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Department of Sociology Faculty
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Ann Herda-Rapp, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, 1998 (Assistant Professor): Dr.
Herda-Rapp joined the faculty of UW-Marathon in the fall of 1998 after completing her doctorate in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, Women’s Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement: The Dialectics of Gender and Activism, explores how gender both shapes and is reshaped through environmental activism.
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| Her areas of research interest include gender, environmental sociology and social
movements. Two new research projects have examined 1) the social
construction of threat --- in a project exploring the relationship between the mass media, organizations, and perceptions of threat in the context of threatened school
violence, and 2) our socially constructed understandings of hunting and,
specifically, the proposal to hunt mourning doves in Wisconsin. Professor
Herda-Rapp teaches Introduction to Sociology (SOC101), Contemporary Social Problems (SOC130),
Sociological Perspectives on Gender (SOC238), but the class she most enjoys teaching is
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Juchaun Colin Wang.
I was originally from Mainland China. I received my Master’s and Doctoral degree in sociology from the Texas A&M University. I now teach in
UWC-Marathon Campus. The courses that I teach include Introductory Sociology, the Sociology of Race and Ethnic Relations, Crime and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, and the Sociology of Marriage and Families.
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My research interest is in the areas of the sociology of culture, the sociology of organizations, deviance and social control. For my dissertation, I examined a flag art controversy in Chicago in the context of local and national politics, ideological contexts, the institutional logic and histories of the arts community, the lay public, and the court systems. Currently, I am exploring the potential for two research agendas. First, how important is cultural literacy to first generation immigrants’ economic success? Second, as social inequality in Mainland China increases, is cultural consumption diversifying and is cultural hierarchy taking shape?
Both my colleagues and my students have been very generous and very supportive. I have been enjoying my stay here.
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