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L. Susan Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology, specializes in gender, violence, and inequality issues and is considered highly qualified in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Dr. Williams’ study of adolescent girls in Connecticut broke ground in terms of empirically documenting the effect of local community characteristics on life decisions of individual girls. More recently, Dr. Williams’ research has focused on youth and gendered violence, resulting in a comprehensive study of incarcerated girls and boys; her most recent paper is “Bad Girls and Rural Pathways: Girls’ Deviance and Local Social Control,” which was presented last fall at the American Society of Criminology in Los Angeles.
Dr. William teaches several courses on gender, criminology, and diversity and has been awarded several local teaching awards. She offers several online courses that have gathered considerable attention, including “Social Construction of Serial Murder” and “Diversity in the Workplace.” She is currently developing a dual-level online course on women and crime, as well as a graduate-level quantitative methods course. Dr. Williams currently works with a multi-institutional team to develop an online Ph.D. program in criminology and justice studies.
Dr. Williams holds several national positions of service, including membership in a Sister to Sister Task Force designed to cultivate relationships across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. She serves the University at several levels, including the Honor Council and the Institutional Review Board.
