Contact Information
209 Chapell Wilson Hall
Boone, NC 28608
Voice: 828.262.2293
Fax: 828. 262.2294

Department Chair
Ed Folts 
foltswe@appstate.edu

Social Work Director
Leon Ginsberg
ginsberglh@appstate.edu

Sociology Director
Bradley Nash, Jr.
nashb@appstate.edu

Social Science MA Director
Ken Muir
muirkb@appstate.edu

Gerontology Director
Ed Rosenberg
rosenberge@appstate.edu

Office Manager
Katherine Sbarbaro
sbarbaroka@appstate.edu  
Web Manager
Jammie Price
pricejl@appstate.edu

Trina N. Seitz, Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, Virginia Tech

Specialties: NC Death Penalty History Extralegal Methods of Social Control Lynching & Mob Violence in the South Email:seitzk@appstate.edu Voice: 828.262.6387 Scholarship Received a $3800 university grant for research on executed inmates in North Carolina during 1930-1939, which will lead to the publication of a book. Currently working on another book entitled Death in a Southern State: Capital Punishment in North Carolina, 1909-1940 (LSU Press). Electrocution and the Tar Heel State: The Advent and Demise of a Southern Sanction, Forthcoming, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Summer 2006.