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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 after receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of
Texas at Austin and completing a fellowship at the University of California’s
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. She was recognized
with USF’s University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993. She
founded USF’s Women’s Studies Program and served as its director
from 1992-1997. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995;
received tenure in 1997; and was promoted to the rank of Professor in
2000. From 1995 to 1998 Jennifer was the chair of the Department of
Sociology and from 1998-2003, she served as Associate Dean for Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Jennifer 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. 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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