Professor and University Scholar
Dr. Kain received his B.A., with honors in sociology and religion, from Alma College in Alma, Michigan in 1976. In 1980 he completed his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before coming to Southwestern in 1986, he taught at Cornell University where he received the 1985 Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award. In August of 1997 he received a national teaching award from the American Sociological Association, and he is the 2007 recipient of the ASA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching.
Dr. Kain's research focuses upon social change and families and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has published over 70 books, chapters, articles, and reviews in areas as diverse as gender and mental illness, the social impact of the HIV epidemic, innovative techniques for teaching sociology, and mortality declines and family life.
Courses taught: Social Patterns and Processes; Research Methods; Families in Society; Demography; and Urban Sociology.