Sociology & Criminology
Our people
Department Chair
Academic Department Associate
- 435B Wimberly Hall
- svonruden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8457
- Professor
- 437F Wimberly Hall
- nbakken@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8665
Specialty areas:
Criminology and Criminal Justice, Criminal Desistance, Prisoner Reentry, Diversion programs, Drug Treatment Courts, Substance Use and Health, Suicidology
- Professor
- 437B Wimberly Hall
- edelgado@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6776
Specialty areas:
Demography, Social Stratification, Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods
- Associate Professor
- 437J Wimberly Hall
- adriscoll@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6801
Specialty areas:
Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Food and Agriculture, The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture, Online Pedagogy
- Associate Professor
- 437N Wimberly Hall
- sfelix@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6784
Specialty areas:
Victimology; Criminal Justice; Criminology.
- Assistant Professor
- 437C Wimberly Hall
- tflockhart@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6771
Specialty areas:
Micro-Sociology, Health and Illness, Families, Gender, Race, Sexualities, and Qualitative Research Methods
- Professor
- 437M Wimberly Hall
- tgongaware@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6772
Specialty areas:
Social Movements, Collective Behavior, Leisure Groups, Identity (individual and collective), Qualitative Research, Popular Culture
- Lecturer
- 436 Wimberly Hall
- phart@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6782
Specialty areas:
Race & Ethnicity, Culture, Public Media, American National Identity, Whiteness Studies, Qualitative Research
- Professor
- 437D Wimberly Hall
- lkruse@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6767
Specialty areas:
Criminology and Criminal Justice: evidence-based practices, pre-trial, racial and socioeconomic inequities in the system, school resource officers and the school-to-prison pipeline, diversion programs, drug-treatment courts and substance use/mental health issues and reentry.
Surveillance: sex offender registry, pretrial/post-adjudication surveillance, social media and other means of personal surveillance
Methods: qualitative methods, evaluation
- Professor
- 138E Wimberly Hall
- kkunkel@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8113
Specialty areas:
Criminological Theory, Sociology of Deviant Behavior, Political Economy of Crime Control, White Collar Crime, Criminal Courts, Constructing Social Problems, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
- Assistant Professor
- 437G Wimberly Hall
- alaberge@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6777
Specialty areas:
Criminology and criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, evidence-based correctional practice, risks and needs assessments, juvenile legal-child welfare system interactions
- Associate Professor
- 437H Wimberly Hall
- pmarina@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6770
Specialty areas:
Urban Ethnography, Critical & Cultural Criminology, Deviance & Transgression, Race & Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Human Rights Policing, Sociology of Culture, Social Inequalities, Travel and Tourism, Urban Sociology, Hispanic Immigration, among other topics.
Emeritus faculty in Sociology
James Anderson (1960-1988) (deceased)
Robert Bendiksen (1975-2003)
Phillip Berg (1972-1998)
Robert Bilby (1972-2004)
Jac Bulk (1978-2011) - jbulk@eagle.uwlax.edu
Gerry Cox (1998-2008) - cox.gerr@eagle.uwlax.edu
Al Gedicks (1985-2012) - agedicks@eagle.uwlax.edu
Joel Lazinger (1973-2002) - lazinger.joel@eagle.uwlax.edu
William Mackey (1968-1994) (deceased)
Carol Miller (1998-2025)
Nancy Mouser (1970-2002)
Joeseph Motivans (1964-1993) (deceased)
Dean Sheils (1972-1997) (deceased)
Kim Vogt (1994-2019)
William Zollweg (1982-2015) wzollweg@eagle.uwlax.edu