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Abye Assefa

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Ron Flores

Associate Professor of Sociology

Tom James

Associate Professor of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Disaster Behavior; Collective Behavior; Sociology of Sport; Survey Research Methods; Formal Organizations

Patrice LeClerc

Associate Professor of Sociology
Dr. Patrice LeClerc is Associate Professor of Sociology. Prior to St. Lawrence, she was at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests are in social policy comparisons of Canada, Quebec, and the United States, and she has written on health and medicine, women's movements, social movements, and nationalism in the three societies. She is currently at work on a book examining the development of nationalism and identity in New York and Ontario in the 1800s. Her most recent publications are a chapter on Canada in Women 2000 (ed. Janet Mancini Billson) and an article in the Socialist Studies Bulletin with Kenneth Gould: "The USA Patriot Act: Why We All Should be Terrified". She teaches courses on nationalism, comparative historical methods, women's movements, social movements, women social theorists, medical sociology and social policy, and in the First Year Program. Her academic interests, teaching, and life choices are intertwined. She has served the Society for Socialist Studies as Book Review Editor for 5 years, and continues on the Editorial Collective. She also has been on the Executive Committee of the American Council for Canadian Studies, and is an active member of the Association for Quebec Studies in the United States.

Karen Dillon O'Neil

Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair
Education: University of Liverpool (England), Kingston Polytechnic (England), and Kent State. Current research interests: globalization, technology and work; effects of globalization on family, community, and neighbourhood. Karen teaches courses on stratification, work, family and family violence, education, visual sociology, qualitative research methods, Northern Ireland's "Troubles".

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