 Alan DeYoung
Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
Ph.D., 1975, Stanford University
Email: ajdey@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-3846
Office: 131 Taylor Education Building
Professor De Young's general interests revolve around the sociology of education and Appalachian Studies. He has written extensively on Appalachian schools in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Dr. De Young's most recent work focuses upon educational change in post-Soviet central Asia. He recently traveled to the Kyrgyz Republic as a Fulbright Scholar to advise the national Ministry of Education and Culture on school reform policy and lecture at the national pedagogical university on the sociology of education.
He is author of Life and Death of a Rural American High School, a work about school consolidation in West Virginia. More... |
 Patricia Dyk
Associate Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Ph.D., 1990, Utah State University
Email: pdyk@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-3228
Office: 508 Garrigus
Professor Dyk's areas of interest focus on social and economic factors affecting the well-being of rural families and communities.
Her current work revolves around three major projects. (1) community connections for children. (2) the influence of human and social capital on youth outcomes. (3) Dairy Farm Families. Dr. Dyk regularly teaches SOC 409, The Family (50 students) and GEN 102 (interchangeable with SOC 101), Dynamics of Rural Social Life (60 students).
Dr. Dyk's most recent work appears in Adolescent Sexuality, Journal of Early Adolescence, Family Relations, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Adolescent Research, Family Perspective, Family Relations, and Family Science Review. More... |
 Gerry Gairola
Department of Physician Assistant Studies
Email: gagair01@pop.uky.edu
Phone: 859-323-1100 x280
Office: 107C College of Allied Health Professions Building
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 Lori Garkovich
Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Ph.D. 1976, University of Missouri
Email: lorraine.garkovich@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-7581
Office: 706 Garrigus
Professor Garkovich's interests include community development, demography, environmental sociology, and extension.
Dr. Garkovich regularly teaches GEN 100 (Issues in Contemporary Agriculture), GEN 102 (Dynamics of Rural Social Life), GEN 300 (Leadership Studies), and SOC 260 (Population, Resources and Social Change). Dr. Garkovich's current research is part of a national study of structural changes within the dairy industry. Dr. Garkovich's extension work increasingly focuses on facilitating community planning processes -- community visioning, economic development planning, and land use planning.
Dr. Garkovich's most recent work appears in Rural Sociology, Choices, American Journal of Public Health, NACTA Journal, and Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Dr. Garkovich is the author of Harvest of Hope, and Population and Rural Community in America. More... |
 Thomas Garrity
Professor, Department of Behavioral Science
Ph.D., 1971, Duke University
Email: tgarrit@pop.uky.edu
Phone: (859) 323-6100
Office: 120 College of Medicine Office
Professor Garrity's research interest is in medical sociology. It focuses on biopsychosocial responses to life stress, including confrontations with serious illness. Most recently, he is studying the health and quality of life of chronic drug abusers. His research has been reported primarily in behavioral journals with a health/medical orientation and supported by grants from several institutes of the NIH as well as private foundations. He is currently serving as the Program Director of a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded doctoral and postdoctoral training program entitled "Research Training in Drug Abuse Behavior." More...
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 Ronald Hustedde
Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: ronald.hustedde@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-3186
Office: 500 Garrigus Building
He has three Master’s degrees in the fields of community development, community economics and rural sociology. His undergraduate degree is in journalism. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Central America and in the U.S. Army as a non-commissioned infantry officer.
Dr. Hustedde joined the University of Kentucky faculty in 1990. He is an Extension professor in the Department of Community and Leadership Development with a joint appointment in the Sociology Department. Dr. Hustedde’s specialty areas include rural economic development, leadership development, public issues education and public conflict analysis and resolution. His book chapters, peer reviewed articles and other publications are about venture capital markets, leadership, community development theory and practice, community economic analysis, learning communities, and public conflict resolution. Dr. Hustedde is the past president of the Community Development Society.: http://comm-dev.org/new/
He also serves on the Board of Directors for the International Association for Community Development based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Currently, he is administrator of a $1.28 million leadership grant, the Kentucky Entrepreneurial Coaches Institute. He is also the director of the Kentucky Public Policy Institute which is associated with the National Issues Forums. More... |
 Carl Leukefeld
Professor, Department of Behavioral Science
Ph.D., 1975, Catholic University of America
Email: cleukef@uky.edu
Phone: 859-323-5308
Office: 111 College of Medicine Office Building
Dr. Leukefeld is Professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, Oral Health Science and Social Work; and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science and Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, with a graduate appointment in Sociology. He came to the University of Kentucky in 1990 to establish the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse where he filled administrative and research positions. Dr. Leukefeld has published over 125 articles, chapters, books and monographs. He currently serves on the NIH/NIDA Health Services Initial Review Group and as reviewer and consulting editor for seven journals. His research interests include treatment interventions, outcomes, HIV prevention, criminal justice sanctions, health services, and rural populations. More...
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 Richard Maurer
Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Ph.D., 1977, Ohio State University
Email: richard.maurer@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-7582
Office: 509 Garrigus
Professor Maurer's interests include rural and economic development.
Dr. Maurer is Assistant Director of the Cooperative Extension Service for Rural and Economic Development Programs. Dr. Maurer currently serves as the University of Kentucky contact for the Kentucky Economic Expansion Program. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Kentucky Certified Community Partnership. Dr. Maurer's current projects are generally in the area of rural, community, and economic development, business retention and expansion, community planning, community health, migrant labor.
Dr. Maurer's most recent work appears in Journal of the Community Development Society, Family Relations, Journal of Extension, Rural Sociology, Social Science Quarterly, and Journal of Community Development. He has also authored Rural Data, People, and Policy. More... |
Paul Warner
Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Ph.D., 1973, Ohio State University
Email: paul.warner@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-1803
Office: 312 Garrigus
Professor Warner's interests include rural development.
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 Julie Zimmerman
Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Email:
jzimm@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-7583
Office: 707 Garrigus
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 Rick Zimmerman
Associate Professor of Communication
Ph.D., 1983, University of Wisconsin
Email: rick.zimmerman@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-4099
Office: 230 Grehan Building
Professor Zimmerman's interests include medical sociology, HIV risk behavior, health and illness behavior, survey methodology for sensitive behavior.
Dr. Zimmerman's is currently working on research examining sexual involvement and drug use among adolescents and young adults.
Dr. Zimmerman's recent work appears in Advances in Medical Sociology, American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Adolescent Research, International Journal of Addictions, Journal of Sex Research, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and American Journal of Epidemiology. More... |