Pam Hunt Kirk, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology
Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology College of Arts, Culture, and Scientific Inquiry

678-839-6336
phunt@westszUDtJt9hPCXhgzRRrrACModYHaX7uGoyiGqUzq7R2DfO0Ymga.edu

Pafford Social Science Building - Room 205

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Pam Hunt Kirk, Ph.D.

Dr. Pam Hunt Kirk is a Professor of Sociology. She joined UWG in 2008, and typically teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in the following areas: emotion, social psychology, deviance, research methods, and statistics.

Dr. Hunt Kirk has published research findings in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Social Psychology Quarterly, Deviant Behavior, and Journal of GLBT Family Studies. Her research is generally focused on how members of subgroups give distinct meaning to the elements of their social environment (e.g., role identities, behaviors, and interaction settings). Dr. Hunt Kirk has conducted research in the jamband music scene as well as in the area of same-sex parenting. She has published two books: Where the Music Takes You: The Social Psychology of Music Subcultures (2014) and a volume of essays titled Shameless Sociology: Critical Perspectives on a Popular Television Series, which she co-edited with her colleague Dr. Jennifer Beggs Weber, which was released in late 2020.

Research Interests: social psychology, deviance, subculture, emotions, pop culture

  • A. B., Marketing and Sales, Edison Community College, 1994
  • B.S., Marketing & Business Administration, University of Dayton, 1998
  • M.A., Sociology, Ohio University, 2002
  • Ph.D., Sociology, Kent State University, 2008

Spring 2024 Sections

Fall 2023 Sections

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Fall 2022 Sections

Summer 2022 Sections

Spring 2022 Sections

Fall 2021 Sections

Summer 2021 Sections

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Fall 2020 Sections

Summer 2020 Sections

  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4999 (Pop Music and Society) Section: E01

Spring 2020 Sections

  • SOCI-3733 (Social Psyc:The Soci Tradition) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4441 (Sociology of Mental Health) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: E01

Fall 2019 Sections

  • XIDS-2300 (Interdiscp Studies in COSS) Section: 01
  • SOCI-3733 (Social Psyc:The Soci Tradition) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4543 (Deviant and Alternative Behav) Section: E01

Summer 2019 Sections

  • SOCI-4441 (Sociology of Mental Health) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: E01

Spring 2019 Sections

  • SOCI-4543 (Deviant and Alternative Behav) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6623 (Inequality in Society) Section: 01

Fall 2018 Sections

  • XIDS-2300 (Interdiscip Studies in Soc Stu) Section: 02
  • SOCI-3733 (Social Psyc:The Soci Tradition) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4543 (Deviant and Alternative Behav) Section: E01

Summer 2018 Sections

  • XIDS-2300 (Interdiscip Studies in SociSci) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4441 (Sociology of Mental Health) Section: E01

Spring 2018 Sections

  • SOCI-4543 (Deviant and Alternative Behav) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6999 (Thesis Writing) Section: 04

Fall 2017 Sections

  • XIDS-2300 (Interdiscip Studies in Soc Stu) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: E01
  • SOCI-5700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: E01
  • SOCI-6999 (Thesis) Section: 03

Summer 2017 Sections

  • SOCI-4543 (Deviant and Alternative Behav) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4999 (POP MUSIC AND SOCIETY) Section: E01

Spring 2017 Sections

  • SOCI-1160 (Intro to Social Problems) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4441 (Sociology of Mental Health) Section: E01
  • SOCI-5441 (Sociology of Mental Hlth/Illns) Section: 01

Fall 2016 Sections

  • SOCI-3733 (Social Psyc:The Soci Tradition) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4003 (Applied Stats for Sociology) Section: 01
  • SOCI-5003 (Applied Stats for Sociology) Section: 01

Summer 2016 Sections

  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4984 (Capstone: Senior Seminar) Section: E01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • SOCI-4003 (Applied Stats for Sociology) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4543 (Deviant and Alternative Behav) Section: E01
  • SOCI-5003 (Applied Stats for Sociology) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6803 (Seminar in Social Psychology) Section: 01

Summer 2015 Sections

  • SOCI-4700 (Sociology of Emotions) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4984 (Capstone: Senior Seminar) Section: E1W

Spring 2015 Sections

  • SOCI-3733 (Social Psyc:The Soci Tradition) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4543 (Deviant and Alternative Behav) Section: E01
  • SOCI-6999 (Thesis) Section: 04

Weber, Jennifer and Pamela M. Hunt. 2020. Shameless Sociology: Critical Perspectives on a Popular Television Series. Cambridge Scholars Publishing [View Publication External Resource]

Hunt, Pamela M. 2020. [View Publication External Resource]

Hunt, Pamela. M. 2017. The Influence of Parental Identification on Attitudes in Same-Sex Families.” Journal of GLBT Family Studies 13(3):257-276. (published online in 2016) [View Publication External Resource]

Hunt, Pamela. 2014. Where the Music Takes You: The Social Psychology of Music Subcultures, 1st edition. San Diego: CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.

Hunt, Pamela M. 2008. “From Festies to Tourrats: Examining the Relationship Between Jamband Subculture Involvement and Role Meanings.” Social Psychology Quarterly 71(4):356-78. [View Publication External Resource]

Hunt, Pamela M. 2010. “Are You Kynd? Conformity and Deviance Within the Jamband Subculture.” Deviant Behavior 31(6):521-551. [View Publication External Resource]

Hunt, Pamela M. 2012. “Examining the Affective Meanings of Interaction Settings in the Jamband Music Subculture.” Journal of Professional and Public Sociology 4(1): Article 5. [View Publication External Resource]

Hunt, Pamela M. 2018. “The Sociology of Music,” in Cambridge Handbook of Sociology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Hunt, Pamela M. 2013. “Not Fade Away: Ritual Solidarity and Persistence in an Ephemeral Community.” Pp. 158-165 in Music Sociology: Examining the Role of Music in Social Life, edited by Sara Towe Horsfall, Jan-Martijn Meij, and Meghan Probtsfield. Boul

Hunt, Pamela M. 2014. “Cults,” in Encyclopedia of Social Deviance, John Copes & Craig J. Forsyth (eds.)

Hunt, Pamela M. 2014. “Positive Deviance,” in Encyclopedia of Social Deviance, John Copes & Craig J. Forsyth (eds.)

Hunt, Pamela M. 2014. “Same-Sex Marriages,” in Encyclopedia of Social Deviance, John Copes & Craig J. Forsyth (eds.)

Hunt, Pamela M. 2014. “Gays as Parents,” in Encyclopedia of Social Deviance, John Copes & Craig J. Forsyth (eds.)