Dr. Terrell A. Hayes, Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Dr. Hayes’ teaching interests include: Community Development, Social Thought and Theory, Social Problems, Social Deviance and Consumer Culture. His research has examined the process by which compulsive debtors and spenders come to recognize their behavior as problematic; shame and stigma associated with membership in twelve-step groups; and the relationship between social capital, crime and community development efforts. His current research involves assessing the need for a more comprehensive program to meet the needs of High Point’s homeless population and assessing the effectiveness to date of the High Point Police Departments Crime Initiative program.

Dr. Joanne C. Sandberg, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Dr. Sandberg teaching interests include: Social and Global Inequalities, Work and Family, Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods; Religion, Society and Culture, and the Sociology of Health and Illness.  Her research has examined how gender influences the effects of family demands and employment-related response capacities on workers’ use of formal and informal family leaves. She is currently involved in a project that analyzes how people determine whether to have a test for a genetic mutation in the BMPR2 gene that can cause pulmonary arterial hypertension. 

Dr. Judy L. Isaksen, Associate Professor of Communications, Media and Popular Culture Studies
Ph.D. University of South Florida

Dr. Isaksen’s pedagogy and research are rooted in Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary methodology that explores the ways in which culture creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations, and systems of power. As such, she enjoys teaching a wide range of courses in communications, media theory and production, cultural studies and pop culture, visual rhetoric, women and gender studies, race studies, rhetorical theory and writing, hip-hop culture, and literature. Her research and publications have examined audio rhetoric, hip-hop theorists, Zora Neale Hurston, whiteness studies, Generation X, West African drumming, minorities on public radio, and racial discourse.