Curriculum Vitae
Sharon Sarles
PRESENT POSITION AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Instructor, Temple Junior College September 2001- May 2006
Adjunct Instructor, Wayland Baptist September 1994- December 1995
Substitute, South Plains College Summer 1995
EDUCATION
1998 Masters of Arts, Sociology, Texas Tech University
1989 Masters of Divinity, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, The University Texas at Austin with Highest Honors and Special Honors in Sociology
1982 Montessori Diploma, St. Nicholas, commended
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
1988 Newell Fellowship, for continuing education, awarded based on scholarship
1986-8 Jean Brown Scholarship, based on academic merit and promise for ministry (highest honor awarded to current student; more than a full scholarship)
1987 Letter from Professor C. Ellis Nelson to Dean Robert Shelton, alerting him of completion of thesis level paper, completed to a high standard
Elected Phi Beta Kappa
1986 Awarded Highest Honors and Special Honors in Sociology upon graduation from Bachelor’s program after two years of study at The University of Texas
1985 Phi Kappa Phi, Gold Key, Alpha Kappa Delta
ORIGINAL SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2009 Secrets for Success in Tutoring – Staff Training, Austin Community College
2008 Increasing Student Engagement – NISOD presentation
Individual Attention Increases Course Engagement – Bibliography
Faculty Outreach NISOD presentation with Dr. A. Maldonado
1998 Secularization and Sacralization: a Comparative Study – Master’s Thesis
The Links Between Learning Disabilities and Juvenile Delinquency – accepted at Mid-South Sociological Association, October
Positive Deviance Reconsidered – accepted at Second Annual Student Research Conference, West Texas A&M University, November 1995
Secularization and Sacralization – accepted at Southwestern Sociological Conference, March 1996
Expressions of Dominance in Woman to Woman Communication
Community: A case study of one residential collective settlement in “The Move of God” - thesis length ethnomethodological study of a utopian pentecostal collective settlement.
The Community Dimension of Church Growth : Differential recruitment rates of congregations – undergraduate honors research project