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Dr. Elaine McDuff's Home Page

Barnett 2203
(660) 785-4360
emcduff@truman.edu

 
 

Dr. McDuff has been at Truman since 2001. Dr. McDuff received her bachelor’s degree in Religion from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She earned her master’s degree at Duke University and her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Iowa. 

Dr. McDuff's research interests include stratification, sociology of work, work and family, gender inequality, and sociology of religion. Dr. McDuff is the past president of the Missouri Sociological Association and a member of the Nominations and Elections Committee of the Midwest Sociological Society, American Sociological Association, Sociologists Without Borders, Sociologists for Women in Society, Religious Research Association, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. McDuff teaches Sociological Inquiry, Social Stratification, Sex and Gender in Society, Family, Social Psychology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, and Senior Seminar. In addition, she supervises student internships in sociology each semester.  Dr. McDuff is also the faculty advisor for Students for Social Change (Sociology Club).