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Carolyn Gross

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Lynchburg College
(434) 544-8534
gross@lynchburg.edu

Experience/Background

I have been teaching at Lynchburg College since 1998 and have very much enjoyed my work with students and my faculty and staff colleagues. I have been in the field of sociology since high school and my passion for the subject has never wavered. My areas of specialization in the field are Courtship, Marriage and the Family, Race Socialization, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, and Domestic Violence.

Experience, I find, is a good teacher and so I often incorporate personal experiences into my lectures and discussions with students and encourage them to do so as well. This helps us understand the relevance of the concepts and theories that are learned in the courses I teach. I get as much from my students’ input as I hope they do mine.

Professional/Research Interests

My research on race socialization continues to be a work in progress. I am also interested in issues of gender equality, particularly, feminism and its related theories. Such theories need to be made clearer to everyday “folk” so that they can better understand how important it is to be treated equally regardless of one’s gender or biological sex. I am constantly researching information on domestic violence and why it continues to be one of the more serious social problems in the United States.

Degrees and Certifications

B.A. in Sociology (1979) University of Maryland at Eastern Shore
M.A. in Sociology (1983) State University of New York at Stony Brook

Honors and Awards

Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociology Honor Society)

Information on Courses Taught

I teach American Generations, Cultural Anthropology, Marriage and the Family, Social Problems, and Minority Groups.

All of my courses require much writing in the forms of mini-research papers or projects in order to prepare students for the world of information gaining and giving.

Personal Information

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised primarily in Madison Heights, Virginia. My hobbies are walking trails, reading fiction, watching movies, and shooting the breeze.