{"id":2223,"date":"2020-10-09T15:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/academics\/?page_id=2223"},"modified":"2022-12-12T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:32:00","slug":"meet-our-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/college-of-sciences-and-humanities\/school-of-social-and-behavioral-sciences\/undergraduate-programs\/sociology-ba\/meet-our-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Matt Bakker<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-float-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marymount.edu\/getmedia\/cf2a5b94-11be-4694-b9b5-667759578904\/mb.aspx?width=200&amp;height=266\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5599 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/mb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/>Why do I love teaching sociology?\u00a0 The continual engagement with young people as they embark on their journey into adulthood fills me with hope and excitement about the future. I enjoy introducing students to sociology and accompanying them as they acquire a new, more critical perspective on the social world they inhabit and remake on a daily basis. More than anything, I relish the discipline&#8217;s transformative potential, its ability to present students with alternative modes of thinking- and being-in-the-world, to encourage them to critically examine existing social conditions and imagine how things could be different.\u00a0 I consider myself quite lucky to return year after year to this space where the bright-eyed energy of youth combines with the transformative power of sociology.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I\u2019m working on research projects focused on local efforts to resist federal deportation policies across the United States and on urban development projects and displacement in the DC metro region. What fascinates me about this research is that it helps us to better understand how communities respond to adversities and work to create local social structures and relations that foster justice, inclusion, and community well-being.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Delario Lindsey<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"DL2017-5).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marymount.edu\/marymount.edu\/media\/Sociology-Dept.Media-Library\/DL.jpg\" alt=\"DL2017-5).jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Teaching sociology (or any subject for that matter), begins with a genuine love for the field. But, I believe in order to be an effective teacher of sociology, one must be genuinely willing to engage in a constant struggle with the concepts, theories, and methodological approaches that make up the discipline we know today.\u00a0 Like society itself, sociology is always changing.\u00a0 This means that teaching sociology, and teaching it well, requires an instructor to be comfortable in the role of student.\u00a0 As a proud \u2018learner\u2019 of sociology, my most recent explorations have taken me into the area of housing inequality, and community displacement in the greater Washington, D.C. area.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Janine<\/strong><strong>\u00a0DeWitt<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-float-right alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marymount.edu\/marymount.edu\/media\/Sociology-Dept.Media-Library\/JD.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Learning isn\u2019t a spectator sport \u2013 you can\u2019t sit on the sidelines and expect to understand the world in which we live! Rather than just reading about the work that sociologists do, I want students to get a feel for doing sociology, to discover the ways our lives are shaped by the social relationships that we often take for granted. \u00a0At Marymount, our students bring a global perspective to the classroom.\u00a0\u00a0Together we strive for intellectual excellence by analyzing issues from diverse perspectives, considering views of people from all walks of life, and giving voice to those who are marginalized.\u00a0\u00a0More often than not I learn from my students, getting a new perspective by seeing the world through their eyes. 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