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Rocky L. Sexton

Research Assistant Professor

143 Biological Sciences , Community Health
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy., Dayton, OH 45435-0001

E-mail: rocky.sexton@wright.edu

Office Phone: 937-775-2066
Fax: 937-775-2214
pager: 937-409-0037

EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1996 (Anthropology) University of Iowa; M.A. 1990 (Anthropology) Louisiana State University; B.A. 1988 (Anthropology and History) Southern Illinois University. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cultural/Applied Anthropology, Drug and Alcohol Studies, Public Festivals and Rituals, Ethnicity. REGIONAL INTERESTS: French Louisiana, Southern U.S. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Sexton, Rocky L., Carlson, Robert, Leukefeld, Carl, & Brenda Booth. (In-press). “Methamphetamine Use and Adverse Consequences in the Rural Southern United States: An Ethnographic Overview.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs; Sexton, Rocky L., Carlson, Robert, Siegal, Harvey, Leukefeld, Carl, & Brenda Booth. (2006). “The Role of African-American Clergy in Providing Informal Services to Drug Users in the Rural South: Preliminary Ethnographic Findings.” Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse 5(1); Sexton, Rocky L., Carlson, Robert, Siegal, Harvey, Falck, Russel, Leukefeld, Carl, & Brenda Booth. (2005). “Barriers and Pathways to Diffusion of Methamphetamine Use Among African Americans in the Rural South: Preliminary Ethnographic Findings.” Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse 4(1); Sexton, Rocky L. & Harry Oster. (2001). "Une 'Tite Poule Grasse ou La Fille Ainee?: A Comparative Analysis of Cajun and Creole Mardi Gras Songs." The Journal of American Folklore 114(452); Sexton, Rocky L. (2001). "Ritualized Inebriation, Violence, and Social Control in Cajun Mardi Gras." Anthropological Quarterly 74(1); Marshall, Mac, Sexton, Rocky L., & Lee Insko. (1994). "Inhalant Abuse in the Pacific Islands: Gasoline Sniffing in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. Pacific Studies 17(2); Sexton, Rocky L. (1992). "Cajun and Creole Treaters: Magico-Religious Folk Healing in French Louisiana." Western Folklore 51(3).


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