L. Susan Williams
Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Connecticut , 1997
Interests: gender, criminology, youth, violence, diversity

Dr. Williams specializes in gender and violence, bringing considerable experience in working with incarcerated populations. In particular, she is regarded as an expert in rural youth and violence/delinquency, having been trained in life processes, inequality, and the importance of place. Dr. Williams, an expert in multi-method methodologies, has considerable experience in longitudinal design and analysis. She was among 20 national scholars selected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to produce first-results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 in a project funded by the William T. Grant Foundation. Her work has been published in top sociological journals including Gender & Society , Social Problems , and Social Forces, as well as specialty journals such as Police Quarterly, Journal of Crime and Justice , and Journal of Economics and Sociology . She teaches courses in gender, diversity, inequality, and criminology and is highly regarded for classr oom innovations and development of distance education at K-State.

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