John Durst

Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology

B.A., Kent State University, 1971

M.A., Ohio University, 1974

Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1994

John Durst has been at Ohio Wesleyan since 1986. Previously, Dr. Durst taught at Ohio University and Ohio State University. Dr. Durst's research interests are in the area of family life, criminology and mental health. His dissertation was a work on prison organization entitled, "Social and Structural Factors which Influence Prison Environments." Currently, along with colleague Dr. Ted Cohen, he is in the final stages of writing and publishing a work in the family area which examines unique family lifestyles, particularly where there is a greater amount of fatherhood involvement than normal. He is in the data collection stages of a study that will compare the outcome differences of a mentally ill criminal offender being placed in a prison environment versus a forensic mental health unit. Most of all, after 25 years of teaching Dr. Durst still enjoys the classroom and interacting with his students.

Courses taught: Crime and Deviance; Race and Ethnicity; Introduction to Sociology; The Family, Methods of Social Research