Janet Bogdan, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Bogdan, Janet Carlisle (Ph.D., 1987, Syracuse University), associate professor of sociology, is a feminist sociologist whose research has centered on the history and sociology of childbirth in America and on work and unemployment in women's lives. 

Dr. Bogdan's articles have appeared in Feminist Studies and in Social Problems. At Le Moyne, she teaches introductory sociology, gender and society, social inequality, the sociology of work and families, and social problems.

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Professor Jeffrey Chin, Ph. D

Dr. Chin (Ph.D., 1983, the University of Michigan) is a professor of sociology at Le Moyne College.

He is a Carnegie National Scholar, a program of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

He is the past-editor of Teaching Sociology, an official journal of the American Sociological Association.

His work is in the area of social psychology, intergroup relations, and the teaching of sociology. He has published articles and reviews in Teaching Sociology and Simulation and Games, and articles in Perspectives on Social Problems, Race, Gender & Class, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, as well as in a number of practitioners' journals. He recently completed an edited volume, Promoting Success among Students of Color in Sociology published by American Association for Higher Education.

Office: 301 Seton, 445-5451

Personal webpage: web.lemoyne.edu/~chin

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Professor Cliff Donn Ph.D.

Chair

Dr. Donn (Ph.D. 1980, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), is a professor in the department of anthropology, criminology and sociology. He has been at Le Moyne College since 1982 where he was a member of and chaired the department of industrial relations and human resource management, was director of the international studies program, and served as director of the study abroad program. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in the economics and education departments, in the M.B.A. program and in the integral honors program. He has held visiting positions at the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Sydney (both in Australia).

His principal research interests have been in the areas of dispute resolution, comparative trade unionism (especially focused on Australia) and labor and employment issues in the ocean-going maritime industry. He has written and edited books on these subjects as well as publishing articles in The Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, The Journal of Industrial Relations, Labour History, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Journal of Labor Research, Transportation Journal, Industrial Relations Journal, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, and The International Journal of Employment Studies, among others. He has presented papers at conferences in Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States.

Office: Reilly, 416 , 445-4484

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Professor Robert Kelly, Ph. D.

Kelly, Robert F., (Ph.D., Rutgers) is professor of sociology and co-director of the Social Science Empirical Analysis Lab at Le Moyne. Kelly is also co-principal investigator of the Le Moyne College/Zogby International Contemporary Catholic Trends Poll. From 1995 to 1998 he held the College's Francis J. Fallon, S.J. Endowed Professorship. He has conducted research and written widely on public welfare policy, family law and research methodology. His writings have appeared in journals such as the Family Law Quarterly, Journal of Marriage and the Family, The University of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, the Syracuse University Law Review, and the Journal of Family Issues. Current research projects concern changing legal definitions of family relations, the use of social science research in family law formation, and the consequences of the legal outcomes of divorce for post-divorce family functioning and child well-being. Kelly has held visiting appointments and research positions at the Stanford Law School, the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester, the Syracuse University College of Law and the Institute of Policy Sciences at Duke University. In 1993, Kelly was the first William and Flora Hewlett Scholar in Washington at Child Trends, Inc., a public policy research center in the nation's capital. He teaches marriage and the family, law and social science, demography and research methodology.

Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences, 2007-2008

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Professor Matthew Loveland, Ph.D.

Matt Loveland (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) came to Le Moyne in 2005 as a post-doctoral research assistant for the Contemporary Catholic Trends (CCT) project. He is now an assistant professor of sociology and continues to work with CCT. His research interests are in the sociology of religion, social theory, and research methods. Current projects include studies of orthodoxy and progressivism among Catholic laity, evangelism among U.S. Christians, and the role of congregational social networks in social activism.

Office: Reilly 414, 445-4481

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Professor Lisa McCartan, Ph. D.

Dr. McCartan (Ph. D., 2003, University of Cincinnati) came to Le Moyne in 2002 to help develop the at the time brand new Criminology program. As Director of the Criminology and Crime and Justice program, Dr. McCartan has helped craft the program requirements to make them consistent with students’ career goals in the field of criminal justice. To further aid students’ career goals, Dr. McCartan strives to incorporate students into the research process through special projects. Past special projects have focused on improving students’ data collection and analysis skills through the development of a database on international terrorist incidents. More recently, those projects have expanded to include publishing articles with students in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. McCartan’s research interests include terrorism, social-biological theories of crime, female offenders, and life course criminology. Currently, Dr. McCartan is working on using criminological theories to better understand terrorist behavior as well as examining the logic underlying terrorist attacks. Dr. McCartan’s articles have been published in a number of journals, including Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Crime and Justice, and Women and Criminal Justice.

Office: Reilly 412, 445-4594

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Professor Frances Pestello, Ph.D.

Dr. Frances Pestello (Ph.D. University of Akron 1983) is a sociology professor in the department of anthropology, criminology, and sociology at Le Moyne College.  She comes to Le Moyne after spending twenty-five years at the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH, where she was a professor and department chair.

Her areas of interest in sociology are law, deviance, crime and delinquency and social psychology.  She has done research on the deterrent impact of sanctions.  She published a book, Sentiments and Acts, with Fred Pestello and Irwin Deutscher on the relationship between attitudes and behavior.  The book received special recognition from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Cooley Award Committee.  She has done work on the impact of psychiatric medications on one’s sense of self.  Her current research interest is on food and society.

Office:  Reilly 421, 445-2622

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Professor Frank Ridzi, Ph.D.

Dr. Ridzi (Ph. D. 2003, C.A.S. 2003, M.P.A. 2001, Syracuse University) is founding Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Applied Research (CURAR) and serves as Kauffman Entrepreneurship Professor. He has conducted research and written in the areas of social welfare policy, sociology of work, and student affairs. His writings have appeared in such places as the Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Research in the Sociology of Work, Review of Policy Research and The NASPA Journal of The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. Current research projects include applied policy research and research concerning changing workplace dynamics in careers that include public welfare structures and higher education. Ridzi has served as chair of the elections committee for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). He presently teaches in the areas of human service caseload management and program evaluation and policy analysis. He has also taught courses in the areas of marriage and families, social welfare, introduction to sociology and research methodology. He was most recently a Teaching Fellow at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His C.A.S. is in Women's Studies.

Office: Reilly 417, 445-4480

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Professor Farha Ternikar, Ph.D.

Ternikar, Farha B. (Ph.D., 2004, Loyola University Chicago) held a pre-doctoral position in the department for 2003-04 and is now an assistant professor in sociology. Her research focuses on gender and religion with a special interest in South Asian immigration. She teaches courses in Race, Class and Gender, and Women and Society.

Office: Reilly 431, 445-4497

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Professor Deborah Tooker, Ph. D.

Tooker, Deborah E., (Ph.D. 1988, Harvard University) is professor of anthropology (starting the 2012-13 academic year), department of anthropology, criminology, and sociology at Le Moyne College. Her areas of interest are symbolic/semiotic anthropology and the anthropology of religion/ritual, psychological anthropology, political anthropology and the politics of identity, and the anthropology of space and place.

Dr. Tooker has conducted long-term fieldwork among the Akha of Northern Thailand/Burma (Myanmar) and short-term fieldwork among these same people in Yunnan, China. Her most recent publication is a book titled: Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life.  2012.  Amsterdam University Press (distributed in the US by the University of Chicago Press).  Links to Book Sites:

http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789089643254

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo13211109.html

She has also published in the journals Man, Journal of Asian Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, and Cambridge Anthropology. Before coming to Le Moyne in 1992, Professor Tooker taught at Harvard University and held a Rockefeller Resident Fellowship at Cornell University. She also held a research fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1994-96. Prof. Tooker is also a Faculty Associate in Research with Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program.  At Le Moyne, she teaches introductory anthropology, critical ethnography, anthropological linguistics, social theory, and Southeast Asian cultures.  Starting in the 2012-13 academic year, Prof. Tooker will be Chair of the Department.

Office: Reilly 411, 445-4479

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Professor Donald Zewe, S.J., Emeritus

Zewe, Donald, S.J.,(Ph. D., 1972, Columbia University) is emeritus professor of sociology at Le Moyne College. He has taught at Le Moyne since 1966 and chaired the department from 1968 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1988. He was president of the Faculty Senate 1987-1988 and twice president of the New York State Sociological Association and recipient of its Distinguished Service Award. He is coauthor of Innercity Private Schools [Marquette University Press, 1982], a survey of the clientele and academic performance of innercity parochial schools which serve minority students. His current research interests are in the sociology of work, the labor force, and the shift from an industrial to a service society. He teaches industrial sociology and death and dying.

Office: 204 Reilly Hall, x4726/4612

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