Gail Murphy-Geiss
Assistant Professor of SociologyOffice: Palmer Hall 131A
Phone: 719-389-6868
Email: gmurphygeiss@ColoradoCollege.edu
B.A., Westminster College, PA
M.Div., Boston University
Ph.D., University of Denver and Illif School of Theology
Research and Teaching Interests
My doctoral work in religion and social change culminated in a dissertation on family values among mainline Protestants. I now teach in the areas of gender, religion and family, as well as research methods. My two most recent research projects focus on sexual harassment in the United Methodist Church, and women arrested for domestic violence. These topics allow me to investigate social issues that exist at the intersection of my areas of specialization: religion/family and gender.
Within the sociology of religion, I am also interested in religion in relation to social institutions, especially law (civil religion and globalization; secularization; Supreme Court decisions on the "separation" of church and state, and their social roots/consequences), church-sect-cult development and New Religious Movements. Within the sociology of family, in addition to changing family structures, I am particularly interested in domestic violence.
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Recent Syllabi
SO100 -- Family
and Social Change (FYE)
SO112 -- Gender
Inequality
SO190 -- Challenges
of a Multicultural Democracy (LLC)
SO229 -- Research
Methods
SO235 -- Sociology
of the Family
SO214 -- Sociology of Religion
Resources