Christine Witkowski, M.A., Geography and Environmental Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, 1998, M.S. & B.S. Education, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 1993. Christine's primary interests are in the areas of social psychology, social movements, social change, environmental sociology, social identity, and rationality. Currently, Christine is exploring the intersection between communication, message framing, and social change. Email: CSWITKOWSKI@YAHOO.COM

Pamela Emanuelson, BS Sociology and Biology, Converse College, MA University of South Carolina. Current research interests include the study of inter-organizational networks and exchange processes. Email: pamelaemanuelson@juno.com

Hatice Akca, BS Sociology, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2005. Main interests are currently in Cultural Studies, Globalization, Political Sociology, Women Studies, and Religious Sociology. I specifically studied on Political Modernization of Turkey for my Dissertation. Email: haticeakca@gmail.com

Emily Arnold, BA, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 2004. Emily's main interests in sociology center on inequality, migration, and status. Currently, Emily is examining the migration of illegal and legal workers between the United States and Mexico. Emily has prior work experience in social services with the Spanish speaking population. Email: EARNOLD1@sc.rr.com

Tim Bertoni, BA History, USC 2002; MA Sociology, USC 2009. Tim is currently a PhD candidate specializing in evolutionary sociology. He is working with Patrick Nolan on extending Ecological-Evolutionary Theory in regards to the evolution of religion. Email: bertoni@mailbox.sc.edu

Matthew Alexhan Cazessus, BA Sociology and BS Psychology Stetson University 2001. Matt previously worked as a case manager and supervisor at Covenant House Florida, a crisis shelter for homeless and at-risk youth in Orlando, for four years. He is presently a first-year master’s student and research assistant. His sociological interests include crisis resolution, subculture identity and societal implications of new technology. Email: cazessus@yahoo.com

Yamilette Chacon, MA, University of South Carolina, 2009; BA, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina; Associate of Arts, Anthropology, El Camino College, Torrance, California. My interests include Social Psychology, Sociological Theory, the development of social complexity, social mobility, Historical Sociology, immigration, education, race/ ethnic/minority relations, Women’s Studies, belief systems, ritual violence and Indigenous Peoples of Latin America. I have conducted fieldwork among the Cotacachi and Otavaleño Indians of Ecuador. Email: chacony@mailbox.sc.edu

Stephen Chicoine, B.S. in Sociology from Lander University, Greenwood, SC. Stephen's Interests include political sociology and social movements. Email: chicoins@mailbox.sc.edu

Michelle Deming, M.A. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Wilmington 2009.  B.A. Psychology, University of North Carolina-Wilmington 2007. Michelle’s research interests include social psychology, group processes, women’s and gender studies, and family structures.  Email: demingm@mailbox.sc.edu

Lisa Dilks, M.I.S., Statistics, University of South Carolina, 2008; M.A., Sociology, University of Wyoming, 2008; B.A., Women's Studies, University of Wyoming, 2003. Lisa's research interests center on social psychology, group processes, and law and society. Projects include economic theories of discrimination and small group theories of inequality using data from the reality television show Survivor, the effects of status and emotions on criminal sentencing, and the role of social and political factors in Supreme Court decision making. Her dissertation examines how the framing of status interventions in evaluative settings affects rates of status-based discrimination. Email: dilks@mailbox.sc.edu

April Dove, M.A., Sociology, University of South Carolina, 2009. B.A., Sociology, University of South Carolina Upstate, 2005. April's interests include social movements, social control, cultural and collective memory and museum creation. Her most recent research centers on the framing techniques utilized by anti-illegal immigration social movement groups operating along the U.S.-Mexican border. She is also investigating the creation of southern civil rights museums during the 1990s in the American South. Email: aldove1@yahoo.com

Tabitha Epperson, Tabitha Epperson, BA in history and political science, University of Southern Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2006. Tabitha's main interests in sociology are family structure and sibling relationships. Currently, Tabitha is the graduate assistant for the Trio Program's Opportunity Scholars Program. Email:
tdepperson@gmail.com

Lynn Frederick, BA Social Sciences/History, Chadron State College, 1974; MSW, University of Iowa, 1979. The Social Service field has been one of Lynn's major interest. She has written an article on the health impaired elderly project for the Southern Gerontologist Newsletter. Lynn was also a featured speaker at the Fourth National Forum on Research in Aging. Email: frederlm@mailbox.sc.edu

Ashley Harrell, BA Psychology, University of South Carolina 2008. Ashley's current interests include social psychology, particularly pro-social behavior and religion. Email: HARRELLA@mailbox.sc.edu

Samantha Hauptman, BSc, Jacksonville State University, Alabama, 1997, Master of Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, 1999. During and after completing her MCJ, Samantha worked in administration at the South Carolina Department of Corrections for 6 years. Her sociological interests include criminal/social deviance, social control, immigration, and globalization. Samantha is presently teaching in a technical college. Email: SAMRICH@MYEXCEL.COM

Colby King, BA Westminster College, New Wilmington ,PA, 2007. MA University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 2009. Colby’s MA Thesis investigates Pittsburgh’s economic restructuring through interviews with business professionals. Colby completed an Honors thesis at Westminster College in which he used interviews to investigate cultural interaction in a mixed American Indian and Caucasian community. He is currently exploring means to geographically model changes in urban inequality over time. His interests include qualitative methods, urban sociology, cultural interaction and assimilation, class, inequality, and narratives. Email: kingcr@mailbox.sc.edu. 

Naomi Kolberg, M.A., Sociology, University of South Carolina, 2009. B.A., Sociology, Bloomsburg University, 2004. Naomi's interests include stratification, inequality and education. She also incorporates geographical spatial analysis into her research. Currently, she works as an assistant for Dr. Lala Steelman. Email: kolberg@mailbox.sc.edu

Peter Lawrence, BA in Sociology, Minor in Psychology, University of South Carolina. My main interests are in experimental social psychology with an emphasis on prosocial and altruistic behavior. I was a Chef for 20 years, before returning to college, cooking in large 5 star hotels across the country. I intend to pursue my PhD in sociology. Email: lawrencp@mailbox.sc.edu

Danielle Lewis, BA Psychology with a minor in Sociology, University of South Carolina with Honors from the South Carolina Honors College, Columbia, South Carolina, 2006. My main area of interest is prosocial behavior. I am currently a research and teaching assistant for David Willer. Email: Mullett02@aol.com 

Dan Lucas, B.A. Secondary Education, University of Evansville, Evansville IN, 1982, U. S. Air Force, 1984-2006. B.A. Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2009.  Dan’s interests include inequality, race/ethnic/minority relations, deviance, and demography.  Email:  Lucasd@mailbox.sc.edu

Marecus Matthews, B.A. Sociology, University of South Carolina. Marecus' main interests include: College-educated African Americans' perceptions of race effects on life outcomes; Hip Hop music and culture as a tool for upward social mobility; Structural and psychological barriers to productive Black Fatherhood; The effects of Misogynistic views of women in hip hop music; The effects of living in public housing; and, African Americans and Sociological reasoning for conversions to Islam. Email: mbm_kos@hotmail.com

Shannon McDonough, B.A. Sociology, Miami University, Ohio, 2003. M.A. Sociology, University of South Carolina, 2008. Her M.A. Thesis is entitled, “Safety Cultivates Fear? The Unintended Consequences of School Surveillance Measures,” Shannon's main research interests include surveillance studies, criminology, and gender inequality. Email: Smcdonough1@sc.rr.com

Patrick McCullough, BA Psychology, University of South Carolina, 2009. Patrick's main interests include social psychology, belief formation, the dynamics of paranormal belief, social aspects of clothing, social cognition, cultural studies, gender studies, and media influences on perception. Email: chaosdragoon123@yahoo.com

Tucker McGrimmon, BSc Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, Tucker's main interests in sociology center on experimental social psychology, game theory, and mathematical sociology. Tucker is currently investigating social learning and public information, games played on random graphs, network externalities, games of status, and the link between sociological and economic approaches to terrorism via evolutionary approaches. Email: mcgrimmo@mailbox.sc.edu

Jennifer McLeer, B.A. Organizational Psychology and Religious Studies, Manhattan College, 2007. M.A. Religious Studies, USC, 2009. Jennifer's main interests are in group processes, education, religion, theory construction and experimental methodology. Her research is concerned with status inequalities, cooperation in small groups, and supernatural punishment in relation to cooperation. Jennifer is currently working on two projects: examining differences in IQ scores as mediated by status; and measuring the effect of school mobility and caregiver inconsistency on status crimes in juvenile delinquents. Email: jmcmac205@gmail.com

Alison McLetchie, B.Sc. Psychology (2000),South CarolinaStateUniversity ; M.A. Anthropology and Certificate in Museum Management (2003), University of South Carolina.M.A. thesis: "Incidents of Douglarization: The Worship of la Divina Pastora in Trinidad ." My major interests remain in the areas of ethnicity, race and identity formation in Trinidad and Tobago (and the wider Caribbean ); religion; calypso and Creolization. Email: amcletchie@msn.com

Kerry Mcloughlin, BS Sociology and Criminology, Barry University, 1997; MA Sociology, University of South Carolina, 1999. Kerry’s interests in sociology center around education, social theory, family, social stratification, and ethnic / race relations. Written work includes “Assimilation, Cultural Pluralism and Multiculturalism: Searching for Democratic Social Order.” Email: KMCLOUG@HOTMAIL.COM

Mary F. McKenzie, M.S. North Carolina State University. Research interests include criminology, deviance, and family sociology. Mary is also a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Email: mfmck@attglobal.net

Hyomin Park, B.A. Sociology and Philosophy 2003, M.A. Sociology 2005, Sungkyunkwan Univ., Seoul, Korea. Hyomin's major is social psychology and interests are social order and pro-social behavior as a social exchange. Main topic is "How people perceive social order level and how they response on that." He is also interested in quantitative methods in experimental design as well as sample survey. Email: hyomin@mailbox.sc.edu.

Joseph Park, B.A. Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2006. Joseph's interests in sociology center around deviance, networks, and power structures. Email: joep3000@gmail.com

Darwin Ramsey-Tamar. Darwin is currently serving as a fulltime temporary Sociology Instructor at Winthrop University. She is teaching Corrections, Criminology, Introduction to Archaeology, Principles of Sociology, and Archaeological Field Methods. Email: ramseyd@winthrop.edu

Ryan Reynolds, BA Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 2006. Ryan's main interests in sociology are the study of science, religion, stratification, game theory, and social interactions in general. He is currently working with Dr. Nolan. Email: Reynoljr@mailbox.sc.edu

Chris Robinson, Masters of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA; Bachelors degree, Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana. Chris served as a part-time youth pastor at Forest Lake Presbyterian Church in Columbia and is presently an ordained minister. His interest include the way in which today’s culture has impacted family life. Email: crobinson@signalpres.org

Alex Rose, BA (Honors)  University of South Carolina. He wrote an Honors Thesis on the standing of the legal profession, which greatly influenced his decision not to go to law school and attend graduate school instead. He is interested in sociology of law, social control, and theory. Email: ROSEAS@mailbox.sc.edu

Hyo-Hwan Song, BA and MA, Chonbuk National University, South Korea, 1986 and 1992, MA, University of South Carolina, 2000. I'm interested in social policy, political economy, and historical sociology. Currently I'm working on the relationship between the state and civil society focusing on the health reform policy in South Korea. Email: HSONG12@MAILBOX.SC.EDU

William Tinney, Jr. A.S. (Criminal Justice, 1993), B.A. (Sociology, 1996), University of South Carolina-Aiken; M.A. (Sociology, 1999), State University of West Georgia. Ph.D. Candidate (ABD.), University of South Carolina. Will's main interests in sociology center on social demography, deviance and social control. Will served as an assistant professor at Black Hills State University in South Dakota (2003-2008) and currently is an Instructor of Sociology at University of South Carolina (2008-) and Augusta State University (2009-). Email: wjtinney72@yahoo.com  

Jennifer Triplett, BA Sociology (2004), Business Administration and Behavioral Science, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA; MA Sociology (2007), University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Current research interests include social psychology, group processes, medical sociology, childhood and family studies, and education research. She is currently assisting Dr. Stepanikova with research on doctor-patient relationships and research assessing the relationship between racial bias and cooperative behavior. Email: TripletJ@mailbox.sc.edu

Leia Velasquez, BA Psychology and Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 2004. Her research interests include social psychology, group process, and collective action. Email: velasqul@mailbox.sc.edu

Claudia Wolverton, B.A., University of S.C. Claudia's interests center around inequality and stratification, especially as it relates to the areas of K – 12 education, class, gender, and disabilities. She is also enrolled in the Women’s and Gender Studies Certificate program. Claudia is a full-time USC staff member in the College of Education, where she works for the SC School Improvement Council as website administrator, graphic designer, database manager, and public information coordinator.

Qian Zhang, BA Sociology at Huazhong Normal University, China , 2004; MA Sociology at Wuhan University ,China, 2004. My main interests are social stratification, family research and social Psychology. Currently, I am working as a graduate assistant for Dr. Stepanikova to do research about the effect of Patient-Physician encounter. Email: zhqwind@gmail.com

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