David Musick
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Telephone: (970) 351-2542.
E-mail: david.musick@unco.edu
Office: Candelaria 2290.
Prof. Musick’s interests include Law and Society, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, and Applied and Evaluation Research. His myriad articles and presentations touch on delinquency, crime and minorities. He has also authored several books, the most recent being An Introduction to the Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency.
COURSES TAUGHT
- SOC 235 Social Change in a Global Context
- SOC 237 Sociology of Minorities
- SOC 340 Juvenile Delinquency
- SOC 351 Classical Social Theory
- SOC 352 Contemporary Social Theory
- SOC 539 Seminar in Sociological Practice
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Gangs,
- Prison Influences,
- Family Influences,
- Illicit Drugs
- Social Behavior
RESEARCH AREAS/INTERESTS
Teaching interests: Social Theory, Juvenile Delinquency, Sociology of Minorities, Sociology of Criminal Law, Applied Research, Work and Occupations, Clinical Sociology, Grant Proposal Writing, Criminology and Sociology of Corrections, Illicit Drugs & Social Behavior and Sociology of Occupations.
Research/Writing interests: Children & Violence, Gangs, Juvenile Delinquency, Prisons, Illicit Drugs and Social Behavior, Criminology, Minorities, Applied Research, Social Theory, and Corrections.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Paper Presented: “Head Injuries and Capital Murder: expanding a Model of Serious Criminal Violence” by David Musick and Kristine G. Musick, presented at the annual meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, CA, April, 2010.
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT
- At-Risk Children:
The Dreamwalk, Inc. (A nonprofit organization providing after school programs for disadvantaged middle and high school children)
Denver, CO October, 2000-April, 2001
I worked as a program consultant. I also helped with Grant Administration Evaluations. - Project PAVE (Promoting Alternatives to Violence through Education)
Denver, CO 1999-2000
I worked as a consultant in the area of program design. - In 2010, I worked as an expert witness on four capital murder cases in Oklahoma.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION PARTICIPATION
- Executive Council Member of the Pacific Sociological Association m 2009-2011 This is an elected position.
- Member of the Pacific Sociological Association 2012 Program Committee. This Committee will organize approximately 225 paper sessions, scores of roundtable sessions, and a number of featured presentations by imminent sociologists at the annual meetings in San Diego, CA. My work on this committee spans 2010 through 2012.
- Member of the Committee on the Freedom of Research and Teaching for the Pacific Sociological Association, 2006-2009. I served as Chair of this Committee.
- Member of the Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology Committee for the Pacific Sociological Association, 2001-2005 and 2009-2011. I served as Chair if this Committee from 2003-2005.
- Member of the 2003 Pacific Sociological Association Program committee, 2001-2003.
- Member of the Membership Committee for the Pacific Sociological Association, 1994-1995 and 1996-1998.
- Chair of the Membership Committee for the Pacific sociological Association, 1985-1990 and 1996-1997.
- Co-Chair of the Arrangements Committee for the 1986 annual meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, held in Denver, Co, on April 9-12.
- Chair of the Arrangements Committee for the 1978 annual meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, held in Spokane, WA on April 9-12.
JOURNALS
- Member, Board of Advisory Editors, SOCIOLOIGICAL INQUIRY
January, 1987 to 1995. - Book Review Editor, WESTERN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
1973 through 1982
PANELS
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1972-73
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Ethnic Studies, 1972-73 (declined)
- 1990 College Scholar, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC
