Sierra Leone Study Abroad: African Democracy and Socio-Economic Development, Freetown, Sierra Leone, May-June 2010 and June-July 2013.
Indonesian Visiting International Scholars Mentoring (2013).
Graduate and Undergraduate Courses
Classical Sociological Theory
Contemporary Social Institutions
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Democracy and Development
Foundations of Sociology
Immigration
Political Sociology
Race and Ethnic Relations
Sociology of Education
Sociology of the Military
University Experience (UNIV 101)
Selected Dissertations and M.A. Theses Committees
Jason Ardanowski. Doctoral dissertation. “Why Does Everybody Hate NGOs? How State Power Shapes International NGO’s Security Identities and Roles.” Political Science Department, NIU (dissertation committee member), in progress.
Sirojuddin Arif. Doctoral dissertation. “The State, Peasantry and State Responses to Food Crisis: The Politics of Agricultural Policy Formation in Indonesia And Nigeria.” Political Science Department, NIU (dissertation committee member), defended May 2019.
Daniel Ghebretensae Ogbaharya. Doctoral dissertation. “Change and Continuity in Natural Resource Management: A Historical Institutional Analysis of Ethiopia and Namibia.” Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University, (dissertation committee member), defended March 2013.
Deb Kennedy. Doctoral dissertation: “The State’s Role in Preventing Political Violence: An institutional Approach to Ethnic Conflict Resolution (Nigeria and Rwanda).” Political Science Department, NIU (dissertation committee member), defended June 2011.
Chris Jaffe. Doctoral dissertation: “`Us and Them’: The Changing Boundaries of Acceptance and Exclusion for Incoming Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Groups in Rockford, Illinois, 1880-1933.” History Department, NIU (dissertation committee member), defended March 19, 2008.
Heather Heather LaCost. Doctoral dissertation, "Attributions of Organizational Politics: An Investigation of Locus of Causality, Justice, and Intentionality as Factors in Perceptions of Politics," Psychology Department, NIU (committee member), defended March 2005.
John Hink, Jr. Doctoral dissertation. “The Accident of Birth: Children, Birth Citizenship, and the Constitution, 1898-1986.” History Department, NIU (committee member), defended October 2012.
Nathan Katz. MA thesis: “Impression Management and the 2012 Presidential Primaries.” (Sociology Department, NIU (committee member), defended, spring 2015.
Jonathan Thomas, MA thesis: “Everything and Nothing: Hegemonic constructions of whiteness in American cinema.” Sociology Department, NIU (supervisor), defended April 2014.
Jessica Petersen, “Conservatism, Class, and Race: An Ethnographic Study of the Tea Party Movement in Northern Illinois.” Sociology Department, NIU (supervisor), defended March 2013.
Shawn Smith. MA thesis: “NGOs and Tanzania: Understanding Relationships in Community Development Strategies.” Anthropology, NIU, (committee member) defended March 2013.
Shay Galto. MA thesis: “Peace Education in Post-Genocide Cambodia.” Sociology Department, NIU (supervisor), defended spring 2012.
Gary Myers. MA thesis: “Perceptions of Leadership among At-Risk Youths in Chicago.” Sociology Department, NIU (committee member), defended spring 2012.
Suzanne Banowsky. MA thesis: “Victim Advocacy.” Sociology Department.” Sociology Department, NIU (committee member), defended spring 2012.
Stephanie Lentz. MA thesis: “Rwandan Refugees Resettlement by the International Rescue Committee in Phoenix, Arizona.” Sociology Department, NIU (supervisor), defended November 2007.
Tetyana Skorokhod. MA thesis: “The impact of Immigration on US Labor Market.” Sociology Department, NIU (supervisor), defended November 2004.
Jacob Frank Michael. MA thesis: “Of Waste, Space, and Race: Toward a containment model of environmental racism.” Sociology, NIU (committee member), defended February 2006.
Tiffany Buchanan. MA thesis: “The World View of Racism: A Structural and Cultural Critique on the Development of the Self.” Sociology Department, NIU (committee member), defended November 2005.