Pamela McMullin-Messier

B.A. (Central Connecticut State University), M.A. (University of Connecticut), Ph.D. and Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies (University of Southern California).

Areas of Specialization:

Specialties: Demography, Aging, Collective Action, Social Justice, Environmental Studies, Family, and Gender and Sexuality

Recent Courses Taught:

SOC 101, SOC 107, SOC 326, SOC 380

Recent Presentations:

“Collective Empowerment on a College Campus: Responding to Heteronormative Moral Entrepreneurs,” Eastern Sociological Society Conference, March 2009, Baltimore, MD
 Also presented at Society for the Study of Social Problems Conference, August 2008, Boston, MA

“Shifting Paradigms of Discourse vis-à-vis Individual Rights and Societal Goals over Population and Immigration in the Population-Environment Movement,” Sixth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality - Population Politics and Human Rights, February 2007, Humboldt University/Social Science Research Center/Irmgard-Coninx Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Also presented at Southern Demographic Association Meeting, November 2006, Durham, NC

Recent Publications:

McMullin-Messier, Pamela (under contract; expected 2010) The Politics of Immigration: Dissonance in the Population-Environment Movement, LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC book series: The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society, edited by Steven J. Gold and Ruben G. Rumbaut.

McMullin-Messier, Pamela. 2008.“Family” (Vol. 1, p. 352-354), “Homophobia” (Vol. 1, p. 453-454), and “Population, Graying of” (Vol. 2, p. 683-684). Encyclopedia of Social Problems (Vols. 1 & 2), ed.Vincent N. Parillo. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.