Faculty & Staff

Departmental Faculty
	Dr. Alessandro Bonanno \| Dr. Bonanno's email \| 936.294.1488 (Texas State University System Regents' Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology) "Sociology is the science that studies society, but it is also a tool to change it."
	Ms. Crystal Brown \| Ms. Brown's email \| 936.294.4542 "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
	Dr. Emily Cabaniss \| Dr. Cabaniss' email \| 936.294.4085 "We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."
	Ms. Caron Cates \| Ms. Cates' email \| 936.294.1961 "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Jin Young Choi \| Dr. Choi's email \| 936.294.3424 "If we are to achieve a richer culture, in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Douglas Constance \| Dr. Constance's email \| 936.294.1514 Director of Undergraduate Studies "Do not go gently into that good night...Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas
	Dr. Furjen Deng \| Dr. Deng's email \| 936.294.1515 Associate Chair "Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions." -C. Wright Mills
	Dr. Karen Douglas \| Dr. Douglas' email \| 936.294.1513 "The Philisophers have interpreted the world in different ways. What matters is changing it." -Karl Marx
	Dr. Joseph Gallo \| Dr. Gallo's email \| 936.294.1942 "Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Dr. Jeffrey Gardner \| Dr. Gardner's email \| 936.294.2373 "The border became for me no longer a boundary line between two countries but rather a space of identity, a way of being." -R. Aida Hernandez Castillo
	Dr. Maki Hatanaka \| Dr. Hatanaka's email \| 936.294.4432 "Objectivity is not about dis-engagement, but about mutual and usually unequal structuring, about taking risks in a world where 'we' are permanently mortal, that is, not in 'final control'." -Donna Haraway
	Dr. Tze-Li Hsu \| Dr. Hsu's email \| 936.294.2675 "Vulnerability and inequality are a cumulative process, but there are always ways out." -Glen H. Elder, Jr.
	Dr. Amy Kirk \| Dr. Kirk's email \| online only "The doer alone learneth," -Friedrich Nietzsche
	Dr. Jason Konefal \| Dr. Konefal's email \| 936.294.1511 Department Chair "For education among all kinds of men [humans] always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent." -W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
	Dr. Olena Leipnik \| Dr. Leipnik's email \| 936.294.4087 "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Blackfeet Tribe
	Dr. Lee Miller \| Dr. Miller's email \| 936.294.1517 Director of Internships Advisor for Minor in Community Leadership "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Ms. Haitrieu Nguyen \| Ms. Nguyen email \| 936.294.4537 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela
	Ms. April Plemons \| Ms. Plemon's email \| 936.294.1942 "We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. There is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly." -Eleanor Roosevelt
	Dr. Mary Scherer \| Dr. Scherer's email \| 936.294.4537 "Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves." -Zygmunt Bauman
	Dr. Elizabeth Shively \| Dr. Shively's email \| online only "Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society." -James Baldwin
	Dr. Bart Stykes \| Dr. Stykes' email \| 936.294.4122 Director of Graduate Studies "It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare, in all ways, is scientific knowledge of human nature." -Harriet Martineau
	Dr. Gene Theodori \| Dr. Theordori's email \| 936.294.4143 "The future never belongs to the youth but belongs to all individuals caught in the cumulation of trivial decisions." -Bill Burch
	Dr. Brooklynn Wynveen \| Dr. Wynveen's email \| online only "When we give proper weight to local conditions, any generalization is a working hypothesis, not a conclusion." -Lee Cronbach, 1975
	Dr. Mariah Zimpfer \| Dr. Zimpfer's email \| 936.294.4542 "The questions isn't who is going to let me, it is who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand

Departmental Faculty
	Dr. Alessandro Bonanno \| Dr. Bonanno's email \| 936.294.1488 (Texas State University System Regents' Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology) "Sociology is the science that studies society, but it is also a tool to change it."
	Ms. Crystal Brown \| Ms. Brown's email \| 936.294.4542 "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
	Dr. Emily Cabaniss \| Dr. Cabaniss' email \| 936.294.4085 "We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."
	Ms. Caron Cates \| Ms. Cates' email \| 936.294.1961 "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Jin Young Choi \| Dr. Choi's email \| 936.294.3424 "If we are to achieve a richer culture, in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Douglas Constance \| Dr. Constance's email \| 936.294.1514 Director of Undergraduate Studies "Do not go gently into that good night...Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas
	Dr. Furjen Deng \| Dr. Deng's email \| 936.294.1515 Associate Chair "Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions." -C. Wright Mills
	Dr. Karen Douglas \| Dr. Douglas' email \| 936.294.1513 "The Philisophers have interpreted the world in different ways. What matters is changing it." -Karl Marx
	Dr. Joseph Gallo \| Dr. Gallo's email \| 936.294.1942 "Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Dr. Jeffrey Gardner \| Dr. Gardner's email \| 936.294.2373 "The border became for me no longer a boundary line between two countries but rather a space of identity, a way of being." -R. Aida Hernandez Castillo
	Dr. Maki Hatanaka \| Dr. Hatanaka's email \| 936.294.4432 "Objectivity is not about dis-engagement, but about mutual and usually unequal structuring, about taking risks in a world where 'we' are permanently mortal, that is, not in 'final control'." -Donna Haraway
	Dr. Tze-Li Hsu \| Dr. Hsu's email \| 936.294.2675 "Vulnerability and inequality are a cumulative process, but there are always ways out." -Glen H. Elder, Jr.
	Dr. Amy Kirk \| Dr. Kirk's email \| online only "The doer alone learneth," -Friedrich Nietzsche
	Dr. Jason Konefal \| Dr. Konefal's email \| 936.294.1511 Department Chair "For education among all kinds of men [humans] always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent." -W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
	Dr. Olena Leipnik \| Dr. Leipnik's email \| 936.294.4087 "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Blackfeet Tribe
	Dr. Lee Miller \| Dr. Miller's email \| 936.294.1517 Director of Internships Advisor for Minor in Community Leadership "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Ms. Haitrieu Nguyen \| Ms. Nguyen email \| 936.294.4537 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela
	Ms. April Plemons \| Ms. Plemon's email \| 936.294.1942 "We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. There is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly." -Eleanor Roosevelt
	Dr. Mary Scherer \| Dr. Scherer's email \| 936.294.4537 "Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves." -Zygmunt Bauman
	Dr. Elizabeth Shively \| Dr. Shively's email \| online only "Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society." -James Baldwin
	Dr. Bart Stykes \| Dr. Stykes' email \| 936.294.4122 Director of Graduate Studies "It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare, in all ways, is scientific knowledge of human nature." -Harriet Martineau
	Dr. Gene Theodori \| Dr. Theordori's email \| 936.294.4143 "The future never belongs to the youth but belongs to all individuals caught in the cumulation of trivial decisions." -Bill Burch
	Dr. Brooklynn Wynveen \| Dr. Wynveen's email \| online only "When we give proper weight to local conditions, any generalization is a working hypothesis, not a conclusion." -Lee Cronbach, 1975
	Dr. Mariah Zimpfer \| Dr. Zimpfer's email \| 936.294.4542 "The questions isn't who is going to let me, it is who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand

Departmental Faculty