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Department Chair

Timothy Gongaware  Profile of Timothy Gongaware  Office hours

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

Sociology faculty

Nicholas Bakken  Profile of Nicholas Bakken  Office hours

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

Enilda Delgado  Profile of Enilda Delgado  Office hours

Professor
437B Wimberly Hall
edelgado@uwlax.edu
608.785.6776

Specialty areas:

Demography, Social Stratification, Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods

Adam Driscoll  Profile of Adam Driscoll  Office hours

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

Shanna Felix  Profile of Shanna Felix  Office hours

Assistant Professor
437N Wimberly Hall
sfelix@uwlax.edu
608.785.6784

Specialty areas:

Criminal justice, criminology, victimology, queer criminology, and mixed methodology. 

Timothy Gongaware  Profile of Timothy Gongaware  Office hours

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

Patricia Hart  Profile of Patricia Hart

Lecturer
436 Wimberly Hall
phart@uwlax.edu
608.785.6782

Specialty areas:

Race & Ethnicity, Culture, Public Media, American National Identity, Whiteness Studies, Qualitative Research

Lisa Kruse  Profile of Lisa Kruse

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

Peter Marina  Profile of Peter Marina  Office hours

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.

Carol Miller  Profile of Carol Miller  Office hours

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