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Julie Pelton's Information |
Assistant Professor of Sociology Contact Information |
Julie Pelton is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She completed her BS in Sociology at Illinois State University in 1999 and her PhD in Sociology (with a Women’s Studies Minor) at The Pennsylvania State University in 2006.
Dr. Pelton’s primary research interests include classical and contemporary social theory, sociology of culture, social change and social movements, and inequality. She is broadly interested in the role of culture in social movements and the impact of movements on contemporary American culture. She is currently working on a study of the discourse about dissent and protest in mainstream national newspapers during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It combines her academic and personal interests in the sociological study of culture, media, contentious politics, and pathways to social change. She is also interested in pedagogy and the Sociology of Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Pelton currently teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, including Social Inequality, Social Stratification, and The Development of Sociological Theory. Her other teaching interests include social problems, sociology of gender, social movements, and culture.