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Barbara
Meeker
Professor Emerita
Ph.D.
Stanford University, 1966
E-mail:
bmeeker@socy.umd.edu
Personal
Homepage:
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/meeker
I have a B. A. in Sociology and Mathematics from
the University of Kansas (1961) and both an M.
A. (1963) and PhD.(1966) in Sociology from Stanford
University. I have been teaching at the University
of Maryland, College Park since 1971, first as
Associate Professor and then as Full Professor.
Before coming here, I taught at the University
of California, Irvine and the University of Washington
(in Seattle) and worked as a Staff Associate at
the National Academy of Sciences in Washington,
D.C. Within sociology, my areas of specialization
are Social Psychology (Small Group Processes,
Social Exchange, and Equity); Mathematical Sociology;
and Contemporary Sociological Theory.
Within the Maryland Sociology Department, I participate
in the Social Psychology specialty area and the
Theory specialty area, by teaching undergraduate
and graduate level courses and advising Master's
and PhD students who are doing research in these
areas. I am currently the director of the Sociology
Department's Undergraduate Honors program, and
am coordinator of the graduate Social Psychology
Specialty Area.
My current research projects include: allocation
and reward expectations in small groups (how do
people decide what is 'fair' when a group has
worked on something and then needs to divide up
the product?); models of distribution of acts
in discussion groups (mathematical descriptions
of how it develops that some group members talk
more than others in a cooperative group setting);
and use of computer simulations to develop theories
of group processes.
My current professional memberships include: the
American Sociological Association (Social Psychology
Section, Theory Section, Computers and Society
Section, Mathematical Sociology Section, and Rational
Choice Section), the Southern Sociological Society;
the District of Columbia Sociological Society;
and the Pacific Sociological Association.
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