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The Department of Sociology Address:

238 Townshend Hall
1885 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292.6681
Fax: (614) 292.6687

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Edward Crenshaw

Associate Professor

Office: 212 Townshend
Phone: 614.292.5455
Email: crenshaw.4@sociology.osu.edu

Web: View my web page

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990


Research Interests:

Current research focuses on the social structural determinants of international terrorism and other forms of political violence, as well as the role of demography in international development. Ongoing research interests include globalization and westernization, demography, urban sociology, sociological theory, environmental sociology, and mass media (with special focus on the Internet). Recent publications investigate the differences between leftist and Islamic terrorism, the social determinants of female infanticide, and how globalization influences the adoption of Internet technology.


Recent Publications:

  • Kristopher K. Robison and Edward M. Crenshaw. 2002. Cyber-space and Post-Industrial Transformations: A Cross-National Analysis of Internet Development. Social Science Research 31:334-363.
  • Karen Ehrhardt Martinez, Edward M. Crenshaw and J. Craig Jenkins. 2002. Deforestation and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Cross-National Investigation of Intervening Mechanisms. Social Science Quarterly 83:226-243.
  • Edward M. Crenshaw, Matthew Christenson, Doyle Ray Oakey. Demographic Transition in Ecological Perspective. American Sociological Review. 65(3): 371-391, Jun 2000
  • Matthew Christenson and Edward Crenshaw, N.F. McGinn and E.H. Epstein (eds.). 'Democracy's Handmaiden: Educational Constraints on Political and Economic Modernization.'. Comparative Perspectives on the Role of Education in Democratization: Transitional States and States of Transition. 1: 81-113, 1999
  • Edward Crenshaw and Doyle Ray Oakey. Jump-Starting Development: Hyperurbanization as a Long-Term Economic Investment. Sociological Focus. 31: 321-340, 1998
  • Edward Crenshaw, Ansari Ameen, Matthew Christenson. Population Dynamics and Economic Development: The Differential Effects of Age-Specific Population Growth Rates on Per Capita Economic Growth in Developing Countries, 1965 to 1990. American Sociological Review. 62:974-984, 1997