FACULTY VITA FORM

Name of Faculty Member:

 Edward G. Armstrong

Name of Institution:

 Gustavus Adolphus College                  

Title or Rank: Visiting Associate Professor Field: Sociology

Earned Degrees: List date earned, institution, and major and minor/supporting field for each degree earned.

Ph.D.            Sociology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975.

M.A.            Sociology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1969.

A.B.             Sociology, Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1967.

Professional Experience: (including preK-12 teaching or administration and college/university experience):

List name, location, dates, and field or function for each professional experience.

 2000-05.         Associate Professor.  Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky.

                        Taught:  Criminology, Deviance, Medical Sociology, Methods, Sociology of Sport.     

1988-00.     Senior Lecturer.  University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin.

                 Taught: (Undergraduate/Graduate) Criminology, Delinquency, Gangsta Rap.

1987-88.         Associate Professor.  Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri.

                        Taught: Administration of Justice, Corrections, Criminology, Family, Methods, Theory.

         1985-87.         Associate Professor.  Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota.

                        Taught: Community, Ethnic Studies, Family, North Dakota Native Americans.

         1980-85.         Associate Professor.  LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, Tennessee.

                 Taught: Black Sociology, Criminology, Deviance, Penology, Victimology.

       1979-80.         Assistant Professor.   New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York.

                        Taught: Communication and Interviewing, Corrections, Institutional Community.

1975-79.       Assistant Professor.   Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky.

Taught: Deviance, Methods, Minorities, Phenomenology and Sociology, Theory.

Assignment:  Fill in percentages for all that apply:

100 % Full-Time in Institution                                _____% Part-Time in Institution

_____% Assignment in Education                    _____% Assignment Outside Education

_____% Undergraduate Assignment                _____% Graduate Assignment

_____% Administration                                                _____% Other (specify)_____________________

Load: (including teaching and administrative assignments):    For Academic Year __2005-2006___________

List course numbers, titles, and credits for each semester.  Specify whether courses are undergraduate or graduate level.

Fall Semester:

Spring Semester:

Interim (January):

NCATE Vita

Name: Edward G. Armstrong

Title:   Visiting Associate Professor

Appointment Date: 2005-2006

1.              Non-class duties – committees, responsibilities, etc.

            none

2.              Current Professional and Academic Associate Memberships:

            Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, American sociological Association, Midwest Sociological Society

3.              Current Professional Activities

            none

4.              Sample Publications

1983.  Black Consciousness: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis.  Atlanta: Southern Education Foundation

2006.  “Moral Panic over Meth.”  Contemporary Justice Review 9:4 (December): forthcoming.

2004.  “Eminem’s Construction of Authenticity.”  Popular Music and Society 27:3 (Fall): 335-356.

2004.  “Rap.”  Pp. 658-660 in Men and Masculinities, edited by Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmel. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press.

2003.  “Memorializing in Sport.”  SOSOL: Sociology of Sport Online 6:2 (December): 1-11.

2002.  “Devil Music and Gangsta Rap.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 33:3 (December): 182-193.

2001.  “Michael Jordan and his Uniform Number.”  Pp. 15-33 in Michael Jordan, Inc., edited by D. L. Andrews. Albany: State UPNY.

2001.  “Gangsta Misogyny.” Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 8:2  (February): 96-126.         

2000.  “Constructions of Cultural Conflict and Crime.” Sociological Imagination 37:2-3, 114-126.

2000.  “Criminology, Research Methods (Qualitative).”  Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior Vol. 2: 179-182..

1996.  “The Commodified 23, or, Michael Jordan as Text.” Sociology of Sport Journal 13:4 (December): 325-343.

1996.  “Image of Tourism Attractions in Kuwait.”  Journal of Travel Research 34:4 (Spring): 76-80.  (co-author: Abdulla Alhemoud)

1995.  “From Symbol to Simulacrum.” Pp. 3-9 in Semiotics 1994, edited by C.W. Spinks. New York: Peter Lang.

1993.  “The Rhetoric of Violence in Rap and Country Music.” Sociological Inquiry 63:1 (Winter): 64-83.

1991.  “Who’s Sioux?” Pp. 3-26 in Enterring the 90s: edited by T. E. Schirer.  Sault Sainte Marie: Lake Superior State UP.

1990.  “The Postself as Interpretant.” Pp. 3-9 in Semiotics 1989, edited by J. Deely.  Lanham, Maryland: UP of America.

1989.  “Diversity among North Dakota Native Americans.” The Midwest Review 11 (Spring): 44-51.

            1988.  “Questioning Epistemology.” Quarterly Journal of Ideology 12:3 (July): 37-48.

1986.  “Country Music Sex Songs.” Journal of Sex Research 22:3 (August): 370-378.

            1986.  “The Application of Peirce’s Semiotic.” Pp. 509-516 in Semiotics 1985, edited by J. Deely.  Lanham, Maryland: UP of America. 

1986.  “Uniform Numbers.” American Journal of Semiotics 6:1-2 (Spring/Summer): 99-127.

1983.  “Pondering Pandering.” Deviant Behavior 4:2 (January): 203-217.

1981.  “On the Problem of Evidence in Existential Sociology.” Sociology and Social Research 65:4 (July): 390-399.

1981.  “The Sociology of Prostitution.” Sociological Spectrum 1:1 (January): 91-102.

1980.  “Urban Sex Institutions.” Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 8:2 (November): 186-190.

1980.  “On the Problem of Relativism in Sociology.” Sociological Research Symposium 9 (February): 2-5.

1979.  “Phenomenological Conceptions of Objectivity and Relativity.” Quarterly Journal of Ideology 2:4 (Winter): 2-11.

1979.  “The Rapprochement of Country and Soul Music.” Popular Music and Society 6:4 (Winter): 316-323.

1979.  “Black Sociology and Phenomenological Sociology.” Sociological Quarterly 20:3 (Summer): 387-397.

1979.  “Phenomenologophobia.” Human Studies 2:1 (January): 63-75.

1978.  “Marxian Challenges to Phenomenology.” Mid-South Sociological Proceedings 3 (November): 26-30.

1978.  “Massage Parlors and their Customers.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 7:2 (March): 117-125.

1978.  “Toward a Definition of Touch Deviance.” Sociological Research Symposium 7 (February): 386-388.

1977.  “Intersubjective Intentionality.”  Midwestern Journal of Philosophy 5:1 (Spring): 1-11.

1977.  “The Crisis in Urban Sociology.”  Pp. 93-115 in South Atlantic Urban Studies, edited by J. Censer. Columbia: S. Carolina UP.

1976.  “On Phenomenology and Sociological Theory.” The British Journal of Sociology 27:2 (June): 251-254.

1975.  “The System Paradigm and the Sociological Study of Racial Conflict.” Phylon 36:1 (March): 8-13.

5.  Sample Papers Presented

2005.  “The Postmodern Drive: The Case of NASCAR.”  American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 14.

2005.  “Moral Panic over Meth.” Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1.

2004.  “Meth and Crack.”  American Society of Criminology, Nashville, Tennessee, November 19.

2004.  “The Social Construction of Meth Scares.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 10.

2003.  “The Ubiquitous ‘3’ and the Sacrificial Hero.”  Midwest Popular Culture Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 18.

2003.  “From Memorializing to Commodifying.”  North Central Sociological Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 28.

2002.  “White and Wrong: Eminem’s Construction of Authenticity.”  Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis, Tennessee, October 17.

2002.  “The Language of Substance Prohibition.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Anaheim, California, March 7.

2001.  “Gangsta Rap Diversity.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Anaheim, California, August 17.

2001.  “Devil Music and Gangsta Rap.”  Delta Blues Symposium VII: Music and Art of the Delta, State University, Arkansas, March 30.

2000.  “Qualitative Methods and Postmodern Criminology.”  Wisconsin Sociological Association, River Falls, Wisconsin, October 12.

2000.  “Gangsta Rap’s White Protagonists.”  Popular Culture Association in the South, Nashville, Tennessee, October 6.

1999.  “The Commemorated and Commodified 42.” Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 8.

1999.  “Constructions of Cultural Conflict and Crime.”  Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Orlando, Florida, March 10.

1999.  “The Motorcycle as Cultural Icon.”  Field Museum Symposium on the Art of the Motorcycle, Chicago, Illinois, January 16.

1998.  “Gangsta Misogyny.”  Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, April 19.

1997.  “The Commodification of Sport Reality.”  Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore,        Maryland, April 11.

1996.  “The Commodified 23, or, Michael Jordan as Text.”  Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois, April 5.

1995.  “Gangsta Rap’s Violent Misogyny.”  Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois, April 9.

1994.  “Retired Numbers.”  Semiotic Society of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 22.

1994.  “Sports Teams and Symbolism.”  Midwest Sociological Society, Saint Louis, Missouri, March 12.

1993.  “Defining Rap Music.”  Semiotic Society of America, Saint Louis, Missouri, October 22.

1993.  “Voiceless Victims of Violence.”  Popular Culture Association in the South, Nashville, Tennessee, October 15.

1992.  “Semiotic Ethnographic Research on Uniform Numbers as Appearance.” Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, Missouri, April 3.

1991.  “Music and Violence.”  Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee, March 5.

1991.  “Social Control and Rules of Conduct in an Illegal Brothel.”  Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee, March 5.

1990.  “Diversity within the Southeast Asian Community.”  Wisconsin Sociological Association, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, October 19.

1990.  “Peirce’s Semiotic and the Study of Social Change.”  North Central Sociological Association, Louisville, Kentucky, March 24.

1989.  “Who’s Sioux?”  Second Native American Studies Conference, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, October 27.

1989.  “The Postself as Interpretant.”  Semiotic Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 14.

1988.  “Crime as Sign.”  American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois, November 10.

1988.  “Caste, Class, and the Blues.”  Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile, Alabama, October 27.

1987.  “Diversity among North Dakota Native Americans.”  Western Social Science Association, El Paso, Texas, April 24.

1986.  “A Semiotic of Urban Structures.”  Western Social Science Association, Reno, Nevada, April 26.

1986.  “The Caste-Class Debate and the Idea of Race.”  Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, Iowa, March 26.

1985.  “The Application of Peirce’s Semiotic.”  Semiotic Society of America, Reading, Pennsylvania, October 25.

1984.  “Country Sex Songs: An Ethnomusicological Account.” North Central Sociological        Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 26.

1983.  “Black Consciousness and Community Responsiveness.”  Mid-South Sociological        Association, Birmingham, Alabama, October 28

1983.  “Ebonics, Rhetoric, and Self-Determination.”  Association for Humanist Sociology, Hartford, Connecticut, October 14.

1983.  “The Political and Cultural Validation of Ethnogenesis.”  Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 28.

1983.  “Questioning Epistemology and the Epistemology of Questioning.”  Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, April 7.

1982.  “Types of Tourist Towers.”  Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson, Mississippi, October 28.

1982.  “Approaches to Victimology.”  Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Louisville, Kentucky, March 27.

1981.  “Dimensions of Black Consciousness.”  Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, Ontario, August 23.

1981.  “Alienation and Intersubjectivity.”  Southern Sociological Society, Louisville, Kentucky, April 10.

1981.  “Police Perspective on Pimps.”  Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 14.

1980.  “Ethnomethodology as Sociology of Knowledge.”  Mid-South Sociological Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 31.

1980.  “Pimps as Panderers.”  Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, New York, August 26.

1979.  “The Sociology of Prostitution.”  Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston,        Massachusetts, August 27.

1979.  “On the Problem of Evidence in Existential Sociology.”  North Central Sociological        Association, Akron, Ohio, April 26.

1979.  “Mead and Husserl.”  Southwestern Sociological Association, Fort Worth, Texas, March 29.

1979.  “A Critique of Interpretive Sociology.”  Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, April 7.

1979.  “The Myth of Phenomenological Methods.”  Eastern Sociological Society, New York, New York, March 17.

1978.  “The Progressive-Regressive Method.”  Kentucky Academy of Science, Richmond, Kentucky, November 4.

1978.  “Phenomenological Conceptions of Objectivity and Relativity.” Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson, Mississippi, November 3.

1978.  “Portrayal of Sexual Issues in Country Songs.”  Popular Culture Association in the South, Nashville, Tennessee, October 10.

1978.  “The Rapprochement of Country and Soul Music.”  American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, September 8.

1978.  “On Multiple Relativities.”  Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston, Texas, April 13.

1978.  “The Sociological Significance of Black Sociology.”  Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1.

1977.  “The Phenomenological Critique of Social Science.”  Kentucky Academy of Science, Bowling Green, Kentucky, November 11.

1977.  “Marxian Challenges to Phenomenology.” Mid-South Sociological Association, Monroe, Louisiana, November 4.

1977.  “Phenomenologophobia.”  American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 8.

1976.  “Conflicting World-Views of Country Songs.”  Popular Culture Association in the South, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 5.

1976.  “Black Sociology and Phenomenological Sociology.”  North Central Sociological Association, Louisville, Kentucky,  May 7.

6. Current Research Emphases

Postmodern Justice and Drug Courts