Dr. Howard Robboy

Associate Professor

Degrees Earned

• Ph.D., Sociology, Rutgers University
• M.A., Sociology, Rutgers University
• B.A., Sociology, Temple University

Courses Taught

• Social Deviance
• Introduction to Sociology
• Racism, Power and Privilege

Research Interest

• Symbolic interactionism
• Deviance
• Social inequality
• Taking sociology public

Recent Research and Activities

Dr. Robboy is in the process of writing a book entitled: The Foxes and the Hen House: College officials and the Exploitation of their Students.  About this project he says: "For the last five years or so I have been applying the sociological perspective to analyzing the mechanisms employed by many college officials to intentionally hide and minimize campus crimes to protect the public image of their institutions at the expense of the safety of their students and the justice normally granted to victims of crimes.  Most of these cover-ups involve date and acquaintance rapes which constitute 90% of the sexual assaults on college campuses."

Dr. Robboy is working on revisions for the 5th edition of Social Interaction. He is also in the process of writing a book entitled The Clery Act and the Quest for Campus Safety.

Check out Dr. Robboy's mention online in the Helena News-Independent Record

Link to Dr. Robboy's mention in the news article No more hiding of sex assaults in the March 28, 2005 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

 

Publications

• 1992, 1988, & 1983. Social Interaction with Candace Clark (ed.). St. Martins's Press: New York. 2d.,3d & 4th eds.
• with Bernard Goldstein. 1992. "Social Death," in Candace Clark (ed.), Social Interaction. 4th ed.
• with Bernard Goldstein. 1991. "Emergencies & Routines," in Judith Levy and Helena Lopata (eds.), Current Research in Occupations and Professions. Greenwich, CT: JAI, Vol. 6
• 1987. "Toward an Ecumenical View of Symbolic Interaction." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Vol. 16 (3): 294-300.
• 1985. "Of Time and the Worker: Working the Night Shift," in Beth Hess, Elizabeth Markson and Peter Stein, Sociology, 2d. New York: Macmillan. pp 574-565.
• with Edwin Eames. 1981. "Not Welcome: British Ethnocentrism and the Punjabi Migrants," International Journal of Contemporary Sociology. 1 & 2, January and April.
• with Edwin Eames. 1980. "British Midlands and Its Punjabi Migrants," in P. Saran and Edwin Eames, (eds.), New Ethnics: Asian Indians in the United States. New York: Praeger.
• with Terrance Mizell. 1980. "Tender Feet and High Stepping: Soring in the Tennessee Walking Horse Industry," Deviant Behavior. 1 January.
• with Clifford Colman. 1980. "The Social Construction of a Medical Emergency," Topics in Emergency Medicine. 1 January.