jsandber@highpoint.edu
(336) 841-4680

EDUCATION:

B.A.                  Swarthmore College

M.Div.               Harvard Divinity School

M.A. and Ph.D.   Vanderbilt University

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Sociological Association
North Carolina Sociological Association

Southern Sociological Society
Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society

PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Jones, Diana, Joanne Sandberg, Mary Rosenthal, Robert Saunders, Vickie Hannig, Ellen Clayton.  2008. “What Patients and Their Relatives Think about Testing for BMPR2,” Journal of Genetic Counseling. 17(5):452-8. Epub 2008 Sep 13.

Sandberg, Joanne C. and Daniel B. Cornfield.  “Returning to Work:  The impact of Gender Family and Work on Terminating a Family or Medical Leave.”  In Work and Family:  Research Informing Policy.  Eds. T. Parcel and D. Cornfield.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage Press, 2000.

Sandberg, Joanne C.  “The Effects of Family Obligations and Workplace Resources on Men’s and Women’s Use of Family Leaves.”  In Research in the Sociology of Work:  Work and Family, Vol. 7. Vol. Ed. T. Parcel, Series Ed. R. Hodson. Stamford, CT:  JAI Press, 1999.

Griffin, Larry J., Paula Clark, and Joanne C. Sandberg.  “Narrative and Event:  Lynching and Historical Sociology.”  In Under Sentence of Death:  Lynching in the South.  Ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Raleigh, NC:  University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

Sandberg, Joanne C., Review of Taking Time:  Parental Leave Policy and Corporate Culture, by Mindy Fried.  Work and Occupations, 27,1:  124-126, 2000.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

Joanne C. Sandberg, Dianna L. Jones, and Ellen Wright Clayton, “Dealing with Decisions:  Genetic Testing for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension.”  Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, VA.  April 23, 2008.

Sandberg, Joanne.  “What’s a Sociologist Like You Doing in a Course Like This?  Refelctions on Teaching a Trans-institutional Course for Professional Students”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, August 12, 2005.

“Thou Shalt Not Close Vibrant parishes’:  Challenges to Authority.”  Presented at Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC.  April 2005.

“The Meaning of Work in the Context of Responsibility in the Workplace.”  Presented at the Tennessee Employment Relations Research Association Conference in Tullahoma, TH.  October 2002.

“Women and Family Leaves:  An Examination of the Effects of Family Responsibilities and Workplace Conditions on Women’s Use of Family Leaves.”  Presented at the Women and Power Conference at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN.  February 1999.

(With Daniel B. Cornfield.)  “Returning to Work:  The Impact of Gender, Family and Work on Terminating a Family or Medical Leave.”  Presented at the American Sociological Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.  August 1998.

“The Impact of the Family and Workplace on Leave-Taking Behavior.”  Presented at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.  April 1998.

“Attitudes Toward Father:  An Examination of the Impact of Required Child Care Duties on Men’s Experiences of their Parental labor.”  Presented at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.  April 1995. 

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

“Individual in Society”

“Religion, Society and Culture”

“Quantitative Applications in Sociology”

“Qualitative Applications in Society”

“Social and Global Inequalities”

“Sociology of Marriage and the Family”