Faculty:                   

                                 

	SANDRA HANSON. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1981. Dr. Hanson's research focuses on the gender structure of educational and occupational systems in a comparative context.  Dr. Hanson's new book entitled Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls in Science Education (Philadelphia: Temple University Press: 2009) is now available in bookstores.  The editor at INSIDE HIGHER ED did an interview with Dr. Hanson on the research presented in the book. It can be found at: Link:http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/02/ hanson. Dr. Hanson and Yu Meng’s  research on race, sex, and “model” minority experiences in science appears in "Science Majors and Degrees among Asian-American Students: Influences of Race and Sex in "Model Minority" Experiences" Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 14:225-52. (2008). Dr. Hanson and John Zogby have an article entitled "The Polls-Trends: Attitudes About the American Dream" which is forthcoming in Public Opinions Quarterly.  Dr. Hanson received a Fulbright award for teaching and research at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland in 1997. Her work there involved comparative analyses of gender in Poland and the U.S.  Dr. Hanson's book Lost Talent: Women in the Sciences (Temple University Press: 1996) was a culmination of NSF funded research on the loss of talented young women in the science pipeline. Dr. Hanson's resume  Dr. Hanson's recent work.  E-mail: hanson@cua.edu
	CHAIR, BRONISLAW MISZTAL. Ph.D.,D.hab.,  Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 1972.  Dr. Misztal is Ordinary Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department. He is an immediate past president of the Research Committee 48 on Social Movements, Social Change and Collective Action of the International Sociological Association (ISA). He has taught and conducted research at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, The Claremont Colleges, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, University of Bremen, Universita Cattolica de Milano, Cornell University and Jagiellonian University.  Dr Misztal's research interests are Social movements and precipitated social change, economic and political underpinnings of macro-social processes.On these issues he has conducted studies in Cuba, France, Germany, Italy and Poland. He has directed a project of comparative research on patterns of social concern resulting from systemic and post-communist transformations in Central Europe. Currently he is working on two research projects: on the Concept of Good Society, and on Constructing Civil Society With Minimal Social Capital.Representative publications: "Social Movements, Protest Cycles and the Collapse of the Communism," Polish Sociological Bulletin; and "One Movement, Two Interpretations," The British Journal of Sociology. Fulbright Academic Award at the University of Chicago, 1980-82. Dr. Misztal's resume.  E-mail: misztal@cua.edu
	ENRIQUE PUMAR. Ph.D., American University, 1999.  Research areas: political sociology, immigration, race and ethnic relations, inequality, evaluation methodologies and transnational low intensity conflicts (crime, comparative revolutions and terrorism).  Dr. Pumar is the author of multiple publications in the areas of education, political sociology, national development, migration, and crime and security.  Dr Pumar recently completed a book chapter on the social history of Latinos in Washington DC and Maryland and a chapter on public intellectuals and democracy.  Two of his recent publications are "Trade, Peace and Democracy: The Evidence from Latin America." The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2007; and "The Long andWinning Road in the Sociology of National Development" in The Handbook of Social Problems, edited by Vincent Parrillo, (Thousand Oaks, Sage, 2008).  During the 2008-2009 academic year he will serve as elected President of the Washington DC Sociological Society (http://www.thesociologist.org) and Chair of the Graduate Council of the Eastern Sociological Society (http://essnet.org).  Dr. Pumar's resume.  E-mail: pumar@cua.edu.
	THE REV. D. PAUL SULLINS. M. Div., Ph.D. Catholic University, 1998.  Dr. Sullins' research focuses on the application of quantitative methods to pose fresh theoretical questions or insights on questions of cultural import and of special concern to Catholics, such as abortion, gender and religiousness, global religious demographics, and the characteristics of Catholic religious communities (nuns and monks), parishes, priests and Catholic schools.  Recent publications include Catholic Social Theory: Reflections on the New Compendium (Lexington 2008) [with Anthony Blasi],  "Beyond Christendom: Protestant/Catholic Distinctions in Coming Global Christianity," Religion 2006, and Gender and Religion: Deconstructing Universality, Constructing Complexity," American Journal of Sociology 2006.  Dr. Sullins serves on the Board of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists and is the CUA Faculty Sponsor for Pi Gamma Mu, the International Social Sciences Honor Society.  About 50 Catholic University students serve internship practicums in Washington, D.C. annually in connection with Dr. Sullins’ popular course in Global Social Problems.  Formerly Episcopalian, Fr. Sullins is a married Catholic priest with an inter-racial family of three children, two adopted.  Dr. Sullins' resume.  E-mail: sullins@cua.edu

Emeritus:

	RAYMOND H. POTVIN. Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 1958; Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton, 1965-66. Research areas: Sociology of Religion, Youth Development, Sociological Theories, and Demography. His books include Seminary Outcomes: Perseverance and Withdrawal (1990), Seminarians of the Eighties (1985). Dr. Potvin's resume.  E-mail: Potvin@cua.edu

Adjunct, Associates, Researchers:

 

	WILLIAM D'ANTONIO. Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1958. He was a professor at Notre Dame from 1957 to 1971, and served as Executive Director for the American Sociological Association, 1982- 1991. He is a reknowned scholar in the sociology of religion. He is the co-author of eight books and co-editor of four. His most recent co-authored books include American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church, and Voices of the Faithful, a study of a Catholic Lay Social Movement striving to help change the Church. He is co-author of seven other books, and co-editor of four. He has an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from St. Michael's College in Vermont, and was a Fulbright Senior Fellow in Italy in 2004. Dr. D'Antonio's resume. E-mail: dantonio@cua.edu.
	JAMES W. LOEWEN, Ph.D. Harvard University 1968. A sociologist who spent two years at the Smithsonian surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American history only to find an embarrassing blend of bland optimism, blind nationalism, and plain misinformation, weighing in at an average of 888 pages and almost five pounds. A best-selling author who wrote Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong and Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. A researcher who discovered that many, and in many states most communities were "Sundown Towns" that kept out blacks (and sometimes other groups) for decades. (Some still do.) An educator who taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont. Visit his website, http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/, Dr. Loewen's resume. E-mail: jloewen@zoo.uvm.edu
	ANTHONY POGORELC, The Reverend Anthony J. Pogorelc, S.S., M. Div. (St, Michael’s College of the University of Toronto), M.S., Ph. D. Purdue University 2002.   Dr. Pogorelc is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and a research fellow in the Life Cycle Institute.  His specialization is the sociology of religion; his research focus is social movements and professional ministers.  He studied the relationship between Call to Action and U.S. Catholic Bishops as a case study of a social movement within the organization of the Catholic Church.  With Professor William V. D’Antonio he is co-author of a Voices of the Faithful: Loyal Catholics Striving for Change (2007 Crossroad).  This book received the second place award in 2008 from the Catholic Press Association in the category of historical writing.  Recent publications include “Embodying and Passing on the Tradition Together” in Shaping Catholic Parishes: Pastoral Leaders in the Twenty-First Century. 2008. Chicago: Loyola Press and “What the Pope’s Visit Reveals about American Catholics.”  Catholic Digest Online 2008.  http://www.catholicdigest.com.  He is active member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Religious Research Association, and the Association for the Sociology of Religion and regularly makes presentations at their annual meetings.  He is also a member of the American Sociological Association and the D.C. Sociological Society.  A Sulpician priest, he is on the faculty of the University Seminary, Theological College.  E-mail: pogorelc@cua.edu
	LESZEK SIBILSKI, Ph.D., Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2000.  He is Advisor for International Affairs to the President of the Board, U.S. International Council on Disabilities in Washington, DC and Director of Research Committee and International Liaison, State Fund for Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities, Warsaw, Poland. He is a former member of the Polish National Olympic team in cycling.  After his sports career he worked as a P.E. teacher, sports photo-reporter, and a writed in the Polish weekly sports magazine.  He also served as a manager for international organizations for athletes with disabilities.  He is co-produced of several movies about the Paralympics in Atlanta, Sydney and Athens.  He has been nominated by the International Paralympic Committee as one of the top eight research/scientists in the field of sports for disabled athletes in the world.  E-mail: sibilski@cua.edu

 

Lecturers

 

	John F. Liddi, Juris Doctor from Hastings College of the Law (part of the University of California at San Francisco) in 1984.  He is a member of the California Bar Association.  He entered on duty as a Special Agent with the FBI in 1984.  He was assigned to the Portland Field Office, and then the New York Field Office.  He was promoted to the Office of the General Counsel at FBI Headquarters in 1989, where he worked in the Investigative Law Unit until 1994 when he was transferred as a field agent to the Baltimore Division. In 1999, Mr. Liddi was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent, Associate Division Counsel, Baltimore Division, the position he currently holds.  E-mail: Liddi@cua.edu/
	DAVID MUTCHLER, Ph.D., Washington University, St Louis 1971.  Dr. Mutchler is a former Senior Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).  For more than thirty years, he designed, directed and evaluated USAID development efforts in Pakistan, Nepal, Panama, the Caribbean, Mozambique and the countries of west and central Africa.  From 1997-2007, he directed the USAID Cuba program, leading the effort to support the rise of democracy in Cuba.  E-mail: damutchler@yahoo.com  Dr. Mutchler's resume.