Dr. Ann M. Goetting - Professor of Sociology

PhD, Western Michigan University - 1978

 

Research interests: Family Violence, Gender, Narrative  

 

E-mail: ann.goetting@wku.edu

Office: 131 Grise Hall

Phone: (270) 745-2253

 

 

 

 

My journal and book publications span a wide range of topics within the areas of family and criminology including divorce, remarriage, in-law relationships, sibling  relationships, parental satisfaction, battering, homicide, and prison life. In the last five years I have co-edited one book (Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology with Sarah Fenstermaker) and authored two more (Homicide in Families and Other Special Populations and Getting Out: Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men). Currently I am Executive Editor of  Humanity & Society, Journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology. In addition to my scholarly interests, I serve as an expert witness for battered women who kill abusers in self defense and for those who have lost child custody to their batterers. In my spare time, I do extensive work with animal rescue in the Bowling Green region.  I enjoy working with self-motivated and committed students with interests in family or crime or both.