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Dr. Diane Bates

Assistant Professor

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Phone: (609) 771-3176
Email: bates@tcnj.edu
Office: Social Science Building 337

Degrees Earned

  • Ph.D. 2000 Rutgers University, Sociology
  • M.A. 1997 Rutgers University, Sociology
  • B.A. 1992 Humboldt State University, Sociology

Courses Taught

  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Environmental Sociology
  • Social Change in Latin America
  • Introduction to Sociology

Recent Research and Activities

Dr. Bates's current research projects are as follows:

  • Urban Sprawl and the Piney Woods:  Deforestation in the San Jacinto Watershed
  • La Plaga del Banco:  Structural Adjustment and Small Producers in Ecuador's Amazon
  • Framing Smart Growth: Social Context, Rhetorical Claims, and Anti-Sprawl Land Use Regulation in Three Critical Cases (with Lauren Heberle and Sarah L. Coffin)

 

Check out the article Getting to know you pdf in the February 23, 2005 edition of The Signal that discusses a recent sociology survey conducted by Dr. Bates and 16 sociology students.

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