College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor
Phone: (239)590-7191
E-Mail: kdewelde@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - #30

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder 2003
Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder 2002
B.A., Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 1998

Research and teaching interests: gender, women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), sociology of families, sociology of food, and service learning.

Courses Offered:

SYG 2000 Introduction to Sociology
SYG 2200 Introduction to Gender Studies
SYO 3120 The Family
SYG 3930 Sociology of Food

Recent publications:

Co-authored with Sandra Laursen: "The 'Ideal Type' Advisor: Helping STEM Graduate Students Find Their 'Scientific Feet,'" The Open Education Journal 1 (2008), 49-61.

Co-authored with Sandra Laursen and Heather Thiry: "Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math): A Fact Sheet," Sociologists for Women in Society (2007)

"White Women Beware! Whiteness, Fear of Crime, and Self-Defense," Race, Gender, and Class 10:4 (2003), 75-91.

"Getting Physical: Subverting Gender through Self-Defense," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 32:3 (2003), 247-278.

Co-authored with Eleanor Hubbard: "'I'm Glad I'm Not Gay!': Heterosexual Students' Emotional Experience in the College Classroom with a 'Coming Out' Assignment," Teaching Sociology 31:1 (2003), 73-84.

Current projects:

The Glass Obstacle Course: Barriers for Women in STEM (manuscript in progress)

Resistance to Innovation (in-progress book collaboration with Elaine Seymour)

The Clog in the "Pipeline":  The Role of Work/Life Balance in Shaping Career Choices of STEM Ph.D.-Holders. (manuscript in progress; co-authors: Laursen, S. L., Pedersen-Gallegos, L., Donohue, R., & Rocque, W.)

Recent major conference presentations:

"Choosing For or Against? Work-Life Balance in Academic Career Choices for Women in STEM," to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), San Francisco, August 2009.

"Resistance in Sustaining Pedagogical Innovations: Lessons for Sociology from STEM Innovators," presented at the annual meeting of the ASA, Boston, August 2008.

"Embracing a Service Learning Perspective," presented at the DU Public Good Conference: The Theory and Practice of Public Good Work, Denver, 2007.

"Bridges in Service-Learning: Creating Interdisciplinary Opportunities for Students," presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, 2006.

"'Back Off!': Women, Embodied Agency, and Social Space," presented at the annual meeting of the ASA, Atlanta, 2003.

"For Whites Only? Fear of Crime and Self-Defense as Raced and Classed Experiences," presented at the annual meeting of the ASA, Chicago, 2002.

Service to the profession:

Referee for the following journals:

Co-chair, Committee on Academic Justice, Sociologists for Women in Society

Dr. De Welde is also a founding member of the editorial board of a new journal that is dedicated to undergraduate and graduate research: the Journal of Integrated Social Sciences:

"JISS attempts to provide a platform that fills the void of a unified approach in the social sciences. We are launching our peer-reviewed journal with several disciplines in mind that are central to the social sciences: Psychology, Sociology, Political Sciences, and Gender Studies. Our hope is that students and professionals alike will take advantage of this new outlet for their ideas and quality work, to be shared with others, thereby bridging the isolation that often exists between the various social disciplines. We are therefore particularly interested in interdisciplinary and/or holistically oriented projects and invite you to share such investigations with the rest of the scholarly community."