Specialty areas:
Death and Dying
Disability Studies
Gender Studies
Health Care Inequalities
Medical Sociology
Sexuality

Courses Taught
Introduction to Sociology
Sociology of Birth and Death
Sociological Data Analysis and Interpretation
Sociology of Aging
Medical Sociology
Sociology of Mental Illness
Sociology of Disability
Women and Aging

Current Research Interests:
Out on Our Own: Women Who Trained as Nurses in North Carolina Diploma Schools from 1945 – 1960
Social Networks of chronically ill/terminally ill patients

Professional Associations:

American Association of University Professors
American Sociological Association
North Carolina Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociologists for Women in Society
Southern Sociological Society