Dr. Staudenmeier is a Professor of Sociology at Eureka College where he also served as Dean of the College and Vice-President for Academic Affairs. For his research, he was a NIAAA Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, a Visiting Scientist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University collaborating with ILR’s Harry Trice in the early 1990’s. He has been awarded Eureka College’s highest teaching honor and has been active in professional service. Professor Staudenmeier holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington University in St. Louis.
Professor Staudenmeier primarily studies the social response to alcohol historically and comparatively with a focus on the workplace. He has also written on the theorist Georg Simmel and alcohol, worked with Harry Trice on the emergence and diffusion of Alcoholics Anonymous, and explored types of alcohol-related social control across American institutions with David Pittman.
Current Research at ILR
While visiting ILR, Professor Staudenmeier will be using the archives at the Kheel Center to better understand the changing social response to alcohol in American workplaces from 1940-1990. This is part of his current project comparing the alcohol-related workplace response during this time period for three countries that had a post-war movement to improve treatment for alcoholism: the United States, the United Kingdom, and the former Yugoslavia.
William J. Staudenmeier, Jr.
