Staff Listing
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Tonja Guilford
| Title: | Office Administrator |
| Office: | 523A Bellamy |
| Phone: | 644-8158 |
| Email: | tguilford@fsu.edu |
Tonja Guilford is the department’s Office Administrator. She is originally from North Georgia but moved to Spring Creek, Florida (south of Tallahassee, on the coast), when she was 11. Her parents owned a marina in Spring Creek where she learned all about the coast, including how to fish, along with a lot about customer service and people in general! She graduated high school in Wakulla and went on to TCC, where she plans to continue taking classes. She and her husband, Don, live in Spring Creek and have one son together, plus she has four wonderful step-children (three of whom graduated from FSU).
Ms. Guilford’s work background is extensive, including employment in medical, cosmetology and corporate arenas, and she has been able to learn and build from one career to the other. She has always enjoyed working and helping others in the process. In what little free time she has, she enjoys reading, fishing, gardening, bodybuilding and watching football with her family.
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Lettie Keen
| Title: | Administrative Support Assistant |
| Office: | 526 Bellamy |
| Phone: | 644-6416 |
| Email: | lkeen@fsu.edu |
Lettie Keen is an Administrative Support Assistant for the Department. Her hometown is Parrish, FL, where her parents owned a cattle ranch. With plenty of horses around, it was what most kids consider a fantasy childhood! Ten years ago she met the love of her life and moved to Tallahassee, where their two dogs, Sadie and Rachel, keep her and EJ entertained and busy. Whenever possible, they like to tour in their RV.
Ms. Keen worked in student housing for 7 years, and joined the Sociology Department in 2007, where she says the faculty make coming to work a pleasure!
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Sean Tabor
| Title: | Administrative Support Assistant |
| Office: | 526A Bellamy |
| Phone: | 644-6049 |
| Email: | Stabor2@fsu.edu |
Sean Tabor is an Administrative Support Assistant for the Department. He was born in Oxford, UK, but soon moved to the Florida Panhandle, where he was the only kindergartener with an English accent. He is a graduate of Niceville High School and the University of West Florida as well as an unrepentant graduate school drop out. Mr. Tabor has worked in a dizzying number of jobs, including bartender, beer bottler, store manager, warehouseman, soda jerk, lawn mower, dish washer, insulation hanger, educational-material writer, record store clerk, tobacconist, sawyer, and most recently, supervisor at the UWF writing lab and Grammar Hotline, a nationally known language research service. His interests are broad and divergent, ranging from linguistic syntax and the deeper secrets of prepositions to ancient cults and unnamed gods.
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Jesse Taintor
| Title: | Computer Specialist |
| Office: | 521 Bellamy |
| Phone: | 644-8160 |
| Email: | jtaintor@coss.fsu.edu |
Jesse B. Taintor is Technical Support Analyst supporting the Askew School, the Department of Political Science, the Center for Demography and Population Health, and the Department of Sociology. He was born in Oxford, Mississippi, and was the 5th generation of his family to attend Ole Miss, where he graduated with a BA in Sociology in 1965 and a MA in 1967. He was commissioned into the U. S. Army and served over 43 months, attaining the rank of captain. He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Polish Labor Service Commemorative Badge. He and Merry Beth were married in 1972 at the Chapel of the Resurrection on FSU’s campus, and a few years later they adopted 3-week old Merial Anne Frances Taintor.
Dr. Taintor received his Ph.D. in Sociology from FSU in 1977, having worked with Dr. Kent Miller and Dr. Charles Mead Grigg. After graduation, he worked in the Policy Sciences Program under Dr. Thomas R. Dye of “The Irony of Democracy” fame and later for Dr. David Rasmussen who became director of the DeVoe Moore Center and then Dean of the College of Social Sciences.
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Jamie Yeargan
| Title: | Academic Coordinator |
| Office: | 523B Bellamy |
| Phone: | 644-6506 |
| Email: | jdyeargan@admin.fsu.edu |
Jamie Yeargan is the department’s Academic Coordinator. She grew up in Valdosta, Georgia. She received a BS from the University of Georgia in Child and Family Development in May of 1999. She married her best friend, Jon, and moved to Tallahassee shortly after. Jamie began working at FSU in 2000 and has worked for the Department of Sociology for 5 years. She has a daughter, Jillian, and a mini-schnauzer named Elvis. She loves being a mom and spending time with family and friends.