Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Avila University
Kristopher Proctor is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Avila University. Kris completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship studying postsecondary education at Stanford University. He is interested in US postsecondary school organizational structures, with a particular focus on curricular structures and change. His recent projects have explored interdisciplinary programs, general education requirements, and longitudinal changes in the prevalence of curricular fields. Prior to Stanford, Kristopher completed his graduate work at the University of California, Riverside, where he also served as the data manager for the Colleges and Universities 2000 project’s two higher education databases: the Institutional Data Archive (IDA) and the College Catalog Study (CCS). Kristopher received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, with emphases in criminology and sociological theory. He received his baccalaureate degree in Sociology from the University of Washington.