- Graduate Studies in Sociology, 1964-66, Columbia University, New York City, New York
M.S. in SOCIOLOGY & POLITICAL SCIENCE, with honors, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 1964
- Graduate Studies in Philosophy, 1961, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
B.S. in PHILOSOPHY, University of Utah, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, 1960
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, Weber State
College/University, Ogden, Utah
1985-1991
DIRECTOR, VISTA MID-ATLANTIC TRAINING CENTER, Graduate School of Social Work and
Community Planning
University of
Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 1967-68
DIRECTOR, VISTA TRAINING CENTER, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 1966-67
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
PROFESSOR 1991-present
Department of Sociology, University Honors Program, University Studies
Program,
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
PROFESSOR 1978-1991, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 1975-78
Department of Sociology, Weber State College/University, Ogden, Utah
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
1983-84
Liberal Education, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
Utah
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 1973-75
Department of Sociology, Southern Colorado State College, Pueblo, Colorado
ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
1973-75
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Summer 1973
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 1972-73
Department of Sociology, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR 1968-72
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 1967-68
Graduate School of Social Work and Community Planning, University of
Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
TEACHING ASSISTANT
1965-66; RESEARCH ASSISTANT 1965
Department of Sociology; Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia
University, New York City,
New York
TEACHING ASSISTANT
1962-63); RESEARCH ASSISTANT 1960
Books:
Social Problems: Myths and Realities. (With L. K. Gillespie), Bellweather Press, 1985
The Theory of the Two Charismas. University Press of America, 1981
Editorships:
Guest editor (with Leslie Rennie-Hill)
"Special Issue: The
Portland State University Studies Initiative: General Education for the New
Century
(Part 1)", The Journal of General Education,
Vol. 48, No
2, 1999
Guest editor (with Leslie Rennie-Hill)
"Special Issue: The
Portland State University Studies Initiative: General Education for the New
Century
(Part 2)", The Journal of General Education, Vol 48, No
3, 1999
Articles:
●"What
Sociology Has to Offer",
PSU Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 2004
●"Levels of
Learning",
Faculty Focus, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2004
●"A Revised Peer
Assessment Instrument" (with Jawad Khan)
Faculty Focus, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2000
●"A Little Sex
Still Goes A Long Way, Whether We Know It Or Not",
Encyclia, Vol. 68, Spring 1992
●"Quiet
Leadership: Principles and Practices For Enabling Others",
The Department Chair, Vol. 2, No. 3, Winter 1992
●"Who the Hell is
Moe Berg? Themes of Order, Membership, and Meaning" (with Joseph C.
Bentley),
Encyclia, Vol. 67, Spring 1991
●"The
Decline of Necessity, The Incline of Illusion",
in Great Debates and Ethical Issues: Weber State College Centennial
Honors Lecture Series, Rosemary
Conover and Ronald L. Holt (eds.). Ogden, Utah: Weber State College Press,
1989
●"Learning
From Within: Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on Sex Roles" (with
Rosemary Conover),
Social Science Perspectives Journal: Proceedings of the 1988 NSSA Portland
Conference, 1988
●"Discovering
the Obvious: A Master Paradigm for the Social Sciences",
Social Science Perspectives Journal: Proceedings of The 1986 NSSA Seattle
Conference, 1987
●"Reality, Diagnosis, Problem-Solving, and All That Jazz: Wicked Problems with
Some Basic Assumptions",
Proceedings of the Organizational Development Network Conference,
October 1985
●"Why
Sociology is Difficult: Emergence, Structure, and the Peculiar Location of
Self-Consciousness in Nature",
The Social Science Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4, October 1982
●"Figures
of Thought: The Use of Diagrams in Teaching Sociology",
Teaching Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 4, July 1980
●"Social and Therapeutic Dimensions of Friendship: Their Importance Among the
Elderly" (with Sherwin L.
Davidson), Gerontology Considerations, Vol. III, Summer 1979
●"Mormon Society and the United Order: An Analysis of Success and Failure",
Research on Mormonism, Glenn M. Vernon (ed.). Salt Lake City:
Association for the Study of Religion, 1974
●"Alienation Among College Youth: Black & White, Rural & Urban, East and West"
(with Ury M. Gluskinos &
Wallace K. Pond), The New Scholar, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1972
●"Videosociology in Small Group Analysis",
Videosociology, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1972
●"Therapeutic Dyads and Groups as Opportunities for the Revelation of Person
Construction",
Proceedings of the Alpha Kappa Delta Research Symposium, Virginia
Commonwealth University, April 1972
●"Toward a Theory of the Routinization of Charisma",
The Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 1972
●"The New
Draft Lottery: Some Research Implications",
The American Sociologist, Vol. 6, (Supplementary Issue), June 1971
●"Interface
Analysis: Exchange Transactions Within an Implicit Functional Group",
Proceedings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Vol. 47,
Part I, Spring 1970
●"Working Notes on the Status, Waiter"
in Dimensions of Human Interaction, Glenn M. Vernon (ed.), Salt Lake
City: University of Utah Printing, 1970
●"Vista in Carbon County" with E. Daniel Edwards, Jr.,
Public Welfare in Review, Vol. 1, No. 7, Summer 1967
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
●"Alignment: A Critical Process in Assessment Design" (with Amy
Driscoll and Sherwin Davidson),
workshop presentation at the annual American
Association of Higher Education Assessment Conference,
Denver, Colorado, June 1999
●"Technology Supported Assessment: Faculty Innovations,"
panel
presentation and demonstration at the annual American Association of Higher
Education Assessment
Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 1999
●"Teaching Sociology in a Non-Sociology Class,"
paper read at
the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland,
Oregon,
April 1999
●"Faculty Reflections About Student Learning" (with Judy Patton
and Shelley Reece),
presentation at the annual meeting of the American
Association of Higher Education, Atlanta, Georgia,
March 1998
●"Expanding Learning Through Computer Technology" (with Richard
Beyler and Becky Boesch),
panel presentation and demonstration at the 2nd
annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching
Northwest, Portland, Oregon, October 1997
●"Learning Communities Online: Linking Learning Communities and
Technology"(with Jodi H. Levine and Scott
Evenbeck), panel presentation and
demonstration at the annual meeting of the American Association of
Higher
Education, Washington, D.C., March 1997
●"Struggling to ‘Cross’ the Disciplines,"
paper accepted for
presentation at the annual meeting of the National Center on Postsecondary
Teaching,
Learning, and Assessment, University Park, Pennsylvania, June
1996
●"Fetishizing the Self and the Necessity of Social Categories,"
paper read at the annual meeting of the National Association for Ethnic
Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah,
March 1993
●"Everything So Nebulous: Fetishizing the Self and the Necessity of
Gender,"
paper read at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science
Association, Denver, Colorado, April 1992
●"A Little Sex Still Goes A Long Way, Even If You Don't Know
It,"
paper read at the spring meeting of the Utah Academy of Sciences,
Arts and Letters, Salt Lake City, Utah,
April 1991
●"Quiet Leadership: Principles and Practices for Enabling
Others,"
presentation made at the annual Academic Chairpersons
Conference, Orlando, FL., February 1991
"The Gender-Binds of Marriage: Their Origins and Resolution"
(with Sherwin L. Davidson and Sally Barlow),
paper read at the International
Conference on Gender and the Family, Provo, Utah, February 1991
●"Catching on to the Catch-22 of Global Management" (with Joseph
C. Bentley),
paper read at the annual Mountain Plains Management Conference,
Ogden, Utah, October 1990
●"Who the Hell is Moe Berg? Themes of Order, Membership, and
Meaning" (with Joseph C. Bentley),
paper read at the spring meeting of
the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Provo, Utah, April 1990
●"The Decline of Necessity, The Incline of Illusion,"
one of
nine papers selected for presentation in Weber State College's Centennial
Honors Lecture Series,
Ogden, Utah, February 1989
●"Person Construction: Sociology's Bottom Line,"
paper read at
the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Denver,
Colorado,
April 1988
●"What is There to Guide Us: The Argument for Gender,"
paper
presented for round-table at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological
Association, Las Vegas,
Nevada, April 1988
●"Learning From Within: Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on Sex
Roles" (with Rosemary Conover),
paper read at the annual meeting of the
Pacific Northwest Social Science Conference, Portland, Oregon,
February 1988
●"Discovering the Obvious: A Master Paradigm for the Social
Sciences,"
paper read at the Pacific Northwest Conference of the
National Social Science Association, Seattle,
Washington, February 1986
●"Reality, Diagnosis, Problem-Solving, and All That Jazz: Wicked
Problems with Some Basic Assumptions,"
paper read at the annual
meetings of the Organizational Development Network, San Francisco,
California,
October 1985
●"Resisting Change: A New Paradigm,"
paper read at the annual
meetings of the Mountain-Plains Management Conference, Durango, Colorado,
October
1984
●"Earthquakes, Boot Camp, and Karo Syrup: My Other, My Self,"
paper read at the annual meetings of the Rocky Mountain Psychological
Association, Snowbird, Utah,
April 1983
●"Lives Together, Worlds Apart: The Ties That Double Bind,"
paper read at the annual meetings of the American Association for Marriage
and Family Therapy, Dallas,
Texas., October 1982
●"The Buffalo Are Gone: The Decline of the Male Prerogative,"
paper read at the annual meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association,
San Diego, California, April 1982
●"Seeing and Saying Anew: Rethinking the Liberal Arts,"
paper
read at the semi-annual meetings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and
Letters, Ogden, Utah,
April 1982
●"Social and Therapeutic Dimensions of Friendship and Their
Importance Among the Elderly" (with Sherwin L.
Davidson), presentation made at the annual meetings of the Western Gerontological Society, San
Francisco, California, April 1979
●"Multiple Realities in Medicine,"
paper read at the annual
meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Spokane, Washington, April
1978
●"What Makes Sociology Difficult: Notes on the Peculiar Occurrence of
Self-Consciousness in Nature,"
paper read at the annual meetings of the
Western Social Science Association, Denver, Colorado, April 1978
●"A Brief Structural Analysis of Current Trends in Tenure and
Promotion Practices in American Higher
Education," paper read at the
semi-annual meetings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Salt
Lake City, Utah, December 1977
●"Theory: Present Status and Future Prospects,"
round-table
discussion leader at the semi-annual meetings of the Utah Sociological
Society, Salt Lake City,
Utah, April 1976
●"Death and Its Alternatives,"
round-table discussion leader at
the semi-annual meetings of the Utah Sociological Society, Logan, Utah,
November 1975
●"Sociological Inquiry: A Decade of Studies in Alienation,"
discussant at the annual meetings of the North Central Sociological
Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1973
●"Humanistic Sociology: Authentic and Spurious Societies,"
discussant at the annual meetings of the Rocky Mountain Social Science
Association, Salt Lake City, Utah,
May 1972
●"Therapeutic Dyads and Groups as Opportunities for the Revelation of
Person Construction,"
paper read at the annual meetings of the Alpha
Kappa Delta Sociological Research Symposium, Richmond,
Virginia, April 1972
●"Toward a Theory of the Routinization of Charisma,"
paper read
at the annual meetings of the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association,
Fort Collins, Colorado,
May 1971
●"The New Draft Lottery: Some Research Implications,"
paper read
at the annual meetings of the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association,
Colorado Springs,
CO., May 1970
●"Working Notes on the Status, Waiter,"
paper read at the
semi-annual meetings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Salt
Lake City,
Utah, April 1970
Classes introduced into the curriculum:
Sociology of Death and Dying
Classical Theory
Sociology of Health and Medicine
Contemporary Theory
Interdisciplinary Social Science*
Charismatic Leadership: Frameworks, Exemplars, Insights & Lessons
Historical and Institutional Leadership
Philosophy of the Social Sciences*
Small Group Analysis (using video playback analysis)
Sex Roles: Past, Present, and Future*
Sociology of Religion
Computers and Society
Modern Intellectual Traditions of the West (Honors)
The Legacy of Ernest Becker (honors)
Dilemmas of Identity: The Search for the Self*
(Honors)
On Nations and Nationalism (Honors)
The History of the Social Sciences (Honors)
The History and Sociology of the Professions*
(Honors)
British Isles Study-Abroad Program (England, Scotland, Ireland)*
America as a Pluralistic Society*
Understanding Our Pluralistic Society: Histories, Identities,
Controversies*
Human/Nature: Exploring the Equation*
The Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Great
War (Study-Abroad in London)
Studies in Charismatic Leadership: Winston
Churchill and Adolf Hitler (Study-Abroad in London)
(*team-taught with other faculty members)
Experimental Courses Designed:
Hypertextualized Course: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
(Honors)
NSF Chautauqua Short Course on Just in Time Teaching,
University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 2002
University Studies Workshops and Retreats,
Portland State University,
Portland, Oregon, Fall, Winter, and Spring, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
1999
Summer Technology Institute,
Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon, July 1996
Winter Technology Institute,
Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon,
December 1996
NSF Chautauqua Short Course on Courseware Development Using
Hypertext,
Christian Brothers University, Memphis,
Tennessee, March 1992
American Association for Higher Education, annual conference,
San
Francisco, California, March-April 1990
National Collegiate Honors Council, annual conference,
New Orleans,
Louisiana,
October 1989
Workshop on Grant and Proposal Writing, three-day training program,
Weber
State College, Ogden, Utah, September 1989
Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, six-day annual and
international conference,
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park,
California, August 1989
Workshop on Writing Across the Curriculum, one-day training program,
Weber State College, Ogden,
Utah, September 1988
National Collegiate Honors Council, annual conference,
Las Vegas, Nevada,
October 1988
Cambridge International Summer School,
Cambridge, England, July-August
1988
Cambridge International Summer School,
Cambridge, England, July
1987
Thinking Afresh about Liberal Learning, three-day retreat & conference of the Association
& General and Liberal
Studies, University of
Utah, Snowbird, Utah, October 1986
Seminar in Department Leadership, two-day training program,
Weber State
College, Ogden, Utah, September 1986
National Collegiate Honors Council, annual conference,
Salt Lake City, Utah, October
1985
Workshop on Chairing the Academic Department, four-day training program,
American Council on Education,
Alexandria, Virginia, June
1985
Workshop on Stress Training, one-day training program, University
Associates,
San Francisco,
California, March 1981
Workshop on Stress Management, two-day training program,
Weber State
College, Heber, Utah, February 1980
NSF-AAAS Chautauqua Short Course on Improving Curriculum Planning & Instruction in Sociology
& Related
Disciplines, Portland, Oregon, October
1977/March. 1978
NSF-AAAS Chautauqua Short Course on Bio-sociology,
Stanford
University, Stanford, California, November 1974/March 1975
Humans Relations Training Laboratory, two-week NTL Institute,
Southern
Utah State College, Cedar City, Utah, August 1968
Community Leadership Training Laboratory, two-week NTL Institute,
Southern Utah State College, Cedar City,
Utah, August 1966
Consulting and Training, US WEST,
Denver, Colorado
Research Project, Utah Governor's Office,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Consulting and Training, Utah State Div of Social Services,
Salt Lake
City & Provo, Utah
Sponsored Lecture Series, YWCA,
Ogden, Utah
Training, St. Benedict's Hospital,
Ogden, Utah
Consulting, Prosser Memorial Hospital,
Prosser, Washington
Training, National Education Association,
Washington, D.C.
Consulting and Training, Western Regional Office of the Bureau of
Reclamation,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Training, St. Alphonsus Hospital,
Boise, Idaho
Consulting and Training, AT&T Long Lines,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Sponsored Lectures, Northern Utah Women's Conference,
Ogden and Salt Lake
City, Utah
Sponsored Lectures, Utah Endowment for the Humanities,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Presentation, Utah Funeral Director's Association,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Presentation, University of Utah Annual Women's Conference,
Salt Lake
City, Utah
SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT
University:
CAE Advisory Committee
Special Admissions Committee
Instructional Technology Advisory Committee
Director for Technology and Communications, University Studies
University Studies Special Committee on Assessment
Director for Assessment and Program Development, University Studies
Coordinator, Freshman Inquiry Faculty Council, University Studies
University Studies Program Council
General Education/University Studies Committee
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (president, 1996-97)
Strategic Budget Planning Committee
Special Admissions Committee
Honors Program Review Committee
Bookstore Committee
Learning Resources Committee
Commencement Committee (chair)
Integrated Studies Faculty Advisory Committee
Honors Faculty Advisory Committee
University-wide Strategic Planning Committee
Catalog Committee
Presidential Distinguished Professor Selection Committee
Centennial Scholarly Activities Committee
Accreditation and Self-Study Oversight Committee
Travel Studies Committee (ad hoc)
Human Subjects in Research Committee
Salary, Annuities, Benefits, and Fiscal Planning Committees (chair)
Intercollegiate Athletics Forum
School/College:
Tenure Committee (chair)
Awards Committee
Merit Document Committee
Tenure Criteria Committee
Computer Planning Committee
Tenure and Promotion Committee
Centennial Scholarly Activities Committee (chair)
Continuing Education Liaison Committees
Women's Studies Task Force
Department:
Executive Committee
Curriculum Committee
Faculty Advisory Committee
Honors Advisor
Secondary Education Advisor
Tenure Committee
Promotion Committee (chair)
Waiver Committee
Social Committees
Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society (coordinator)
AWARDS AND HONORS
Hemingway Fund Faculty Development Award, 1990-91,
Weber State University
Honors Cortez Professor Award, 1989-90,
Honors Program, Weber State College
Distinguished Honors Professor Award, 1988-89,
Honors Program, Weber State
College
Centennial Department Service Award, 1985-89,
Weber State College
Distinguished Presidential Professor Award, 1983-84,
Weber State College
Outstanding Teaching Award, 1981-82,
Department of Sociology, Weber State
College
Outstanding Faculty Member Award, 1976-77,
School of Social Science, Weber
State College
Professor of the Year Award, 1971-72, Department of Sociology,
University of Utah
NIMH Research Fellowship, 1965-66,
Bureau of Applied Social Research,
Columbia University
Phi Kappa Phi, 1964
NDEA Graduate Fellowship in Philosophy, 1961,
University of Maryland
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (past and present)
American Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association
Western Social Science Association
Oregon Academy of Science
Utah Sociological Association
Utah Association of Academic Professionals
Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
American Association of Higher Education