Prof. Glenn W. Muschert

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Miami University
College of Arts and Science
Sociology and Gerontology
Criminology Faculty
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2003
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Mailing Address

Miami University
Department of Sociology and Gerontology
Upham Hall 375
Oxford, Ohio 45056-1879
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (513) 529-1812
Fax: (513) 529-8525
muschegw@muohio.edu
http://www.users.muohio.edu/muschegw/

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, Sociology, 2002.
B.S., Drexel University, International Area Studies, 1992.

Expertise and Research Interests

I am a sociologist of social problems, whose interests lie in the study of three substantive areas:

1. Surveillance Technologies used in techniques of social control.

2. School shootings. Major projects includue:
a. Crisis management at school shootings, a project in collaboration with research team based at Universitie du Quebec au Montreal.
b. "The Lessons of Columbine," double special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, co-edited with J. William Spencer, Purdue University.

3. News media coverage of high profile crimes and social problems. My research on the media coverage of high profile crimes contributes to the sociological literatures concerning social problems, the discourse of fear, and the social construction of crime and deviance. Currently, I am involved in studies examining the following media events:

a. Rampage school shooting incidents, such as Columbine.
b. Techniques for locating missing persons, including AMBER Alert Plans and Silver Alert Plans.
c. Death row volunteers - i.e., death row convicts who voluntarily stop legal appeals, thereby hastening their own executions. These cases are a subset of those executed in capital punishment cases in the US.
d. Worker displacement.

Other Expertise

Statistical Analysis Skills: Regression Analysis, Data Reduction, Nonlinearity, Nonadditivity.
Softwares: SPSS

Qualitative Analysis Skills: Ethnographic Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Mass Media Analysis and Data Collection.
Softwares: QSR NUD*IST.

Addititonal Substantive Areas of Expertise: Connections between Sociology and Literature, and Self-Identity.

Future Research

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW:

Muschert, Glenn W., C. Lee Harrington, and Heather Reece. "Elected Executions in the U.S. News Print Media." Received revise and resubmit 3/27/08 from Crime, Media, Culture. Revised manuscript submitted 7/02/08.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION:
Muschert, Glenn W. and Leah Janssen. "Deciphering Rampage: A Study of Sequencing in News Coverage of School Shootings." Received revise and resubmit 5/29/08 from Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture.

Muschert, Glenn W. and J. William Spencer. "Deciphering Columbine." Article in preparation for submission to American Behavioral Scientist special issue on "The Lessons of Columbine," 10/31/08.

Muschert, Glenn W., Heather Reece, and C. Lee Harrington. "Setting, Speaking, and Framing in the News Discourse of Elected Executions." Chapter in preparation for submission in book prospectus, 10/31/08.
Muschert, Glenn W. and Anthony A. Peguero. "Socializing Youth toward a Society of Fear, Control, and Inequality: The `Columbine Effect' and School Violence Policy." Article in preparation for submission to Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, 10/31/08.
Lippmann, Stephen, Glenn W. Muschert, Elizabeth Lokon, and Tyler Wadsworth. "Covering Worker Displacement: Frame Changing in Coverage of Layoffs, Downsizing, and Outsourcing, 1980-2007." Article in preparation for submission to peer review journal TBD, 12/30/08.

Song, Kirsten Younghee and Glenn W. Muschert. "Collective Memory of Korean History: A Comparative Study of Koreans in Seoul and Los Angeles." Article under revision for submission to peer review journal TBD, 12/31/08.

Klocke, Brian V. and Glenn W. Muschert. "Recipe for Research in Moral Panics." Article in preparation for submission to peer review journal TBD, 12/31/08.

Muschert, Glenn W. and Gary T. Marx. "Legitimating and Controlling Borders of Information: An Analysis of U.S. State-Level Privacy Legislation." Article in preparation for submission to peer review journal TBD, 3/31/09.

Glenn W. Muschert and J. William Spencer (eds.) "Special Issue: The Lessons of Columbine." Double issue in preparation for the American Behavioral Scientist, ETA 4/20/09.

Song, Kirsten Younghee and Glenn W. Muschert. "Collective Memories in the Korean Diaspora: Exploring the Emigration Effect on Collective Memory." Article in preparation for submission to peer review journal TBD, 5/31/09.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Content Analysis (communications), Criminology, Mass Media, Qualitative Methods (social sciences), Social Control, Sociology, Surveillance Systems, Violent Crime, Youth Violence.

Additional Terms:

Columbine, Death Row Volunteering, Elected Executions, Food Insecurity, Hunger, Juvenile Delinquency, Mass Media Coverage of Crimes, Rampage, School Shootings, Silver Alerts, Social Control, Social Problems, Surveillance, Victimization, Voluntary Executions, Youth Policy, Youth Violence.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
German: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Spanish: (Basic, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

Alpha Phi Sigma - Criminal Justice Honors Society
American Society of Criminology
American Sociological Association
Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
Association for Huamist Sociology
Society for the Study of Social Problems

Previous Positions

2002-2003, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University, Liberal Arts, Sociology and Anthropology, Law and Society Faculty

Funding Received

  • College of Arts and Sciences - Miami University: Summer Research Grant, $4,000.00, June 2005 to August 2005.
  • Graduate School and Office for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship - Miami University: 2004 Summer Research Appointment, $6,500.00, Jun 2004 to Aug 2004.
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC): Research Collaborator on Dumitriu, Camélia. (2008). "La Gestion des Crises: Le Cas des Fuscillades Scolaires" (Crisis Management: The Case of School Shootings),, CDN 150,000.00, 2008 to 2011.
  • Department Development Grant, Howe Center for Writing Excellence, Miami University: Writing Across the Masters of Gerontological Studies Curriculum, $5,000.00, 2007 to 2008.

Publications

  • Robert Perrucci, Kathleen Ferraro, JoAnn Miller, Glenn W. Muschert (eds.) (2008) Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2008, Knoxville, TN, Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Is Subculture Structure of Agency? A Social Strucutural Essay on Hebdige's Subculture, Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 31(1/2), 1-6, 2008
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2008) Frame-Changing in the Media Coverage of a School Shooting: The Rise of Columbine as a National Concern, Social Science Journal, In Press
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2008) Exploring Narrative Hypothesis Testing: The Case of Suicides in Three Novels., Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 31 (1/2), 1-16
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Anthony A. Peguero (2008) School Violence, Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, In Press (bookchapter)
  • (2008) "Simmel on Secrecy: A Legacy and Inheritance for the Sociology of Information." In Christian Papiloud, Cécile Rol (eds), Soziologie als Möglichkeit: 100. Jahre Georg Simmels Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung [The Possibility of Sociology: 100 Years of Georg Simmel's Investigations into the Forms of Social Organization], Wiesbaden, Germany, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, In Press (bookchapter)
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2008) Surveillance, Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, In Press (bookchapter)
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Melissa Young-Spillers (2008) Child Abductions, Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, In Press (bookchapter)
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Ralph W. Larkin (2007) The Columbine High School Shootings In Steven Chermak, Frankie Y. Bailey (eds), Crimes and Trials of the Century, Vol. 2, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 253-66 pages, ISBN=978-0-313-341 (bookchapter)
  • Gary T. Marx, Glenn W. Muschert (2007) Personal Information, Borders, and the New Surveillance Studies, Annual Review of Law & Social Science, 3, 375-95
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2007) Research in School Shootings, Sociology Compass, 1 (1), 60-80
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2007) The Columbine Victims and the Myth of the Juveilie Superpredator, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 5 (4), 351-366
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2007) Andy Wurst In Laura Finlay (eds), Encyclopedia of Juvenile Violence, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 317-9 pages (bookchapter)
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Dawn Carr (2006) Media Salience and Frame Changing across Events: Coverage of Nine School Shooitngs, 1997-2001, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 83 (4), 747-66
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2006) Pop Music in the Social Problems Classroom: Its Use to Illustrate Claims-making in a Juvenile Delinquency Course, Sociological Imagination, 42 (1), 7-16
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Melissa Young-Spillers, Dawn Carr (2006) "Smart" Policy Decisions to Combat a Socal Problem: The Case of Chilid Abductions 2002-2003, Justice Policy Journal, 3 (2), 1-32
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2006) Self-Affirmation through Death: A Contribution to the Sociology of Suicide through Literature, Sociological Inquiry, 76 (3), 297-315
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Book Review of Peter Eglin and Stephen Hester, The Montreal Massacre, Contemporary Sociology, 34(4), 416-8, 2005
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2005) Rejoining Rampage, Contemporary Sociology, 34 (6), 617-9
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Melissa Young-Spillers, Dawn Carr (2005) Child Abduction Policy: Influenced by Media Coverage or Empirical Data?, Ohio Criminal Justice Research Conference, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Columbus Ohio, http://www.drc.state.oh.us/web/Reports/oorc.html
  • Glenn W. Muschert (2004) Surveillance Technologies, Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2004, Knoxville, TN, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 55-62 pages (bookchapter)
  • Glenn W. Muschert, Book Review of Joe L. Kinchloe, The Sign of the Burger, Contemporary Sociology, 32(3), 331-2, 2003
  • Martha E. Gimenez, Glenn W. Muschert, Alice Fothergill (1997) Considerations on Wealth, Class, and Race: A Review Essay, Critical Sociology, 23 (2), 105-16

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Last Updated: 10/7/2008

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