James L. Williams, PhD

Sociology Program Lead, Professor of Sociology

Education

PhD 1989, University of Georgia

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• Women and Crime 
• Deviant Behavior
• Introductory Sociology 
• Sociology of Cyberspace (Internet)

Graduate

• Global and Comparative Sociology
• Globalization, Crime, and Justice
• Contemporary Criminology
• Social Psychology Theory 

Selected Publications

• Bugg, David and James L. Williams. 2008. "Hate Groups in the Network Society: A Transnational Social Phenomenon." In Dianne Dentice and James L. Williams (editors). Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.
• Dentice, Dianne and James L. Williams. 2008. "American Politics Supremacist Style Tracking: The Presidential Election On Stormfront." Theory In Action, 1(4):150
• Dentice, Dianne and James L. Williams. (eds). 2008. Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.
• Dentice, Dianne and James L. Williams. 2008. "The Twenty-first Century Ku Klux Klan: From Social Movement to Reactive Subsystem." In Dianne Dentice and James L. Williams (editors). Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.
• Marley, Phyllis, James L. Williams, and Mahmoud Sadri. 2008. "Jonestown: Alienation and the Total Institution." In Dianne Dentice and James L. Williams (editors). Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.
• Rodeheaver, Daniel G. and James L. Williams. 2005. "Juvenile Crime and Justice in Russia." Pp. 225-247 in William A. Pridemore (ed.) Crime, Law, and Justice in Transitional Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Williams, James L. and Daniel G. Rodeheaver. 2005. "Teaching Sociology Graduate Students to Teach With Technology." Journal of Applied Sociology.