Laura W. Steck, Ph.D.
Division/Department
School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Associate Professor, Sociology/Behavioral Sciences
- Sociology, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
- Sociology, M.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Sociology/Religious Studies, B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Connecticut
- Coordinator, Sociology/Behavioral Sciences
- SOC100: Introduction to Sociology
- SOC225: Family Diversity and Society
- SOC260: Gender and Society
- SOC315: Race, Ethnicity, and Society
- HIS471: Gender in History
- College Students with Children
- Experiential Learning
- Institutional Ethnography
- Poverty in the United States
- Motherhood Ideology and Infant Feeding Practices
- Steck, Laura West, Jennifer Engler, Mary Ligon, Perri Druen, and Erin Cosgrove. 2011. “Doing Poverty: Learning Outcomes among Students Participating in the Community Action Poverty Simulation Program.” Teaching Sociology. 39(3).
- Verrecchia, P.J. and Laura West Steck. Forthcoming. “Words Mean Things: The Social Construction of Reality and Restorative Justice.“In J. Charlton, P. Verrecchia, and D. Polizzi (Eds.) International Perspectives on Restorative Justice in Education. Ontario, Canada: Centre for the Study of Crime, Restorative Justice, and Community Safety.