Carla Corroto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Russell 208  540-831-5857

 

M. Architecture, University of Illinois, Chicago

B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University

 

Family, gender, research on architecture and architects

Paula S. Brush, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Department Chair

Russell 229  540-831-5615

 

B.A., University of West Florida

M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ph.D., University of Chicago

 

Social theory, social movements, sociology of education, gender and feminism 

Kevin D. Everett, Ph.D.
Professor

Russell 205  540-831-5130

 

B.A., Kenyon College

M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Social inequality, minority groups, work and the economy

Elizabeth Lyman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Russell 214  540-831-6605

 

B.S., University of Rhode Island

M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
 

Social inequality, sociology of education, organizational theory

Jeanne Mekolichick, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Russell 215  540-831-5114

 

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University

 

Social psychology, applied sociology, research methods, undergraduate education

Roby Page, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Russell 212  540-831-5385

 

B.S.J., M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida

 

Deviance, delinquency, social problems, visual sociology

Carole Seyfrit, Ph.D.

Professor

Russell 213  540-831-5159

B.A., Indiana Institute of Technology
 M.S., Utah State University
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Rural sociology, environmental sociology, arctic social sciences,
social psychology, research methods
 

Stevan R. Jackson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Russell 227  540-831-5615

 

B.S., M.A., East Tennessee State University

Ph.D., University of Tennessee
 

Sociology of Music (jazz, Celtic and world music), cultural sociology, race and ethnic relations, social inequality, global politics and society

Mary B. LaLone, Ph.D.
Professor
1997 RU Faculty Teaching Award
Russell 207  540-831-5397

B.A., M.A., California State University, Los Angeles
 M.L.S., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Applied research (participatory development/community-centered planning), economy and environment, culture change, oral history, experimental education, Appalachian cultures

Howard D. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Professor

Russell 217  540-831-5339

 

A.B., MacMurray College

M.A., Boston University

M.P.H., Yale University

Ph.D., University of Virginia
 

Sociology of film, medical sociology, aging, social problems,

occupations and professions
 

Melinda B. Wagner, Ph.D.

Professor
1986 RU Faculty Teaching Award
Russell 218  540-831-5157

B.A., Purdue University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Religion, ethnographic research methods, North American Indians, Appalachia

Adjunct Faculty

Kathryn E. Van Patten

Instructor

 

B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

M.S., Radford University

 

Race relations, deviance, research, criminology, mental illness and violent behavior

Victoria Curtis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Russell 211

 

B.S., M.A., Central Michigan University

Ph.D., Western Michigan University

 

Medical sociology, social gerontology, gender studies