I’m a sociologist with strong interests in public health

I’m Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Saint Joseph’s University (Philadelphia).

I have also held academic appointments at Indiana University, Buffalo State, UCLA, Brown University, Harvard School of Public Health, and University of Pennsylvania. I served as the American Sociological Association’s Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Joe Biden.

I served on the board of the Clery Center for Security on Campus for twenty years.

I live in San Francisco; I also spend parts of the year in Brigantine, NJ.

My recent work includes:

• College Drinking: Reframing a Social Problem / Changing the Culture. (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2012).
• “Byberry” and “Society Hill” in the online Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. (2013, 2015).
• “Campus Crime.” Pp. 68-70 in Claire Renzetti et al (eds). Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies (2013).
• Consultant to Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo, co-PIs, University of Pennsylvania. (2015-6).
• Presentations at the Eastern Sociological Society (Baltimore, 2013); European Sociological Association (Geneva, 2014); the Kettle Bruun Society for Research on Alcohol (Helsinki, 2015); the Title IX Summit at Rowan University (2017); and the American Society of Criminology (Philadelphia, 2017; San Francisco, 2019).
• Co-author, Guide to Historic Society Hill (2016).
• Co-editor, special issue on college sexual violence, Behavioral Science (2018).
• “Alcohol,” in Encyclopedia of Public Health: Principles, People, and Programs, ed. Sally Kukendall (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2018).
• Responded in 2019 to “Docket ID ED-2018-OCR-0064, U.S. Department of Education’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) about Title IX.” In 2020, I participated in a meeting with Department staff on the rules.
• Op Ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Title IX regulations and college sexual assault (2019).
• Essay posted on Medium about college binge drinking and the threat of the coronovirus (2020).
• “Remembering HenryWechsler” for Harvard School of Public Health Department of Socual and Beahavioral Sciences Newsletter, Spring 2, 2022.
• Chapter: “The role of alcohol in campus crime and misconduct.” Pp. 149-173 in B. S. Fisher and John J. Sloan, III (eds), Campus Crime: Legal, Social, and Policy Perspectives. Fourth Edition; Charles C. Thomas, 2022).
• Tours: City Hall and Civic Center; Founding of the United Nations. San Francisco City Guides. 2018-present.
• Member, San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT), 2018-present.

Contact:

george.dowdall@gmail.com

dowdall.net

Cell/text: 215-876-7775