Areas

Professor Carey's areas of specialization include:

• Medical sociology
• Health and disability
• Social problems
• Inequality
• Qualitative research methods
• Cultural beliefs and practices related to people defined as having intellectual disabilities

Selected Publications

Areas

Professor Eppard's areas of specialization include:

• Economic and racial inequalities
• Poverty and social welfare
• Research methods
• Media/post-truth America
• Environmental sociology

Selected Publications

Check some of Professor Eppard's most recent published articles as well as his books:

(coming summer 2024!)

Connors Institute

Professor Eppard directs the Connors Institute for Nonpartisan Research & Civic Engagement at Shippensburg University.

Connors seeks to disseminate high-quality nonpartisan information to the American public around issues of news literacy, societal well-being, and democracy promotion.

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Areas

Professor Kimmel's areas of specialization include:

• Community studies
• Restorative justice 
• Deviance
• Suburban sociology

Areas

Professor Lorenz's areas of specialization include:

• The evolution of social complexity 
• Regions of Native North America, Mesoamerica, and Egypt 

Areas

Professor Monaghan's areas of specialization include:

• Higher education
• Education and culture
• Education policy

Selected Publications

• Monaghan, D. B. (2024). Why do people go to college? The institutional environment and the educational dispositions of community college students. Theory and Research in Education (online, print forthcoming)
• Monaghan, D. B., & Attewell, P. A. (2023). College promise programs as symbolic politics. Sociology of Education, 96(4), 301-323.
• Monaghan, D. B. (2023). How Well Do Students Understand “Free Community College”? Promise Programs as Informational Interventions. AERA Open, 9, 
• Monaghan, D. B., & Coca, V. M. (2023). Do Community College “Promise” Programs With Low-Bar Merit Criteria Improve High School Performance? Community College Review
• Monaghan, D. B. (2022). Moral education: the cultural significance of higher education in the discourse of non-traditional undergraduates. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 10(1), 164-195.

Areas

Professor Yang's areas of specialization include:

• Immigration 
• Housing wealth
• Race and ethnicity 
• Globalization 
• Inequality
• Quantitative research methods