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Sociology and Anthropology

Robert Hironimus-Wendt, Professor of Sociology

Robert Hironimus Wendt

Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1997

Dr. Hironimus-Wendt joined the Department in 2005.

Courses

  • Soc 100 Introduction to Sociology
  • Soc 300 Minority Peoples
  • Soc 323 Social Research Methods I
  • Soc 333 Classical Social Theory
  • Soc 415 Social Stratification
  • Soc 612 Seminar in the Instruction of Undergraduate Sociology

Areas of Specialization

  • Teaching and Learning, Social Inequality, Labor Relations

Selected Publications

  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. and Doreen A. Dedjoe. 2015. 鈥淕lass Ceilings and Gated Communities in Higher Education.鈥� Chapter 1 in Kristine De Welde and Andi Stepnick, Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2012. 鈥淏uyer Beware: Publishing in an Era of Predatory Publishers.鈥� ASA Footnotes: A Publication of the American Sociological Association.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J., and Lora Ebert Wallace. 2009. 鈥淭he Sociological Imagination and Social Responsibility.鈥� Teaching Sociology.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2008. 鈥淭he Human Costs of Worker Displacement.鈥� Humanity and Society.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2008. 鈥淎dvice from Displaced Workers on Negotiating Unemployment.鈥� Social Policy.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J., and Fred Spannaus. 2007. 鈥淭he Social Costs of Worker Displacement.鈥� Social Policy.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2005. 鈥淚ntroduction: What is Service Learning?鈥� In JoAnn DeFiore, Morten G. Ender and Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski (editors), Service-Learning and Undergraduate Sociology: Research, Syllabi, and Instructional Materials (3rd edition). Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2001. 鈥�Cui Bono?: The Calculus of School Vouchers.鈥� Humanity and Society.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J., and Larry Lovell-Troy. 1999. "Grounding Service-Learning in Social Theory." Teaching Sociology.

Selected Presentations

  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2017. "The Duality of Affirmative Action." Paper presentation, Pacific Sociological Association meetings, Portland, OR.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2015. "Wage Premiums in Higher Education and the Gender Wage Gap." Paper presention, Association for Humanist Sociology meetings, Portland, OR.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. and Kenneth S. Hawkinson. 2014. 鈥淧redatory Journals: Contractual Considerations.鈥� Presentation, Academy for Academic Personnel Administration National Conference. Clearwater Beach, FL.
  • Allred, Mollie, Adam J. Busard, Judith M. Dallinger, and Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt. 2010. 鈥淐reating Ownership: Increasing Communication with Faculty and Peer Mentors through Multi-Media.鈥� Panel presentation 29th Annual FYE Conference, Denver, CO.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2009. 鈥淥n Teaching Social Responsibility.鈥� Paper presentation, Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, IA, April 2009.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2008. 鈥淥n Surviving Job Loss.鈥� Paper presentation, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, MO, Mar. 2008.
  • Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J. 2006. 鈥淭eaching Sociology for Humanist Outcomes: Assessing the Impact of Service Learning.鈥� Paper presentation, Association for Humanist Sociology, St. Louis, MO.
  • Moely, Barbara E., and Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt. 2005. 鈥淲riting and Research for Publication.鈥� Presentation made at the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP) meeting. New Orleans, LA.

Selected Interviews

  • Radio Interview. March 13, 2012. 鈥淪ociologist鈥檚 View of Same-sex Marriage.鈥� WNIJ, DeKalb, Illinois. A subsidiary of National Public Radio, (NPR). .
  • Radio Interview. February 18, 2009. 鈥淲orker Displacement, Labor Relations, and Community Cohesion.鈥� Focus 580 with David Inge. WILL, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. A subsidiary of National Public Radio, (NPR). .

Organizational Affiliations

  • NAACP, Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Marquis鈥� Who鈥檚 Who in America.