Department of Sociology

Carol Anderson (B.A. 1983) I am living in north central Indiana. In 2016 I started my own company and began leading activities in assisted living and senior independent communities. My classes include music, exercise and singing classes for Senior Citizens. Most of my classes are geared toward the over 60 crowd and I am working as a contract employee in retirement communities and a dementia facility. I am also teaching classes at our local YMCA.

My husband and I are involved in FIRST robotics and work with a local high school team and volunteer at several competitions each year. Volunteering gives us an opportunity to see many towns and cities around Indiana and other states.

I have been involved in Kokomo Civic Theatre for the past 36 years since graduating from IU where I worked at the IU auditorium and helped backstage on several of the university productions.

We enjoy traveling and camping and drove out to Wyoming last year to see the solar eclipse in the mountains of Wyoming. It was a wonderful experience.

Alan has been studying the Klingon language from Star Trek for over 20 years and has become a professional translator.

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Shelley D Arroyo (B.A. 2005) Since completing my dual degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice, I got my master’s and continue to live in Bloomington and work at IU. I work in Res life here on campus and enjoy time with my 6-year-old son and husband, we love our life in Bloomington.

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David Aveline (Ph.D. 1999) I am an associate professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I think that what my cohort might be most interested in is that I met my husband Miguel the first week of moving to Bloomington and we are still together. We married in Canada 14 years ago as soon as same-sex marriage became legally recognized and we have now been together for 29 years.

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Leslie Barnett (B.A. 1967) M.S.W., J.D., C.E.L.A. I am a 1967 graduate of IU and a lifetime member of the Alumni Association. I moved to Los Angeles, CA shortly after graduation from IU. From 1971 t0 1973, I attended CA State University at Fresno and obtained my Masters in Social Work (MSW). I worked as an Adoption caseworker and subsequently for about 15 years worked as a geriatric social worker. In 1988, I decided a career change was in order, and was admitted to the Night Program at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. I graduated in 1992. In 1993, I opened my practice as an Elder Law Attorney and in 2002 became Certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation. I consider my area of law as a continuation of my social work career but with a different and better set of tools to solve problems. I continue to live in Los Angeles and have a successful practice. I think about Retirement but am still not ready. I have traveled extensively including Antarctica, Vietnam, Israel, Europe, and North and Central America. 

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Julia Bauer (B.A. 2019) Currently, I am continuing my education and working towards a Master in Public Affairs at Indiana University's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. This summer I will be completing a fellowship at the Office of Legislative Oversight in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Candace Bertotti (B.A. 1996) I started Candid Communications in 2006, a company that helps to change the world for good by changing behavior—translating social science research into practical skills for people and organizations to increase their influence. I'm also adjunct faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (teaching "Arts of Communication") and Georgetown Law School (teaching "Negotiation"). I'm now living in Washington, DC and Boston, MA.

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Marni (Bassichis) Blair (B.A. 2000) I am living here in Bloomington, working at the Office of Admissions as one of the Associate Directors of Recruitment. I oversee on-campus programming in the recruitment of new, domestic freshman and transfer students. My husband and I are raising our 4-year-old son, Henry, who is into Legos, IU, and The Beatles!

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Emily Campbell (B.A. 2007) I recently defended my dissertation, "Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis" in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. I am currently a Research Affiliate at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology and teach in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts as a Visiting Instructor. I am actively on the job market.

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Kathleen Carr (Ph.D. 1987) I owned a research company for 20 years and worked for many different federal and state agencies. 

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Kara Cebulko (Ph.D. 2009) I am currently the Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Providence College and an Associate Professor - with a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology/Anthropology and Global Studies. Additionally, I was recently named the Immigration Liaison at Providence College. In this administrative role, I serve as the point person for students facing immigration concerns, coordinating financial, legal and emotional support. I also serve as a resource on immigration issues for campus community members and work with key decision-makers to identify institutional practices and programs to address the specific needs of both undocumented students and students living in mixed-status families.

I was also elected to ASA's Committee on Committees in 2019 and began my two years of service last year. I look forward to running into IU alum at the annual meetings!

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Jim DeFronzo (Ph.D. 1975) I joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut.

I have published in Criminology, Social Problems, Armed Forces, and Society, The International Journal of Women's Studies, Politics and Religion, Social Movements Studies, and quite a few other sociology, criminology and political sociology-science journals.

Books include a widely used text titled Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements (5 editions) with a planned 6th edition, a new text (2020) titled Social Problems and Social Movements, a three volume encyclopedia of revolutions used in over 60 countries - Revolutionary Movements in World History, and The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences.

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Camille Drake (B.A. 2014) I received my master's degree in sociology in May 2016 from Loyola University, although I finished classes in December of 2015. I am currently living in Indianapolis working for the Department of Child Services as a fatality specialist. This is definitely one of the toughest jobs I have ever had to endure, but I figure these are small steps towards the position I ultimately want to pursue.

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Glenn Firebaugh (PhD. 1976) has retired after three decades at Penn State, where he was the inaugural Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography. In addition to Penn State, he has held regular or visiting faculty appointments at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Oxford, as well as teaching for 10 summers at ISR, University of Michigan. He and his wife live in central Pennsylvania and spend the winter at their beach house on St. George Island, Florida. His writing now consists primarily of personalized children's stories that he composes for his nine grandchildren.

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A native of Bloomington, Indiana, Mark has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, certificate in Business, a minor in Economics from Indiana University- Bloomington and a Master’s of Public Affairs from Indiana University- Indianapolis. Mark currently lives in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood of Indianapolis with his wife and four children and stays active in a variety of community-based initiatives including Leadership Indianapolis as well as serving as a member of the board for IndyGo, Midtown Indy, and the Indianapolis LISC office.

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Mark Hayward (Ph.D. 1981) I am engaged in underwater field work for my biodemography project, “Sex and Death on the Reef: A Fish Population Model”. The island’s internet is spotty at best, and dolphin courier service is unreliable. My apologies for delays in replying to your email. #FishWhisperer

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Alison Hill (B.A. 2014) After graduating from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and Sociology, I went on to law school at Loyola University Chicago School of Law where I focused on public interest law and advocacy. Today, I am a civil rights attorney working for the Civil Rights Bureau in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. In this role, I enforce civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination, work to strengthen the civil rights laws, and participate in community outreach programs. In addition, I investigate and prosecute patterns and practice of discrimination in housing, employment, education, public accommodations, and financial credit. In my spare time, I continue to support IU as an Alumni Student Recruiter and am an avid traveler; I am actively working to visit all 50 states.

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Kathy Hirons (B.A. 2005) After 30 years of working full time as Support Staff and pursuing my degree at the same time, I recently made the jump to Professional Staff as Assistant Director of Records Management at the School of Ed.  Starting a new job at age 63 is a little crazy, but what the heck. 

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David Hittle (M.A. 1975) I went to work at Colorado State University, then went back to school at CSU to earn a PhD. I have been on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine since 1984, doing research on post-acute care, primarily home health care.

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Mike Hout (Ph.D. 1976) I have been nominated by ASA to run for president. You'll see my name on the ballot soon. And I have been invited to give a senior scientist lecture at the National Science Foundation. I spoke on "A demographer's perspective of long-term social change in the United States" on January 15th.

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Wuwei Huang (B.A. 2014) After I finish my graduate degree in Boston, I will be working in the International Students Admission Office, Southwest University Chongqing China. What I do is like how the International student adviser in IU did for me, helping students around world. I enjoy it. And welcome to China.

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Howard Iams (A.B. 1967) earned his PhD in 1973 from The University of Michigan.

Howard is married with two adult children and two grandchildren. He retired from the research office of the Social Security Administration in January 2017 after 40 years of employment but continues research collaborations with colleagues at SSA. Howard co-authored a paper to be presented in the poster session of the 2020 Population Association of America meetings entitled “Birth Cohort Variations in Projected Lifetime Social Security Retirement Benefits”.  The analysis uses the Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT) microsimulation that Howard developed at the Social Security Administration with contract Assistance. A previous MINT paper was published in the January 2019 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management entitled “Longevity Related Options for Social Security: A Microsimulation Approach to Retirement Age and Mortality”.

Howard volunteers as an information specialist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.   He also plays trombone in a community band in Rockville, MD.

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Edward Kick (PhD 1980) My initial appointment was at the University of Utah, which now is a member of the PAC -10 (12?). I stayed there over 20 years, serving as the founding director of the International Studies Program and Chair of Sociology. The university named me the "Distinguished Professor" which goes to the "best teacher" at the university. I also won the award for the best teacher in my Social Sciences College. I was named a Fulbrighter and gathered data while fulfilling the award in New Zealand. I was tenured and promoted in 1984 and promoted to Full Professor in 1991. Later I left Utah for Middle Tennessee, the largest university in the state. I was Head of Sociology and Anthropology and Chair of the Chair Council, where I reported to the university President.

I was asked to teach former Vice-President Al Gore how to teach; he was a fine learner, and together we taught a Family-Centered Community Development Course. He said that if I had managed his campaign he would have won! After seeing the staff that he brought with him I can see what he meant! Thereafter he went on to write on the Environment while I went to do my third stint as Head of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. I was reunited with my Indiana colleagues Arne Kalleberg and Larry Griffin from UNC in fairly short order. I started a new Macro-comparative/environment graduate track at NCState, that included Ron Wimberley, Michael Schulman, Brett Clark, and Andrew Jorgenson. However, the Provost decided that those of us on joint appointment, the macro and environment group might wish to work in the Sciences College. Many of us switched but a couple went to other universities. For the last ten years or so I have been a full Professor with the Agricultural and National Resource Economics Department. Across my career I have studied the structure of the world system and nations' positions within it, consequent national development, inequality, the military, gentrification, industrial vs. ecological agriculture, sustainability, food insecurity and the roles of industry and agriculture in environmental degradation. By my count I have published over 100 journal articles, chapters in books, reviews, and several books. Academics from about 60 countries have cited my work. I was informed last week that a recent article will be published in Chinese. On average I review for 25 journals each year, and I am a co-editor of three journals. I have served as Editor six times.

I have served all the communities I lived in, my profession, my universities and my departments. This record, not including my departmental service occupies in single space three pages in my CV. I have decided not to count the number of entries on these pages and add them to departmental activities. I have always been a committed citizen, just not a very smart one!

Thank you for your newsletter. My experiences as a Wisconsin undergraduate and Indiana graduate were excellent preparation for the academic world. The rigors of teaching while taking classes and working with faculty on jointly-authored papers was a perfect situation both for learning how to do the job, and how to survive just about any workload thrown at us later in our careers. The QM fellowship program created rancor and was differentially just. However, those of us who were not selected to be part of this hierarchical experience did about the same, overall, as well as those who were!

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Anna Kostrzewsky (B.A. 2008) I graduated from medical school in Chicago in the spring of 2019 and am now a resident physician at the University of Louisville, specializing in psychiatry. Lots of overlap with the social sciences and I'm loving it so far!

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Jerome Krase (B.A. 1967) is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College CUNY. A prominent Visual Sociologist, he has photographed and written about cities around the globe. In 2018, he had a Fulbright Specialist Scholarship Assignment at the Charles University in Prague where he gave the Ernest Gellner Nationalism Seminar, and a Graduate Visual Sociology Workshop, “Seeing Krakow Change: 1997-2018,” at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Read the full article. Follow this link for more on this: https://www.sssp1.org/file/Newsletters/Teaching_SP/Fall2018.pdf

In 2019, his visual excursions included Amman, Jordan as well as Paris and Lyons, France. Included here are a few of his images from his well-received "Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class" (Routledge 2017).

View the slideshow

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Robert Ladner (Ph.D. 1972) I am head of a research and development company in Florida, specializing in quality improvement research and patient care evaluation in HIV/AIDS – still working at 74 and not interested in retirement. I received my PhD from IU’s Sociology Department in 1972, having been recruited from the University of Kentucky Master’s program by Sheldon Stryker back in the day.

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Gary LaFree (Ph.D. 1979) I’m living in Maryland—chairing the criminology department at the University of Maryland. I have served in many professional capacities and have written or co-authored seven books and numerous articles.

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Ke Li (Ph.D. 2015) Currently, I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. Now, the Big Apple is where I live.

Between fall 2018 and spring 2019, I worked as a Luce/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in China Studies. Thanks to the support of the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies), I’m in the process of completing a book manuscript, entitled Marriage Unbound: Divorce Litigation, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China (under contract with Stanford University Press). In the following months, I’ll finish up the manuscript. And my hope is that the book will come out in 2021 or 2022.

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Garth Massey (Ph.D. 1975) Since leaving my position of 33 years at the University of Wyoming (in 2008) where I was director of international studies, I wrote Ways of Social Change (1st and 2nd editions (Sage)) and revised Readings for Sociology (7th, 8th and 9th editions (WW Norton)). I provided expert testimony in several voting rights suits brought by American Indian tribes in Utah, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

Most recently I taught for the Institute for Shipboard Education's Semester-at-Sea, Fall 2019: Social Change, Social Inequality, and Race-Ethnic Relations. The 4-month voyage took us (25 faculty and 450 students) from Amsterdam to Lisbon, Cadiz (Spain), Dubrovnik, Casablanca, Tema and Takoradi (Ghana), Salvador (Brazil), Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Puntarenas (Costa Rica).

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Paul Nyaga Mbatia (Ph.D. 1996) After graduating, I resumed my teaching job (at the rank of Lecturer) at the Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi, Kenya. I rose through the ranks and became a Senior Lecturer (2006) and also Chair, Department of Sociology (2006-2010). In 2011, I was promoted to the position of Associate Professor.

In 2014, I took leave of absence and became the Deputy Vice Chancellor (in charge of Academic Affairs, Research, & Innovation) at the Multimedia University of Kenya (also a public University located in Nairobi, Kenya). I have successfully served the first 5 years of my contract and currently, I am serving my last and final 5 years of my contract.

In a public university in Kenya, the head is the Vice Chancellor assisted by two or three Deputy Vice Chancellor -- each of the latter is assigned a specific docket (e.g., Academic Affairs, Administration and Finance, or Research, Innovation, and Extension). In short, I now serve full time in the Top Management of Multimedia University of Kenya.

It has been fulfilling and a story of success since I left the Department of Sociology, Indiana University, in July 1996. I have very fond memories of IU which fully equipped me to start and sustain a very successful academic career in my home country Kenya. I am forever proud of the quality of education that I acquired at the Department of Sociology, IU. It has always given me a competitive edge in every opportunity I apply for.

At the University of Nairobi, Kenya, I have taught sociology to thousands of Kenyan students and supervised and mentored hundreds of postgraduate students. I have also excelled in research and consultancies (kindly log into our research website worldsci.net for details or search for the World Science Project covering Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala).

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Bob Meinzer (B.A. 1965) After graduating, I immediately started law school at IU Bloomington. I received my J.D. in 1968. After practicing with 2 partners in East Chicago, IN, I opened up my own practice in St. John, IN and remained there until I retired in August 2019. I have 2 children Robert and Kira who both are IU grads. In September 2019 my wife and I left St. John and now live in Naples, FL. In September 2010, I was the recipient of the Indiana Bar Association's solo and small law firm Hall of Fame Award.

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David Mitchell (B.A. 1965) After graduation, I worked for a period of time as a social worker at Madison State Hospital in Madison, Indiana. During that time, I also served as pastor of a small country church near Madison.

Following my IU years, I attended theological seminary ultimately receiving my Doctor of Theology degree in 1979. For the past 54 years I have served as pastor of Baptist churches in Indiana and Ohio, and presently I serve a church as a part-time teaching pastor in West Virginia. My wife and I have two adult children, one of whom is a graduate of the IU School of Optometry class of 1999, and owns a thriving practice in Bluffton, Indiana. We have six grandchildren ages 12-26.

I often reflect on the happy years spent at IU, and I am glad that my son and I share that common experience.

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Tope Fashola Mitchell (Ph.D. 2011) I started my second business, a retail tech company called Reflekt Me, Inc to create personalization web tools. We won a $30,000 People's Choice Award in NYC, we were showcased at the Tip of the Spear startup showcase at the Path 2 Purchase expo in Chicago, and we have been selected to present at Venture Connect - 2020 Summit, March 17th - 19th, held by Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Oh, and we are expecting our second child in February. :-) Our first is a girl 3.5 and we are having a boy.

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Rob Moore (Ph.D. 1999) is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research-Almaden, where he examines the intersection of human conversation and technology. Currently, he is developing a methodology for Conversational UX Design that applies the formal, qualitative models of natural human conversation, from the field of Conversation Analysis, to the design of conversational interfaces. He has developed a general Natural Conversation Framework, also implemented on the IBM Watson Conversation service, which defines a set of conversational UX patterns. Read on here: https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php

He also released a book last year: http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php

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In 1984 she was appointed to the Missouri Parole Board by Governor Christopher “Kit” Bond and also served under Governors John Ashcroft and Mel Carnahan for almost twelve years. Upon leaving the board she was a regional administrator and Director of Parole Services. In 2001, she was asked to serve the Department of Corrections as the Director of Human Services. In this position she was responsible for the following sections: Human Resources, Staff Training, Employee Health and Safety, Fiscal Management, General Services, Planning, Volunteers and Interns, and Religious and Spiritual Services. After over forty years of employment with the Department of Corrections, she retired in September of 2011.

Ms. Myers has been involved with several professional associations having served as president of the Missouri Corrections Association; vice-president and program chair of the American Correctional Association and is presently the chair of their Awards Committee; commissioner and vice-chair of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections; and board member of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. She chaired one of the national conferences for the American Probation and Parole Association; served as the conference planner for the Association of Paroling Authorities, International for several years; and was the conference planner for the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice for 17 years.

She was the recipient of the E. R. Cass Correctional Achievement Award in 1994 which was presented by the American Correctional Association for her contributions to the field of corrections and the Ben Baer Award for her contributions to the field of parole from the Association of Paroling Authorities, International. In 2004 The National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice scholarship luncheon was named in her honor. She was inducted into her high school’s Hall of Fame in 2014. Even in retirement she continues to strive for justice and equality within the criminal justice system.

She is active in the Jefferson City community and along with others founded the Crossroads Community Recovery Center (which is now closed) and Dreams to Reality which is an organization that provides clothing and counseling for women who are in need of assistance with job interviews and employment. She was a board member for the Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland.

She served on the Lincoln University Foundation. As a member of the Jefferson City graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, she works with the members of the undergraduate chapter of the sorority and serves as a mentor to the members.

She chairs the Governor’s Medal of Valor Review Board; is president of the Board of the Friends of the State Archives; was past president and is presently the first vice-president of the Council of Clubs which disbanded in 2019; was past president and is presently the treasurer of the Jefferson City graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; was past member of the Executive Board of the United Way of Central Missouri and is presently a member of one of their fund allocation panels; is a member of the Jefferson City club of Zonta International where she was secretary and chaired their Women of Achievement Luncheon in 2011. She is on the board of directors of the YMCA, a member of the board of the Cole County Historical Society and is treasurer of the Jefferson City Cultural Arts Commission. She also serves on the board of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) where she is secretary. She was appointed to the board of directors of the Boys and Girls Club of Jefferson City and the Board of directors of the Samaritan Center.

She spends some of her time at Capital Arts which is a non-profit art gallery where she is the treasurer. She is the treasurer of the Ujamaa Investment Club. She is an active member of Grace Episcopal Church where she serves on the vestry, is a Lay Eucharistic Minister, chairs the Community Ministry Committee and is a member of the Stewardship Committee. She served as a member of the Diocesan Council of The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri and is now a member of their Disciplinary Board. She has recently been appointed to the Transition Team as the Diocese of Missouri searches for a new bishop. 

She also volunteers with Common Ground, a benevolent organization; the Salvation Army and the Samaritan Center; and other service projects through Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Zonta. She is a mentor at the Jefferson City High School.

On April 27, 2019 Mrs. Myers and her husband, Albert will be honored by Lincoln University with the Soldiers’ Dream Award for their contributions to the community and Lincoln University.

In her spare time, she plays bridge, enjoys going to movies and live theater, and travels as often as she can. She is married to Albert Myers and is the proud mother of three sons and grandmother of one grandson and one granddaughter and great-grandmother of two great grandchildren.

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Marcia G. Ory (M.A. 1973) went on to get a Ph.D. at Purdue and M.P.H. at Johns Hopkins and is currently Founding Director of the Texas A&M Center for Population Health and Aging. https://www.youtube.com/playlist

Marcia also received the Healthcare Leadership Council Redefining American Healthcare Award in 2019: https://today.tamu.edu/2019/08/14/center-for-population-health-and-aging-lands-redefining-american-healthcare-award/

In addition, Marcia authored a piece in The Conversation on “As Life Expectancies Rise, So Are Expectations for Healthy Aging”. http://theconversation.com/as-life-expectancies-rise-so-are-expectations-for-healthy-aging-102388

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Giora Rahav (Ph.D. 1974) Presently I am a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University.

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Mark O. Rousseau, (M.A. 1962) My wife Marion Pruss (B.A. St. Olaf, JD Creighton U) and I had a lovely trip to Egypt last March, sailing the Nile and seeing the Pyramids, Temples and the like. Also, #2 grandson Alex Rousseau was married in November and we returned to NJ for the wedding. Grandson #1 Mark Rousseau III got engaged and plans a fall 2020 wedding. And finally, granddaughter Julia is a freshman at U Delaware. We enjoy good health and love our century old home in Dundee, Omaha, Nebraska. We had a visit to Indianapolis in May to see my sister Joyce and her family, and as a part of that made a little pilgrimage to Bloomington to visit the Alma Mater. All is well!

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Nicholas Rowland (Ph.D. 2007) I earned Full Professor while also being elected as Chair of the Penn State's University Faculty Senate in 2019.

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Ed and Linda Runden (A.B. 1963) I am long retired to Bloomington from private practice in clinical social work in Corydon, but the tenets of sociology served me well in that work and in community life. Many thanks to the fine faculty — including Professors Westie, Grimshaw, Dosick, Liell, et alia!

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Robyn Ryle (Ph.D. 2003) I’ve been teaching sociology and gender studies at Hanover College for fifteen years. In 2019, I published She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters and Binary Resisters (Sourcebooks), a book about gender for a general audience that’s told in the style of a choose your own adventure. In 2020, it was recognized as an honor book by the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards in the Non-fiction category. In July 2020, my second book will be published. Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports is an exploration of identity and social inequality as seen through the lens of sports. I live in Madison, Indiana, with my husband. My daughter is a first-year student at IU-Bloomington.

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Matthew Adam Schaick (B.A. 2004) Back in my hometown of Jasper, Indiana.

CFO at Meyer Distributing - https://www.meyerdistributing.com/

Continually exploring the balance between philosophical economics and the reality of today.

2004 BA Sociology, BA Political Science, Business Foundations Certificate, Minor in American Music History, & Diehard Hoosier!

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Jamie Shepherd (B.A. 2009) I earned a Master's in higher education in 2011 and have been working professionally in higher ed since then. This year, I took a huge leap and started a new business in Louisville, KY where I currently live and work. The Resource Room LLC is an arts and crafts studio aimed at promoting creativity while building community and supporting and encouraging personal growth. In the front, I also have a small gallery with accessories, art and more from local artisans. You can learn more at www.resourceroomlou.com. In addition to the business endeavor, I am an academic advisor in the College of Arts & Sciences at University of Louisville. It's hard to believe it's been over a decade since I climbed the stairwell in Ballantine Hall. I look forward to the newsletter and learning what other alumni are doing.

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Stan Shernock (M.A. 1971) In May of 2018 I retired from Norwich University, where I was Charles A. Dana Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the School of Justice Studies.

At that time, I had taught at Norwich University for 33 years and had completed 42 years total of teaching at the university level. Norwich University honored me with an engraved granite bench this past summer 2019.

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Jean H. Shin (Ph.D. 2000) In February, Jean left his position as Director of Diversity and Inclusion with the ASA to become a Senior Behavioral Scientist/Program Manager in the Scientific Workforce Diversity Office. In his new role, he will support trans-NIH diversity and inclusion initiatives, as well as the long-range goals of the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity. Among other things, that will include serving as the project lead for future phases of the NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey, coordinating strategies for the recruitment and retention of candidates who enhance the diversity of NIH staff applicant pools, and developing the NIH Future Research Leaders Conference—which is a career development opportunity for talented early-career biomedical and behavioral scientists from diverse backgrounds. He will also be responsible for conducting program and policy analysis, presenting the results of workforce data collection to a variety of audiences, and producing administrative reports for inclusion in web/print products.

“I am looking forward to all of these new duties!”

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Jan E. Stets (Ph.D. 1987) I am the recipient of the 2020 Cooley-Mead Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Sociological Association Social Psychology Section.

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Lori Sudderth (Ph.D. 1993) I currently work as a professor of criminal justice at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. At the moment, however, I am in St. Lucia working on a study of gender-based violence with the support of a Fulbright flex grant. I'll be heading back here in May to spend the summer doing data collection.

Very best regards to everyone at IU and department alumni around the world!

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Kendall Swanson (B.A. 2019) I now work in Nashville, TN for Nashville Lifestyles Magazine (a subset of USA Today Network) as their Marketing and Events Specialist.

I handle all marketing and promotional projects for our monthly publications, as well as for our Weddings, SWIG, At Home, Bachelorette, and online publications. I help coordinate our monthly events that directly relate to each month's publication. I also support our sales staff with securing advertisers and sponsors for the magazine and for our events. I coordinate all event partnership agreements and attend events all around Nashville for media coverage.

I have many specific duties, but this is just a general overview of what I do. I am very grateful for my degree, as I strongly believe it has helped me be successful in my line of work.

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Tamara van der Does (Ph.D. 2018) I am in my second year as a postdoc at the Santa Fe Institute, a research center based in New Mexico focusing on complexity science. I have been working with Prof. Mirta Galesic on collecting experimental survey data to test a physical model which predicts when people might change their beliefs about particular issues, using as predictors both other related beliefs and social networks. I also submitted a few grants with Prof. Dina Okamoto to explore some questions about how elite members of the population discuss social boundaries between “us Americans” and “them immigrants”. I am proposing to use methods in natural language processing and machine learning on two large datasets: congressional speeches and newspaper articles from 1930 to 2018. I will probably go back on the job market in the Fall of 2020. Hope to see you all at ASA!

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David Allan Van Nostrand (M.A. 1981) Forty years ago, my esteemed Indiana professors taught me much about the process of conducting research. Along the way they also taught me the valuable lessons that have been the pillars of my research work for 40 years: rigor, discipline, and objectivity.

The many things Maurice Garnier taught me about teaching served me well when I taught Sociology at Indiana University, Market Research at the University of Miami, and Human Behavior at the University of the West Indies Graduate Business School.

For many years I designed and led research projects as a client and as a provider. I conducted hundreds of strategy, brand, segmentation, new product development, advertising, marketing, satisfaction, and loyalty studies for clients in Consumer Products, Technology, Travel and Tourism, Transportation, Food & Beverage, Packaged Goods, and many more categories.

Now I teach decision-makers how to avoid misinformation traps at davidallanvan.com

I also write Let’s Take a Closer Look, a weekly blog about information and research. Here are three examples of what I see to be the problems and the solutions - just click to be taken there.

• Most Market Research is Bullshit
• Most of the $3 billion spent on surveys last year was squandered
• Do You Rely on Others for Your Information? Of particular interest to the Sociology Department is the introduction to this one, which tells a revealing story about my statistics class with Elton Jackson.

I also have published two books and am 40,000 words into my third one. You can read about them and me on my Amazon author page. And if you’re not exhausted by now, here’s my LinkedIn profile.

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Christy Visher (Ph.D. 1982) is in her 11^th year at the University of Delaware as Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and Director, Center for Drug and Health Studies. CDHS conducts research and evaluation on substance use, justice system issues, and health risk behaviors with 14 full-time scientists and research associates, affiliated faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students.

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Kathryn A. Watson (B.A. 1979) I graduated with a J.D. from IU Maurer School of Law, 1982. In my 38^th year as an attorney, focusing on environmental law. My husband (of 37 years) and I are enjoying our first grandchild. I am working and living in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Regina E. Werum (Ph.D. 1995) During the 2019-2020 academic year, I am in Berlin, Germany - during the Fall on sabbatical and during the Spring/Summer directing a Study Abroad Program for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, via the Humboldt Institut in Berlin. I have a courtesy appointment at Humboldt University during that time, as Visiting Professor at the Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Mikrosoziologie. I continue to do research and publish in the areas of social stratification and social movements, broadly defined, currently with funding from the U.S. federal government.

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Joseph D. (JD) Wolfe (Ph.D. 2013) I recently received tenure here at University of Alabama at Birmingham, and my wife Alayna and I are expecting our first baby girl (Meredith) tomorrow.