Employed Since

June 1995

Educational History

PhD University of Kentucky – Sociology 1990
MS University of Arkansas – Rural Sociology 1985
BA George Washington University – Sociology 1977

Professional Highlights

My professional accomplishments include creating the first sociology program and the first criminal justice program for Shenandoah University. In both cases I composed programs that could be offered with the resources available at the time. As with anything, they changed as resources and policies changed. One grew, one shrank but both were flexible enough to evolve.

I also received and worked on a variety of grants received for rural sociology or medical sociology research. I loved conducting interviews, surveys, focus groups then compiling the data. The results were thrilling to me because it was new information collected honestly.

Social Context:  Developing collegial decision-making models for the USFS by Kim Fendley, Don Voth, John Harbison. A USFS cooperative agreement with a 3 year plan.  Methods include long-interviews, focus groups and a state-wide survey.  Year 1  $74,520.  1994-1995

Community impact of regional transportation infrastructure growth, Kim Fendley and Will Miller.  Grant funded by Mack-Blackwell National Rural Transportation Study Center.  This is a mail survey of Northwest Arkansas’ voters. 1 year total $50,946.  1994

Eco­nomic growth/environmental quality and political efficacy:  A socio­logical/political approach, Kim Fendley and Will Miller.  This is a phone survey of Northwest Arkansas’ residents.  Awarded the 1992-93 Research Incentive Grant $1,000. 

Mednick Memorial Fellowship, 2004 Award.  $1,600, to fund the Analysis of Juvenile Delinquency and Crime in their Social Context.

The Kentland Foundation gift for $5,000 for the development and implementation of the Sociology Program, Shenandoah University.  March 11, 1996. Supplemented with $1,000 in 1997.

 2016 – 2017 Dr. Audra Gollenberg and I received a faculty development grant for $3100 to Explore Preconception Health in a Sample of Underserved Diverse Women of Reproductive Age in Winchester, Va.  This grant specified student-faculty research; co-published with Dr. Audra Gollenberg on NIH R13 Grant Application:  An Academic-Community Partnership to Reduce Health Disparities in Infant Mortality in the Lord Fairfax Health District of Virginia. Received October 2012.  3 years $89,720.

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Be flexible, live in the present while looking forward not back, allow yourself to change and reinvent yourself: Life is more interesting if you do so. The past is not better.”