U.S. Culture

Ph.D., Comparative Religions (Berkeley)
M.Div., Social Ethics (Princeton)
B.A., Philosophy (Wake Forest)

Morrison was an exchange student at the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and has made numerous trips to Mexico. She wrote her dissertation on Day of the Dead in Mexico and San Francisco.

Dr. Carrothers is assistant professor of sociology at Ohio Northern University. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D, from Kent State University. He has published works on religious conversion, sports riots, and on teaching sociology. Carrothers lives in Ada, Ohio with his wife and cats.

Russ Crawford was born in Ainsworth Nebraska in
1961. He graduated from Chadron State College with a BA in history in 1985, and again in 1991 with a BS in social studies education. He taught social studies in South Dakota for five years, and Spanish in Iowa for three years before returning to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he received his MA in history in 2000, and his
Ph.D. in 2005. His research interests deal with the role of sport in American culture. After teaching in Lincoln for one year, he began teaching at Ohio Northern University. Professor Crawford married Sophie Crawford in 2005, and they currently live in Ada, Ohio.