sociology and anthropology

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY

Matthew Oware 

Ph.D.  ( Indiana University)

Assistant Professor of Sociology
306 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-6699

E-mail: moware@depauw.edu
Vita
 

Matthew Oware is an Assistant Professor at DePauw in Sociology and Anthropology.  His areas of interest are race and ethnicity, gender, social psychology, and class related issues. He has taught Race and Ethnic Relations in America, Contemporary Society (Introductory Sociology), Social Psychology, and the Sociology of Popular Culture. Matthew's dissertation, “Why Did You Choose That?: The Social and Contextual Factors that Influence the Racial Identification of Multiracial Adolescents,” focuses on the factors that influence the racial identification of mixed-race individuals. By evaluating the predictors of multiracial identification this research complements previous literature that suggests that race, as a social category, is fluid and mutable and is also affected by context. Matthew and his co-author, Jason Jimerson, have a February 2006 article in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography entitled, “Telling the Code of the Street: An Ethnomethodological Ethnography.” He is currently writing a manuscript that is a content analysis of female rapper's lyrics from 1992 to 2000.

To keep himself mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy Matthew runs, plays basketball, and lifts weights. He also likes comic books, and at one point was an avid watcher of “serious” Saturday morning cartoons, such as X-men, Spider-man, and the Incredible Hulk.

 Spring 2008

• Soc 201C Persp: Sociology & Hip Hop
• Soc 237 Racial and Ethnic Relations
• Soc 401 Methods of Social Research

Fall 2007

• Soc 100C Contemporary Society
• Soc 410 Senior Seminar

Spring 2007

• Soc 100B  Contemporary Society
• Soc 201    Sociology & Hip Hop
• Soc 410    Senior Seminar

Fall 2006

• Soc 100A   Contemporary Society
• Soc 201     Persp:  Soc and Pop Cultures
• Soc 237     Racial & Ethnic Relations

Fall 2005

on leave

Spring 2006

• Soc 237       Racial/Ethnic Relations
• Soc 319       Individual & Society
• Soc 410       Senior Seminar:  Race, Ethnicity and Racism in the US and Abroad

Fall 2004

• Soc 100b      Contemporary Society
• Soc 197sb     FYS: Sociology of Hip Hop
• Soc 410        Senior Seminar

Spring 2005

• Soc 100c       Contemporary Society
• Soc 201b       Perspective: Sociology & Pop Culture
• Soc 237         Racial/Ethnic Relations
   

Fall  2003

• Soc 237a     Racial/Ethnic Relations
• Soc 237b     Racial/Ethnic Relations
• Soc 410       Senior Seminar in Sociology

Spring 2004

• Soc  100b   Contemporary Society
• Soc  100c   Contemporary Society
• Soc  237     Racial/Ethnic Relations