Timothy Owens

Associate Professor of Sociology Office: STON 351
Office Phone: (765) 496-6932
Secondary Office: STON 351
Secondary Office Phone: (765) 496-6932
Email: towens@purdue.edu

Specialization:

Social psychology, especially identity and self-esteem; sociology of mental health; life course contexts, development, and transitions; and sociology of youth

Courses: Taught (Last two years)

SOC 100      Introductory Sociology (470 students/section)
SOC 100H    Introductory Sociology Honors
SOC 100R    Introductory Sociology Learning Community
SOC 497H    Senior Honors Seminar
SOC 603      Individual and Society
SOC 649      Self and Identity

Dr. Owens joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2000 after 11 years at the Indiana University, Indianapolis.  He has published nearly three dozen scientific articles and chapters in journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.  To date, he has published one monograph untitled From Adolescence to Adulthood in the Vietnam Era (Springer), edited three scholarly books (Cambridge, Minnesota, Kluwer/Plenum), and was the editor-in-chief of Advances in Life Course Research from 1999-2008.  He has presented numerous papers at both international and national conferences.  His research focuses on mental health and self-concept outcomes within and across the first three decades of the life course.  In addition, he regularly teaches large-enrollment Introduction to Sociology, as well as graduate-level theory courses. 
 
Positions at Purdue University

2000 - present    Associate Professor

2006-2008    Director of Undergraduate Studies

Service to the Profession

1999-2008       Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Life Course Research (annual volume), Elsevier

2009                Editorial Board, Advances in Life Course Research (journal).

2008-2010       Member, ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Committee

2007-2009       Member, ASA Dissertation Award Committee

2004-2006       Deputy Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly

2004-2005       Chair, Study Groups Committee, Society for Research on Adolescence

2003-2004       Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly (resigned to become deputy editor)

2002-present   Editorial Board, Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research

2000-present   Editorial Board, Self and Identity, the official journal of the International Society for Self and Identity

2000-2004       Council, Study Groups Committee, Society for Research on Adolescence

2001                Program Committee, Midwest Sociological Society

1996-1999       Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly

Honors and Awards

2007            Daryl P. Evans Outstanding Teaching Award

2007-2006  Fellow, Purdue University Provost’s Diversity Fellowship

2004            Fellow, Purdue Center for Behavioral and Social Research

2001            Fellow (elected), Society for Experimental Social Psychology

2000            Indiana University Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (with $2,000 Cash Prize)   

1997-1998  National Research Service Award, National Institute of Mental Health

1996            Fellow (elected), Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society

 

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