Meet the Editors

Stephanie Medley-Rath is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at Indiana University Kokomo and the editor for TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Her areas of expertise include the sociology of autobiography, cognitive sociology, introductory sociology, and the teaching and learning of research methods throughout the undergraduate sociology curriculum.

Her research has appeared in Socius, The Qualitative Report, Symbolic Interaction, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, and Teaching Sociology and she has numerous teaching artifacts published in TRAILS. She is the 2019 recipient of the John F. Schnabel Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the North Central Sociological Association. She is past-chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology. She holds a doctorate and master’s degree in sociology from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Gregory T. Kordsmeier is the director of the Institute for Learning and Teaching Excellence and an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University Southeast, where he teaches the sociology of health and medicine, the self and social interaction, social problems, social theory, and social research methods.

He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars and the Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award from the American Sociological Association, the John F. Schnabel Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the North Central Sociological Association and the Trustees Teaching Award from Indiana University Southeast. He served as the editor of TRAILS, the American Sociological Association’s Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.

His research in the scholarship of teaching and learning includes best practices for using podcasts as teaching tools and interventions to better engage the cultural capital of first-generation college students and increase their success and retention. He holds a doctorate and master’s degree in sociology form the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.