Office: 457 Strong Hall
Phone: (417) 836-6418
E-Mail: TriciaMcTague@MissouriState.edu
Spring '11 Office Hours: 12:30-3:00 MW; or by appointment
Tricia McTague joined the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Missouri State University as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in Fall 2009. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in sociology from North Carolina State University, completing her B.A. in 1999 and Ph.D. in 2010.
Tricia’s areas of specialization include social inequality, the sociology of work and organizations, social movements, and qualitative research methods. Her research centers on the reproduction of inequality, the organizational and institutional contexts providing opportunities for social change, and the processes by which people individually resist and collectively change systems of race, class, and gender inequality. Tricia’s dissertation investigates the use of managerial control regimes to gain consent among low-wage, low-status retail workers. Her work shows how these strategies can backfire, inadvertently creating opportunities for worker resistance.
Tricia significantly contributes to the Department’s growing public sociology emphasis building teaching and research partnerships between faculty, students, and the Springfield community.