BIOGRAPHY

Professor Mauldin's areas of specialization include research methodology, criminology, community development, and the construction of inequalities. He has served as the primary advisor on over 50 thesis projects covering diverse areas such as parental involvement and delinquency, the interaction of culture, self-perception, and depression in Native American youth, cohesion and social resiliency in artificially constructed communities, the effects of poverty on risk perception and behaviors, and the relationship between perceived status and social dominance orientations. In addition to his teaching duties, he works as a research consultant and has overseen projects such as tribal census surveys, community well-being and safety initiatives, and community income certification.

His past research can be found in journals such as Sociological Imagination, Race, Gender and Class, the Research Journal of Social Science, Active Learning in Higher Education, and the International Journal of Humor Research.