Rate My Professor Kevin McElmurry

Kevin McElmurry serves as Associate Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Indiana University Northwest, where he also holds the position of Associate Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Missouri in 2009. McElmurry is actively involved in faculty development and teaching innovation, having served as a Research Fellow in Virtual Reality with the Center for Innovation and Scholarship in Teaching and Learning from 2020 to 2022. He has been recognized as a winner of the 2020 Innovate Award from the Indiana University Faculty Academy for Creativity in Teaching (FACET), highlighting his contributions to pedagogical advancements. Additionally, he has acted as FACET Associate Director at IU Northwest and is listed among the faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies program. McElmurry also serves as an academic advisor for Sociology students.

His scholarly publications reflect interests in sociological theory, religious culture, and educational practices. Key works include 'Assessing collaborative, project-based learning models in introductory science courses' published in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in 2019, 'Strictness and congregational growth in Middletown' in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion in 2003, 'Alone/together: The production of religious culture in a church for the unchurched,' his 2009 dissertation from the University of Missouri, and 'From subtraction to multiplicity: new sociological narratives of morality under modernity' in the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology in 2018. Other publications encompass 'Interactionism and the Construction of Sociology' and 'The faultline of consciousness: A view of interactionism in sociology,' both in 2003 in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, as well as 'Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture' in Sociology of Religion in 2012, and contributions to geological education such as 'Using Local Geology to FOSTER a Collaborative, Project-Based Curriculum in Introductory Geoscience Laboratories' in 2018. McElmurry maintains offices at Dunes 2150 and Arts & Sciences 2090, with phone (219) 980-6829.