Faculty and Staff News
In addition to the excellent work they do in the classroom, our faculty are highly productive and successful scholars. Some recent activity includes:
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Catherine Jenks and John Fuller: “Civility in Prisons: A Radical Proposal,” in David Polizzi and Michael Braswell (eds), Transforming Corrections: Humanistic Approaches to Corrections and Offender Treatment, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009, pp. 139-148.
Mike Johnson: “Utility of Arts in Corrections,” in K. Jaishankar(ed), International Perspectives on Crime and Justice, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 290-325.
Neema Noori: “The Politics of American-Styled Education in the Middle East,” in Eileen Lundy and Edward Lundy (eds), American Studies in the Middle East: A Comparative Encounter, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2009.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
John Fuller: “Leo Tolstoy and Social Justice,” Contemporary Justice Review, 12(3), 2009, pp. 321-330.
Michael Johnson: “Jail Wall Art and Public Criminology,” Research and Practice in the Social Sciences, 5(1), 2009, pp. 1-21.
Todd Matthews (et al): “A Simple Plan, A Simple Faith: Chaplain and Lay Ministers in Mississippi Prisons,” Review of Religious Research, 51(1), 2009, pp. 87-103.
PRESENTATIONS:
Mike Johnson (et al): “Police Deviance in Trinidad and Tobago,” at thte Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA November 6, 2009.
Paul Luken: “Introduction to Institutional Ethnography” at the Annual Conference of the Georgia Sociological Association, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, October 29-31, 2009.
Todd Matthews and Laurel Holland: “Exploring Perceptions of Water Issues and Public Efficacy in Carroll County, Georgia” at the Mid South Sociological Association annual meeting, Lafayette, LA., November 6, 2009.
Todd Matthews and Laurel Holland: “Examining Differential Levels of Tolerance and Prejudice towards LGBT Individuals on the College Campus” at the Mid South Sociological Association annual meeting, Lafayette, LA, November 6, 2009.
Todd Matthews: “Poverty in Georgia: Examining County-Level Variations Using the ACS and SAIPE” at the Annual Conference of the Georgia Sociological Association, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, October 29-31, 2009.
Neema Noori: “Rethinking the Legacies of the Iran-Iraq War: Veterans, the Basij, and Social Resistance in Iran” at the Conference on Teaching the Middle East VII: Identities and New Realities in the Middle East, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA, October 2-4, 2009.
PANELS CHAIRED:
Paul Luken: “Studies in Institutional Ethnography” at the Annual Conference of the Georgia Sociological Association, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, October 29-31, 2009.
Todd Matthews: “Environmental Sociology” at the Mid South Sociological Association annual meeting, Lafayette, LA., November 6, 2009.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Todd Matthews: Elected to the Editorial Board of Sociological Spectrum, a peer-reviewed Sociology journal.
