Faculty

Robert E. McAulay

Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of Sociology

Bob McAulay has a BA and MA in Sociology from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D from Washington University, St. Louis. His dissertation was based on observation of the treatment of drug-related cases in a St. Louis area hospital emergency room.  At "Wash U" he worked with Alvin W. Gouldner as an Associate Editor on Theory and Society and served as the research assistant for Gouldner's book The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise New Class. An early interest in marginal science led to the publication of "Velikovsky and the Infra-Structure of Science: The Metaphysics of a Close Encounter" (Theory and Society Vol 6, No. 3), which historian James Gilbert (Redeeming Culture: Religion in an Age of Science 1998:362) cites as an important piece.

McAulay's current research and teaching interests include the sociology of drugs and deviance: the sociology of science: and Darwinian social science.   His current courses include Sociology 215: Perspectives on Deviant Subculture; Sociology 270: Drugs, Culture and Society; STS/Sociology 353: Bio-Social Controversy; and STS/Sociology 367: Mind, Culture & Biology.  Beginning in 1995 he began co-teaching STS 200: Science and Technology Studies with Jim Challey and has been a member of the STS steering committee since the early 1980s.  He served as Chair of the Sociology Department from 1987-1993, and again from 2006-2010. He is presently the community member on the IACUC of the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY.