2008 Ted Mills Award for Outstanding Faculty Environmental Teaching

Dr. Thomas Shriver Professor of Sociology, received a masters degree in 1992 and a doctoral degree in 1995, both from the University of Tennessee, and was immediately hired by OSU as an Assistant Professor of Sociology.  Dr. Shriver has authored or co-authored 24 paper in journals such as American Sociology Review, Society and and Natural Resources, Social Science Journal, and American Journal of Environmental Science.

Dr. Shriver designed and directed the Environmental Sociology concentration until Fall 2007.  He developed three courses at the graduate level including the Seminar in Environmental Sociology, Advanced Topics in Environmental Sociology, and Seminar on the Contemporary Environmental Movement.

Tom works hard to engage graduate students through facilitated discussion and helps them develop critical thinking skills necessary to participate in meaningful research projects.  His participatory teaching style encourages students to develop their own analytical approaches to issues that they will encounter as citizens.