Department of Sociology


Faculty
	Dr. Jerry Hollingsworth Associate Professor of Sociology Phone: (325) 793-4645 Office: Cubicle Village 8 Email: jhollingsworth@mcm.edu Dr. Hollingsworth discusses homeless children on the radio show “The Professors” Listen to Dr. Hollingsworth on women and crime Ed.D., Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. M.S.S.W., University of Texas at Arlington B.A., McMurry University. A.A., University of Hawaii. I have worked in the mental health field for the past 13 years, mostly with children and adolescents who have suffered from conduct disorders and psychiatric difficulties. I began teaching at McMurry as an adjunct professor in 1998, and was hired as a visiting professor in 2003. I became an assistant professor in 2004, as I was concluding my doctoral studies. I still have keen interests in the mental health field, and have maintained scholarly interests in how juvenile delinquency is linked with the juvenile justice system by its mental health components: the foster care system, residential treatment, and in psychiatric institutes. I am also very interested in how criminal activity differs according to gender. I am especially interested in bringing the areas of sociology, social work, and criminology together in an eclectic approach to social problems such as crime. My research interests over the past few years have included studies in transnational crime, as well as completing ethnographic studies of street children in Latin America and West Africa. I also have keen interests in the areas of Pan-Africanism and the Atlantic save trade. I recently studied at the W.E.B. Dubois Center for Research in Pan Africanism in Ghana, West Africa. My book *Children of the Sun: An Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America* has just been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
	Dr. Rafael Narvaez Assistant Professor of Sociology Phone: (325) 793-4773 Office: Ryan S 203D Email: narvaez.rafael@mcm.edu Ph.D., M.A., The New School, New School for Social Research B.A., Universidad de Lima, Perú My research has ranged in scope and topic area. Examples of venues for recent publications include Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research (a paper discussing a qualitative strategy to better understand the intersections of racial, sexual, and gender identities in a LGB sample) and Environmental Science and Technology (mathematical modeling of temporal and spatial trends of air pollution in New York City). My academic interests, however, revolve around the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. I am interested particularly in the ways in which this triad underpins the formation of the self: the cognitive and the embodied self; the engendered, sexual, and racialized self. I pay attention to the ways in which the self comes to reflect social conditions, as well as to the ways in which cultural prescriptions and traditions are disrupted and modified through everyday practices of social actors. My first book, Embodied Collective Memory, is under contract with University Press of America.
	Dr. Robert Wallace Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department Phone: (325) 793-3895 Office: Maedgen 209 Email: rwallace@mcm.edu Listen to Dr. Wallace on the radio show “The Professors” M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University, New York M.G.S., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio B.S., Texas Tech University I came to McMurry in the fall of 1990. My initial scholarship began in the field of social gerontology and shifted when doing Ph.D. work to the sociology of knowledge and the history of sociology. These interests still attract my attention, but it was while teaching at McMurry that my research areas intersected with my curricular responsibilities. The more I taught social stratification, the more I became intrigued with the theoretical and empirical questions it generated. In particular, I have been most concerned with the impact of social class on life chances. For the past few years, I have coordinated a paper session, “Class and Mobility,” at the annual Southwestern Social Science Association meetings. I am currently examining the extent to which we can speak of distinct “class cultures.” For instance, are there different cultural orientations among the working, middle, and upper classes? At this time, the answer to this question is Yes. The upper class cultural orientation is dominated by a norm of exclusivity. The middle class culture is much more concerned with comparison, while the working strata operate more with a pragmatic disposition. So far, my research suggests that these differing class cultures are influential across a number of social factors like family strategies, occupational considerations, educational aspirations, and consumption patterns. Bennett Award, 2007; voted Outstanding Faculty Member, 2010.

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