CURRICULUM
VITAE
Dr. Lee Garth Vigilant
Department
of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Minnesota
State University Moorhead
1104 7th
Avenue South
Moorhead,
Minnesota 56563
Office:
1-218-477-2034 + Residence: 1-218-287-8487
E-mail:
vigilant@mnstate.edu
Website:
http://web.mnstate.edu/vigilant
EDUCATION
2001
Ph.D., Sociology, Boston College.
1997
A.M., Sociology, Boston College.
1993
B.A., Sociology, California State University, Bakersfield.
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
2005-2011
Associate Professor of Sociology, Minnesota State University Moorhead
2001-2005
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Minnesota State University Moorhead
1998-2001
Visiting Lecturer, Tufts University
1998-2001
Lecturer, Boston College
1997-2001
Visiting Lecturer, Framingham State College
TEACHING
INTERESTS
Theory:
Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theories.
Qualitative
Methodology:
Triangulated Approaches in Qualitative Research.
Social
Problems:
Social Stratification (Race/Class/Gender) and Social Reproduction.
Health &
Illness: Addiction and Approaches to
Recovery; Inequalities in Health and Health Care Delivery.
Sociological
Thanatology:
Dying, Death, and Self-Identity; Thanatological Theories.
Social
Movements:
Contemporary Movements; Theories on Social Movements; Strategies of Social
Protest.
TEACHING AWARDS
2001
Professor of the Year Tufts University
2000
Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award in
CURRENT
RESEARCH
My current research focuses on role of fathers in
homeschooling households, and the American homeschooling subculture as a social
movement.
PUBLICATIONS
2012
Joel Charon and Lee Garth Vigilant.
Social Problems: Readings with Four Questions.
Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.
ISBN: 13:978-1-111-18595-4.
2009
Lee Garth Vigilant. “Drug Use and Abuse.” Pp. 385-390 (Vol. 1) in
Encyclopedia of Death and
Human Experience,
edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
2009
Joel M. Charon and Lee Garth
Vigilant. Social Problems: A Reader With Four Questions. 3rd
Edition. Wadsworth Sociology Reader Series. Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
2009
Lee Garth Vigilant.
“Accidental Death.” Pp. 1-9 (Vol. 1)
in Encyclopedia of Death and Human
Experience,
edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage
Publications.
2009
Joel M. Charon and Lee Garth Vigilant. The Meaning of Sociology
A Reader. 9th Edition. Prentice Hall.
2009
Lee Garth Vigilant.
“Symbolic Immortality.” Pp. 924-927 (Vol. 2) in
Encyclopedia of Death and
Human Experience,
edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage
Publications.
2009
Joel M. Charon and Lee Garth Vigilant. The Meaning of Sociology
8th Edition. Prentice Hall.
2009
Lee Garth Vigilant.
“Mass Suicide.” Pp. 696-699 (Vol. 2) in
Encyclopedia of Death and Human
Experience,
edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage
Publications.
2008
Lee Garth Vigilant. “‘I Am
Still Suffering:” The Dilemma of Multiple Recoveries in the Lives of Methadone
Maintenance Patients.” Sociological
Spectrum, Vol. 28: 1-24. (Sociological
Spectrum is the official journal of Mid-South Sociological Association.)
2007
Lee Garth Vigilant and John B.
Williamson. "The Sociology of Socialization." Pp. 143-152 (Vol. 1) in 21st
Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, edited by Clifton D. Bryant and
Dennis L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
2006
Joel M. Charon and Lee Garth
Vigilant. Social Problems: Readings with Four Questions. 2nd Edition.
The Wadsworth Sociology Reader Series. Thomson Wadsworth.
2005
Lee Garth Vigilant. “‘I Don’t
Have Another Run Left With It’: Ontological Security in Illness Narratives of
Recovering on Methadone Maintenance.”
Deviant Behavior, Vol. 26. No. 5 (September-October): 399-416. (Deviant
Behavior is the official journal of the Deviant Behavior section of the
American Sociological Association.)
2004
Lee Garth Vigilant.
"The Stigma Paradox
in Methadone Maintenance: Naïve and Positive Consequences of a “Treatment
Punishment” Approach to Opiate Addiction.” Humanity and Society, Vol. 28,
No. 4 (November). (Humanity and Society
is the official journal of the Association of Humanist Sociology section of
the American Sociological Association.)
2004
Joel Powell Dahlquist and Lee Garth Vigilant. "Way Better Than Real: Manga Sex to Tentacle
Hentai" (pg. 91-103)." In Dennis Waskul's (Editor)
Net.SeXXX: Readings on Sex, Pornography, and the Internet.
Peter Lang Publishers.
2003
Lee Garth Vigilant.
"The Tie That Binds": A Sociocognitive Exploration of the Meaning of Diversity
in a Sanctimonious Context (A pilot inquiry). Gyro Colloquium
Papers, Vol. 7: 210-235.
2003
Lee Garth Vigilant
and John B. Williamson. "On the Role and Meaning of Death in Terrorism."
Handbook of
Death and Dying: Essays in the Social Study of Death.
Clifton D. Bryant (Editor). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2003
Lee Garth Vigilant
and John B. Williamson. "Symbolic Immortality and Social Theory: The
Relevance of an Underutilized Concept." Handbook of Death and
Dying: Essays in the Social Study of Death. Clifton D. Bryant (Editor).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2003
Lee Garth Vigilant
and John B. Williamson. "To Die, By Mistake." Handbook of Death and Dying:
Essays in the Social Study of Death. Clifton D. Bryant
(Editor). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
1999
Lee Garth Vigilant.“Poly-Ethnic
Bacchanal: Ethnogenesis in a West Indian Context (The Case of
Trinidad).” Gyro Colloquium Papers,
Vol. 5: 93-119.
REPRINTED ARTICLE IN BOOK
Lee Garth Vigilant. (Forthcoming 2012). “‘I Don’t Have Another Run Left With It:’ Ontological Security in Illness Narratives of Recovering on Methadone Maintenance.” In Patti Adler, Peter Adler, and Patrick O’Brian’s Drugs and the American Dream
(Forthcoming 2012 Wiley Publishers).
JOURNAL ARTICLE(S) IN PROGRESS
Lee Garth Vigilant and Lauren Wold. 2011.
“You Can’t Rely On Somebody Else to Teach Them
Something They Don’t
Believe:” Total Socialization, Concerted Moral Cultivation, and the Father’s
‘Protective Cocoon’ in Christian Homeschooling Households.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND
INVITED LECTURES
2011
Lee Garth Vigilant
and Lauren Wold.
“’You Can’t Rely On Somebody
Else to Teach Them Something They Don’t Believe:’ Total Socialization, Concerted
Moral Cultivation, and the Father’s ‘Protective Cocoon’ in Christian
Homeschooling Households.” (A paper presented at the 17th Annual
Midwest Qualitative Research Methods Conference at St. Thomas University,
Minneapolis, Minnesota in June 2011.)
2011
Lee Garth Vigilant.
“In/Outside the Box: On the Puzzle of
Risk-Taking.” (Keynote
address at the Multicultural
Affairs Office Annual Banquet on 26th April 2011.)
2009
Lee Garth Vigilant and Paul
Harris. “Learner-Centered Teaching in
the Era of No Child Left Behind.” Professional Development Day Conference
at MSUM.
2008
Lee Garth Vigilant.
“Democratizing the Classroom: Experiences from a Contract-Based
Research Methods’
Course.” Professional Development Day Conference at MSUM (October 14th).
2008
Lee Garth Vigilant.
“Five Questions on Licit Pornography for Your Consideration.” Violence and Abuse
Summer Institute: Sex, the Internet, and You (May). Panel presentation on
Issues in Internet Pornography.
2004 Lee Garth Vigilant. It's Liquid Handcuffs: Multiple Stigma and Methadone Maintenance Treatment. A paper presented at the 10th Annual Midwest Qualitative Research Methods Conference ("Cultural Incursions & Moral Inversion"), session entitled "Shame
On You: Ways
of Treating Addicts and Inmates".
St. Thomas University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 17-18, 2004.
2004
Mark Hansel, Joel Powell-Dahlquist, and
Lee Garth Vigilant. “Surveillance
and the "New" Micro-Management of Society.” Violence and Abuse Summer
Institute (M.S.U.M), 10th Annual Program, May 19-20, 2004.
2004 Lee Garth Vigilant. “Ontological Security as a Focal Expression of Narratives of Recovery on Methadone Maintenance.” A paper presented at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) Annual Program, August 14th - 15th, 2004 in San Francisco
California.
2002 Lee Garth Vigilant. “Transcending Death through Modes of Symbolic Immortality: The Relevance of an Underutilized Concept for Sociological Theory.” A paper presentation at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, in Chicago,
Illinois
(August 16 – 19, 2002), Regular Session of Sociology of Death and Dying.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Introductory
Sociology (SC110)
Social Problems
(SC210)
Classical
Sociological Theory (SC302)
Social Movements
(SC325)
Qualitative Research
Methods Writing Intensive (SC352-W)
Contemporary
Sociological Theory Writing Intensive (SC407-W)
Topics in Sociology +
Social Thanatology: Dying, Death, & Transcending (SC497)
Topics in Sociology +
Sociology of the Body (SC497)
Boston College
Introductory
Sociology
Social Movements
Sociology of Health
and Illness
Tufts University
Sociology of Social
Movements
Sociology of Health
and Illness
Framingham State College
Introductory
Sociology
Social Problems
Social Theory
Black Atlantic Social
Thought and Action
Sociology of Sports
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANCY
2010
Lee Garth Vigilant.
2010.
“Difficult at the
beginning, but later it will be easier and better:”
An
Analysis of Services that Work –and Services that are Needed- in the First-Year
Experience of Refugee Newcomers to the United States. (This report is a needs-assessment of the
services and social supports that LSS provides during the first year of
resettlement, and it was based on interviews with 50 recently resettled refugee
families.)
SELECTED COMMUNITY AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
(Selected) On-going Service
Community Restorative
Justice Council (CRJC) of Lutheran Social
Services of North Dakota (2005 - )
Scholarship Awarding Committee (2005 - )
Institutional Review Board (IRB) (2007 - )
Founders Scholarship Award Committee for the past
two (2) years. (2009 - )
Multicultural Affairs Office’s Summer Bridge
Program (2010 – )
Church Board Moorhead Seventh-day Adventist Church
(2003 - )
Director, Adventurers Club, Moorhead Seventh-day
Adventist Church (2004 - )
Religious Liberties Representative, Moorhead
Seventh-day Adventist Church (2009 -)
Chapter Representative, NU of Minnesota, Alpha
Kappa Delta, the International Honor
Society for Sociology (2004 -
)
Search Committee
for Assistant Athletic Director for Media and Public Relations. (2011 -)
(Selected) Past
Service
Board Member,
Minnkota Health Project
Search Committee
for two (2) positions in the Biology Department
Academic Appeals
Committee
Comstock Committee
Outreach Committee
Social Studies Programmatic Committee
Student Academic Conference Program Committee
Search Committee Sociology Department to fill Dr.
David Olday’s position (Filled)
VASI: Violence and Abuse Summer Institute
Committee
University
Accreditation Committee for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC),
Subcommittee on
Criterion Three: Student Learning and Effective Teaching
Sociology Department's Institutional Review Board
(I.R.B) Committee
Liberal Studies Task Force subcommittee on
“History and Social and Behavioral Sciences”
Competencies for Student Learning Objectives.
Liberal Studies Task Force subcommittee on “Critical Thinking” and “Social and
Natural
Sciences” Competencies for Student Learning
Objectives.
Search committee for two (2) tenure-track education positions in special
education and
early childhood (both filled).
Search Committee Dean of School of Social
and Natural Sciences (Filled 2009)
Search
Committee Director of Housing and Residential Life (Filled 2009)
Nursing
Faculty Search Committee for two (2) tenure-track positions (both
Filled, 2007/08)
GRADUATE THESIS ADVISING
Andrea Stenson. 2011. (“Teachers’ Perceptions of American Indian Students’
Post High School Aspirations”).
[Masters of Science School Psychology program, M.S.U.M]
Raina Hureth. 2011. (“Perceptions of American Indian Parents on their
Children’s Post-High School Aspirations.”). [Masters of Science School
Psychology program, M.S.U.M].
Janice Baawa. 2011. “Causes and Consequences for the Mass Incarceration of
Black Men in the Inner City of the United States” (University of Portsmouth
in England 1st April 2011). [Undergraduate Dissertation]
Misti Mowry Kill.
2008. “We Believe Deeply in this
Cause:” How Nurses and Staff Members Justify Their Involvement in a Women’s
(Reproductive Health) Clinic. [Masters in Sociology, North Dakota State
University]
REFERENCES (Contact Information Available
Upon Request)
Dr.
Loius Esparza
(California State University Los Angeles)
Dr.
Joel Charon
(Emeriti, Minnesota State University Moorhead)
Dr.
Mark Hansel
(Emeriti, Minnesota State University Moorhead)
Dr.
John Williamson
(Boston College)
Dr.
Deborah White
(Chair, Minnesota State University Moorhead)
Dr.
William Harris
(Emeriti, Boston College)