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New Department Head Comes to UNCG Sociology

Professor Kauzlarich comes to the UNCG Sociology Department Head position after 20 years (six as Department Chair) in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at Western Michigan University in 1994.
Dave has published seven books and over three dozen scholarly articles and essays ranging in subjects from victimology, sociological and criminological theory, state and corporate crime, crimes of the powerful, and social justice. His is currently working on a project examining music as resistance to the crimes of the powerful using both autoethnographic and interview methodology.
Dave is in his fifth year as Editor-in-Chief of Critical Criminology: An International Journal and has served in a number of leadership positions for the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology.
He enjoys teaching a variety of courses but especially those in criminology and sociological theory.
Dr. Kauzlarich invites anyone interested in Sociology at UNCG to contact him at dakauzla@uncg.