Jeff Mullis

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-0181
FAX: 404-727-0181
E-MAIL: jmullis@emory.edu

OFFICE: 212 Tarbutton Hall

Degree: Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995

General Research Area: sociology of law, medical sociology, social control, research methods.

Current Research: conflict management in doctor-patient relationships under managed care; the social structure of legal defenses and other counterarguments.

Selected Publications: "The Social Control of Adult-Child Sex," (co-author with Dawn Baunach), in Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (2003); "Individualism and Its Discontents: The Response to the Seriously Mentally Ill in Late Twentieth Century America," (co-author with Allan Horwitz), Sociological Focus, 1998; "Medical Malpractice, Social Structure, and Social Control," Sociological Forum, 1995.