Scholar Series, Women’s Research Institute, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER:
Journal of Women’s History
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Journal of Homosexuality
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Review of Religious Research
Nova Religio: Journal of Emergent and Alternative Religions
University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago
Andrews University Press
MEDIA INTERVIEWS:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vjh7r
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/some-seventh-
day-adventists-forge-ahead-on-women-clergy/2013/12/04/c7e442b0-5d28-11e3-
8d24-31c016b976b2_story.html
MEDIA (Cont.)
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8. Religion News Service: http://www.religionnews.com/2013/12/03/seventh-day-
adventists-forge-ahead-women-clergy/
Also consulted by the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and regional media outlets, and
interviewed by Helen Whitney with PBS/Frontline American Experience for her 2007
PBS production of The Mormons.
Scholar on religious issues included on Religionsource.org (compiled by the American
Academy of Religion and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts).
GRANTS:
Mandel-Rodis Fund and the Alliance For Full Acceptance, grants to send students to
Creating Change and Equality North Carolina conferences, 2011-2013, $4,000.
Charles L. Mix Foundation, grant to hire Domestic Violence Advocate to provide direct
assistance, including Temporary Protective Orders and emergency shelter, to victims of
intimate partner violence in counties of the Southwest Judicial Circuit, 2006-07,
$20,000; 2007-2008, $25,000.
Charles L. Mix Foundation, grant to establish Domestic Violence Resource Center and
to coordinate community resources to combat intimate partner violence in Americus
and Sumter County, 2005-06, $14,000.
Faculty Research Grant, Georgia Southwestern State University, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
2001, 2003.
Joseph H. Fichter Research Award/Grant, Association for the Sociology of Religion,
1999.
Simon Fraser University President’s Ph.D. Research Stipend, 1993-94. Simon Fraser
University Graduate Fellowship, 1993-94.
AWARDS:
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2012-2013, Warren Wilson College, Asheville,
North Carolina.
Sabbatical funding awarded by the Appalachian College Association.
Vice President’s Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2006-2007, Georgia Southwestern
State University, Americus, Georgia.
Graduate Studies Paper Competition Winner, American Academy of Religion, “Toward
a Feminist Theoretical Approach to the Sociology of Religion,” 1992.
AWARDS (Cont.)
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9. C. D. Nelson Memorial Scholarship, Simon Fraser University, 1991-92.
Weber-Reimke-Schriener Graduate Scholarship, statewide competition, 1990-91.
Anthropology Departmental Scholarship, Western Washington University, 1989-90.
Outstanding Graduate, Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University,
1989-90.
The Writing Scholarship, Western Washington University, 1986-87.
CAMPUS SERVICE:
August 2014-present
Extended-Contracts Committee, Warren Wilson College
August 2014-present
Faculty Development and Sabbatical Committee, Warren Wilson College
August 2007-July 2014
Director, Gender and Women’s Studies, Warren Wilson College. Organized
campus programming, including International Women’s Day events, and
campus-wide speakers, professional development programs, panels, discussions,
and others. Events included campus presentations by bell hooks; Oscar-winning
filmmaker and CEO of New Day Films, Debra Chasnoff; and author and activist
Sarah Schulman. Events included “Films and Conversations Series” featuring
discussions of sexual assault, same-sex marriage law, and other issues led by
faculty; “Transgender Issues and Identities,» workshop for faculty; Ally Week
workshops and planning; the Sexual Equality Series; the Social Justice Series;
and others. Completed administrative work, including SACS assessment and
reporting, advertising GDS courses, catalogue revisions, and other work.
August 2007-August 2013
Institutional Review Board, Warren Wilson College
October 2013-December 2013
Search Committee, Human Resources Specialist and Director of Human
Resources positions, Warren Wilson College
February 2013-April 2013
Search Committee, One-year replacement position, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, Warren Wilson College
August 2012-February 2013
Search Committee, Religious Studies, Warren Wilson College
CAMPUS SERVICE (Cont.)
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10. May 2010-August 2012
Co-Convener, Faculty Body, Warren Wilson College
December 2011-April 2012
Search Committee, Organic Chemistry, Warren Wilson College.
April 2010-May 2011
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Accreditation (SACS)
Task Force, Warren Wilson College
September 2009-April 2010
Strategic Planning Team 1: The Triad Task Force, Warren Wilson College.
August 2008-May 2010
Academic Advisory Committee, Faculty Body Committee, Warren Wilson
College
August 2007-May 2010
Supervisor, Empower Work Crew (formerly Women’s Resource Center
Work Crew) Warren Wilson College
January 2009-May 2009
Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies Service-Learning Project with
Just Economics. Students divided into three groups and each group created a
poverty simulation for use by Just Economics in community education efforts.
August 2008-December 2008
First Year Seminar Service-Learning Project with Just Economics.
Students in FYS examined budgeting for families below, at, and above living
wage. Presented results in Power Point slide show to Just Economics Board of
Directors.
January 2008-May 2008
Gender and Social Change Service-Learning Project with Planned
Parenthood. Students in Gender and Social Change collected data from all
pharmacies in Buncombe County regarding availability and instructions
provided with Emergency Contraceptives. Data were given to Planned
Parenthood International Headquarters.
September 2006-June 2007
Chair, Dean’s Committee to Reconsider Reorganization of the College
of Arts and Sciences, Georgia Southwestern State University
August 2005-August 2007
Faculty Senate, Georgia Southwestern State University
CAMPUS SERVICE (Cont.)
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11. August 2004-August 2007
Institutional Review Board, Georgia Southwestern State University
August 2005-May 2006
Facilitator, Multi-disciplinary Women’s Studies Teaching Circle,
Georgia Southwestern State University
August 2004-May 2006
Co-Director of Women’s Studies Program, Georgia Southwestern State
University
March 2005 and March 2006
Coordinator of campus events for International Women’s Day, including film
series, dramatic reading, and other programming and events.
August 2004-May 2006
Grievance Committee, Georgia Southwestern State University
August 2002-May 2004
Academic Affairs Committee, Georgia Southwestern State University
September 2000-May 2002
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Accreditation (SACS)
Steering Committee, Georgia Southwestern State University
September 2000-May 2002
Institutional Effectiveness Subcommittee for SACS Accreditation
(Chair), Georgia Southwestern State University
September 1998-May 2003
Academic Affairs Committee, Georgia Southwestern State University
September 1999-May 2000
Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Committee, Georgia
Southwestern State University
September 1998-May 2000
Human Relations Council, Georgia Southwestern State University
September 1996-May 2001
Faculty Affairs Committee (Chair, 2000-01), Georgia Southwestern State
University
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
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12. August 2014
Created a pre-test post-test assessment survey instrument for use in evaluating
the efficacy of training for Tzedek residents for the Mandel-Rodis Fund (Fund
under the auspices of the Mandel Foundation).
March 2013
Provided information about sampling methods and sample size for a community
survey to determine marketing plan, Jewish Community Center, Asheville.
February 2013
Provided feedback on evaluation research plan for Youth Outright (youth LGBTQ
support and resource group), Asheville.
November 2011-May 2012
Voter education, voter registration, and Get Out The Vote, Equality North
Carolina, ‘No on One’ campaign.
February 2009-April 2010
Education Outreach Committee, Just Economics, Asheville, NC. Helped to
organize education and community outreach regarding Just Economics’ living
wage campaign.
Summer 2009
Created a Poverty Simulation for use in community education for Just
Economics (Buncombe County Living-Wage Nonprofit organization).
February 2005-May 2007
Ex officio Board Member, Southwestern Judicial Circuit Family Violence
Council, Task Force on Domestic Violence for Sumter, Schley, Macon, Stewart,
Lee, and Webster Counties.
February 2004-May 2007
Director, Domestic Violence Resource Center, Georgia Southwestern State
University. Grant-funded office providing educational outreach and resources;
direct services to victims of domestic violence, including shelter, legal advocacy
and assistance, safety assessment, educational and employment assistance and
counseling; and training for law enforcement. Two part-time staff and budget of
$34,000.
April 2005
Completed random sample telephone survey of households in Sumter County
regarding litter and recycling policies with students in Research Methods class.
Presented final report to Americus City Council.
COMMUNITY SERVICE (Cont.)
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13. May 2001-February 2005.
Founding Board Member and Chair, Southwestern Judicial Circuit Family
Violence Council, Task Force on Domestic Violence for Sumter, Schley, Macon,
Stewart, Lee and Webster Counties.
January 2005
Created survey instrument to measure affiliate staff knowledge of indoor air
quality issues for the Department of Construction and Environmental Resources
of Habitat for Humanity International.
October 2002-May 2003
Advisor, GSW Chapter of Students Against Intimate Violence.
September 1995-May 1998
Graduate Issues Committee, Georgia Southwestern State University.
October 1995-May 1997
Tutor, Liberty House Women’s Shelter, Albany, Georgia.
September 1994-May 1997
Women’s Issues Committee, Georgia Southwestern State University.
September 1990-May 1991
Community Outreach Organizer, AIDS Evergreen Support Services.
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
January 2012-present
Board of Editorial Consultants, Nova Religio: The Journal of
Alternative and Emergent Religions
March 2013
Invited Reviewer for the National Women’s Studies Association 2013
meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio
April 2010-April 2011
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA) LGBTQ Caucus
Chair, SEWSA Executive Committee
COURSES TAUGHT:
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14. August 2007-present, Warren Wilson College
AEL 395 Land and Sense of Place
FRS 120 Gender Ideology Through the Lens of Fiction
GDS 100 Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
GDS 401 Gender and Social Change
SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 215 Women and Society
SOC 291: Sociology of Health
SOC 299 Independent Study: Sociology of Medicine and Health
SOC 299 Independent Study: Sociology of Education
SOC/GDS 366 Feminist Thought
SOC 390 Sociology of Religion
SOC 393 Social Inequality
SOC 395 Media and Social Inequality
SOC/GDS 401 Gender and Social Change
SOC 402 Research Craft
SOC 410 Directed Research
September 1994- 2007, Georgia Southwestern State University
ANTH 1102 Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 1150 World Religions
ANTH 3350 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3353 Sex and Gender in Culture
SOCI 1101 Introductory Sociology
SOCI 1160 Social Problems
SOCI 2295 American Mosaic: Cultures of the United States
SOCI 3318 Sociology of Religion
SOCI 3340 Mass Media Influences
SOCI 4409 Social Change
SOCI 4417 Women in Society
SOCI 4440 Methods of Social Research
SOCI 4450 Seminar in Sociology
WMST 2001 Introduction to Women’s Studies
MEMBERSHIPS: American Sociological Association, Society for the Scientific Study
of Religion, American Academy of Religion, Religious Research Association, Association
for the Sociology of Religion, Georgia Sociological Association, Southeastern Women’s
Studies Association, various dates.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:
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15. Dr. Ben Feinberg
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Chair of Social Science Division
Warren Wilson College
PO Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000
828-771-3709
Dr. Siti Kusujiarti
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Warren Wilson College
PO Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000
828-771-3703
Dr. Paul Shapiro
Professor of Sociology
Department of Society and Environment
Truman State University
660-785-4000
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