Timothy Ortyl
Tim's Background Information
Ph.D. Candidate
1152 Social Sciences
ortyl001@umn.eduEducation
M.A. in Sociology, University of Minnesota (2008)
B.A. in Sociology & Political Science, The Ohio State University (2004)Currently serving on the Graduate Student Editorial Board for Contexts
Interest Areas
Gender & Sexualities, Families, Social Stratification, Social Movements & Collective Behavior, Culture: Media & Religion, Adolescent & Young Adult Development2008-2009 Teaching Information:
Fall 2008 Instructor - Sociology 3501: Sociology of Families (Tu/Th 8:15-9:30 AM)
Fall 2008 Office Hours: TBD
Spring 2009 Instructor - Sociology 4551 - Sociology of Sexualities (Tu 5:30-8:00 PM)
Previous Courses Taught
SOC 3221 - Sociology of Gender (Spring 2008)Current Research
University of Minnesota Close Relationships Study
With Professor Kathy Hull
This project draws upon interviews, focus groups, oral histories and archival material to examine the close relationships in the lives of sexual minorities. LGBT people are often invoked as threats to family in 'family values' discourses, even as the gay rights movement focuses more than ever on a range of family issues including marriage and parenting rights. But we have little recent evidence about how ordinary LGBT people think about 'family,' and whether they agree with the LGBT movement's increasing family focus. This study will improve on past research on these issues by including a wide range of people within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, including people who are single, partnered, parents and non-parents, people from a range of racial/ethnic and class backgrounds, and people living outside of big cities as well as urban residents. The goals of this project are to advance theorizing about so-called nontraditional families and to assess how well the current efforts of the national LGBT movement match the needs and priorities of its constituencies.Check it out in the Sociology Department's 2007 Facets Magazine
November 30th, 2005