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Biography
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Jennifer Turpin
Professor: Sociology and Dean: College of Arts and Sciences
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Jennifer Turpin has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Francisco since 2003. She came to USF as Assistant Professor of Sociology in 1991. She was promoted to associate professor in 1995; received tenure in 1997; and became full professor in 2000. From 1995 to 1998 Jennifer was the chair of the Department of Sociology and from 1998-2003, served as Associate Dean for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
She holds an Associated Faculty position at the European University Center for Peace Studies (UNESCO) and in the M.A. Program in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Spain. Dr. Turpin was the Founder and Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program from 1992-1997. She received her Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from the University of Texas, Austin.
Professor Turpin's research examines violence and its relationship to the distribution of power. Her research topics include violence in society; the sociology of peace and war; and women and war. She is the author of Reinventing the Soviet Self: Media and Social Change in the Former Soviet Union (Praeger 1995) and Co-editor of Rethinking Peace (Lynne Rienner 1994); The Gendered New World Order: Militarism, Development and the Environment (Routledge 1996); The Web of Violence: From Interpersonal to Global (U. of Illinois Press 1997) The Women and War Reader (New York University Press 1999), and the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (1999). She is married to Robert Elias and they have three children.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-6496
Fax: (415) 422-2113
Email: turpinj@usfca.edu
Office: Harney Science Center, 240
Office Hours: By appointment.
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