Faculty

 

Beverlyn Allen Lundy

Beverlyn L. Allen • Associate Professor

303F East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-9107, FAX: (515) 294-2303
blallen@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Community Studies and Development
• Social Organization and Social Inequality

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J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr.

J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr. • Assistant Professor

303e East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1497, FAX: (515) 294-2303
arbuckle@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Social and environmental dimensions of biofuels production
• Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll

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Carmen Bain

Carmen Bain • Assistant Professor

308 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-9895, FAX: (515) 294-2303
cbain@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Political economy of global agrifood systems
• international development
• Social studies of science and technology

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Terry Besser

Terry Besser • Professor

204 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-6508, FAX: (515) 294-0592
tbesser@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Research efforts have been directed toward studying organizations, work, and the relationship between businesses and communities.

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Sharon Bird

Sharon Bird • Associate Professor

217B East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-9283, FAX: (515) 294-2303
sbird@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Inequality and paid labor
• Gendered organizations, the sex gap in small businesses success and is

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Alicia Cast

Alicia Cast • Associate Professor

316 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1184, FAX: (515) 294-2303
acast@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Social psychology, family and gender
• Self and identity in family relationships

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Peter Conis

Peter Conis • Lecturer

118 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-3128, FAX: (515) 294-2303
pjconis@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Prevention of domestic crimes against women
• Prevention of internet crimes against children

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Matthew DeLisi

Matthew DeLisi • Associate Professor

203A East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-8008, FAX: (515) 294-2303
delisi@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Habitual criminal offending, career criminals, and self-control theory

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Betty Dobratz

Betty Dobratz • Professor

218 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2033, FAX: (515) 294-2303
bdobratz@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Political sociology, social organization and social stratification

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Teresa Downing_Matibag

Teresa Downing-Matibag • Assistant Professor

217D East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2493, FAX: (515) 294-2303
ttsushim@iastate.edu

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Cornelia Flora

Cornelia Flora • Distinguished Professor

107 Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1329, FAX: (515) 294-3180
cflora@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• International and domestic development
• Sociology of science and technology, particularly as related to agriculture and participatory change

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Jan Flora

Jan Flora • Professor

317D East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-4295, FAX: (515) 294-2303
floraj@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• The role of social capital in rural U.S. communities
• The impact of Confinement Animal Feeding Operations on natural, human, social, cultural, and financial capitals
• Self sufficiency wages and the working poor in rural Iowa

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Wendy Harrod

Wendy Harrod • Associate Professor

220 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-9898, FAX: (515) 294-2303
wharrod@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Group dynamics
• Social pathology
• Social problems

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Andrew Hochstetler

Andrew Hochstetler • Associate Professor

203D East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2841, FAX: (515) 294-2303
hochstet@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Criminology and political economy
• Relationship between the economy, crime and state-imposed punishment

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Gloria Jones Johnson

Gloria Jones Johnson • Professor

202 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2947, FAX: (515) 294-2303
gjj@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Self-employment and the contingent work force

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Patricia Keith

Patricia Keith • Professor

302 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-8371, FAX: (515) 294-2303
pkeith@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Persons who work with and/or who are responsible for care of the vulnerable aged
• Volunteer resident advocates in an ombudsman program

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Peter Korsching

Peter Korsching • Professor

216 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-8322, FAX: (515) 294-2303
pkorsch@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Changes and interrelationships of agriculture and rural communities and their continuing viability
• Application of human ecology theory for the explanation of changes in rural society.

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Daniel Krier

Daniel Krier • Assistant Professor

304 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-7013, FAX: (515) 294-2303
krier@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Research bridges the interdisciplinary areas bounded by sociology, economics and business
• Theories, organizations and social change

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Paul Lasley

Paul Lasley • Professor and Department Chair

103 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-0937, FAX: (515) 294-0592
plasley@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Organization of U.S. agriculture and how changes in agriculture affect rural communities
• Co-investigator of the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll
• Rural development, community development, sustainable agriculture, and leadership in agriculture.

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Marta Maldonado

Marta Maldonado • Assistant Professor

312 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-0793, FAX: (515) 294-2303
mmaldona@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Political economy, the sociology of inequality
• Dynamics within Latino/a populations in rural Iowa, and Latino/a perspectives and experiences regarding community integration

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Robert Mazur

Robert Mazur • Associate Professor

318 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-9286, FAX: (515) 294-2303
rmazur@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Innovation and diversification in rural livelihood strategies, and linkages among livelihood activities, food security, and health

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Brian Monahan

Brian Monahan • Assistant Professor

203C East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-8379, FAX: (515) 294-2303
bmonahan@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Deviance, crime, mass media, and social problems
• Qualitative methodologies, such as content analysis and interviews

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Lois Wright Morton

Lois Wright Morton • Associate Professor

317C East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2843, FAX: (515) 294-2303
lwmorton@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Civic structure, rural communities, rural quality of life, community based watershed management, and population health

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Dr. David Peters, Assistant Professor

David Peters • Assistant Professor

303E East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1122, FAX: (515) 294-2303
dpeters@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Poverty and inequality
• Economic and workforce development
• Quantitative and spatial methods

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Anastasia Prokos

Anastasia Prokos • Assistant Professor

310 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-0515, FAX: (515) 294-2303
aprokos@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Social inequality, emphasizing gendered inequalities in employment and the work/family interface
• Examinations of work-hour preference, family structure and economic well-being, and gender inequality in science and technology occupations.

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Richard Reger

Richard Reger • Lecturer

118 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-3128, FAX: (515) 294-2303
rreger@iastate.edu
Research Interests:

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Carl Roberts

Carl Roberts • Associate Professor

217A East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2114, FAX: (515) 294-2303
carlos@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• International differences in how reality is defined and maintained
• Theoretical work on intercultural differences in how both persons and situations are defined to more empirical work on cultural changes in post-1989 Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic.

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Stephen Sapp

Stephen Sapp • Professor

320 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1403, FAX: (515) 294-2303
ssapp@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Consumer attitudes about food safety and nutrition and consumer acceptance of agricultural technologies
• Social psychology, risk analysis, and methods/statistics

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David Schweingruber

David Schweingruber • Associate Professor

404 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-4079, FAX: (515) 294-2303
dschwein@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Cultural and cognitive premises that guide social behavior in a variety of social settings, including formal organizations, social movements and political demonstrations

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Susan Stewart

Susan Stewart • Associate Professor

102 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-5912, FAX: (515) 294-2303
stewarts@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Family demography, the statistical study of families and households in terms of their formation, dissolution, and change over time

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Kathleen Wagonner

Kathleen Waggoner • Adjunct Associate Professor

217E East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1131, FAX: (515) 294-2303
kwaggone@iastate.edu

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Betty Wells

Betty Wells • Professor

303D East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1104, FAX: (515) 294-0592
bwells@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension

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Bill Woodman

William Woodman • University Professor

4 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2228, FAX: (515) 294-2303
wwoodman@iastate.edu
Research Interests:
• Historical and structural processes leading to organizational effectiveness as well as in the impacts of technology and technology transfer on society

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