Kathryn Feltey, Ph.D.

Kathryn Feltey, Ph.D.

Title: Associate Professor Emeritus
Dept/Program: Sociology
Office: Olin Hall 248
Email: felteyk@uakron.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Download in PDF format

Research

Dr. Feltey’s current research focuses on historical conditions shaping the lives of women and children in the U.S. on the frontier in 19th century America and in the Jim Crow south of the early 20th century.

Publications

Cheryl Elman, Kathryn Feltey, Barbara Wittman, Corey Stevens, Molly Hartsough. How the
Struggle for Public Health in the Jim Crow South Reflected and Reinforced Systemic Racial Health
Inequality. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. Published Online 31 Oct. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X24000092

Cheryl Elman, Barbara Wittman, Kathryn Feltey, Corey Stevens, and Molly Hartsough. Women in Frontier Arkansas: Settlement in a Post-Reconstruction Racial State. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 16 (2):575-612.

Education

  • Ph.D. (1988) in Sociology from The Ohio State University
  • M.A. (1982) in Applied Behavioral Sciences from Wright State University
  • B.A. (1978) in Sociology from Wright State University

Courses

Graduate courses:  

Sociology of Gender, Qualitative Methods, and College Teaching of Sociology

Undergraduate courses: 

Introduction to Sociology, Family Violence, Sociology of Sex & Gender, Sociology of Peace & Nonviolence