Lacey Sischo
Contact Information:
| Office: | Bellamy 509 |
| Phone: | 443-0894 |
| Fax: | 644-6208 |
| Email: | les02g@fsu.edu |
Areas of Specialization:
Research:
- Sex and Gender
- Sociology of the Body
- Social Psychology
- Qualitative Methodology
- Quantitative Methodology
Teaching:
- Undergraduate:
- Social Psychology
- Teaching Interests:
- Sex and Gender
- Sociology and the Body
- Social Problems
- Research Methods
Education and Recent Professional Experience:
- PhD program, Sociology, Florida State University (degree anticipated Spring or Fall 2007). (2006-present)
- MS Florida State University; Sociology. (2004)
- BA Albion College (Michigan); Sociology major, Public Service concentration. Graduated magna cum laude. (2001)
Selected Papers and Publications:
- Reynolds, John, Michael Stewart, Ryan MacDonald, and Lacey Sischo. 2006. "Have Adolescents Become too Ambitious? An Analysis of U.S. High School Seniors’ Career Plans 1976 to 2000." Social Problems 53(2):186-206.
- Sischo, Lacey, John Taylor, and Patricia Yancey Martin. 2006. "Carrying the Weight of Self-Derogation? Disordered Eating Practices as Social Deviance in Young Adults." Deviant Behavior 27(1): 1-30.
Manuscripts in Progress:
- "The Mammoplasty Experience: Bodies, Identities, and the Meanings of Breasts."
- "Perceptions of Overweight and Depression." (with Robin W. Simon)
- "Weight Anxiety and Sexual Abuse in relation to Gender, Ethnicity, and Class." (with John Taylor and Patricia Yancey Martin)
- "The Body as Project: Young Women’s Views of Their Bodies as Moral, Physical and Cultural Objects."
Awards and Honors
- 2005 Program for Instructional Excellence Teaching Certificate, Florida State University
- 2004 Applied for National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award
- 2003 Applied for National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award
- 2001 Robert B. Notestein Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anthropology/Sociology
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