Department of Sociology and Social Work

James Densley, M.S.

Instructor

James teaches three courses through FHSU's virtual college: Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of the Family in America; and Multiculturalism in the United States. His principal research interests are in criminology, education theory, inequality, and the sociology of organizations.

As a graduate student, James prepared and presented papers that examined the effects of culture and discretion in policing; issues of gender and racial discrimination and difference in the criminal justice system; victims' rights; sociological critiques of restorative justice; cooperative learning in the classroom; the middle school reform movement; and the No Child Left Behind Act.

James is a certified middle childhood education generalist (students with disabilities, grades 5-9), and a former New York City Teaching Fellow. For the past two years, he worked as a teacher and special education coordinator for a New York University partner middle school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. James is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology from the University of Oxford, England. He is located at St. Antony's College, the University's center for international studies and one of the world's leading social science research institutions. James' doctoral thesis concerns a comparative study of youth gang recruitment within schools in the United Kingdom and United States.

James' extra-curricular interests include short-film making and travel.