• Faculty and Staff Listing

  • Abel, Suzanne
  • Anthony, Ronald W.
  • Arroyo, Julia
  • Auriffeille, Deborah-Associate Department Chair
  • Bakanic, Von
  • Boan-Lenzo, Christopher
  • Borg, Barbara E.
  • Burkett, Tracy
  • Dalyan, Can
  • Dickinson, George E.
  • Finnan, Christine-Department Chair
  • Foley, Allison
  • Gilmore, Joanna
  • Hatteberg, Sarah
  • Hays, Maureen
  • Hoffmann, Heath
  • Huber, Brad R.
  • Joyce, Dee Dee
  • McReynolds-Perez, Julia
  • Morris, David
  • Parker, Reba
  • Platt, Sarah
  • Pyszka, Kimberly
  • Qirko, Hector
  • Quinn, E. Moore
  • Rashford, John H.
  • Roof, Paul
  • Saavedra-Espinosa, Mariana
  • Sanders, Brenda S.
  • Sattes, Corey
  • Stein, Ann
  • Winfield, Idee
  • Zierden, Martha
• About the Department

Professor of Sociology

Address: 19 St. Philip Street, Room 204
Phone: 843.953.7143
E-mail: burkettt@cofc.edu
Blog: http://blogs.cofc.edu/burkettt/

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of South Carolina
Dissertation:  "Cosponsorship in the United States Senate:  A Network Analysis of Senate Communication and Leadership, 1973-1990"

M.A., Sociology, University of South Carolina
Thesis:  "Political Networks of South Carolina State Legislators"

B.S., Political Communication, Florida State University

Courses Taught

• SOCY 101:  Introduction to Sociology
• SOCY 102:  Contemporary Social Issues
• SOCY 271:  Introduction to Social Research
• SOCY 346:  Environmental Sociology
• SOCY 357:  Political Sociology
• SOCY 360:  Class, Power and Privilege
• SOCY 390:  Senior Seminar- Social Networks

Publications

Barnes, Roy and Tracy Burkett. 2010. “Structural Redundancy and Multiplicity in Corporate Networks.” Connections: 30 (2).

Lawyer, Stephen, Heidi Resnick, Von Bakanic, Tracy Burkett, and Dean Kilpatrick. 2010.  “Forcible, Drug-Facilitated, and Incapacitated Rape and Sexual Assault Among Undergraduate Women.” Journal of American College Health, 58 (5), 453-460.

Sirmons, Karen, George Dickinson, and Tracy Burkett. 2010. Teaching End-of-Life Issues: Survey of US Dental Schools and Dentists. Journal of Dental Education, 74 (1), 43-49.

Breedlove, William, Tracy Burkett and Idee Winfield. 2007. “Collaborative Collaborative Testing, Gender, Learning Styles, and Test Performance.” MountainRise: 4(1).

Halfacre, Angela, Deborah McCarthy, Tracy Burkett, and Alicia Carvajal. 2006. “Latino Migrant Farmworkers in the South Carolina Lowcountry:A Demographic Profile and an Examination of Pesticide Risk Perception and Protection in Two Pilot Case Studies".  Human Organization: 65:(1). 55-71.

Breedlove, William, Tracy Burkett and Idee Winfield. 2005. “Collaborative Testing and Test Anxiety.” Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: 4(2).

Breedlove, William, Tracy Burkett and Idee Winfield. 2004. “Collaborative Testing and Test Performance. Academic Exchange Quarterly: 8(3).

Still, Brenda, Tracy Burkett, George Dickinson and Robert Tournier. 2004. “Decisions Regarding Hospice Referrals: The Role of Physicians.” Forthcoming. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. 21(3): 196-202.