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Bernadette Barton- (Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 2000). Research and teaching interests included sexuality, gender, popular culture, religion, qualitative methods and the sex industry.

Dr. Barton is the author of Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers (2006, New  York University Press). She has peer-reviewed publications in Gender & Society, Sexuality & Culture, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, the Journal of Homosexuality, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and Symbolic Interaction.

Dr. Barton's current research project examines the experiences of gay men and lesbians, and is the focus of an upcoming book, Pray the Gay Away: Religion and Homosexuality in the Bible Belt (Forthcoming NYU Press).

Barton writes and lectures on contemporary issues of gender, culture, sexuality, and the sex industry.

Office: RA 334
Phone: 783-2710
Email : b.barton@moreheadstate.edu

Robert Bylund-(Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University). Dr. Bylund's teaching and research interests include research methodology, data analysis, family, and gerontology.

Dr. Bylund coauthored a paper with Dr. Edward Reeves in Rural Sociology. The article compares rural and urban education.  He is also published in Journal of Scientific Study of Religion and Sociological Quarterly.

Office: RA 329
Phone: 783-2450
Email : b.bylund@moreheadstate.edu

Edward F. (Ned) Breschel-(Ph.D., Duke University). Dr. Breschel's research interests include effects of social context on health and longevity, alternative health movements, gerontology, religion, especially new religious movements and societal reactions to those movements, and educational attainment with an emphasis on factors affecting high school outcomes.  His methodological interests embrace both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Recently, Dr. Breshcel and colleagues from MSU's Department of Music received a university grant to study the effects of Feldenkrais modalities on the health, impairment, and performance of brass music students.

Constance L. Hardesty -(Ph.D., University of Kentucky). Dr. Hardesty's teaching and research interests include race, class and gender inequality in social institutions and the development of racial and gender attitudes within families and schools.

Dr. Hardesty has published in Youth and Society, Sociological Spectrum, Rural Sociology, Journal of Marriage and the Family. Her work recently was presented at the 2007 National Women's Studies Association's annual meeting.

Ed Reeves-(Ph.D., University of Kentucky)-Research includes network analysis, sociology of education, social contexts of educational achievement and attainment; human ecology and regional analysis; Durkheimian, conflict, and rational choice theories.

Dr. Reeves has published two books. Other research has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Ethnologist, Rural Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, International Journal of Learning, Journal of Research in Rural Education, and Research in the Schools.

Suzanne Tallichet- (Ph. D., The Pennsylvania State University). Dr. Tallichet's areas of research encompass gender inequality in the workplace as well as animals in society. She has published in Social Psychology Quarterly, Gender & Society, Rural Sociology, Criminal Justice Review, Criminal Justice Studies, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Society and Animals and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 

Dr. Tallichet's book, Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia, was published in 2006 by Pennsylvania State University Press.  In 2007, she was honored with Morehead State University's Distinguish Researcher Award.

Clarenda Phillips (B.A., DePauw; M.A. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is a native of Terre Haute, Indiana. After graduate school, Dr. Phillips spent three years in Washington, DC evaluating the effectiveness of youth development programs like the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and education programs like the U.S. Department of Education's Program for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.

In 2000, Dr. Phillips joined the faculty at Morehead State University where she a past Assistant Provost and an Associate Professor of Sociology. Her research seeks to illumine the social factors that contribute to the resilience of African Americans, especially African American women, with an emphasis on social support networks and religiousness. In 2008, she assumed the post of Chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology at Morehead State University.

Shondrah Tarrezz Nash- (Ph.D., University of Kentucky; Post Doctoral Reseach,  University of Illinois at Chicago). 

Dr. Nash's research involves constructions of intimate partner violence among Christian and African-American women. She has published in Violence against Women, Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Transformative Education, and Feminist Teacher. She has contributed chapters to Kimberly Brackett's, Battleground: The Family (Greenwood), Renzetti, Edelson, and Bergen's forthcoming, Sourcebook on Violence against Women (Sage), and her work is anthologized in Ray Robertson's, Race, Gender and Crime: An Anthology (Whittier).

Dr. Nash is on the Board of Directors of D.O.V.E.S, a domestic violence shelter and anti-violence organization serving Eastern Kentucky as well as a member of  the Northeastern Kentucky Citizen Review Panel for Child Protective Services.  She recently received an internal, faculty research grant to study the experiences of African American religious skeptics. 

Heather Kindell - Assistant Professor of Sociology; Ph.D.,  Pennsylvania State University). Dr. Kindell is a native of West Liberty, Kentucky. Her research interests include stratification, education, rurality and religion.

Dr. Kindell has published research on the impact of educational attainment on social conservatism among conservative Protestants and is currently studying the effects of rural origin on patterns of migration, educational achievement and socioeconomic outcomes. She is published in Social Science Research.