Susan Rose, Professor of Sociology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.

Susan D. Rose, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology and Director, Community Studies Center. PhD., Cornell University (1984). Professor Rose specializes in the sociology of religion, immigration, family, violence, and race, class, gender studies. She uses a comparative (cross-cultural and historical) approach to the study of family, religion, education, and violence. She has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Guatemala, the Philippines, and South Korea on evangelical movements, education, and gender that has resulted in a number of articles and books. These include: Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism (Routledge, 1998) and Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Christian Schooling in America (Routledge, 1986). Her recent work explores sexuality and sexuality education in Denmark and the United States, the impact of the Religious Right on social policy in the United States, and immigration studies.

Recipient of the Michael Harrington Distinguished Teaching Award (2003) from the National Poverty Forum, Dickinson College's Distinguished Teaching Award (2001), and the National Oral History Distinguished Teaching Award (1996-1998), Rose enjoys teaching a variety of classes. She challenges her students to ask significant questions and to pursue them, using various theoretical and methodological approaches.

Social Analysis
Family Phenomena
Cross Cultural Gender and the Family

Race, Class, and Gender
Community Studies
Research Methods
Sociology of Violence; Seminars on Work, Family and Social Policy; Life Course Studies; Sociology of Religion; and American Society
American and Global Mosaics
Cuban Economy and Society
Venezuela: Democracy, Endogenous Development, and the Bolivarian Process

Drawing from oral history and ethnographic research, Rose has also co-produced a number of documentary films, including:

"The Lost Ones: Long Journey Home" about Lipan Apache Children and the Carlisle Indian School;
"An Argentine Mosaic: Destino Patagonia" on multiple waves of immgration to the oil company towns of Commodoro Rivadavia;
"Clothesline," a video documentary on childhood sexual abuse;
"Clothesline: Bosnia-Herzegovina" and "Clothesline: Venezuela": women speaking out against violence.
"Outstanding: Diverse Students' Experiences at an Historically White College"