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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Screens and Public Recognition
• Sociology of Conflict and Cooperation
• Social Movements

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Introduction to Sociology I
• Introduction to Sociology II
• Social Statistics
• Social Movements

Affiliations

• 2006-2007 Member of the Academic Appeals Committee
• 2002-2004 Director of Coop in Sociology
• 2000-2004 Supervisor of Undergraduate Studies, Sociology

Awards & Grants

• 2001 Social Science and Humanities Research Council, $33,600. Icons and Gumpism: Studies on the Production of Ignorance in the Information Society
• 1999 Social Science and Humanities Research Council, $1,600. Icons and Gumpism: Knowledge And Ignorance.
• 1998 Social Science and Humanities Research Council, $5000 Project on Trends Grant, Knowledge Society.

Publications

• (forthcoming 2010) "Rupture and Repair: The Cascading Effects of Mental Illness on a Family of Innocents." in Skeletons in Family Closets: A sociological Analysis of Narrations of Unresolved Family Conflicts. Wilfred Laurier Press.
• (forthcoming 2010) "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)." In Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication. Sage Publications. ed. by Susanna Priest.
• 2008 "Don’t know much about History’: A Critical Examination of Moral Panics over Student Ignorance." In Moral Panics over Contemporary Children and Youth, Pp. 167-183. Ashgate Publishing. Ed. Charles Krinsky.
• 2008 "The Social Impact of Total War – and Permanent War." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict. 2nd Edition._ Pp. 2121-2130. Elsevier._Ed.Lester Kurtz.
• 2008 "Arms Control." In Encyclopedia of Socila Problems. Pp. 54-57.