Full-time Faculty:
Patricia Christian, PhDAssociate Professor of Sociology
E-mail: christia@canisius.edu
Old Main 014C
(716) 888-2878
Dr. Christian is a sociologist whose teaching and research interests center around families, child care, and gender issues. She teaches two required courses for the sociology major, SOC111, Contemporary Social Problems, and SOC342, Research Methods. She also teaches various electives for the major, including SOC291, Gender and Society, SOC340, The City, and SOC390, Marriage and Family. She was an undergraduate major in anthropology at Wellesley College and did her graduate work in sociology at Brown University. As a Member of the Board of the Child Care Resource Network she helps in the operation of the local child care resource and referral agency. Her latest research project involves participant-observation at day care centers and interviews with parents of children in day care centers.
Erin Robinson, PhDAssistant Professor of Sociology
Old Main 014B
E-mail: robinso5@canisius.edu
(716) 888-2748
Dr. Robinson is a sociologist who concentrates her teaching and research in the areas of environmental sociology and the study of social movements. The required courses she teaches for the major include SOC110, Introduction to Sociology, and SOC432, Theories in Sociology. She also offers a number of electives, including SOC 324, Visual Sociology, SOC 273, Social Movements and Social Change, and SOC 234, Environment and Society. She also teaches a course in qualitative methodology, ANT351. She received her undergraduate degree in sociology and English from SUNY Geneseo, her MA in sociology at the University of Tennessee, and her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Robinson is involved in the Environment section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). Recently, Robinson received a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Grant for a project entitled “People’s Park Community Development and Sustainability.” This project will address the need to develop and maintain “People’s Park” on Main Street adjacent to the Tri-Main Center, into a sustainable community garden. She also works with the United Way, Tools For Living Working Group, helping to evaluate agencies who are awarded community grants.
Michael Agliardo, SJ, PhDAssistant Professor of Sociology
E-mail: michael.agliardo@canisius.edu
Old Main 014 / Loyola Hall
(716) 888-5976
Prof. Agliardo's areas of teaching and research include environmental sociology, the sociology of religion, social movements, civil society, institutional culture, qualitative methods, and China. Courses he currently teaches or has taught include Qualitative Research Methods (ANT 351), Sociology of Religion (SOC 300A), Sociology of Culture and Institutions (SOC 300B), and the ever-popular Intro to Sociology (SOC 110). In the past he has also taught the sociology of religion and environmental sociology at Boston College.
Prof. Agliardo's current research includes a study of Catholic women religious and environmental issues, a project funded by the Association for the Sociology of Religion. He is also a member of the coordinating committee of the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. And he is an associate editor of Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, to be published by Springer in early 2011. In the summer of 2009, he was a "foreign expert" at the Chinese National Seminary in Beijing to help plan a sociology course for the seminarians, a project which involved conducting twenty-five background interviews in Chinese with the prospective students there.
Prof. Agliardo did his undergraduate work in history at Harvard. He also received two graduate degrees in theology from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He did doctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego under the direction of Richard Madsen. He joined the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) after graduating from college and was ordained a priest in 1994.
Staff:
Mrs. Maureen Martens
Administrative Associate
E-mail: martensm@canisius.edu