Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of Asian Studies
Office Location: WT 405
Phone Number: (262) 472-1309
Email Address: neumanl@uww.edu

W. Lawrence Neuman (Ph.D., UW-Madison) is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the UWW Asian Studies program. He is faculty coordinator for UWW student exchange programs with universities in Asia. Recently courses taught include Urban Sociology, Social Research Methods, Political Sociology, Social Stratification and Inequality, Sociology of Pacific Asian, Race & Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective, Asian Americans, International Studies Seminar on Globalization, and Contemporary Japanese Society. He has led several travel study courses to Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Neuman has published about thirty articles and book chapters, which have appeared in the 21st Century Encyclopedia of Sociology, Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Social Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Critical Asian Studies, Teaching Sociology, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Sociological Quarterly, and other scholarly venues. He published several books, including Reader in Social Inequality, Understanding Research, Social Research Methods, Basics of Social Research, Power, State & Society: Introduction to Political Sociology, Social Work Research Methods (co-author Krueger), Criminal Justice Research Methods (co-author Weigand) and Criminal Justice and Criminology Research (co-author Kraska).  He was a Fulbright Scholar to Japan and delivered invited lectures at several Chinese, Korean and Japanese universities.

Dr. Neuman received UWW's highest award for research, the Chancellor's Award for service to students with disabilities, the College of Letters and Sciences awards for outstanding teaching, excellence in research, and outstanding service, and the Wisconsin Sociological Association's George Floro Outstanding Service Award. He is a former president the Wisconsin Sociological Association and served on the executive committees of the Japan Studies Association and the Midwest Japan Seminar, UW-System Teaching Fellow, and Fellow of the East-West Center Asian Studies Development Program.

Current research interests include national identity and fear of the Other, racial-ethnic categorization policies, immigration, Japanese social policy and national identity, and the U.S. anime fan subculture.