Department of Sociology, Anthropology
and Social Work

• Dr. Kimberly Alexander, Associate Professor of Sociology
  Office: The Annex, Rm. 209 Tel: 570.484.2955
  Office Hours for Spring 2012: T, TH 1:00-2:00, W 12:00-3:00 kalexand@lhup.edu
  
  Course taught:
  Introduction to Sociology
  Sociological Theory
  Social Change (undergraduate and graduate)
  Sociological Research
  Sociology of Religion (undergraduate and graduate)
  Urban and Rural Sociology
  Core Research Methods (graduate)
  
  In 2000 Dr. Alexander obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Texas with an emphasis in religion and a minor in statistics. Her research and dissertation focused on mental health and religion, and is entitled “Emotional Health, Well-being, and Religion as Quest." Dr. Alexander wrote and received a grant from the United States Department of Justice for nearly $300,000 to help address violence against women on campus. Currently, Dr. Alexander is conducting research on the role of community in cyberspace and holiday ritual.
  
  Dr. Alexander enjoys close contact with her students and believes that challenging students will help them to become better students, more informed citizens, and aid in preparation for graduate school. In 2002, she was awarded the Students’ Choice Award by the university Student Cooperative Council. Dr. Alexander is a member of the Master of Liberal Arts Committee, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and serves as Coordinator for the Women’s Studies Program. She centers her teaching on helping students become better thinkers and seeks to aid them in reaching their academic potential. Dr. Alexander has attended national teaching conferences and was selected among the LHU faculty to attend the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching in 2003, which focused on “The Art and Craft of Teaching and Learning”. Along with other teacher-scholars from around the country, Dr. Alexander also attended the Lilly Conference “Summer Institute: Teaching Critical Thinking,” held in Ashland, Oregon. She has worked closely with many graduate students and was chosen as chair for ten graduate thesis committees and also served as a committee member on five additional thesis committees. Dr. Alexander currently lives in the Lock Haven area with her husband Justin, two children Samuel and Gracie, dog Henry, and Stella, the family pig.

• Dr. Timothy Baylor, Associate Professor of Sociology
  Office: Thomas Fieldhouse Annex, Rm. 103 Tel: 570.484.2333 tbaylor@lhup.edu
  
  Courses taught
  Introduction to Sociology
  Social Problems
  Marriage and Family
  Race and Ethnic Relations
  
  Dr. Baylor received his PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1994 with a dissertation entitled “Modern Warriors: Mobilization and Decline of the American Indian Movement (AIM), 1968-1979.” The MA was awarded in 1989 from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He received his BS from Northwest Missouri State University in 1985 graduating Cum Laude.
  
  Dr. Baylor is interested in the political mobilization of Native Americans and Native American culture in general having conducted fieldwork on both the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations in South Dakota. He also examines the dynamics of racial/ethnic relations in the U.S. with particular interest in interracial dating and marriage. An advocate for the respect and acceptance of gay and lesbian persons in all areas of social life, he lives in rural Pennsylvania where he maintains an intimate connection with the land.
  
  Selected publications
  Baylor, Tim. 1996 “Media Framing of Movement Protest: The Case of American Indian Protest.” The Social Science Journal 33 (3): 241-255.
  
  Baylor, Tim. 2006 “Black and Gay Identity Selection” in African Americans and Whites: Changing Relationships on College Campuses, edited by Robert Moore, III New York: University Press of America.
  
  Baylor, Tim. 2007 “The American Indian Movement” in Conflicts in American History: The Long Civil Rights Movement 1945-1973, edited by Brian L. Johnson and Zoe Trodd, South Carolina: BCL/Manly, Inc.
  
  

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• Dr. Judy Brink, Professor of Anthropology
  
  

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• Dr. Steven Granich, Assistant Professor of Social Work
  
  

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• Dr. Zakir Hossain, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
  
  

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• Ms. Beth Lawless, Department Secretary
  
  

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• Dr. Michael Paulus, Associate Professor of Social Work
  
  

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• Dr. Lynette Reitz, Professor of Social Work
  
  

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• Dr. Annjane Ross, Assistant Professor of Social Work
  
  
  

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• Dr. Greg Walker, Associate Professor of Sociology
  Sociology Coordinator