HOD Faculty [back to HOD Faculty listing]

Valerie Malhotra Bentz, PhD (1991*) Cambria, California
PhD , Southern Illinois University, 1975

Associate Dean, HOD, 1991-1999

Selected Publications:

• Mindful Inquiry in Social Reseach, with Jeremy Shapiro, Sage, 1998, "Body-As-World: Kenneth Burke's answer to postmodernist charges against sociology," Sociological Theory, 1997
• Husserl, Schutz, 'Paul' and Me: Reflections on writing phenomenology, Human Studies; Editor, Women's Power and Roles as Portrayed in Visual Images in the Arts and Mass Media, Mellen Press, 1993
• Becoming Mature: Childhood Ghosts and Spirits in Adult Life, Aldine deGruyter, 1989; "A comparison of Mead's 'self' and Heidegger's 'Dasein'," Human Studies, 1985
  

Awards: Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Honored Scholar, 1999; Faculty Publications Award, The Fielding Graduate Institute, 1998, 1996; Research Associate, Texas Woman's University, 1983; Research grants, Texas Woman's University, 1982-1984.

Memberships: American Sociological Association; Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences; Sociological Practice Association.

Certification: Certified Clinical Sociologist; Certified Body Therapist.

Special Interests: Expressive Writing; Action Research in Mizoram, India; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Body-Based Knowing;Qualitative research; Sociological Practice and theory; deep learning; social psychology; human development; organizational change; the arts.