2021 Sociology Newsletter

SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER | Issue #6 Meet our New Faculty The Department of Sociology welcomes Dr. Katie Constantin as the newest addition to our faculty! Dr. Constantin will be joining us in Fall 2021 as an Assistant Professor. She recently completed her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She also earned her M.A. in Sociology from the University of New Orleans in 2016, and her B.A. in Anthropology & Sociology from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee in 2014. Dr. Constantin ’ s specialty areas include Law, Crime, and Deviance and Social Psychology. Her research focuses on cooperation and punishment in public goods, games, as well as sexual violence and victimization. Her most recent publication “ Unequal and Unfair: Free Riding in One - Shot Interactions ” examines the effect of status (as indicated by gender) on perceptions of and reactions to free riders.