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James Fendrich

Retirement is great. I still read an occasional manuscript. In general, I am getting healthier, reading widely, attending political events, making new friends in the NW and for recreation Rving and boating. I recently attended my 50th high school reunion at O'Dea high in Seattle.

W. Scott Ford

Email: scottatwork@comcast.net

Melissa A. Hardy

Dr. Melissa A. Hardy, director of the Penn State Gerontology Center, has been named a Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies by the University.

Lawrence Hazelrigg

A relaxing summer in a cabin in Montana has now come to a close, and I expect to return to Tallahassee shortly. Recent publications include (1) “A Perilous Uniqueness,” in The Semiotic Review of Books vol 15 (2005), a review of Signs of Danger by Peter van Wyck, and (2), with Melissa Hardy, Social Security and the Great Debate, a monograph forthcoming from Russell Sage (2007). I continue to work on my “selfhood” project, presently concentrating on the ancient Greek formations.

Larry W. Isaac

Larry Isaac is Professor of Sociology & Affiliate Professor of American Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches courses on social movements, political sociology, Gilded Age America, and America in the Sixties. He is President-Elect of the Southern Sociological Society (2006-2007) and currently serves on the following editorial boards: Contemporary Sociology, Work and Occupations, and Vanderbilt University Press. Recent publications and current works in progress include:

  • "To Counter 'The Very Devil' and More: The Making of Independent Capitalist Militia in Gilded Age America." American Journal of Sociology 108 (September, 2002): 353-405.
  • "How the Civil Rights Movement Revitalized Labor Militancy." American Sociological Review 67 (October, 2002): 722-746. (with Lars Christiansen).
  • "Corporate Warriors: The State and Changing Forms of Private Armed Force in America." Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 24 (2006): 149-184. (with Daniel Harrison).
  • "Takin' It From The Streets: How the Sixties Breathed Life Into the Labor Movement." American Journal of Sociology 112 (July, 2006): In press. (with Steve McDonald & Greg Lukasik).
  • "Class Conflict in Industrial Society." for Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. (with Daniel Harrison & Paul Lipold)

Works in progress:

  • Novel Counter-Movement Narratives: 'Fictions of the Real' as Cultures of Class in the Gilded Age Social Problem Novel.
  • Policing Capital: Armed Private-Public Countermovement Coalitions Against Labor in Late 19th-Century Industrial Cities.
  • Seeding the Frame: Narrative and Pictorial Art in the Counter-Insurgency Cultural Complex during the Gilded Age.
  • Ecologies of Risk and Vulnerability in an American City: Lessons from New Orleans. ( A project with an interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University faculty: Monica Casper, Sean Goudie, Jon Hiskey, Bethany Jackson, Daniel Usner, John Walsh). Grant proposal under review with the Center for the Americas, Vanderbilt University.

Graham C. Kinloch

Dr. Graham Kinloch, who joined the Sociology Department in 1970 and served as Chair of the Department in 1975-1976, retired from the faculty in March 2006. His colleagues, supported by the College of Social Sciences Dean and FSU Provost and President, awarded him Emeritus Professor status, which he richly deserves. Graham will be missed not only because he taught social theory, race/ethnic relations, and large sections of introduction to sociology with never a complaint. He also helped our sociology majors plan and graduate and, best of all, made us all laugh. Graham's great sense of humor brought a relief to tedium of and challenges of running a large, complex Department and College. But the golf course is not ready for Dr. Kinloch yet, as he is now serving as College of Social Sciences Associate Dean for Student Affairs. You can still find him on the 5th floor of the Bellamy Building every Thursday morning, enjoying his weekly doughnut.

Patricia Yancey Martin

Pat with graduate student Kristina Binner at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany Oct-Nov 2007


Pat Martin retired officially in December of 2007, but, so far, it's hard to detect any real change! On sabbatical in the Fall of 2007, she spent her last semester as Visiting Professor of Gender in Sociology and Gender Studies at Ruhr University in Bochum Germany. In Bochum, she co-taught a graduate seminar (with Professor Ilse Lenz) and traveled around Germany and Holland lecturing on gender in work organizations--at Hannover, Darmstadt, Kassel, and Neijegen, among other places. In March 2008, she traveled to Gothenburg, Sweden, on a Fulbright Fellowship to teach "Gender & Diversity in Organizations" and "Field Methods for Studying Organizations" to graduate students at Gothenburg University in Management, Economics, Law, and Social Science. After this stint, she is slated to teach a graduate seminar in "Gender & Organizations" in the Sociology Department at the University of Illinois-Chicago (Fall 2008). She is serving a three-year term on the Publications Committee of the American Sociological Association and intends to remain active as a teacher and scholar in the coming years. Copies of her recent work can be obtained from her webpage, at this link: http://www.sociology.fsu.edu/people/martin/

Jim Orcutt

Retirement has meant more free time to read, write, travel, and enjoy family activities, including playtime with our newest addition, Lilly, the pound puppy. On the professional front, I plan to get some papers out the door in the coming months and to offer my alcohol and drug problems course via distance learning as an adjunct at FSU. I’ll be doing some occasional gigs with the neighborhood band and continuing my volunteer work as web manager for the Leon H.S. tennis website. When summer arrives, you will find me in Minnesota, just a few mouse clicks away from students and friends at jorcutt@fsu.edu. You can also visit my webpage at http://orcutt.socprobs.net.

Charles Nam

Charles Nam, an octogenarian, hasn't had time for the rocking chair yet. He keeps an office on the 6th floor of Bellamy and is involved in four research projects -- family definitions and family structure (with Kathi Tillman), time series of occupational SES (with Monica Boyd), multiple medical causes of death (with Ike Eberstein), and cause-of-death variations in mortality crossovers (with Ike Eberstein). In June he published his first piece of fiction, an historical mystery novel called The Golden Door. The book can also be ordered online from Barnes & Noble or Amazon or Borders. He dabbles in genealogy, reads a lot, and tries to stay healthy.

Email: cnam@fsu.edu