- Detman, Linda
Dr. Detman is a Research Associate at The Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies at USF. Her research has included a study of reasons for missed appointments among health department patients, a study of women’s perceptions of newly expanded family planning services available from Medicaid.
- Ellis, Carolyn
Dr. Ellis is a Professor of Sociology and Communication at USF. Her research interests are in qualitative methods, emotions, aging, illness, death and dying, and social psychology.
- Flaherty, Michael
Dr. Flaherty is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. His primary interests are the sociology of emotion and the experience of time.
- Jorgensen, Danny
Dr. Jorgensen is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at USF. His interests are in relationships among religion, culture, and society.
- Lersch, Kim
- Palacios, Wilson R.
- Prince, Janis
Dr. Prince is an evaluator of the Florida Outreach Childbirth Education Program at The Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies at USF. Her primary areas are sociology of race and ethnicity, and marriage and family therapy.
- Rodriguez, Tom
Dr. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor in USF’s College of Education. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of immigration and immigrant adaptation, ethnic relations, and the sociology of education.
- Sellers, Christine
- Smith, Dwayne
Dr. M. Dwayne Smith is Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty and Program Development at the University of South Florida. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Before coming to USF in Fall 2000 as Chair of the Department of Criminology, Dr. Smith was a faculty member and chair at Tulane University (Department of Sociology, 1980-1994) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, 1994-2000; Department of Criminal Justice, 1998-2000). He was named Vice Provost at USF in July 2005. Specializing in the study of criminology and deviant behavior, Dr. Smith has published numerous articles and book chapters on crime and criminal justice topics. His research concentrates on analyses of jury decisions in death penalty cases in North Carolina, the dynamics of homicide offending and victimization among specific populations within the United States, and developing social-structural profiles of cities that demonstrate either high or low rates of violent crime. He is the founding editor of Homicide Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal and has co-edited (with Margaret A. Zahn) two books, Homicide: A Sourcebook of Social Research and Studying and Preventing Homicide: Issues and Challenges.
- Turner, Stephen
- Yampolskaya, Svetlana
Dr. Yampolskaya s a statistician in the Department of Child and Family Services at the Florida Mental Health Institute at USF. She has published widely in the areas of adolescent pregnancy, interpersonal communication, and Russian families.