Sandra Marquart-Pyatt Michigan State University, USA

Sandy joined the Sociology department at Utah State University in fall of 2004. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH in 2004 with specializations in Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Comparative Social Change, and Social Psychological Aspects of Democratization. Her research and teaching interests include environmental sociology, research methods and statistics (especially hierarchical linear modeling and structural equation modeling), social change and development, social movements, political sociology (emphasizing democracy and democratization), and social psychology.