VITA
Sept. , 1999
NAME: Charles L. Cappell
RANK: Associate Professor
Director and Founder, Sociology Quantitative Research Laboratory NIU
ADDRESS: Home: 6N812 Longacre Dr. Office: Department of Sociology &
St. Charles, IL 60175 Social Science Research Inst. - 188
(630) 377-8575 3rd and Locust Streets
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 753-1173
email: ccappell@niu.edu
BIRTH DATE: August 6, 1946
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Sociology 1982. University of Chicago 1974-1980.
Dissertation: Professional Projects and the Private Production of Law.
Committee: Edward O. Laumann, Chairman
James S. Coleman
John P. Heinz, Northwestern Univ. Law School
Terry N. Clark
Special field examinations: (1) Advanced Applied Statistics; (2) Community and Urban Systems
Languages: German: Ph. D. Language Exam (high pass). French: Reading Knowledge
M.A. Sociology 1974. University of Illinois (Chicago) 1973-1974
M.A. Thesis: The Etiology of Child Abuse
B.A. Major: Physics Minor: Mathematics . MacMurray College 1964-1968, Jacksonville, Ill.
EMPLOYMENT:
1989-Pres: Department of Sociology and Social Science Research Institute, Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, IL. (Director and Founder of the Sociology Quantitative Research Laboratory. Associate Professor)
1983-1989: Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. (Assistant Professor).
1980-1983: Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (Assistant Professor).
1979: Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago (Lecturer in Behavioral Sciences, Summer Session).
1975-1980: American Bar Foundation, in the following capacities:
Research Assistant: Chicago Bar Project (1975-76)
Research Associate, Chicago Bar Project (1976-78)
Statistical Consultant and Research Associate (1978-80)
Affiliated Scholar (1980-1986)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Journal Articles
"Social Science in the Information Age: The Ascendance of Methodology.@ N.I.U. Faculty Bulletin.
NIU Faculty Bulletin 60:32-41. 1997
"An empirical comment on the state of sociology." American Sociologist 26:78-123 (Summer, 1995).
"The impact of Dubuque Packing Company upon the collective bargaining practices of attorneys and their clients." With Lorraine Schmall. Stetson Law Review (Vol. 24 No. 1, 1994).
"The State of Sociology". Illinois Sociological Association Newsletter. June, 1993.
"Visible Colleges: The Structure of Organizational Association within Sociology." with T. Guterbock. American Sociological Review 57:266-273. (April, 1992)
"Prison Commitments, Crime and Unemployment: A Theoretical and Empirical Specification for the U.S., 1933-83." with G. Sykes. Journal of Quantitative Cr iminology Vol. 7:155-199. (1991).
"The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence." with R. Heiner. Journal of Family Violence. Vol. 5:135-152. (1990).
Technical Reports
The Impact of Export Restrictions on Scientific Knowledge and Technology: Results from a Survey of Physical Scientists and Engineers. An Executive Report prepared for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Nov. 1993.) (150 manuscript pages)
National Survey of State Legislators: Synopsis Report, 1990. DeKalb, Il. Social Science Research Institute, Northern Illinois University. 1991. (31 pages).
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS:
"Patterns of Violence Within U.S. Families: A Simultaneous Group Latent Structure Analysis of Violent Family Interactions." Paper presented at the Conference on Social Science and Statistics: In Honor of the Late Clifford C. Clogg. Sept. 26-28, 1996, Pennsylvania State University.
"Decisions to relocate work: Context and Consequences of Recent NLRB decisions." with Prof. Lorraine Schmall. Law and Society Meetings, Toronto, June, 1995.
RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:
"Development and Evaluation of Computer-Aided Instruction in the Methods of Scientific Sociology." 6/1998-6/2001 National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education – Course and Curriculum development: $160,815.
"Development of a Quantitative Research Laboratory in Sociology," 1995-97 Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement/National Science Foundation: $31,200 + $31,200 from N.I.U.).
"Effects of Recent National Labor Relations Board Decisions on Collective Bargaining over Plant Relocation Decisions." With Lorraine Schmall (Associate Professor of Law, N.I.U.) AFL-CIO Fund for Labor Relations Study, 1993-1998, extended to 12/2000: $20,000; matched with $2,500 from the NIU Graduate School and College of Law.