DEPARTMENT
Department Chair
Ann
Tickamyer
Department Administrator
Ann Bennett
Administrative Assistant
Kerry Kottyan
Web Coordinator
Bruce Hoffman
SOCIOLOGY
Undergraduate Coordinator
Deborah Thorne
Graduate Chair
Cynthia Anderson
Criminology Director
Michelle Brown
Honors Tutorial Director
Debra Henderson
Honor Societies Coordinator
Joseph De Angelis
Criminology Internship
Don
Shamblin
Pre-Law Coordinator
Ursula Castellano
Regional Campus Coordinator
Deborah Thorne
ANTHROPOLOGY
Program Coordinator
Elliot Abrams
Undergradate Coordinator
AnnCorinne Freter-Abrams
Graduate Chair (MSES)
Elliot
Abrams
Honors Tutorial Director
Nancy
Tatarek
Lambda Alpha
Diane
Ciekawy
Internship Director
Haley
Duschinski
Senior Thesis Coordinator
Hogan M. Sherrow
Regional Campus Coordinator
Elliot Abrams
Website Design by Kate Anderson
Departmental News and Awards
Professional Achievements
Elliot Abrams serves as President of the Ohio Archaeological Council.
Gene Ammarell was appointed Director of Ohio University's Southeast Asian Studies Program.
Cynthia Anderson was voted Vice President of the Sociologists for Women in Society.
Michelle Brown received the Distinguished Mentor Award from Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College.
Ursula Castellano received an Ohio University Research Committee Grant to study the role of clinicians in mental health courts.
Jieli Li was elected President of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS), and serves as Director of Ohio University's International Development Studies Program.
Edward Morris received a research grant from the Spencer Foundation to support his schools research.
Lena Wright Myers received the Marguerite Rogers Howie Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists and the James Blackwell Founder’s
Award from the Association of Black Sociologists.
Marty Schwartz was elected Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and Distinguished Scholar of the
Year by the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, and elected Chair of the section on critical criminology of the ACJS.
Robert Shelly was elected President of the North Central Sociological Association.
Nancy Taterek received an Ohio University Research Committee Grant to further her study of prison anthropometry.
Ann Tickamyer received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a national survey of informal work, and received the Distinguished Rural Sociologist award from the Rural Sociological Society.
Tom Vander Ven received the Outstanding University College Advocate award from Ohio University's University College.
Recent Teaching Awards
Michelle Brown, University Professor, 2005-06.
Haley Duschinski , University Professor, 2007-08.
Debra Henderson, Arts and Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award, 2006.
Nancy Tatarek, University Professor, 2007-08; Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award, 2004-05.
Debb Thorne, University Professor, 2004-05.
Student News
Five sociology graduate students presented their original research at the Ohio University Research and Creativity Fair. Congratulations to Pamela Inaterama and Todd Platts for their award-winning presentations!
Alumni News
Edward (Ned) Becker (M.A. Sociology 1973) was
selected as one of three College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni
for 2005 and honored at the awards dinner and ceremony.
Robert Bozick (B.A. 1999), now at Johns Hopkins
University, has an article in the September 2005 issue of Social Forces.
Thomas Stucky (1991 HTC, Sociology) now at Indiana-Purdue
University at Indianapolis has the lead article in the June 2005 issue
of Justice Quarterly.
Department Newsletter
Read our 2006-07 department newsletter.