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Dr. Marit Berntson

Professor, Chairperson

Location:
302 Trout Hall
Phone:
(540)378-5186

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota
  • B.A., St. Olaf College

Research & Teaching Interests

  • RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Elite Sport Participation
  • Sociology of Sport
  • Intimate Relationships
  • Hooking Up
  • Political Sociology
  • Organized Anti-Semitism
  • Fascism
  • Social Movements and Countermovements
  • TEACHING INTERESTS:
  • Culture & Society
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Sport & Society
  • Sport - Not Just a Game
  • Qualitative Methods & Analysis
  • Quantitative Methods & Analysis
  • Social Movements
  • Political Sociology
  • Women in Politics
  • Politics in Art
  • Fads & Fashions & Movements

Publications

  • 2021. "Fascism," 3rd ed. In Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Lynette Spillman. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2018. "Fascism," 2nd ed. In Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Lynette Spillman. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2017. "Hooking Up and Dating are Two Sides of a Coin," with Tracy L. Luff and Kristi Hoffman. In Jodi O'Brien and Arlene Stein, eds. Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy: A Contexts Reader. Sage, pp. 167-170.
  • 2016. “Hooking Up and Dating are Two Sides of a Coin,” with Tracy L. Luff and Kristi Hoffman. Contexts. Winter: 76-77.
  • 2014. “The Impact of Peers and Perceptions on Hooking Up,” with Kristi L. Hoffman and Tracy L. Luff, College Student Affairs Journal. 32 (1): 129-140.
  • 2014. "College as Context: Influences on Interpersonal Sexual Scripts," with Kristi L. Hoffman and Tracy L. Luff, Sexuality & Culture. 18 (1): 149-165 (online May 2013).
  • 2013. “Fascism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Jeff Manza. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2012. "Lecture Notes & PowerPoint Slides" for Chapters 1-20 of Introduction to Sociology, 8th edition, by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, and Deborah Carr. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
  • 2011. Review of Sünner, Rüdiger. Black Sun: The Mythological Background of National Socialism. Brooklyn, NY: Icarus Films, 2009. Teaching Sociology. 39 (4):