| |  | | SOCIOLOGY FACULTY Faculty members of the Sociology Program place a high priority on the quality of their teaching, and have been recognized for their excellence in teaching. The faculty uses a variety of sources to keep up to date on research in teaching and learning, and utilize a variety of techniques. These techniques include lecturing, dividing classes into groups for discussion and problem solving, preparing assignments for student work outside of class, preparing problems to be solved in class, showing films and videos, bringing in guest speakers, organizing debates on social issues, directing student role playing, encouraging cooperative learning, facilitating supervised peer teaching and critiquing, utilizing in-class writing strategies, identifying interesting and relevant reading materials, and bridging the gap between classroom and community through service learning.
| Nicole Xavier Cauvin, Professor of Sociology, BA, MA, PhD, New York University. Dr. Cauvin's research interests focus on alienation and postmodernism, slavery in the French Caribbean, and changes in family structure. Her teaching responsibilities include introductory sociology, classical sociological theory, contemporary social thought, diversity and oppression in contemporary society, marriage and the family, and men, women and society. Dr. Cauvin has been a member of the Sociology Program faculty at Sacred Heart University since 1975. Contact info:
Administrative Building, Room 237
Ph: 203-371-7768
Fax: 203-365-7587
Email: cauvinn@sacredheart.edu
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| Stephen J. Lilley, Department Chairperson, Associate Professor of Sociology, BA College of the Holy Cross; MA, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Lilley's current research interests focus on technology and social change. His teaching responsibilities include introductory sociology, society and economic change, and society and technology. Dr. Lilley has been a member of the Sociology Program faculty at Sacred Heart University since 1988. Contact info:
Administrative Building, Room 234
Ph: 203-371-7761
Fax: 203-365-7587
Email: lilleys@sacredheart.edu
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| Gerald F. Reid, Professor of Anthropology, BA, MA, PhD University of Massachusetts, MA, University of Chicago. Dr. Reid's current research interests focus on political and cultural developments among the Iroquois in the 19th and 20th centuries. His recently published book Kahnawake: Factionalism, Traditionalism, and Nationalism in a Mohawk Community (Nebraska, 2004) examines political and cultural development in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake between 1870 and 1940. His teaching responsibilities include introductory courses in cultural anthropology, North American Indians, Native American literature, and social issues and social change. Dr. Reid has been a member of the Sociology Program faculty at Sacred Heart University since 1989. Contact info:
Administrative Building, Room 232
Ph: 203-371-7765
Fax: 203-365-7587
Email: reidg@sacredheart.edu
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| Grant Walker, Associate Professor of Sociology, BA, MA, PhD, Fordham University. Dr. Walker's research interests focus on social and cultural change in the relationship between humans and the biophysical environment and on the development of grounded social theory through participatory action field research. His teaching responsibilities include courses in juvenile delinquency, society and the environment, methods of social research, statistics for the social sciences, and social action research. Dr. Walker has been a member of the Sociology Program faculty at Sacred Heart University since 1973. Contact info:
Administrative Building, Room 236
Ph: 203-371-7766
Fax: 203-365-7587
Email: walkerg@sacredheart.edu
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| Mrs. Catherine Gaccione
Academic Department Assistant Contact info:
Administrative Building, Room 238
Ph: 203-371-7760
Fax: 203-365-7587
Email: gaccionec@sacredheart.edu |
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