Department of Sociology, St. Lawrence University

Faculty

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".
Bob Torres: Assistant Professor of Sociology
Bob's main research and teaching interests are in development sociology, political economy, environmental sociology, animal rights theory, and the sociology of food and agriculture. Bob's most recent book is Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (forthcoming, November 2007, AK Press). Along with Ken Gould (CUNY-Brooklyn) Bob is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Nanotechnology, Social Change, and the Environment (2008, Rowmand and Littlefield) which takes a critical social-scientific perspective on nanotechonology. Bob has also published work on international intellectual property rights regimes and genetically modified organisms, and public perceptions of risk around genetic engineering in agriculture. In addition, Bob has co-authored papers on neoclassical economics as a discourse of power, the status of Latinos in higher education, and in the sociology of agriculture. Beyond his scholarly work, Bob is also co-author of the popular book Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World. Bob holds his MS and PhD from Cornell University in Development Sociology, and maintains memberships in the American Sociological Association, the Rural Sociological Society, and Sociologists without Borders.