Education

• Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1990
• M.A., Bowling Green State University, 1984
• B.A., Bowling Green State University, 1982

Areas of Teaching expertise

• Research Methods
• Sociology of Education
• Sociology of Adolescence
• Capstone Experience in Youth Studies

Research Interests

• Childhood and Adolescent Socialization
• Education
• Youth Culture
• Identity
• Race and Ethnicity

Selected Publications

• Kinney, David A. & Denise Reiling. 2007. "High School Sociology on the Endangered Species List in Michigan." Footnotes: The Newsletter of the American Sociological Association, pp: 1&3, Vol. 35, Number 9.
• Kinney, David A 2007. "Peer Groups and Peer Culture." Pp. 307-317 In The Praeger Handbook of American High Schools, Volume 2. Kathryn M. Borman, Spencer E. Cahill, and Bridget A. Cotner, (Eds.). London: Praeger.
• Kinney, David A. & Katherine Brown Rosier (Series Co-editors). 2005. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Volume 11. Oxford, England: JAI: An Official Imprint of Elsevier.
• Rosier, Katherine Brown & David A. Kinney. 2005. "Historical and Contemporary Pressures on Children’s Freedom." Pp. 1-20 in Kinney, David A. & Katherine Brown Rosier (Series Co-editors). Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Volume 11. Oxford, England: JAI: An Official Imprint of Elsevier.
• Co-author (with Janet Dunn and Sandra Hofferth) of "Parental Ideologies and Children's After-School Activities." American Behavioral Scientist, 46 (10) 1359-1386, 2003.
• First author (with Katherine Brown Rosier and Brent D. Harger) of "The Educational Institution." Pp. 575-599 in Larry T. Reynolds and Nancy J. Herman (Editors). Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. New York: AltaMira Press: A Division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
• "From 'Headbangers' to 'Hippies: Delineating Adolescents' Active Attempts to Form an Alternative Peer Culture." The Role of Peer Group Stability and Change in Adolescent Social Identity: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. No. 84 Eds. J. McLellan and M. J. Pugh. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. 21 - 36.
• Series Editor, David A. Kinney. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. JAI: An Official Imprint of Elsevier (Oxford, England). 1999 - 2004. Series Co-Editor with Katherine Brown Rosier 2005 - present.
• "From 'Nerds' to 'Normals': The Recovery of Identity among Adolescents from Middle School to High School." Sociology of Education 66 (January 1993) : 21-40.