ANN HERDA-RAPP, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
UW-Marathon County
E-Mail: aherdara@uwc.edu

I began my career in the UW Colleges in the fall of 1998, teaching at the Marathon County campus in Wausau. I am a product of the UW System and have been most pleased to be able to return to it. I completed my Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previous to that, I attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where I received my Master's degree in Sociology. I earned my undergraduate degree in education and sociology at UW-Whitewater.

Before coming to UW-Marathon, I taught for many years at various levels, first as a high school teacher. While in graduate school, I taught for the University of Illinois, as well as for Lewis University and Concordia University in the Chicago area. My areas of research interest, as suggested by my dissertation ("Women's Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement: The Dialectics of Gender and Activism"), include gender, environmental sociology, social movements and social problems. In recent years, I have continued to do research in the area of environmental sociology including a project on the proposal to hunt mourning doves in Wisconsin.  I have also published articles on school violence (in Sociological Inquiry), the toxic waste movement (in The Sociological Quarterly), and the civil rights movement (in Sociological Focus).  In the spring of 2005, a sabbatical will allow me to explore the Becoming an Outdoors Woman program (out of UW Stevens Point), its implications for gender identity, and interactions with Nature.

These have been wonderful years for me in the Colleges.  I am fortunate to work with skilled and energetic colleagues in my department and at my campus.  And Wausau is an incredible place to live.  Glad to be here!