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Tyler Flockhart
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Criminology
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Tyler Flockhart
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Criminology
Specialty area(s)
Micro-Sociology, Health and Illness, Families, Gender, Race, Sexualities, and Qualitative Research Methods
Brief biography
Dr. Flockhart’s teaching and research interests focus on how social inequalities are produced, reproduced, and contested through everyday interactional processes. His scholarship examines a range of topics, including racially conservative and extremist groups, inequalities in parent–LGB child relationships, the persistence of homophobia and heterosexism in popular television, and the reorganization of emotional boundaries and moral strain in frontline nursing home care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Current courses at UWL
SOC 390: Social Theory
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
Sociology of Race, Sociology of Gender, Death and Dying, Institutional Inequalities in America, Sociology of Family, Research Methods, Sociological Theory, Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Juvenile Justice
Research and publishing
Flockhart, Tyler, and Matthew Ezzell. 2026. “Things Will Be Better in the Future! Emotion Work and Heterosexism in Parent–LGB Child Relationships.” Sociological Perspectives 69(1–3):195–214. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214261446907.
Flockhart, Tyler, and Matthew Ezzell. 2025. “Palliative Emotion Work: Preserving Parent-LGB Child Relationships in an Age Of ‘Incomplete Acceptance.’” Qualitative Sociology 48:795–820.
Flockhart, Tyler. 2022. “Preventive Emotion Work: How Inequalities Are Reproduced in Parent–LGB Child Relationships.” Pp. 1–22 in The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships, edited by T. Flockhart, A. Reiter, and M. Hassett. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4128-2.ch001
Reprinted in:
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.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003515104
Flockhart, Tyler, Abigail Reiter, and Matthew Hassett, eds. 2022. The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4128-2
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. 10.4018/978‑1‑7998‑3187‑7.ch008
Reprinted in:
Flockhart, Tyler, and Sinikka Elliott. 2022. “‘That’s What Google Is For’: How Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Young Adults Use Technology to Navigate Family Relationships.” Pp. 490–506 in Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+ Community, edited by Information Resources Management Association. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3679-0.ch025
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.
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000080
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. 10.1080/00380253.2017.1296340
Flockhart, Tyler, and Maxine Atkinson. 2016. “Gravestone Assignment.” TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
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