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| Jean Van Delinder | |
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Associate Professor Contact Information: E-mail: jean.van_delinder@okstate.edu Personal Web Page |
| Research Interests: Theory, Race/Ethnicity/Gender, Social Movements, and Historical & Comparative Sociology. | |
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| Jean Van Delinder is an historical sociologist and her primary areas of expertise are in American culture, gender and social movements. A common theme in her work is to study people's lives against the background of broader social movements, that is, the intersection between biography, historical events and social structure. Her dissertation research was on the civil rights movement, and involved over 80 oral history interviews with former plaintiffs, attorneys, school board officials and NAACP officials involved in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation case. She has a completed book manuscript on this topic. She has another book manuscript under review on gender, race/ethnicity and American ballet. Her funded research includes two grants to teach undergraduate courses on gender using service learning and a collaborative study with nutrition faculty funded by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST). The nutrition project investigated the relationship between culture and obesity in Native American women. Data was collected through 79 interviews with Indian women from the Iowa, Pawnee, and Kickapoo. | |
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