Dr. Patrick F. Gillham
Associate Professor

I completed my PhD in Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2003.  Before coming to the University of Idaho, I was an assistant professor at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. In 2012 I was promoted to associate professor at Idaho. My research is both quantitative and qualitative in nature and focuses on social movements, globalization, and the policing of protest in western democracies.  In particular, I have studied cross-national participation in the European environmental movement, varying levels of protest groups’ involvement in the global justice movement, and the policing of global justice and other protests in the U.S.  I am extending my analysis of protest policing to Canada, the U.K. and other European nations.  In addition, I am exploring impact of the networks and concerns for maintaining legitimacy on organizational involvement in the global justice and occupy movements.  

I enjoy teaching courses in social control, policing, political sociology, social conflict, social movements, globalization, and social theory.  I integrate an international perspective into many of my courses in order to address the complexity and inequality evident in our interconnected and globally stratified world.