30 November 2001
Marc J. LaFountain
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
I. Employment
1998-present Chair State University of West Georgia
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology1991-97 Professor State University of West Georgia
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1982-91 Associate Professor West Georgia College
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1977-82 Assistant Professor West Georgia College
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1974-76 Mental Health West Alabama Mental Health Center, Sumter
Consultant Memorial Hospital, Livingston Alabama
1975 Consultant Alabama Regional Council on Alcoholism
1974-76 Assistant Professor Livingston University, Division of History and Social Science
1972-74 Instructor Auburn University, Sociology Department
II. Teaching
SOCI 4913/5913 Sociology of Everyday Life Fall 2001
SOCI 4984 Senior Seminar Fall 2001
SOCI 1101 Introduction to Sociology Summer 2001
SOCI 4373W/5373 Visual Sociology Spring 2001
SOCI 6400 Body and Society Spring 2001
SOCI 1101 Introduction to Sociology Fall 2000
SOCI 4913/5913 Sociology of Everyday Life Fall 2000
SOCI 4053/5053 Sociological Theory Summer 2000
SOCI 4803/5803 Environmental Sociology Spring 2000
SOCI 4373W/5373 Visual Sociology Spring 2000
SOCI 4623/5623 Art, Media, Cultural Politics Fall 1999
SOCI 4913/5913 Sociology of Everyday Life Fall 1999
SOCI 4053/5053 Sociological Theory Summer 1999
SOCI 4803/5803 Environmental Sociology Spring 1999
SOCI 4373/5373 Visual Sociology Spring 1999
SOCI 4053/5053 Sociological Theory Fall 1998
SOCI 6305 Critical Social Analysis Fall 1998
ENV 230 Environmental Studies Winter 1998
SOC 805/ENG 801 Critical Theory Winter 1998
SOC 305 History of Social Thought Summer 1998
SOC 405 Contemporary Soc Theory Spring 1998
SOC 480/680 Environmental Sociology Spring 1998
SOC 105 Introduction to Sociology Fall 1997
SOC 405 Contemporary Soc Theory Fall 1997
SOC 491/691 Existential Sociology Fall 1997
SOC 105 Introduction to Sociology Winter 1997
SOC 805 Social Theory Winter 1997
SOC 305 History of Social Thought Summer 1997
SOC 463/663 Visual Sociology Spring 1997
SOC 480/680 Environmental Sociology Spring 1997
SOC 405 Contemporary Soc Theory Spring 1997
2000
Sponsored a graduate student, Mark McClintock, who presented a paper at the national meetings of the Association of Humanist Sociology, Cincinnati, Nov 2000
1999
Sponsored a graduate student, Sedgrid Lewis, who presented a paper at the national meetings of the Association of Humanist Sociology, Memphis, Nov 1999
1999
Director, Masters Thesis, "The Functions of a Disability: A Durkheimian Examination of the Attention Deficit Disorder", Will Tinney, completed Spring 1999
1998
Director, Masters Thesis, "Racism as a Social Construct: Exploring the Politics of Medicine and Race in the United States", Carol Dillon, completed Dec 1998
D) Significant Program Development: Chair, Environmental Studies Curriculum Committee, 1996-1999. Organized UWG’s development of an interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Final approval was granted from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents (Nov 1999) for a BS in Environmental Science and a BS in Environmental Studies.
III. Service
2000
Visioning Committee, The Graduate School
1999
University Matters Committee
Festival of Majors, April
Staff Appreciation Day, Volunteer, June
Collaborative Schools Luncheon (liaison with Roopville Elementary School)
Visitation Day, November
1998
Reform Committee, Department of Educational Leadership Masters Program, College of Education (to redesign degree program)
Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Activities Committee
Master Planning Committee
Staff Appreciation Day, Volunteer, June
2000
History Department Chair Search Committee
Chair, Environmental Studies Curriculum Committee
Designed the brochure for UWG’s Environmental Studies Program
1999
History Department Chair Search Committee
Chair, Environmental Studies Curriculum Committee, program approved, Board of Regents, November
Reform Committee, Department of Educational Leadership Masters Program, College of Education (to redesign degree program)
1998
Chair, Environmental Studies Curriculum Committee
1998
Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology Masters Program (until September)
Committee on Graduate Studies, The Graduate School (until September)
A DAY, Departmental Representative
2000
Chair, Carroll County Tree Advisory Commission
Environmental Projects Committee, Chamber of Commerce (As member of Environmental Projects Committee of Carroll County Chamber of Commerce, nominated UWG for the Chamber’s Silver Beautification Award. UWG won this award and the received publicity in local media)
Quality of Life Work Group, Carroll Tomorrow
1999
Habitat for Humanity (house construction)
Environmental Projects Committee, Chamber of Commerce
Upper Tallapoosa Watershed Group
IV. Education
PhD University of Tennessee, Sociology 1976
MA University of Tennessee, Sociology 1970
BA Holy Cross College, Sociology 1968
Continuing Education
National Science Foundation Chautauqua Short Course, "Environmentalism: Rethinking Wilderness and Nature", Harvard University, May 1997
V. Professional Growth and Development
Finalist for UWG’s nomination for University System of Georgia’s Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, 1998
Invited Keynote Address, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Toronto, May 1988
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar 1988 "Surrealism and Dada Revisited," Hofstra University
National Endowment for the Humanities Institute 1986 "The Linguistic Turn in Recent Continental Thought," Purdue University
National Endowment for the Humanities 1984 "Contemporary German Social Philosophy: Critical Theory and Hermeneutics," Boston University
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar 1980 "Post-Parsonian Sociology," Duke University. Also in 1980 awarded a second NEH stipend to participate in a seminar at Purdue University ("Philosophical Anthropology")
Most Outstanding New Faculty Member, Special Award, Student Government Association, Livingston University, 1976
National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship, University of Tennessee, 1969-71
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Tennessee, 1969-71
Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
International Visual Society Association
Association for Humanist Sociology
Georgia Sociological Association
American Association of University Professors
Program Chair, international meetings of Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, for 1998 (Denver) and 1999 (Eugene, Or)
Executive Council, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, 1998-2000
Program Chair, international meetings of Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Louisville, Ky, 1987
Nominations Committee, Association for Humanist Sociology, 1987-89
Executive Committee, Society for Phenomenology and the Human
Sciences, 1987-88
Local Arrangements Committee, national meetings of Association for Humanist Sociology, Atlanta, 1985
Program Committee, International Human Science Research Association, West Georgia College, 1983
Books published
Dali and Postmodernism: This is Not an Essence (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997)
Volumes Edited
"Postmodern Ethics," West Georgia College Studies in the Social Sciences, November 1995, Vol. 33
"Native American Struggles for Survival and Dignity," Humanity & Society, November 1989, Vol 13, No 4
"Games Without Frontiers: Essays for a Protean Sociology," West Georgia College Studies in The Social Sciences, June 1981, Vol XX
Book Chapters and Review Essays
"Physical Status Deviance, Other than Overweight (height, appearance, etc.)", Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, pp. 457-459 in Vol. 4 (Self-Destructive Behavior and Disvalued Identity), ed. Clifton D. Bryant (Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 2000)
"Bataille's Eroticism, Now: From Transgression to Insidious Sorcery," pp. 26-41 in Philosophy and Desire, ed. H. J. Silverman (New York: Routledge, 2000)
"W. E. B. DuBois", pp. 323-326 in Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America, eds. D. Bradley and S. F. Fishkin (Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 1998)
"Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport" (co-authored with John R. Fuller), pp. 202-208 in Sport in Contemporary Society, ed. S. Eitzen (New York: St. Martins Press), 5th ed (chapter also reprinted in 4th ed, 1992), 1996
"Play and Ethics in Culturus Interruptus: Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Postmodernity", pp. 206-223 in The Specter of Relativism ed. L. K. Schmidt (Evanston: Northwestern University Press), 1995
"Der Blaue Reiter Organizes to Abandon Representation in Art", pp 275-280 in Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture ed. F. N. Magill (Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 1993
"Social Sensitivity," a review of Social Sensitivity: A Study in Habit and Experience by J. M. Ostrow, Phenomenology and The Human Sciences. March 1992, Vol. 17, pp. 10-17
"Embodied Being in the Epoch of Nihilism," a review of The Body's Recollection of Being: Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism by David Michael Levin, The Humanistic Psychologist, Spring 1989, Vol. 14, No. 1, Pp. 93-99
"Communicative Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity," a review of Communicative Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity by C.O. Schrag, Phenomenology and Social Science, November 1987, Vol. 12, Pp. 7-11
"Eros and the Body," a review of Libido: The French Existential Theories by Alphonso Lingis, The Humanistic Psychologist, Autumn 1986, Vol. 14, No. 3, Pp. 199-204
" 'Right Brain Sociology' and an Imminent Crisis in Contemporary Phenomenological Sociology," Pp. 367-387 in Structures of Knowing, R.C. Monk (ed), University Press of America, 1986
"A Hermeneutic of Everyday Life," a review of Radical Reflection and the Origin of the Human Sciences by C.O. Schrag, The Humanistic Psychologist, Autumn 1985, Vol. 13, No. 3, Pp. 32-39
Articles
"Dare!", Human Studies, in press
"The Y2K ‘Bug’ as Anti-Environmental Discourse", The Humanist Sociologist, Spring 1999, pp. 5-8
"A Little Sympathy for the Return of the Repressed," The Humanist Sociologist, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter 1997), pp. 8-9
"Introduction: Some Predicaments of Ethics in Postmodernity", West Georgia College Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 33 (November 1995), pp. 1-12
"Destiny Without Destination(?): Un Coeur en Hiver, The Double Life of Veronique, and the Question of Postmodern Ethics", West Georgia College Studies in the Social Sciences. Vol. 33 (November 1995), pp. 66-100
"Shoereal(i)ty" (a once act Surrealist play), Perforations 5, (Spring 1994), pp. 1-6
"Many Exits" (a one act Derridean play), Perforations 4, (Summer 1993), pp. 1-6
"Foucault and Rodney King: The "Rationality" of a Legal Beating", Humanity & Society, Vol. 16 (November 1992), pp. 564-570
"Steroid-Using Athletes: The Body's Comportment in an Epoch of Nihilism" (co-authored with John R. Fuller), Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 1990, Vol. 14, No. 2, Pp. 1-18
"Native American Struggles for Survival and Dignity: Editor's Introduction," Humanity & Society, November 1989, Vol. 13, No. 4, Pp. 383-385
"Foucault and Dr. Ruth," Critical Studies in Mass Communication, June 1989, Vol 6, No. 2, Pp. 123-137
"Illegal Steroid Use Among Fifty Weight Lifters" (co-authored with John R. Fuller), Sociology and Social Research, October 1988, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pp. 19-21
"Performance-enhancing Drugs in Sport: A Different Form of Drug Abuse" (co-authored with John R. Fuller), Adolescence, Winter 1987, Vol. 23, Pp. 969-976.
"Foundations of Humanistic Sociology," The Humanistic Psychologist, Autumn 1985, Vol. 13, No. 2, Pp. 18-27
"Substance Consciousness: A New Look at Drug Abuse in America," Humanity & Society, August 1985, Vol. 9 No. 3, Pp. 328-341
"Symbols as 'Delirious Phenomena': A Short Phenomenology of Symbol Use," West Georgia Review, Vol. XVI, May 1984, Pp. 23-28
"North Georgia Mental Health Needs Assessment Study," (co-authored with W.T. Simons et al.), Georgia Department of Human Resources (Grant # DHR-314-D), 1978
Book and Video Reviews
"The Last Vaudevillian", Teaching Sociology, Vol. 28, No. 3 (July 2000), pp. 280-282
"The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies," Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. IX, 1993
"Text and Culture: The Politics of Interpretation," Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Vol. 14, 1990
"Anarchist Portraits," Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Vol. 13, 1989
"Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason and Reality," Contemporary Sociology, November 1988
"Hermeneutics and the Sociology of Knowledge," Social Forces, March 1988
"Power Politics and Applied Ethics: A Study of the Research Evaluation Division of the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health," Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Fall 1987
"A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences," Social Forces, June 1987
"Reflections on America, 1984: An Orwellian Symposium," Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Vol. 11, 1987
"Systems of Discourse: Structures and Semiotics in the Social Sciences, Social Forces, Vol. 64, 1986
"Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences," Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Vol. 10, 1986
"The Flight From Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory," Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Vol 10, 1986
"From the Sociology of Symbols to the Sociology of Signs: Toward a Dialectical Sociology, Social Forces, June 1985
"The Existential Sociology of Jean-Paul Sartre," Social Forces, December, 1981
"Person Perception and Stereotyping," Social Forces, March, 1981
"Phenomenology and the Social World: The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and its Relation to the Social Sciences," Social Forces, December, 1979
"Approaches to Sociology: An Introduction to Major Trends in British Sociology," Social Science Quarterly, September, 1975
"Workers on the Move: The Sociology of Relocation," International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, October, 1974
"The Reference Other Orientation: An Extension of the Reference Other Concept," Social Science Quarterly, March, 1974
"The Solitary, Singular Figure as an Enigmatic Letter: Dali and Lettrisme?", A Symposium on The Avant-Garde and Visual Poetry, Georgia Southern University, April 2000
"The Unsaved Have No Means of Redemption: Goffman and Levinas on Facework and Ethics", Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Washington, DC, October 1996
"Realist and Impressionist/Confessional Self Portraits: Two Visual Sociological Studies", Georgia Sociological Association, Carrollton, GA, November 1996
"The Oblique and the Irruption of Postmodern Phenomenological Sociology", Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Chicago, October 1995
"The Irruption of Singularity and Solitude in Dali's Surrealism", The International Conference on the Hideous and the Sublime, Atlanta, November 1994
"Environmental Literacy", Environmental History and the Georgia Classroom: A Curriculum-directed Symposium for Georgia School Educators, West Georgia College, February 1994
"Rereading Dali's Endless Enigma: Liberating a Repressed Postmodern Text," International Conference on Surrealism and the Oneiric Process, Atlanta, October, 1990
"Intuition: Hermeneutic Theatre II," (With M. Arons, S. Maylam, and S. LaFountain), American Psychological Association, Boston, August, 1990.
"Play and Ethics in Culturus Interruptus: Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Postmodernity," International Symposium on Gadamer's Truth and Method, Heidelberg University, West Germany, July, 1989
"Intuition: Hermeneutic Theatre," (With M. Arons, S. Maylam, S. LaFountain, and W.G. Roll), International Human Science Research Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark, August, 1989
"Steroid-Using Athletes: The Body's Comportment in an Epoch of Nihilism," Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, October, 1989
"The Erotic, Rhetorical War Machine: Subjectivity and Community in Postmodernity," Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Toronto, May 1988
"Postmodernism and Humanism: Critiques and Misunderstandings," Association for Humanist Sociology, Lexington, Kentucky, November, 1987
"Foucault and the Feminization of Biopower," International Human Science Research Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May, 1987
"Postmodernism: A Responsible Deconstructed Self?," Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 1987
"Essence and Phantasy in Husserl and Dali," International Human Science Research Association, San Francisco, May, 1986
"The Unarticulated Philosophical Grounds of Critique in Humanist Sociology: Reflexivity and the Problem of 'Right Praxis'," Association for Humanist Sociology, Atlanta, November, 1985
"Progress Report on the Human Science Research Institute at West Georgia College," Georgia Sociological Association, Jekyll Island, October, 1985
"The Experience of Strangeness" (with C. Aanstoos), American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1985
"Phenomenology of the Strange," (with C. Aanstoos), International Human Science Research Association, Edmonton, Canada, May, 1985
"The Lived-Body, Sociality and Moments Beyond: Life in a High Performance Car," Third International Human Science Research Conference, West Georgia College, May, 1984
"Toward a Critical Ethnomethodology: The Problem of Right Praxis," Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Atlanta, October, 1984
"A New Look at Substance Abuse Education," (with G. Esslinger) Georgia Academy of the Sciences, Statesboro, Georgia, May, 1984
"Theory Here and Abroad," Georgia Sociological Association, Athens, Georgia, October, 1983
"Research in Para- and Transpersonal Sociology," Georgia Sociological Association, Jekyll Island, October 1980
"Imminent Crises in Contemporary Phenomenological Sociology," Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 1979
"Some Reflections on the Paranormal in Sociology," Southeastern Regional Parapsychology Association, Winter Park, Fla, March 1980
"Transpersonal Sociology," Fifth International Conference of Transpersonal Psychology, Boston, October 1979
"Toward a Future Ethnomethodology," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Purdue University, October, 1979
"Schutz and Merleau-Ponty: What Kinds of Sociology?," Mid-south Sociological Society, Memphis, October, 1979
"Holistic Insight and the Disintegration of the Symbolic Arc," National Conference on Humanistic Education, Carrollton, Georgia, May, 1979
"Plumbing the Depths of Ethnomethodology," Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, 1975
"The Labelling Perspective: Prospects for Theories of Deviance," (with J. Cramer) Southwestern Social Science Association, Dallas, 1973
"A Matrix for the Classification and Evaluation of Sociological Theory," Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, 1972
"Pre-decisional Dissonance and Interaction Theory," Southern Sociological Society, Miami Beach, 1971
Associate Editor, Human Studies, 1998-present
Manuscript Reviewer, SUNY Press, 1999
Referee, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 1999
Humanity & Society, 1997-99
Women and Politics, 1997
Consultant, Pine Forge Press, 1996
Referee, Sociological Spectrum, 1996
Book Review Editor, Humanity & Society, 1986-96
Associate Editor, The Humanistic Psychologist, 1985-89
Assistant Editor, West Georgia Review, 1981-89
Consulting Editor, Permanent Press and Second Chance Press (two small literary presses in New York), 1979-95
Associate Editor, Theta, 1987
Consultant, West Publishing Company, 1985
Consultant, Allyn and Bacon, 1983
G. Funded Research
"Changing Times: Studying Communities and Community Life in Carroll County", STEP/16 Collaborative Research Grants, College of Education, UWG, with Ann McCleary (PI) and P. Lynott and P. Kirk (Co-Pis), 1999, $8,000
"Environmental Literacy and Technology/Community/Nature Balance: A Pedagogical Demonstration", Co-Principal Investigator with Frank Orr), College of Education, SUWG, 1998, $2,000
Board of Regents Faculty Enrichment Grant ($665) to attend Chautauqua Short Course at Harvard University, 1997
Four awards from National Endowment for the Humanities (see above), total, $12,000
Two small grants (>$500) from the Learning Resources Committee of SUWG: in 1985 for research on book on Salvador Dali at the Dali Museum (St. Petersburg, Florida) and in 1983 (with Pick Conner) for research on hospice care in Georgia
