Joined VPI & SU: 1972
EDUCATION:
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University of Mississippi |
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Master's |
University of Mississippi |
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Advanced Graduate Work |
University of North Carolina |
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Doctorate |
Louisiana State University |
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CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:
Deviant Behavior
Sociology of Work and Occupations
Sociology of Death
Military Sociology
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
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.
The following entries included in Bryant, Clifton D.
(Editor-in-Chief). Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant
Behavior. Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge, 2000:
Boyle, Joseph and Clifton D. Bryant, “Vegetarianism as Deviance
(Militant and Violent Vegans).”
Bryant, Clifton D., “Animal-Related Crime.”
Bryant, Clifton D., “Military Crime.”
Richardson, Laura and Clifton D. Bryant, “Grafitti-Sexual.”
Bryant, Clifton D., “Masturbation.”
Bryant, Clifton D., and C. Eddie Palmer, “Massage Parlors.”
Bryant, Clifton D., and Joseph Boyle, “Freaks (to include
‘exploitation’ of etc).”
Bryant, Clifton D., “Gratuitous Sex in Field Research: ‘Carnal
Lagniappe’ or ‘Inappropriate Behavior,’” Deviant Behavior, Vol.
20, No. 4 (October-December, 1999), pp. 325-329.
Durkin, Keith F., and Clifton D. Bryant, "Propagandizing Pederastry: A Thematic Analysis of the On-Line accounts of unrepenant Pedophiles", Deviant Behavior , Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 103-127.
Kressierer, Dana K., and Clifton D. Bryant, "Adoption as Deviance: Socially Constructed Parent/Child Kinship as a Stigmatized and Legally 'Burdened' Relationship." Deviant Behavior, Vol. 17, No. 4 (October-December, 1996), pp. 391-416.
Durkin, Keith F., and Clifton D. Bryant, "'Log on to Sex': Some notes on the Carnal Computer and Erotic Cyberspace as an Emerging Research Frontier." Deviant Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 3 (July-September, 1995), pp, 179-200.
Bryant, Clifton D., Craig J. Forsyth, and C. Eddie Palmer, "Sociology: Issues, Problems, and Solutions for the 21st Century." Sociological Spectrum, Vol. 15, No. 1 (January, 1995), pp. 33-57.
Li, Li, and Clifton D. Bryant, "Impact of Job Characteristics and Coping Processes on Well-Being of American Lawyers," Applied Behavioral Science Review, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1994), pp. 15-29.
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