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Tyler Flockhart
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Criminal Justice
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Tyler Flockhart
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Criminal Justice
Specialty area(s)
Sociological Social Psychology, Health and Illness, Families, Gender, Race, Sexualities, and Qualitative Research Methods
Brief biography
Tyler Flockhart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. He received his B.S. (2009) in Criminology from the University of Northern Iowa, M.S. (2012) in Sociology from Illinois State University and Ph.D. (2019) in Sociology from North Carolina State University. Dr. Flockhart’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of Sociological Social Psychology, Health and Illness, Gender, Race, Sexualities, Families, and Qualitative Research Methods. Professor Flockhart has published on topics pertaining to racially conservative and extremist groups, inequalities in parent-LGB child relationships, the persistence of homophobia and heterosexism in popular television shows, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Current courses at UWL
SOC 370: Sociology of Gender
SOC 225: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, North Carolina State University
M.S., Sociology, Illinois State University
B.A., Criminology, University of Northern Iowa
Career
Teaching history
Introduction to Sociology
Current Social Problems
Sociology of Race
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Family
Death and Dying
Research Methods
Research and publishing
Flockhart, Tyler and Matt Ezzell. “Palliative Emotion Work: Preserving Parent-Child Relationships in an Age of ‘Incomplete Acceptance.’” (Accepted, Qualitative Sociology)
Flockhart, Tyler R. 2025. "Preventive Emotion Work: How Inequalities Are Reproduced in Parent-LGB Child Relationships." Pp. 67–92 in Sociology Through Emotions: A Concise Reader, edited by Scott R. Harris. New York: Routledge.
Flockhart, Tyler. 2024. “Chapter 2: Karl Marx.” Pp. 3-25 in Introduction to Sociological Theory: Concepts and Applications, edited by A. Reiter, M Reiter, and V. Kurdyla. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
Flockhart, Tyler, Abigail Reiter, and Matthew Hassett, eds. 2022. The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships. Hershey, PA: IGI Global
Flockhart, Tyler and Sinikka Elliott. 2020. “‘That’s What Google is For!’: How Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Young Adults Use Technology to Navigate Family Relationships.” Pp. 490-506 in Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age, edited by R. Kalish. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Flockhart, Tyler and Abby Reiter. 2020. “Shameless Sexualities: The Incompleteness of Queer Acceptance as Depicted in a Popular Television Show” Pp. 130-148 in Shameless Sociology: The Sociology of a Popular Television Show, edited by P. Kirk and J. Weber. New Castle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
McKinney, Kathleen, Maxine Atkinson, and Tyler Flockhart. 2017. “A Sampling of What Psychologists Engaged in SoTL Might Learn from Sociology.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology 3(2): 178-190.
Brooks, Erinn, Kim Ebert, and Tyler Flockhart. 2017. “Examining the Reach of the Dominant Racial Ideology in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” The Sociological Quarterly 58(2):254-276.