IFIR


A Partnership of
The Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky
and
The Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy at Morehead State University
David R. Rudy
Dean, Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy

Morehead State University
Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy
110G Combs
Morehead, Kentucky 40351

Phone: (606) 783-5420
Fax:     (606) 783-5092
E-mail: d.rudy@moreheadstate.edu
  

Biography:

Dr. Rudy, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy at Morehead State University, earned the Ph. D. in sociology at Syracuse University. Author of Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism (1986, Southern Illinois University Press) and co-editor (with Jim Orcutt) of Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems (2003, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.). Rudy’s current research interests include regional program development, policy analysis, alcohol-related social movements, and drinking behavior. Professor Rudy’s prior work has appeared in Sociological Analysis, Sociological Inquiry, Qualitative Sociology, Sociology and Social Welfare, The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and several anthologies. Dean Rudy’s administrative and political roles involve intergovernmental partnerships in community and educational capacity building, economic development, and homeland security. He and his staff have attracted funding support from EDA, HUD, NOAA, NSF, SBA, USDA, USDE, and others.

Recent Publications:

  • Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems (with J. Orcutt), Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, INC, 2003.
  • Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
  • "Alcoholics Anonymous and Related Alcohol Strategies," The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, London: Taylor and Francis, Inc., Philadelphia, 2000.
  • "On the Margins of the Sacred," (with Arthur Greil), Pp. 219-232, In Gods We Trust, edited by T. Robbins and D. Anthony, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1990.
  • "Social Cocoons: Encapsulation and Identity Transformation Organizations," (with Arthur Greil) Sociological Inquiry, 54: 260-278, 1984.
Research in Progress:
  • Entrepreneurs and Organizations in the Early US Alcoholism Movement (1930 through 1950) with Edward B. Reeves
  • Societal Response and the Moral Regulation of Public Drinking Space, Journal of Substance Use (forthcoming)
  • Social Networks and the Diffusion of Alcohol Research (with Edward B. Reeves)