'For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.' ... Benjamin Franklin

'The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.' ... B.B. King

'You can observe a lot just by watchin’. ... Yogi Berra

'If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth.' ... Vaclav Havel

Professor of Sociology
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
office:   202F Ackerman
email:   bgrigsby@eou.edu

Formal education

• PhD in Sociology, Washington State University
• M.S. in Forest Resources, University of Idaho
• BA in Psychology, William Jewell College

Research interests

• Society and environment–natural resource issues, property rights, social and environmental change, both internationally and domestically;
• Society and technology–use of computer and information technology to expand access to health care in rural areas;
• International development–property rights, gender and social change in rural Africa
• Politics and media–news media, propaganda, power, politics
• Social welfare–of particular interest are issues related to local hunger and relief efforts

Crudely, think of Sociology as a discipline that seeks to examine important concepts and issues–whose true nature or even existence may be hard to perceive–to show how they can be connected to our lives as individuals and collectively, up to and beyond societies, and ideally how such an understanding offers promise of a more just and sustainable world.