Roger Clark

Craig-Lee Hall 464 (401) 456-8026 (401) 456-8729 rclark@ric.edu

Background

Roger Clark is Professor of Sociology, having joined the faculty at Rhode Island College in 1981. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his M.A. and Ph. D. from Brown University. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Fiji Islands, helping to start a secondary school, however, before he began teaching in American colleges.

Professor Clark teaches courses in research methods, gender, and the family these days, but has enjoyed teaching many other courses at the College. In 2003, he was awarded the Paul Maixner Distinguished Teaching Award, which is pretty neat, especially since he’d already gotten so much pleasure from the teaching on which it was based. Professor Clark also gets pleasure from the research papers he’s co-authored with students, 20 papers in all to date, with 24 different students (some multiple times). These papers have been mainly in the area of gender studies (two of which have been recognized for outstanding interest by the Chronicle of Higher Education), though a few have dug into topics outside that area. Some of the student co-authors have gone on to do graduate work at places like Harvard, Tulane, Boston University, the University of Arizona, and Rhode Island College.

Professor Clark has published almost 40 other research papers, many with faculty colleagues at the College, and about the same number of book reviews. The 3rd edition of his How It’s Done: An Invitation to Social Research (with co-author Emily Stier Adler) is about to be published by Wadsworth. Earlier editions of the book have been adopted at more than 150 colleges and universities worldwide.

Professor Clark is an avid tennis player, likes to break bones and sprain ankles on the basketball court, has shot four holes in one on genuine golf courses, and ran two marathons last year.