Judson G. Everitt, PhD
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Judson Everitt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. He has served on the faculty at Loyola since 2009. His research examines the interconnections between organizations, culture, and socialization with a particular focus on the professions. His prior work examines teachers' professional socialization in his book, Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher (Rutgers University Press, 2018), and his additional research on teachers appears in Symbolic Interaction. He has co-authored the most recent edition of The Sociology of Education with Jeanne Ballantine and Jenny Stuber (Routledge, 2022), and he co-authored an updated edition of The Sociology of Childhood with Bill Corsaro (Sage, 2024). His recent work examines how medical students interpret and respond to institutional pressures in healthcare through the student cultures they form in medical school; this work has appeared in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Contexts, and SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. He also examines the cultural authority of medicine in a recent article co-authored with Dana Garbarski and Dana La Vergne published in Social Science & Medicine.
Dr. Everitt earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Indiana University with a doctoral minor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He lives with his spouse and three children in Warsaw, Indiana.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2009
M.A., Sociology
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2004
B.A., Sociology
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 2000
Specialty Area
Sociology of Education; Social Psychology; Cultural Sociology; Youth, Aging, & the Life Course; Organizations, Occupations, & Work; Gender, Race, Class; Healthcare Professions & Public Health; Ethnography; Teaching & Learning.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
- Society in a Global Age (Intro to Sociology)
- Sociology of Education
- Childhood & Society
- Gender & Work
- Self & Society
Graduate:
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Complex Organizations
- Sociology of Education
- Teaching Undergraduate Sociology
Publications/Research Listings
Books
Everitt, Judson G. 2018. . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (Winner of the 2020 Midwest Sociological Society’s Distinguished Book Award)
Ballantine, Jeanne H., Jenny Stuber, and Judson G. Everitt. 2022. (9th edition). New York, NY: Routledge.
Corsaro, William A. and Judson G. Everit. 2024. (6th edition). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Articles
Everitt, Judson G., Dana Garbarski, and Dana La Vergne. 2025. “.” Social Science & Medicine ().
Burr, William H., Judson G. Everitt, James M. Johnson, and Lillian Wynne Platten. 2025. .” Contexts 24:36-41.
Burr, William H., Judson G. Everitt, and James M. Johnson. 2023. “.” SSM – Qualitative Research in Health ().
Everitt, Judson G., James M. Johnson, and William H. Burr. 2022. “.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior (https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465221118584).
Duncan, Christopher P. and Judson G. Everitt. 2022. Symbolic Interaction 45:495-516.
Everitt, Judson G., James M. Johnson, William H. Burr, and Stephanie H. Shanower. 2022. Ethnography 23:559-77.
Everitt, Judson G. 2020. “.” Contexts 19:30-35.
Everitt, Judson G. and Taylor Tefft. 2019. “ .” Symbolic Interaction 42: 564-87.
Everitt, Judson G. and Bradley A. Levinson. 2016. “.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45:115-42.
Everitt, Judson G. 2013. “.” Symbolic Interaction 36: 177-96.
Everitt, Judson G. 2012. “.” Symbolic Interaction 35: 203-20.
Awards
- Master Teacher Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 草莓社区
- Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Freshmen, 草莓社区
- Rated #7, 2013–2014 RateMyProfessor.com