 Ruth Wallace
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Ruth Wallace has taught for 31 years at the George Washington University, where she has cultivated her interests in theory, gender, and religion. Professor Wallace is currently working on a book about Catholic parishes headed by married men, based on field notes and interviews she conducted throughout the U.S. during her 1996-1997 sabbatical year. In the past she served as president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the District of Columbia Sociological Society, and as the chair of the theory section and of the religion section of the American Sociological Association. She is the recipient of several awards and honors: The American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award for scholarly work on the role of women in society, the District of Columbia Sociological Society's Stuart Rice Award for Outstanding Contributions to Sociology, the Religious Research Association's H. Paul Douglass Lecturer, Marquette University's Joseph McGee Lecturer, and Santa Clara University's Distinguished Visiting Scholar.
Selected Publications
2003. They Call Him Pastor: Married Men in Charge of Catholic Parishes. Paulist press.
1999. Contemporary Sociological Theory: Expanding the Classical Tradition, Fifth ed. (co-authored with Alison Wolf). Prentice Hall.
1994. Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists. (coedited with Kathryn Meadow Orlans). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
1992. They Call Her Pastor: A New Role for Catholic Women. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
1989. Feminism and Sociological Theory (editor). Newbury Park: Sage Publications.
Current Projects
Sixth Edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory.
Courses Taught
SOC 149: Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOC 165: Sociology of Religion
SOC 175: Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOC 191: Senior Seminar
SOC 238: Development of Social Thought
SOC 239: Modern Sociological Theory
SOC 271: Gender and Society
Honors 41: Introduction to Sociology
Contact Information
rwallace@gwu.edu
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