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CURRICULUM VITAE
(updated: 8/13/2009)

Jeremy N. Thomas
Department of Sociology
Purdue University
700 West State Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2059
765.494.4668
jnthomas@purdue.edu
www.jeremythomas.org

EDUCATION

Doctoral StudentCurrent. Purdue University. Department of Sociology.

Master of Science2007. Purdue University. Department of Sociology. Applied Project Title: “Testing the Strictness Thesis: The U.S. Congregational Life Survey.”

Master of Divinity2002. Asbury Theological Seminary.

Bachelor of Arts1997. Asbury College.


1995. University of Kentucky.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

2008–CurrentGraduate Instructor. Purdue University. Department of Sociology.

SOC 367. “Religion in America.” Fall 2009.
SOC 310. “Racial and Ethnic Diversity.” Fall 2009.
SOC 382. “Introduction to Methods of Social Research.” Spring 2009.
SOC 220. “Social Problems.” Spring 2009.
SOC 310. “Racial and Ethnic Diversity.” Fall 2008.
SOC 220. “Social Problems.” Fall 2008.
SOC 310. “Racial and Ethnic Diversity.” Summer 2008.
SOC 220. “Social Problems.” Spring 2008.

2005–2007 Teaching Assistant. Purdue University. Department of Sociology.

SOC 383. “Introduction to Methods of Social Research II.” Spring 2007.
SOC 100. “Introductory Sociology.” Fall 2006.
SOC 220. “Social Problems.” Spring 2006.
SOC 220. “Social Problems.” Fall 2005.

PEDAGOGICAL EMPHASES AND TECHNIQUES

I have extensive familiarity with and made significant use of classroom management software (Blackboard) in all of my courses including online quizzes, papers, and discussions.

I tend to engage a postmodern teaching approach with a heavy emphasis on teacher/student interaction, collaborative learning, subjective constructionism, and the discursive production of knowledge and truth.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

My focus has been on the sociological interaction of sexuality and religion. Other areas of interest include diversity, deviance, mental illness, and cross-disciplinary methodological issues raised by feminist theory, queer theory, critical theory, Marxism, and postmodernism.

PAPERS PRESENTED

Thomas, Jeremy N. 2009. “Sexual Moral Strategies in American Evangelicalism: Negotiating Homosexuality in a Pluralist Society.” Association for the Sociology of Religion. San Francisco, CA.

Thomas, Jeremy N. 2009. “Female Agency, Patriarchal Resistance, and the Sexual Appropriation of the Female Body through Nipple and Genital Piercing.” American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.

Thomas, Jeremy N. 2009. “Subversive Pedagogy and the Sociolinguistic Deconstruction of Sexual Slang.” Midwest Sociological Society. Des Moines, IA.  

Thomas, Jeremy N. 2008. “The New Evangelicals and the Inevitability of Homosexual Accommodation.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Louisville, KY.

Thomas, Jeremy N. 2008. “Testing the Strictness Thesis: The U.S. Congregational Life Survey.” Association for the Sociology of Religion. Boston, MA.

Thomas, Jeremy N. 2008. “Sexual Moral Strategies.” Association for the Sociology of Religion. Boston, MA.

CERTIFICATES

2007. Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) course on protection of human subjects.