Faculty

Scott Myers-Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair

I earned my PhD in Sociology and Demography from The Pennsylvania State University in 1997.Since then, I've cut my teeth at Iowa State University (1997-2000) and Washington State University (2000-2003) as an Assistant Professor. I currently teach classes in Population Problems, Environmental Sociology, Family & Society, and Research Methods. Presently, my research and grant agenda focuses on three areas: (1) Residential mobility and family processes, (2) Neighborhood environmental quality and family relations, and (3) At-risk school-age children, civic involvement, and academic outcomes. My previous research has appeared in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, Social Science Quarterly, The Sociological Quarterly, and Social Psychological Quarterly.

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Laurence Marshall Carucci- Professor of Anthropology

Laurence Carucci is a social and cultural Anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Chicago) who specializes in the study of the Pacific Islands and is a noted authority on cultural concerns and social life of residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Dr. Carucci's contributions to the discipline have focused on issues of symbolic power in the domains of historical and cultural self-fashioning. Dr. Carucci's maintains an ongoing research agenda, having spent over five years in residence in the Marshall Islands since 1976. In addition to his lengthy tenure at MSU, Dr. Carucci has been a professor at the Wesleyan University and the University of South Carolina.

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David Eitle-Associate Professor of Sociology

David Eitle earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at Indiana University. Professor Eitle's research interests include exploring the institutional and community factors associated with school disorder and violence, the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior among late adolescents and young adults, and the nexus between racial and economic stratification, crime, and its social control. He is co-principal investigator of a National Institute on Drug Abuse research grant exploring the risk and protective factors associated with teen meth use. His work appears in such journals as Justice Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Social Forces, Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Social Science Quarterly.

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Montana Teen Stress and Health Study

Tamela McNulty Eitle-Associate Professor of Sociology

Dr. Tamela McNulty Eitle earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at Indiana University. Her research focuses on racial and ethnic inequality in educational opportunities and outcomes with a particular focus on school racial composition. She currently teaches courses on race and ethnicity, education, and inequality. She is co-principal investigator of a National Institute on Drug Abuse research grant exploring the risk and protective factors associated with teen meth use. Dr. Eitle's previous research has appeared in Sociology of Education, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Spectrum, American Educational Research Journal, and elsewhere.

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Montana Teen Stress and Health Study

Michael Neeley-Associate Professor of Anthropology

Michael Neeley is an anthropological archaeologist (Ph.D. Arizona State University) interested hunter-gatherer adaptations, lithic technology, and Near Eastern prehistory. His current research focuses on late Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers along the inland lake environments in west-central Jordan and their relationship to the origins of agricultural communities. He is also involved in research of late prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies in Montana. In addition to fieldwork in Jordan and Montana, he has participated in archaeological research projects in Cyprus, France, Arizona, and Colorado. His work has appeared in journals such as Antiquity, Journal of Field Archaeology, and the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research along with numerous chapters in edited volumes.

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Jack Fisher-Associate Professor of Anthropology

Professor Fisher's archaeological research interests include lifeways and adaptations of prehistoric hunter-gatherer peoples of Montana and adjacent regions, and of southern Africa. He directs archaeological investigations in Montana, and collaborates with researchers in South Africa. Professor Fisher has, in addition, carried out ethnoarchaeological research among extant hunter-gatherer peoples of central and southern Africa.

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Sue Monahan--Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean, College of Letters and Science

Professor Monahan's research interests include complex organizations and sociology of religion. Presently, she is collaborating on a national survey of HIPAA and IT implementation in hospitals, and is co-authoring a book -- Religion Implicated: What Sociology Teaches Us About Religion In Our World -- to be published in 2009. Professor Monahan is also active in university-wide initiatives to advance women in research careers in science, social science and engineering, and is a co-PI on MSU's NSF ADVANCE Leadership Award which supports mentoring activities for women faculty.

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Leah Schmalzbauer- Associate Professor of Sociology

Leah Schmalzbauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.  Her research focuses on new destination Latino migration and transnational migrant families. She is currently working on an ethnographic project exploring gender relations and family formation among Mexican migrants in the rural Mountain West, and on a parallel project (with Prof. Bethany Letiecq) exploring the mental health of Mexican migrant women in rural Montana.  Leah teaches classes in Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies.  Her academic work has appeared in Journal of Marriage and Family, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Global Networks, Gender and Society, North Carolina Law Review, andis forthcoming in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.  

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Steve Swinford-Associate Professor of Sociology

Steve's research focuses on the relationship between childhood and adolescent experiences of violent behaviors and the enactment of violent behaviors during adulthood. A second line of research involves manipulation of open-ended survey question formats and paper and web surveys to identify designs where response rate and response quality improves. Steve has published his research in the Journal of Marriage and the Family, Family Relations, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

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Tomomi Yamaguchi-Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Tomomi Yamaguchi is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Michigan). Her research interests are the cultural construction of gender and sexuality; feminism and social movements; and popular culture in post-war Japan. She is working on a book based on her dissertation, about a Japanese feminist group and its attempt to represent the history of Japanese feminism from the 1970s to 1990s. She is also working on a more recent project on the ongoing backlash against feminism in contemporary Japan. She teaches general anthropology classes as well as courses with a specific focus on Japan Studies.

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Leslie Crismond-Administrative Assistant

Leslie has a B. A. in Anthropology and English from the University of Delaware. She spent 16 years working for two different publishing companies in Washington, DC before coming to Montana. After an ill-fated stint as a retail business owner, she moved on to Patagonia Mail Order. She became the Sociology & Anthropology department administrative person after Patagonia left Bozeman in 1996.