Office: ELA 242
Phone: 245-8983
E-Mail: pg07@txstate.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Patti Giuffre

I began teaching at Texas State University in 1998 (at the time, Southwest Texas State University ). I was quite honored to recently receive the Texas State University Women's History Month Outstanding Woman Faculty Award in 2005. My teaching areas are qualitative research methods and the sociology of gender. My research areas include gender, sexuality, and work/occupations. Most recently, I have been conducting research on sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace and “gay-friendly” workplaces. My long-term goal is to document organizations that are empowering for all workers, regardless of sexual or gender identities. I am active in the American Sociological Association's Section on Sex and Gender and in the Sociologists for Women in Society.

One of my favorite quotes:

“Under some conditions people flourish. Under other conditions, although the spirit is willing, people atrophy. How do we create conditions under which people flourish? How do we design cultures and organizations in which people thrive? This should be the task of sociology.”

Quoted from William Du Bois (2001) in Applying Sociology: Making a Better World edited by William Du Bois and R. Dean Wright.

Some of my favorite links:

American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender section

American Sociological Association, Sexualities Section

Sociologists for Women in Society

University of Maryland Women's Studies and Gender Issues Database

Institute for Women's Policy Research

American Association of University Women

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Columbia University 's Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth, and Family Policies

http://www.childpolicyintl.org/

Recent scholarly activities (2004):

Christine L. Williams, Patti A. Giuffre, and Kirsten A. Dellinger. 2004. “Qualitative Research on Gender Stratification in the United States ,” in Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective , edited by Fiona Devine and Mary Waters. Malden , MA : Blackwell Publishers.

Patti A. Giuffre. “Sexual Harassment Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Workers: Legal and Sociological Implications.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association annual conference. San Francisco , CA. August, 2004.