Dr. Greg Walker,
Associate Professor of Sociology

Office

The Annex, Rm. 105
Tel: 570.484.3088
gwalker@lhup.edu

Office Hours:
Mondays, Wednesdays: 10:15-11:15 am, 1:30-2 pm
Thursdays: 12:30-2 pm

Courses taught

  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Social Problems
  • Sociological Research
  • Industrial Sociology
  • Social Change
  • Rural/Urban Issues
  • Sociology of Organizations

Biography

Dr. Walker received his PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003, with a dissertation entitled "Pride and Humility: Symbolic Interaction among Working White Men". He received his BA with distinction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1993), and his MA with award from Illinois State University (1996).

Dr. Walker is interested in the social psychology of whiteness and masculinity, the condition of blue-collar work in the post-industrial era, resurrecting the concept of anomie and refining it to understand the middle-range consequences of social stratification. He is also interested in impression management in organizations. He lives in Lock Haven with his wife and two children.

Selected publications

  • Walker, Gregory Wayne. 2007. Doormen. Anthropology of Work Review 28, 2, 32-33.
  • Walker, Gregory Wayne. 2006. Disciplining Protest Masculinity. Men and Masculinities 9, 1, 5-22.
  • Walker, Gregory Wayne. 2005. The Male Body at War. Journal of American Studies 39, 2, 322-324.

Selected Presentations

  • 2008 American Sociological Association Conference, organizer of Open Refereed Roundtables, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 2007 American Sociological Association Conference, regular Session, New York, New York “Inductions and Contingencies: Blue Collar Workers Animating Contingency Theory”
  • 2005 American Sociological Association Conference, regular session, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “Danger Work and an Oppositional Culture of Safety
  • 2005 American Sociological Association Conference, roundtable session (presider) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “Pride and Humility: The Working Class Flipside of the Crisis of Managerial Authority”
  • 2004 American Sociological Association Conference, regular session, San Francisco, California “Disciplining Protest Masculinity”
  • 2004 American Sociological Association Conference, roundtable session, San Francisco, California, “Safety in the Cracks of Bureaucracy”
  • 2003 American Sociological Association Conference, thematic session, Atlanta, Georgia, “The Historical Continuities and Discontinuities of White Working Class Racism
  • 1997 American Sociological Association Conference, regular session, Toronto, Canada, “The White Urban Appalachian: A Call for a Study on Whiteness