Bill Rocque

Academic Interests and Areas of Expertise

• Social construction of autism
• “Deviant” embodiment
• Gender and sexuality, especially masculinity
• Knowledge construction/science and technology studies
• Social theory
• Qualitative research.

Description of Research

I am interested in embodiment and imperatives of normalcy, themes I have pursued in a study of the social organization of autism as it is enacted in a locale. I have also begun to pursue these themes in research that has the construction and performance of masculinity as its subject.

Courses Offered at Redlands

• SOAN 100 Introduction to Sociology
• SOAN 230 Bodies and Society
• SOAN 301 Fieldwork and Ethnographic Methods
• SOAN 345 Interrogating Masculinity
• SOAN 430 Power, Marginality, and Exclusion

Degrees Held

• Ph.D. Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2007
• B.A. Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, 1997

Publications, Presentations and Panels

Rocque, Bill. 2010. “Science Fictions: Figuring Autism as Threat and Mystery in Medico-Therapeutic Literature.” Disability Studies Quarterly, 30(1).

Larsen, Sandra and Bill Rocque. (2009 March/April). “Faculty Development for Institutional Change: Lessons from an Advance Project.” Change, 18-26.

Rocque, Bill. Forthcoming June 2010. “Mediating selfhood. Exploring the construction and maintenance of identity by mothers of children labeled with autism spectrum disorder.” Disability & Society, 25(4).