Sociology Faculty

Dr. Jennifer Edwards

Coordinator of Sociology, Professor of Sociology
Tahlequah - Woods House
wolynetz@nsuok.edu

Dr. Jennifer Edwards received a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Stanislaus and a M.S. in Criminology from California State University, Fresno. In 2004, she earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Edwards’ area of specialization include criminology and social psychology. Specifically, she focuses on issues related to conflict, group relations, and inequality. Dr. Edwards teaches a variety of courses including criminology, sociology of gender, rural sociology, urban sociology, social psychology, social research methods, and sociology of religion. Her research focuses on intergroup conflict, specifically the way ritual behavior is used to obtain or maintain power in various cultural settings. Primarily, Dr. Edwards studies the Orange Order in Northern Ireland and the Notting Hill Carnival in London, U.K. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and watching movies with her daughter.

Dr. Edwards has served as a faculty member at NSU since 2003. During that time, she has taught courses focusing on several areas within sociology. Further, Dr. Edwards is very honored to be a two-time recipient of the Top Ten RiverHawk Award. She has also received the Jane Addams Award for Outstanding Service from the Midwest Sociological Society, The Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Mentoring Award, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Minority Mentorship Grant Award, and NSU’s Circle of excellence Award in the area of teaching.

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Dr. Suzanne Farmer

Coordinator of Advocacy & Justice Studies, Director of Women’s & Gender Studies
Tahlequah - Woods House
farmer07@nsuok.edu

Dr. Suzanne Farmer is a native of Southeast Arkansas who joined the faculty at NSU in the fall of 2011. She earned a Ph.D. in History with a  concentration in British history from The University of Mississippi. Her specialty spans early modern period from the Renaissance through the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, and include absolutism, the emergence of political economies in Restoration Britain, and the relationship between Enlightenment and revolution, whether in politics, economy, or society.

Dr. Farmer has published articles examining the relationship between politics and economy in the late-seventeenth-century England by exploring the political participation of wealthy merchants during the Restoration. She has also published on the historical context of ongoing cultural conflict in Northern Ireland. Her latest project explores women’s participation in the English Enlightenment and their role in cataloging knowledge.

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Dr. Adam Langsam

Professor of Sociology
Tahlequah - Wilson Hall 320
langsam@nsuok.edu

“I am proud to state that from 1990-1995 I had the opportunity to study at one of the top criminal justice schools in the United States. It is called the George John Beto School of Criminal Justice. Beto was the progenitor of the control system of corrections. I studied with him briefly before his death and he was the first man to ever take me inside a penitentiary. Upon completion of 36 doctoral hours in criminology, multivariate statistics, police administration and management, law, and research methods I returned home to earn a full Doctoral education in Sociology.” -Dr. Langsam

Dr. Langsam received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Texas in August of 2000. He also has a M.S. Interdisciplinary Degree (1990) and a B.S. in Criminal Justice (1988), both from the University of North Texas. He is a full professor and the senior-most professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology. Dr. Langsam’s research interests and academic areas include drugs and society, gangs, corrections, elder abuse, sexual trafficking, crime and public policy, police and crime control, prisoners’ rights, and organized crime. The courses taught by Dr. Langsam at NSU include deviant behavior, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, social problems, getting high, corrections, race, ethnicity and crime, as well as statistics and racial and ethnic minorities.

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Dr. Ande Kidanemariam

Professor of Sociology
Broken Arrow - BALA 164
kidanema@nsuok.edu

Dr. Kidanemariam is a professor of Sociology at Northeastern State University (NSU). He joined the faculty of the Sociology Department at NSU as an assistant professor in July of 2000. Dr. Kidanemariam received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Kentucky (1993), as well as his M.S. in Sociology from Michigan State University (1988) and his B.A. in Social Work from Addis Ababa University (1979). He served as the sole Program Coordinator of the Health Care Administration Program which was housed in the Sociology Department from 2001-2009 before the program moved to the College of Business and Technology at the end of 2009.

Dr. Kidanemariam’s areas of teaching interest include Introduction to Sociology, medical sociology, sociological theory, gerontology, social stratification, family sociology, environmental sociology, and death and dying. His research specialization and areas of interest are medical sociology, political economy, and social inequality with special emphasis on infant and child mortality, health and healthcare policies, and the pattern of the distribution of development benefits and its effects on health and welfare outcomes in countries in the global south.

In 2004, Dr. Kidanemariam was the recipient of an award for teaching excellence from Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers for the 2003-2004 academic year. He also received a research award in 2012, the Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Memorial Scholarship Award for his journal article, The Promotion of Health and the Prevention of Disease in Africa: A Quest for an Integrated Model that appeared in the Journal of Third World Studies (JTWS). It was hailed as the best article on Africa published in the JTWS in 2011.