Professor; Director, Research Program on Transcultural and Intercultural Philanthropic and Non-profit Studies; Adjunct Professor of: African Studies,American Studies, Cultural Studies, International Studies, Philanthropic Studies, and Sociology;
2007-08 PUC-Rio Distinguished Fulbright Chair, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma Mater:Masters of Sacred Theology,Boston University, 2005;
M.A.,PhD, Northwestern University, 1977;
BA magna cum laude, summa cum laude in Sociology,admitted as Educational Opportunity Student,California State University Fresno, 1973
Email: jstanfie@indiana.edu
Phone: (812) 856-0585
Office: Memorial Hall East, M-37
Courses on African-descent religious experiences in the United States and elsewhere; comparative sociological historical studies of race and politics in societies and global spheres; restorative justice in divided institutions, communities, and societies; classical social theories; the sociology of knowledge; justice social science epistemologies, theories, and methods; diversity and inclusion in government, education, business, and nonprofit sectors in cross-national perspectives.
Restorative justice solutions to race as forms of dehumanization in Brazil, South Africa, and the U.S.; the autobiographical groundings of national and transnational networks of transformers of racially segmented communities and societies; comparative histories of academic and non-academic sociological,anthropological, and psychological thought amd practices in colonial-based European descent multiracialized nation-states; the cultural contextualization,ethics, politics,and uses of sciences and their epistemologies, theories, and methods in culturally plural societies; culturally pluralistic civic identities and civic practices; open people in exclusive organizations, communities, and societies; and global best practices in access programs to assist the mobility of the nonaffluent into higher education, government, and non-profit sectors.
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