Dr. Risman believes that "sociologists have a responsibility to both do good research and teach about it, both inside the classroom and to the public at large" because "sociologists reach more citizens in their classrooms than anywhere else."
She has taught at taught at a total of 9 universities for 25 years. She teaches Feminist Thought, Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of the Family. She currently works at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She has taught at taught at a total of 9 universities for 25 years. She teaches Feminist Thought, Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of the Family. She currently works at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She says that her favorite classes to teach are feminist theory and sociology of gender. She has small seminar classes that are very discussion based with outside reading involved. She believes that she has influenced other writers of sociology and has both influenced and been a role model to her former students, and especially the many that have gone on to become professors of sociology themselves.
As well as being a professor, she is the head of the sociology department and has shared ideas on how to strengthen it through mentoring programs. The North Carolina State University proposal builds on the department’s strength in mentoring students. In an article for the American Sociological Association http://www.asanet.org/galleries/APAP/pff_starting.pdf , she explained three goals: "initiating innovative ways of training graduate students to teach; initiating innovative ways of training graduate students to do research in cooperative team settings; and initiative creating ways to mentor minority students that will increase recruitment and retention of under-represented populations into the academy."
So, in other words, she is interested in using creative measures to get students involved with each other and the subject.
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