Associate Professor
Office: Lommen 212J
Phone: 218-477-2034
E-Mail: vigilant@mnstate.edu
Website: http://web.mnstate.edu/vigilant/
Education: PhD, Sociology, Boston College
Interests/Areas of Specialization:
Selected Publications:
Vigilant, Lee Garth. 2008. "I Am Still Suffering:" The Dilemma of Multiple Recoveries in the Lives of Methadone Maintenance Patients." Sociological Spectrum, 28(3): 278-298.
Vigilant, Lee Garth. 2005. "I Don't Have Another Run Left With It": Ontological Security in Narratives of Recovering on Methadone Maintenance." Deviant Behavior, 26(5): 399-416.
Co-editor with Dr. Joel Charon Social Problems: Readings with Four Questions (CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning 2009)
Co-editor with Dr. Joel Charon The Meaning of Sociology: A Reader 9/E (NJ: Prentice Hall 2009).
Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Death and Human Experience (Forthcoming, Sage Publications, Inc.).
Research Pursuits: Dr. Vigilant is currently undertaking a study of home-schooling entitled The Father in the Home-Schooling Family: A Study in Sociology.
Other Accomplishments: Past recipient of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for Sociology at Boston College (2000) and the TCU Senate Professor of the Year Award for Tufts University (2001).
Courses offered: classical and contemporary sociological theory, qualitative methods for social research, and social problems.