Faculty & Staff

Michael Smyth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Sociology
Phone: 570-372-4694
E-mail: smyth@susqu.edu
Office Location: Steele Hall - Rm 207

Academic Credentials:
PHD, Univ of California Irvine
MA, Univ of California Irvine
BA, Antioch University

The newest member of the department, Smyth joined the Susquehanna faculty in Fall 2008. Smyth’s areas of expertise and research interest include the sociology of law, crime and penality, sex and sexualities, formal mechanisms of social control, and social change. His research in these areas has focused on a range of empirical topics, including cultural models of sexual violence in U.S. carceral facilities and the social construction of the “homosexual male” in “gay-panic” homicide trials. Smyth currently teaches courses in social theory, crime and delinquency, critical perspectives on criminal justice, and introductory sociology. In addition to his research and teaching pursuits, Smyth was recently named editor of Pro Bono, a quarterly publication of the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Courses:

• SOCI-101 Principles of Sociology
• SOCI-253 Crime and Delinquency
• SOCI-254 Criminal Justice
• SOCI-311 Sociological Theory
• SOCI-500 Seminar
• SOCI-501 Independent Study
• SOCI-510 Internship in Sociology