Dr. Amy Chasteen
Professor
Bio
Dr. Amy Chasteen is a Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professional Development at the University of 草榴社区 Mississippi. Dr. Chasteen received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan and has been a faculty member at 草榴社区 since 1997. Over her career, Dr. Chasteen has taught more than 5000 students in various sociology and student success courses. For fourteen years, Dr. Chasteen also served as an administrator at the institution, initiating and managing a range of projects related to student success, enrollment management, and faculty engagement.
Dr. Chasteen has conducted research on a variety of areas related to gender and sexuality, sociology of the body, deviant behavior, and social change. Her current research is now primarily focused on understanding generational differences and our increasingly diverse educational and work environments, with an eye towards effective pedagogy for higher education today.
- PHD - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1998)
- MA - University of Tennessee-Knoxville (1992)
- BS - University of Alabama (1989)
Introduction to Sociology
Honors Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Women鈥檚 Studies
Social Problems
Deviant Behavior
Race & Ethnicity
Sociological Theory
Collective Behavior & Social Movements
Race, Crime & the Media
Qualitative Field Methods
Sociology of Health
Sociology of Gender
Gender & Crime
Body Politics in Women鈥檚 Lives
Sexuality & Social Movements
Sex, Birth & Culture
Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Social Psychology
- Women鈥檚 childbirth preferences and practices in the United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 2012,
- 鈥榃e understand better because we have been mothers鈥�: teaching,maternalism, and gender equality in Bolivian education, GENDER AND EDUCATION, 2014,
- ON THE MARGINS OF THE PERIPHERY: UNASSISTED CHILDBIRTH AND THEMANAGEMENT OF LAYERED STIGMA, SOCIOLOGICAL SPECTRUM, 2012,
- 鈥業f They Don鈥檛 Care, I Don鈥檛 Care鈥�: Millennial and Generation Z Students and the Impact of Faculty Caring, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, ,
- Midwife to Myself鈥�: Birth Narratives Among Women Choosing Unassisted Homebirth, Sociological Inquiry , 2009
- Like a natural woman: Negotiating collective gender identity in analternative world, SOCIOLOGICAL SPECTRUM, 2007,