PHILIP G. GROTH, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
UW-Rock County
E-Mail: pgroth@uwc.edu
Campus Dept. Web Page: http://rock.uwc.edu/sociology
Web Page: http://rock.uwc.edu/pgroth

My background and experience in Sociology is diverse. I obtained my bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967 with a specialization in correctional administration. I turned to Rural Sociology in graduate studies. For five years I worked as a research assistant and social science analyst with Prof. Glenn Fuguitt of the UW Madison Dept. of Rural Sociology and Mr. Calvin Beale, Senior Population Analyst with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. The main focus of my graduate work was relating changes in the economic bases and racial compositions of the U.S. counties to their historic population changes.

I have published on these subjects and presented papers at national sociological meetings. Among specific topics were expansion of ghettoes in a sample of U.S. cities and the demographic contexts of election of black officials in the South. While teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, I taught courses in urban and industrial sociology, in human ecology and demography, in social organization and methodology. I worked on several projects concerning fishing and marine transportation that were funded through the L.S.U. Center for Wetland Resources. As such, I am an advocate for using sociological data and analysis in connection with federal regulatory issues. I was the 2000-2001 recipient of the UW Colleges Barrington/Musolf Faculty Research Award for an article I published in The Journal of Applied Sociology (Vol 18, No. 1, 2001) entitled, "The Human Ecology of Louisiana Shrimping."

At the UW-Rock, I have taught a variety of introductory sociology courses--from Introductory Sociology; Marriage and the Family; American Minority Groups, to World Population and the Sociology of Health and Illness. I strive to teach my students critical thinking skills (i.e. logical thinking) which they can apply to their study of Sociology, or any other field of endeavor. Visit my Sociology Home Page at UW- Rock for more information about my teaching philosophy and goals. I have remained an active Sociologist--reviewing texts for commercial publishers, presenting papers at professional meetings, and on occasion, publishing articles in professional journals. I try to integrate my demographic interests and training with interests in social problems and criminology. Among my current projects, I am developing readings for introductory sociology (with a global twist, and for educational assessment programs), and for crime and criminal justice. I would like to publish these anthologies. In the department, I am the Coordinator of Assessment of Instruction 1999-present.