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Faculty

 Dr, Ken Spring Ken Spring, Ph.D.
Dr. Spring is an Assistant Professor of Sociology.  He holds an M.A. from the University of Toledo and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.  His current research focuses on popular culture specializing in music "scene" formation, implementing production and consumption models of culture.  Dr. Spring has been interviewed for several documentaries discussing various aspects of culture which have aired internationally on Bravo!, Current TV, and nationally on PBS.  He teaches classes on Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Sociology of Music, Popular Culture, Politics of Knowledge, Urban Community and Research Methods.  In addition, Dr. Spring is the current Faculty Fellow for New Student Programs and the Co-Coordinator of the First Year seminar.


 Andi Stepnick Andi Stepnick, Ph.D.
Dr. Stepnick, Department Chair, earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from Florida State University. She researches gender and social movements, popular culture, and pedagogy. Dr. Stepnick teaches the Sociociology of Gender, Family Problems and Social Change, Medical Sociology, Social Problems, and Men, Masculinity, and Media. See her website at http://campus.belmont.edu/sociology/andi/index.htm


Shelby  Shelby Longard, Ph.D.
Dr. Longard holds her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.  Her latest research focuses on familial gender socialization in the subculture of Southern child beauty pageants.  Dr. Longard’s teaching interests include gender, the body and self-esteem, and inequality, among other courses.  She is active in our General Education program offering both Freshman Year Seminar and Junior Cornerstone courses.



Annemarie Harrod, Ph.D.
Dr. Harrod earned her doctorate from Vanderbilt University and studies conflicts over environmental resources, ethnic/racial identity, and class status. She teaches courses on Race & Ethnicity, Environmental Sociology, Inequality, and Education.  In 2008, she will teach a new course, the Sociology of Disasters.

Dr. Mary Karpos   Mary Karpos, Ph.D.
Dr. Karpos teaches courses related to Criminal Justice, including but not limited to the Sociology of Prisons, Juvenile Delinquency, Ciminology, and the Sociology of Law. She is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University.