Faculty
Annemarie Harrod, Ph.D.
Dr. Harrod earned her doctorate from Vanderbilt University and studies conflicts over environmental resources, ethnic/racial identity, and class status. She teaches courses on Race & Ethnicity, Environmental Sociology, Inequality, and Education. In 2008, she taught a new course, the Sociology of Disasters.
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Mary Karpos, Ph.D.
Dr. Karpos teaches courses related to Criminal Justice, including but not limited to the Sociology of Prisons, Juvenile Delinquency, Ciminology, and the Sociology of Law. She is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University.
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Shelby Longard, Ph.D.
Dr. Longard holds her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Her latest research focuses on familial gender socialization in the subculture of Southern child beauty pageants. Dr. Longard’s teaching interests include gender, the body and self-esteem, and inequality, among other courses. She is active in our General Education program offering both Freshman Year Seminar and Junior Cornerstone courses.
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Ken Spring, Ph.D.
Dr. Spring, Department Chair, is an Associate Professor of Sociology. He holds an M.A. from the University of Toledo and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. His current research focuses on popular culture specializing in music "scene" formation, implementing production and consumption models of culture. Dr. Spring has been interviewed for several documentaries discussing various aspects of culture which have aired internationally on Bravo!, Current TV, and nationally on PBS. He teaches classes on Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Sociology of Music, Popular Culture, Politics of Knowledge, Urban Community and Research Methods. In addition, Dr. Spring is the current Faculty Fellow for New Student Programs and the Co-Coordinator of the First Year seminar.
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Andi Stepnick, Ph.D.
Dr. Stepnick, earned her Ph.D. from Florida State University. She teaches the Sociology of Gender; Family Sociology; the Sociology of Health, Illness & the Body; Restorative Justice; Social Problems; Visual Sociology; and Men, Masculinity & Media. She researches gender and social movements, popular culture, and pedagogy. In fall 2007, she initiated two new community service programs at Belmont to help Nashville's homeless population and to work towards prison reform. In 2005-06, she earned one of Belmont's most prestigious teaching awards, the Presidential Faculty Achievement Award, for her contributions to students' intellectual, personal and professional needs. Click here to see her website.
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