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As an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi,
I teach Social Movements and Political Sociology. I have taught at the University of Colorado,
University of Denver, and Colorado College,
where my courses included Nonviolence and the
Ethics of Social Action, Self & Consciousness, Youth Subcultures, and Implementing Social Change.
I love teaching and try to teach classes that create possibilities for students to live more fulfilling lives
while making a difference in the world. My research focuses on how everyday people engage in social change as
members of subcultures and loosely organized social movements. Since most people do not consider themselves
“activists,” I am interested in how they create changes in their own lives that reflect their values and how these
individual actions add up to social change. Part of this work led me to co-author
The Better World Handbook: From Good Intentions to Everyday Actions
(New Society 2001). I have written several articles about the straight edge movement and am currently working on two
books, one called Straight Edge: Clean Living Youth, Hardcore Music, and
Social Change
, the other called The Sociology of Youth Subcultures (Roxbury 2005). I enjoy combining service and travel and have volunteered at an orphanage in Guatemala and taken students on a service-learning trip to Costa Rica. I also like cooking vegetarian meals, hiking and backpacking in the Rockies, and seeing live music. |
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Political Sociology, Social Movements, Collective Behavior
Phone: 662-915-7338
Office: Leavell 204
E-mail: ross@olemiss.edu