| Justin Snyder is currently a lecturer in the sociology department at the University of Virginia. Recently he has taught such classes as “Sociology of Violence” and “Race and Ethnicity in American Society”. After receiving his degree in History at the University of Illinois-Urbana, he enrolled in the Graduate program here at the University. | |
| -Interview conducted by Florette King | |
| Florette: | What brought you to UVa? |
| Dr. Snyder: | I was interested in the strong emphasis on culture and history. I was interested in studying people’s interpretations on culture. It took a little while to find out what my specific interest were. I studied Race and Ethnicity for a long time and even planned on doing my dissertation on it, but I couldn’t find anything new to talk about. Then I talked to Jeff Olick and was steered in the direction of studying Violence. |
| Florette: | What aspects of violence are you studying? |
| Dr. Snyder: | Well, my primary research was using memoirs of first hand accounts of violence. I am focusing on violence from the Vietnam War to the current war. For my book I am looking at rape, genocide; in Rwanda and Bosnia, the Vietnam and Iraq war, and first hand accounts of 9/11. |
| Florette: | If you could teach any class at UVa what would it be? |
| Dr. Snyder: | Sociology of Violence is my ideal class because it is closest to my research. In the future I would like to teach a class on medical sociology, but I would have to do more research on it first. |
