Daniel Stuhlsatz received his Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology in 1973 from Wichita State University,
Master's Degree in Sociology in 1988 from the University of Wyoming and Ph.D. in Sociology
in 1998 from the University of Virginia. In between these three academic markers in
his life, Daniel worked many jobs in many places, but only had two careers: one in
carpentry and one in sociology. After receiving a doctorate, Daniel worked for a year
on the research faculty at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University
of Virginia, and then moved on to a full-time teaching position at Mary Baldwin College
in Staunton, Virginia. This is his tenth year at Mary Baldwin. Daniel's doctoral
dissertation was in the Sociologies of Culture and Religion; the topic was cultural
diversity and the legitimation of truth in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church. He supported
himself while writing his dissertation by working as a Research Assistant at the Weldon
Cooper Center, focusing on educational inequality. The latter interest persisted beyond
graduation, and today his research is still in the Sociology of Education. A few
years ago the college awarded Daniel tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
He is currently head of the Sociology and Social Work Department. Both Mary Baldwin
and Staunton, Virginia, have been good to Daniel, his wife Sheila and son Sean. The
community has even elected him to the School Board. If Daniel has any complaints it
would be that the Virginia mountains do not extend above timberline, and so hiking
and mountaineering, his passions, are just not the same as they were in Wyoming.
