Faculty Profile
Susan Rose
Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology; Director of Community Studies (1984)
Contact Information
on sabbatical 2022-23
239 W Louther St Room 301
717.245.1244
http://users.dickinson.edu/~rose/; globalclothesline.com/
Bio
Susan Rose, class of 1977 is Charles A Dana Professor in Sociology and Director of Community Studies and Mosaics. Her four books and numerous articles focus on cross-cultural and ethnographic studies of religious fundamentalisms, global gender violence, sexuality education, (im)migration, and the Carlisle Indian School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations. She is interested in life course studies, inequality, and systems of socialization (family, education, and religion) with a particular emphasis on the political economy of comparative family systems and the interaction of gender, class, and race. Other areas of interest include: indigenous studies, individual and collective trauma and memory, social policy, and qualitative research methods.
Education
- B.A., Dickinson College, 1977
- M.A., Cornell University, 1982
- Ph.D., 1984
Awards
- Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2000-2001
2022-2023 Academic Year
Fall 2022
HIST 215 Research Methods
Cross-listed with SOCI 313-01.Permission of Instructor RequiredPart of the Mediterranean Migrations Mosaic.Enrollment limit of 12 “Research Methods: Comparative Migrations” can also fulfill the required Sociology Qualitative Research Methods Course for the major (SOCI 240). The course will focus on qualitative research methods used to study migration flows and journeys from sending to host communities. It will introduce students to ethnographic and socio-historical research methods including oral history interviewing, mapping, demographic, and archival research. We will focus on migration from sub-Saharan and Northern Africa to Southern Europe, with a specific emphasis on Spain and the Andalusian region. Examination of demographic and SES data, using data bases such as Eurobarometer, OECD and the Migration Policy Institute will be used for analysis as well as previous oral histories conducted by Dickinson students during the 1st Mediterranean Migration Mosaic in Malaga. Students will then develop their own research plan with interview questions for individual and community/organizational oral histories that are to be conducted in January. We will finish the course in Malaga with final projects due by the end of January 2023. With this course, students will be actively engaged in all phases of the research process from research design to data collection, analysis, and presentation. Required for and only open to Mosaic students.
SOCI 313 Research Methods
Cross-listed with HIST 215-02.Permission of Instructor Required.Part of the Mediterranean Migrations Mosaic.Enrollment limit of 12 “Research Methods: Comparative Migrations” can also fulfill the required Sociology Qualitative Research Methods Course for the major (SOCI 240). The course will focus on qualitative research methods used to study migration flows and journeys from sending to host communities. It will introduce students to ethnographic and socio-historical research methods including oral history interviewing, mapping, demographic, and archival research. We will focus on migration from sub-Saharan and Northern Africa to Southern Europe, with a specific emphasis on Spain and the Andalusian region. Examination of demographic and SES data, using data bases such as Eurobarometer, OECD and the Migration Policy Institute will be used for analysis as well as previous oral histories conducted by Dickinson students during the 1st Mediterranean Migration Mosaic in Malaga. Students will then develop their own research plan with interview questions for individual and community/organizational oral histories that are to be conducted in January. We will finish the course in Malaga with final projects due by the end of January 2023. With this course, students will be actively engaged in all phases of the research process from research design to data collection, analysis, and presentation. Required for and only open to Mosaic students.
