Lee
Garth Vigilant (Ph.D. Boston College 2001)
is associate professor of sociology at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
He teaches in the areas of classical and contemporary sociological theory, qualitative
methods for social research, and
urban social problems. He is a 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). His
peer-reviewed publications appear in the journals Sociological Spectrum (2008), Deviant Behavior (2005),
and Humanity and Society
(2004). He is author of several
sociological essays, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters. He is
co-editor with Dr. Joel Charon of the books Social Problems: Readings with
Four Questions (CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning 2012) and The Meaning of
Sociology: A Reader 9/E (NJ: Prentice Hall 2009). He lives in Moorhead, Minnesota with
his wife (Ayuko) and home-schooled children (Jonah & Aya).