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Sociology Student of the Month (April)
Muhammad Nazir
My name is Muhammad Nazir, I was born and raised in Pakistan. I came to United States of America when I was 14 years old. Over the years i have learned a lot from my experience by having the opportunity to travel around the world, and my continuing education in sociology. I received my Associate degree from Highline Community College before coming to Washington State university. I have 5 brothers, and I am the second oldest, I will be the first one to receive my B.A. degree so I am really excited about graduating this may. I have a lot of passion of helping others and I would like to continue my education beyond what I have accomplished so far. Over the last few years in Pullman I have worked at the WSU Office of admission, and last fall i volunteered with Planned Parent Hood of Inland Northwest. It was great experience and it reinforced my interest in public health. My goal is to work in public health setting down the road and I plan on achieving that through completing a certificate program in Health Information Administration, and eventually getting my Masters In Health Policy and Administration. I plan on working with King County Drug Diversion court over the summer, and than continue on to complete Certificate program In Health Information at University of Washington. I am excited about completing one chapter of my life and moving on and accomplishing more in the future.
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Sociology Featured Faculty of the Month (April)
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Jennifer Schwartz's Autobio
I traded corn fields for wheat fields when I became a member of the Sociology Department at WSU in the Fall of 2003, shortly after completing my PhD at Penn State University . I grew up in a New Jersey suburb, where there were no fields of any sort – except for soccer and baseball fields.
My teaching and research interests are in the area of Criminology, Social Change, and Stratification. My research aims to uncover common causes of criminal offending across social groups, communities, and historical time periods by using macrolevel methodologies and a comparative perspective to systematically examine similarities and differences in social circumstances. I am particularly interested in how gender influences the amount and type of offending as well as official reactions to crime. My research has examined whether girls and women are becoming more violent, as many believe. (They have not.) Currently, I am working to identify relevant social changes that have increased women's arrest rates for drunk driving – changes in gender roles, changes in family structure, the economy, and other stressors, or changes in laws and the policing of DUI. (So far, findings indicate that more expansive DUI laws have inadvertently, but disproportionately, targeted women offenders.) I am also interested in identifying the characteristics of communities that allow residents to resist crime. Right now I am exploring how changes in local social conditions are related to trends in community violence levels.
At the undergraduate level, I teach Criminology (Soc 361), Social Problems (Soc 102), and, beginning in Spring 2008, a new course on Gender, Race, and Criminal Offending . At the graduate level, I am currently teaching a course on Gender and Crime. In the future, I hope to offer graduate seminars on Crime Theory and Communities and Crime .
When not engaged in teaching or researching, I enjoy hiking, camping, and traveling with my husband, two children (ages 2 and 5), and Maple, our dog. Our three chickens (One-Eye, Bok, and Choy) and two pet slugs, unnamed and hopefully short-lived, hold down the fort while we climb mountains (or hills). Much to my husband's dismay, I also like to start home improvement projects, such as painting my home office purple or the living room green (it looks better than it sounds…really!). My school office is next…
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