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Illinois State’s Sociology faculty ranks in the top 20 in the nation in terms of producing scholarship on teaching and in the top 10 in terms of citation impact of that work through 2002. “Members of our Sociology faculty represent some of the most accomplished researchers in the University, and the results of this study indicate they are also among the top in the nation,” said Dean Olson. “The work they do on sociology pedagogy sets the national standard and I am extremely proud of their work.”
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Faculty at a recent department meeting
| The authors of the study, Jonathan Marx and Douglas Eckberg, sociology professors at Winthrop University, tallied the institutions at which the articles’ authors taught and also looked at the citation impact of those works. In the end, Illinois State’s sociology faculty came out near the top out of nearly 1,100 sociology programs in the nation. “We are all very proud of the results of this study,” said Nick Maroules, chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State. “Our faculty has excelled in all forms of scholarship, including the scholarship of teaching and learning.”
The study, titled “Teaching Scholarship During the 1990s: A Study of Authorship in Teaching Sociology” focused on articles and note and review essays published in Teaching Sociology in the 1990s. Teaching Sociology is a pedagogical journal in sociology produced by the American Sociology Association, and is the most prominent journal about teaching/pedagogy in the discipline.
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