Elizabeth Chute
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Department Chair and Associate Professor, known as "Libbie" by her friends and students, earned her Ph.D. from State University of New York at Stony Brook in sociology where she was awarded the University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. Her dissertation is titled The Social Means of Going On: Adapting to Chronic Illness. Her research areas of interest are the experience of living with chronic illness, identity, women's health issues, medical sociology, social psychology, and narrative and other qualitative research methods.
She worked for 3 years on a NIMH grant "Family Caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients over Time," through University Hospital at SUNY Stony Brook. She worked with Alzheimer's patients and led a support group for family members of people with Alzheimer's for three years in Havre, MT. Her other sociological interests include sociological theory, race and ethnicity, gerontology, and family violence.
Courses Taught: Introduction to Sociology, Contemporary Issues in Rural & Urban Sociology, Social Gerontology, Ethnic & Racial Relations, Social Science Research Methods, Modern Social Theory, and Senior Seminar.
Dr. Jamie Dolan
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Assistant Professor, obtained her PhD from the University of Arizona in 2009; dissertation focused on organizational innovation in tribal management of fish and wildlife, and various recent research projects explore common-pool resource management, inter-governmental collaboration, and economic development in Indian Country. Her interests center on Indigenous nation-rebuilding, self-governance, and social inequality. Additional interests include gender inequality, rural and community studies, social movements and collective action, and social justice.
Courses Taught: Introduction of Sociology; Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Gender, Organizational Sociology
Murphy Fox
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Assistant Professor, received his M.A. from the University of Utah. In addition to teaching, he is the director of the Honors Scholars Program. His special interests include studying the Native American World View: Cheyenne & Navajo, and Gaelic Culture.
Courses Taught: Introduction to Native American Studies, American Indians, and Cultural Anthropology.
Rev. Jerry Lowney
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Professor Emeritis, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He has published two books, “What Were Your Parents Doing Back Then: Youth & Drugs in a Southern California Beach Community 1970 into the 21st Century” by University Press of America in 2002 and “Deviant Reality-Alternative World Views” by Allyn & Bacon, 1981. His special interests within the field of sociology include crime, delinquency, alcohol & drug abuse, and medical sociology. He has been active in youth ministry, ministered to inmates on death row, and received national and international publicity regarding his views as a criminologist toward the death penalty. During his free time he likes Irish music, supporting athletic events, and traveling. He is involved as a priest in youth ministry.