- Phone:
- 812.348.7348
- Email:
- narousse@iupuc.edu
- Department:
- Division of Liberal Arts
- Campus:
- IUPUC
CC Room 144
CC Room 144
Education
- Ph.D. in sociology, University of Oregon, 1993
- M.A. in psychology, San Francisco State University
- B.S. in psychology, Towson University
- Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminar, National Humanities Center, 2015, 2010
Professional Activities
- American Sociological Association
- British Sociological Association
- North Central Sociological Association
- Pacific Sociological Association
- Southern Sociological Society
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Sociology
- Criminology
- Deviance
- Social Problems
- Social Change
- Globalization
- Medical Sociology
- Sociology of Aging
- Social Psychology
- Personality and Culture
- Race and Ethnicity
- Research Methods
- Schools and Society
Administrative & Service Responsibilities
Previous Faculty Positions:
- Professor (tenured), Sociology, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL, 1999-2017
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, Hanover College, Hanover, IN, 1997-1998
- Visiting Instructor, Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1995-1997
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, Washington State University-Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, 1993-1995
Publications
Books
- Rousseau, N. (forthcoming). Between Past and Future: The Struggle to Transform Race Relations in the United States
- Rousseau, N. (2014). Society Explained: An Introduction to Sociology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Rousseau, N. (2002). Self, Symbols, and Society: Classic Readings in Social Psychology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Rousseau, N. (1999). Internationalizing Sociology in the Age of Globalization: A Curriculum Guide. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
Articles and Other Published Material
Rousseau, N. (2020). "The Sociological Imagination, Neoliberalism, and Higher Education." Social Currents 7(5), 395-401.
Rousseau, N. (2019). "Martin Luther King, Neoliberalism, and Equality of Opportunity," in Lori Montalbano (editor) Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics. Lexington Books.
- Rousseau, N. (2008). Secularization. In V. Parrillo (ed.), Encyclopedia of social problems (pp. 817-819). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Rousseau, N. (2002). Instructor’s manual for self, symbols, and society: Classic readings in social psychology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Rousseau, N. and S. Rousseau. (1999). Dr. King’s giant triplets: Racism, materialism, militarism. In L. Forcey and I. Harris (eds.), Peacebuilding for adolescents (pp. 17-33). New York: P. Lang.
- Rousseau, N. (1998). A typology of seekership. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 9, 75-96.
- Rousseau, N. (1998). Book review [Review of the book Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: Contemporary apocalyptic movements by T. Robbins & S. J. Palmer, eds.], Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 37, 548-550.
- Rousseau, N. (1998). Book review [Review of the book Primitivism, radicalism, and the lamb’s war: The Baptist-Quaker conflict in 17th century England by T. L. Underwood], Review of Religious Research, 40, 189-190.
- Rousseau, N. (1998). War and peace: A personal approach. In M. Ender (ed.), The sociology of peace and war: A curriculum guide (pp. 24-25). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
Civic Engagement
- Commissioner on Jacksonville Human Rights Commission
- World Affairs Council
- Outreach to Jacksonville high schools
- Upward Bound - Jacksonville University
- Turkish Cultural Center
- Co-organized community events for Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
- Community events concerning human trafficking
- Community events concerning community policing
- Frequent analyst on local radio, newspaper, and television news
