EDUCATION

• Ph.D., in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1994.

• M.A., in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.

• M.S. in Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990.

• B.A. in Sociology/Math, Texas A&I University, Kingsville, 1988.

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Crime and Delinquency

• Sociology of Law

• Sociological Theory

• Mental Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Crime and Delinquency

• Sociology of Law

• Sociological Theory

• Mental Health

PUBLICATIONS    

Books

• Forthcoming. Social Control: An Introduction. Oxford, UK: Polity Press.

• (ed.) 2007. Current Perspectives – Readings from InfoTrac College Edition: Juvenile Justice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

• 1999. Alvin W. Gouldner: Sociologist and Outlaw Marxist. London: Ashgate.
• (ed.) 1999. Counseling and the Therapeutic State. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
• Flora, Jan, James J. Chriss, Eddie Gale, Gary P. Green, Frederick Schmidt, and Cornelia B. Flora. 1991. From the Grassroots: Profiles of 103 Self-Development Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture (AGES 9123).

     Recent Articles

• "The Perils of Risk Assessment." Society 41 (4):52-56, 2004.

• "Gouldner's Tragic Vision." The Sociological Quarterly 43 (1):81-96, 2002.

• "Alvin W. Gouldner and Industrial Sociology at Columbia University." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 37 (3):241-259, 2001.

• "Alvin W. Gouldner and the Tragic Vision in Sociology." Social Thought and Research 23:199-225, 2000.

• "Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action: Implications for Professional Practice." In Erving Goffman, four vols., edited by G.A. Fine and G.W.H. Smith. London: Sage. (Reprint of 1995 article), 2000.

• "Management and Supervisory Practice in the Organization: The Relevance of Goffman and Habermas." Sociological Imagination 36 (4):217-237, 1999.

• "Public Harassment, Sexual Harassment and the 'Reasonable Woman' Standard: Some Limitations of Legal Rationality." Pp. 121-141 in Perspectives on Social Problems, v. 9, edited by C.B. Gardner. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.1997.

• "Toward an Interparadigmatic Dialogue on Goffman." Sociological Perspectives 39:333-339.1996.

• "The Young Parsons and the Mature Habermas." American Sociologist 27 (4):38-40, 58-59.1996.

• "Testing Gouldner's Coming Crisis Thesis: On the Waxing and Waning of Intellectual Influence." Pp. 33-61 in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, vol. 15, edited by B. Agger. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1995.

• "Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action: Implications for Professional Practice." American Sociological Review 60:545-565. 1995.

• Durkheim's Cult of the Individual as Civil Religion: Its Appropriation by Erving Goffman." Sociological Spectrum 13 (2):251-275, 1993.

    Recent Book Chapters

• 2004.  "George Herbert Mead." Pp. 486-491 in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by G. Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• 2004. "Alvin W. Gouldner." Pp. 340-342 in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by G. Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• 2003. "Goffman as Microfunctionalist." Pp. 181-196 in Goffman's Legacy, edited by A.J. Trevino. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

• 2002. "The Drug Court Movement: An Analysis of Tacit Assumptions." Pp. 189-213 in Drug Courts in Theory and in Practice, edited by J.L. Nolan, Jr. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

• 1999. "Role Distance and the Negational Self." Pp. 64-80 in Goffman and Social Organisation, edited by G.W.H. Smith. London: Routledge.

• 1999. "Introduction." Pp. 1-29 in Counseling and the Therapeutic State, edited by J.J. Chriss. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

• 1999. "The Family Under Siege." Pp. 187-198 in Counseling and the Therapeutic State, edited by J.J. Chriss. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

     Review Essays, Comments, and Invited Publications

• "Bogen on Social Theory, Rules, and Order." Human Studies 25:241-249, 2002."Social Justice and Alvin Gouldner's Reflexive Sociology." Newman Review 1:20-41, 2000."Review essay of Jurgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms." Theory and Society 27 (3):417-425, 1998."Some Thoughts on Recent Efforts to Further Systematize Goffman." Sociological Forum 10 (1):177-186, 1995."Spain on Status and Space: A Comment." Sociological Theory 12 (1):106-109, 1994.

• "Looking Back on Goffman: The Excavation Continues." Human Studies 16 (4):469-483, 1993.

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

• Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco in August, 2004 entitled "Giddings and the Social Mind."

• Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association in Cleveland in April, 2004 entitled "The Concept of Proactivity in Social and Criminal Justice Policy."  Also organized the paper session, entitled "Crime, Deviance, and the New Penology."

• Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in Chicago in November, 2002 entitled "Self-Esteem and School Violence: Toward a Research Agenda"

• Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) in Chicago on August 15, 2002 entitled "Goffman, Self, and Identity".

• Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Anaheim, CA on August 20, 2001 entitled "Is Violence a Disease?"

• Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society in St. Louis on April 7, 2001 entitled "Gouldner's Tragic Vision.".    

• Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Washington, DC on August 15, 2000 entitled "Gouldner's Nightmare Marxism."

• Organizer and Presider of special session "Counseling and the Therapeutic State," at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, Washington, DC, November 12, 1998.  Also presented a paper in that session entitled "The Problems of Mandatory Therapy".

• Presider and respondent in the paper session "Race, Medicine, and the War" at the World War I and the Twentieth Century conference held on November 2, 1998 at Newman University.

• Presented a paper before the University of Kansas Department of Sociology entitled "What Can We Learn From Gouldner?" on October 22, 1998.

• Guest editor for a special issue of the journal Sociological Perspectives (v. 39, n. 3, 1996) on the topic "Theoretical Perspectives on Goffman."

• "Law and the Colonization of the Lifeworld." Paper presented at the "And Justice for All" conference in Omaha, Nebraska, September 2, 1996.  Also chaired a session on the Fourth Amendment.

• "Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action." Paper presented at the annual ASA conference, Los Angeles, CA, August 1994.

• Organizer and presider of Special Session, "Theoretical Perspectives on Goffman," at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA, August 1994.

• "The Construction of General Sociological Theory: From Parsons to Goffman...and Beyond." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, August 23, 1992.

• "Durkheim's Cult of the Individual as Civil Religion: Its Appropriation by Erving Goffman."  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh, PA, November 10, 1991.

• Presider of session, "The Individual and Religion in Everyday Life," at the Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1991.

• "Parsonian Theory in the 1990s." Leader of roundtable talk at the August, 1990 meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.

SERVICE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS

• member, American Sociological Association

• member, American Society of Criminology

• member, Midwest Sociological Society

• member, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

• member, ASA Theory Section

• member, ASA Deviance and Crime Section