SOCIOLOGY FACULTY
(Click on faculty picture or name to go to individual's web page.)
 | Alan Banks, Professor • Director, Center for Appalachian Studies
Ph.D.: McMaster University, 1980
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Appalachia • The Enviornment • Sociological Theory Office: Center for Appalachian Studies, Martin House, 300 Summit Street
Office Phone: 859-622-1622 or 859-622-3065
Email: alan.banks@eku.edu |
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 | John Curra, Professor • EKU Foundation Professor ('05-'06)
Ph.D.: Purdue University, 1975
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Deviance and Crime • Social Norms • Serial Killers Office: Keith 233
Office Phone: 859-622-1026
Email: john.curra@eku.edu |
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 | Sharon Hardesty, Full-Time Lecturer
M.A.: University of Kentucky, 1990
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Environmental Issues • Community Based Action Research • Sociology of Work Office: Keith 105
Office Phone: 859-622-1626
Email: sharon.hardesty@eku.edu |
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 | Matthew Irvin, Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: North Carolina State University, 2006
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Mass Media and Society • Formal Organizations • Social Psychology • Masculinities • Inequality • Quantitative Analysis Office: Keith 108
Office Phone: 859-622-2409
Email: matthew.irvin@eku.edu |
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 | Austin Matthews, Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of Kentucky, 2006
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Crime • Law and Deviance • Sexualities and Society • Sociology of Health and Medicine • Quantitative Methods and Analysis Office: Keith 106
Office Phone: 859-622-1389
Email: austin.matthews@eku.edu |
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 | Stephanie McSpirit, Associate Professor • Director, Martin County Project
Ph.D.: University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 1994
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Statistics • Research Methods • Community-based Field Methods • Environmental Sociology • Risk and Society Office: Keith 103
Office Phone: 859-622-3070
Email: stephanie.mcspirit@eku.edu |
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 | Paul Paolucci, Associate Professor • Coordinator, Sociology Program
Ph.D.: University of Kentucky, 2001
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: World-Systems Analysis • Race, Class, and Gender Studies • Dialectical, Historical and Comparative Methods • Sociological Theory: Marxist Theory, Post-Structuralism, Dramaturgy Office: Keith 107
Office Phone: 859-622-6780
Email: paul.paolucci@eku.edu |
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 | Dionne Smith, Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of Kentucky, 2002
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Social Stratification and Inequality • Race and Ethnicity • Social Call and Gender • Sociology of Work, Occupations and Labor Markets &bull Sociology of Education • Social Gerontology Office: Keith 110
Office Phone: 859-622-1653
Email: dionne.smith@eku.edu |
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 | Elizabeth Underwood, Associate Professor
Ph.D.: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Area: Sociology
Interests: Sociology of Religion and Family • Historical Sociology • Demography • East Asian Studies Office: Keith 219
Office Phone: 859-622-1469
Email: elizabeth.underwood@eku.edu |
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