Clifton D. Bryant
Professor Emeritus
Joined Virginia Tech: 1972
| Bachelor's | University of Mississippi |
| Master's | University of Mississippi |
| Doctorate | Louisiana State University |
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Animal-Related Human Behavior
Violent and Deviant Work and Recreation
The Boy Scouts as Socialization Mechanism
SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Recipient of the 2003-2004 CLAHS Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award.
The Handbook of Death and Dying was selected by the American Library Association as one of the “Outstanding Reference Source” books of 2003.
Recipient of the 2002 Southern Sociological Society Distinguished Contributions To Teaching Award.
Recipient of the 2001 Mid-South Sociological Association Distinguished Book Award (for the Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior) with the special citation of "For Most Distinguished Contribution to the Literature of Sociology."
Recipient of The Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Sociology Department VPI & SU, AY 2001.
Recipient of Fulbright-Hays Award to be a Participant in the U.S. Department of Education's 1998 Seminars abroad Program, China: Tradition and Transformation, June-July, 1998.
Featured as a "Guest Authority" in an episode addressing Burial Rites in the series Ancient Mysteries on the A&E channel, August, 1996. Also listed as "Historical Consultant" in the credits.
Recipient of The Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Sociology Department, VPI&SU, 1996.
Editor-in-Chief, 1978-91; Chair, Editorial Policy Board, and Listed on the Masthead as Founding Editor-in-Chief, 1992-, Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Member, Board of Advisory Editors, Sociological Inquiry, 1981-85; Associate Editor, 1997-2000.
Member, Board of Editors, Society and Animals, 1997-1999.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Bryant, Clifton D., (Editor-in-Chief). Death and Dying: A Reference Handbook. Thousand Oaks (California): Sage Publications, Inc. 2003.
Bryant, Clifton D., (Editor-in-Chief), The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior (Four Volumes). Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge. 2001.
Articles and Chapters
Bryant, Clifton D., “Military Police,” in J. Mitchell Miller (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Criminology. Philadelphia (Pa.): Taylor and Francis Publishers (in press).
Bryant, Clifton D., “Funerals and Funeral Financing,” pp 318-325 in Lois A. Vitt (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Retirement and Finance. Westport (CT.): Greenwood Press (in press).
The following entries are included in Bryant, Clifton D. (Editor-In-Chief). Death and Dying: A Reference Handbook. (2 vol., XLII+1088 pp). Thousand Oaks (California): Sage Publications, Inc. 2003:
Bryant, Clifton D., “Thanatological Crime: Some Conceptual Notes on Offenses Against the Dead as a Neglected Form of Deviant Behavior.”
Bryant, Clifton D., Charles K. Edgley, Michael R. Lemming, Dennis L. Peck and Kent L. Sandstrom, “ Death In the Future: Prospects and Prognosis.”
Bryant, Clifton D., “ Hosts and Ghosts: The Dead as Visitors in Cross-Cultural Perspective.”
Wolfe, Timothy W., and Clifton D. Bryant, “Full Military Honors: Ceremonial Interment as Sacred Compact.”
Moore, James, and Clifton D. Bryant, “ The Black Funeral Director and Culturally Grounded Services.”
Rogers, Watson F., II, and Clifton D. Bryant, “Other Non-Funeral Home Death-Related Work Systems Outside the Funeral Home.”
Bryant, Clifton D., and William E. Snizek, “ the Iceman Cometh: The Cryonics Movement and Frozen Immortality.”
Bryant, Clifton D., and William E. Snizek, “ The Last Will and Testament; A Neglected Document in Sociological Research.”
Bryant, Clifton D., and Donald J. Shoemaker, “Dead Zoo Chic: Some Conceptual Notes on Taxidermy in American Social Life.”
Bryant, Clifton D., “Religious Deviance” in Robin O’Sullivan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Great Barrington (Mass.): Berkshire Reference Works. Sage, 2002.