Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733
I'm Professor of Sociology at Winthrop University and the President of the Southwestern Social Science Association. If you are a student, a faculty member, an SSSA participant, or just about anyone else, you can get hold of me at one of the phone numbers or email addresses below. But please don't call after 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.
Phone numbers
(803) 323-4654
(office)
(803) 366-0637 (home)
(803) 517-4819 (cell)
Email addresses
eckbergd@winthrop.edu (office)
eckberg@comporium.net (home)
Go to my courses page <=(click here)
Southwestern Social Science Association
Southwestern Social Science Association (main web page)
To get to my other main associations, click on the organizations' names, below:
Southwestern Sociological Association
Social Science History Association
American Sociological Association
Short C. V.
(1) Ph.D., Sociology, December 1978. University of Texas at Austin.
(2) M.A., Sociology, May 1973. University of Missouri-Columbia.
(3)
B.A., cum laude, Psychology, May 1971.
University of Texas at Austin.
Some Awards and Honors
(1) President, Southwestern Social Science Association
(2) Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Grant, 2005-2006 Academic Year (Topic: "The South Carolina Murder Project")
(3) Winthrop University Sabbatical Leave, 2005-2006 Academic Year
(4) Past-President, Southwestern Sociological Association (elected 2002)
(5) Winthrop University Sabbatical Leave, 1997-1998 Academic Year
(7)
Institute for Southern Studies Summer Fellow, University of South
Carolina, June-August 1997
(8) Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar to India (topic: "Ethnic Issues in Modern India"), July-August 1994.
Selected Recent Publications
2008. "The historical violence database: A collaborative research project on the history of violent crime, violent death, and collective violence.” Historical Methods 41 (Spring):81-98 . [With Randolph Roth, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Kenneth Wheeler, James Watkinson, Robb Haberman, and James M. Denham].
2006. “Crime, victimization, and the criminal justice system,” Pp. 209-220
[Tables: pp. 223-314] in Historical
Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition,
Volume 5, edited by Susan Carter, Scott Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and
Gavin Wright.
Cambridge University Press.
2005. "Teaching scholarship during the 1990's: a study of authorship in Teaching Sociology." Teaching Sociology 33 (Fall) [with Jonathan Marx].
2004. "The mouse that roared? Article publishing in undergraduate sociology programs." The American Sociologist 35 (Winter): 58-78. [with Jonathan Marx].
2001.
“Stalking the elusive homicide: a capture-recapture approach to the
estimation of post-Reconstruction South Carolina killings.”
Social Science History 25:67-91.
2000. “Introduction: H. V. Redfield and the study of southern homicide.” Homicide, North and South, by H. V. Redfield. Facsimile Reprint of 1880 edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.
1997. “Gender and environmentalism: results from the 1993 General Social Survey.” Social Science Quarterly 78 (December): 841-858. [with T. Jean Blocker].
1996. “Christianity,
environmentalism, and the theoretical problem of
fundamentalism.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
35:343-355 [with T. Jean Blocker].
(reprinted: Pp.156-172 in The Earthscan Reader in
Environmental Values, edited by Linda Kaloff and Terre
Satterfield. Earthscan, 2005).
1995. “Estimates of early 20th-century U.S.
homicide rates: an econometric forecasting approach.”
Demography 32:1-16.