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Jeff
Lucas
Associate
Professor
Ph.D.
University of Iowa, 2000
Office:
2103 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301-405-6390
Email: jlucas@socy.umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Social Psychology; Military Sociology; Theory
Jeff Lucas received his B.B.A. in Business
Administration in 1992 and his PhD in Sociology
in 2000 from the University of Iowa. He joined
the Department of Sociology at the University
of Maryland in 2004. Courses he has taught include:
Power, Status, and Leadership in Groups; Group
Processes; Social Psychology; Theories of Social
Psychology; Sociological Theory; Research Statistics;
Group Processes and Leadership; and Laboratory
Practicum on Group Processes Research. In addition, Professor Lucas teaches in
the graduate Leadership Education and Development
Program operated jointly by the University of
Maryland and the United States Naval Academy.
Professor
Lucas's research represents an attempt to understand
the basic nature of fundamental social processes.
He is particularly interested in power, status,
and leadership, especially as they are relevant
in groups and organizations. Much of Professor
Lucas's research is experimental, and he operates
an experimental laboratory located in the Department
of Sociology.
 Professor
Lucas's current research includes projects
examining (1) stigma and status processes in
interpersonal interactions (with Jo Phelan,
funded by the National Institute of Mental
Health), (2) how the increasing diversity of
groups in our society challenges existing
notions of effective leadership (with Michael
Lovaglia), (3)
whether age and gender interact as status
characteristics to increasingly disadvantage
women through middle adulthood, potentially
helping explain the glass ceiling that limits
the advancement of women in organizations (with
Michael Lovaglia),
(4) the emotions that result from power
inequalities in social exchange, (5)
relationships between social support and
attrition of U.S. Navy personnel (with David
Segal, Mady Segal,
and Yuko Whitestone, funded by Battelle Columbus
Laboratories), and (6) how status processes may
contribute to gender differences in
self-handicapping (funded by The Spencer
Foundation).
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology 230: Sociological
Social Psychology
Sociology 660: Theories
of Social Psychology
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