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People > Faculty > Mark Schafer
Mark Schafer
PhD, Indiana University, 1999
Associate Professor
Phone: 225 578 5357
Email address: mschaf1@lsu.edu
Office: 131 Agricultural Administration Building
Curriculum Vitae | |
I joined the Sociology Department at LSU in 1999, after receiving my PhD from Indiana University. My research in graduate school and in my early career focused on educational expansion and development in Third World and in Africa. My work on the role of International NGOs in promoting Third World educational expansion and development has appeared in Sociology of Education and Sociological Perspectives. My dissertation research explored family and community response to weak state educational capacity in Malawi and Kenya. I have recently published articles on family enrollment trends (in Comparative Sociology) and community self-help contributions (in Rural Sociology) and I have a third article focusing on the relationship between household structural change and enrollment strategies of rural families under review in The Sociological Quarterly. I have a forthcoming article in Sociology of Education examining Francophone versus Anglophone influences on the shape of enrollment expansion in sub-Saharan Africa.
My current research focuses on the implications of educational reform for rural schools in the United States. With Makiko Hori, I have a forthcoming article on the spatial dynamics of high school dropout in rural Louisiana, which links dropout rates to school processes and regional clusters. I am pursuing several additional projects broadly surrounding rural versus urban capacity to meet the requirements of school accountability and No Child Left Behind in Louisiana.
Courses recently taught at LSU
(Syllabi provided below are only for illustrative purposes and are subject to change every semester)
Sociology 2201: Introduction to Statistical Analysis
Sociology 2351: Rural Sociology
Sociology 2511: Race Relations
Sociology 4341: Social Change
Sociology 4431: Sociology of Education
Sociology 4551: Sociology of Development
Sociology 7351: Comparative International Development |
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