Sociology & Criminal Justice
Our people
Department Chair
437M Wimberly Hall
tgongaware@uwlax.edu
608.785.6772
Specialty areas:
Social Movements, Collective Behavior, Leisure Groups, Identity (individual and collective), Qualitative Research, Popular Culture
Academic Department Associate
Sociology faculty
Professor
437F Wimberly Hall
nbakken@uwlax.edu
608.785.8665
Specialty areas:
Criminology and Criminal Justice, Criminal Desistance, Prisoner Reentry, Diversion programs, Drug Treatment Courts, Substance Use and Health, Suicidology
Professor
437B Wimberly Hall
edelgado@uwlax.edu
608.785.6776
Specialty areas:
Demography, Social Stratification, Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
437J Wimberly Hall
adriscoll@uwlax.edu
608.785.6801
Specialty areas:
Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Food and Agriculture, The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture, Online Pedagogy
Assistant Professor
437N Wimberly Hall
sfelix@uwlax.edu
608.785.6784
Specialty areas:
Criminal justice, criminology, victimology, queer criminology, and mixed methodology.
Professor
437M Wimberly Hall
tgongaware@uwlax.edu
608.785.6772
Specialty areas:
Social Movements, Collective Behavior, Leisure Groups, Identity (individual and collective), Qualitative Research, Popular Culture
Lecturer
436 Wimberly Hall
phart@uwlax.edu
608.785.6782
Specialty areas:
Race & Ethnicity, Culture, Public Media, American National Identity, Whiteness Studies, Qualitative Research
Associate Professor
437G Wimberly Hall
lkruse@uwlax.edu
608.785.6767
Specialty areas:
Criminology and Criminal Justice: evidence-based practices, pre-trial, racial and socioeconomic inequities in the system, school resource officers and the school-to-prison pipeline, diversion programs, drug-treatment courts and substance use/mental health issues and reentry.
Surveillance: sex offender registry, pretrial/post-adjudication surveillance, social media and other means of personal surveillance
Methods: qualitative methods, evaluation
Associate Professor
437K Wimberly Hall
pmarina@uwlax.edu
608.785.6770
Specialty areas:
Urban Ethnography, Critical & Cultural Criminology, Deviance & Transgression, Race & Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Human Rights Policing, Cultures & Social Inequalities, Travel and Tourism, Urban Sociology, Hispanic Immigration, among other topics.
Professor
437D Wimberly Hall
cmiller@uwlax.edu
608.785.6777
Specialty areas:
global issues, gender, policy, family, rural/urban communities
Emeritus faculty in Sociology
James Anderson (1960-1988) (deceased)
Robert Bendiksen (1975-2003)
Phillip Berg (1972-1998)
Robert Bilby (1972-2004)
Jac Bulk (1978-2011) - jbulk@eagle.uwlax.edu
Gerry Cox (1998-2008) - cox.gerr@eagle.uwlax.edu
Al Gedicks (1985-2012) - agedicks@eagle.uwlax.edu
Joel Lazinger (1973-2002) - lazinger.joel@eagle.uwlax.edu
William Mackey (1968-1994) (deceased)
Nancy Mouser (1970-2002)
Joeseph Motivans (1964-1993) (deceased)
Dean Sheils (1972-1997) (deceased)
Kim Vogt (1994-2019)
William Zollweg (1982-2015) wzollweg@eagle.uwlax.edu