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| Todd Powell-Williams Assistant Professor tpwilliams@aug.edu |
Dr. Todd Powell-Williams
Degrees:
B.A. Sociology, Kent State University, 1997.
M.A. Sociology, Ohio University, 2003.
Ph.D. Sociology, Southern Illinois University, 2008.
Areas of specialization:
Social Problems, Social Movements, Deviance, Social Control (particularly the social control of mobilization), Terrorism, Policing, Ethnography
Classes you usually teach: Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Social Movements, Sociological Theory, & Introduction to Police Science.
Plans: I plan on contributing to the excellent teaching and scholarship of our already strong department. Along with my wife, Melissa, I look forward to becoming part of the ASU and Augusta communities.
Favorites: Books:
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas A. Luckman, Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci, Hare Krishna in America by E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Rich Media, Poor Democracy by Robert W. McChesney
Films: Shaun of the Dead (or any zombie movie for that matter), Dead Man , Ghost Dog , Office Space , Superbad , Nosferatu , The Shining , Wattstax , The Exorcist , No Country for Old Men , Fargo , The Big Lebowski , Raising Arizona , Evil Dead , City of God , King of Kong , The Grudge , Manufacturing Dissent , Slap Shot , etcetera .
Music:
NERD ALERT---I am a certified and bona fide music nerd. The Black Keys, The Coup, Dead Prez, R.L. Burnside,Cat Power, The Black Heart Procession, Flamin' Groovies, John Prine, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Supersuckers, Butthole Surfers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Johnny Cash, Boris, High on Fire, Sleep, Rev. Gary Davis, Drive-By Truckers, Grateful Dead, T-Model Ford, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Darondo, Doc Watson, Devo, Mos Def, rliament/Funkadelic, Melvins, Junior Kimbrough, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Willie King and the Liberators, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Jimi Hendrix, The Roots, Dead Kennedys, G.B.H., Queens of the Stone Age, The Exploited, Cro-Mags, Motorhead, T-Bone Walker, Junior Brown, Lefty Frizzell, Igor Stravinsky, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Tony Rice, Nina Simone, Heartless Bastards, Big Mama Thornton, etcetera.