Trevor Hoppe
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Sociology/Criminology/Justice
Email Address: tahoppe@uncg.edu
Office: Graham 317
Education
- Ph.D. Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
- M.P.H. Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan
- M.A. Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University
- B.A. Political Science and Sexuality Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research
Professor Hoppe’s research analyzes the social control of sex by institutions of medicine, law, and public health. His book, “Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness” (University of California Press) analyzes the rise of punitive and coercive responses to HIV; Punishing Disease was awarded the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies. He is also the co-editor of “Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era” (with Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Rutgers University Press) and “The War on Sex” (with David Halperin, Duke University Press), which analyzes the punitive social control of sex (and was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies). In addition to these book projects, Hoppe is also researching and publishing on the growth and impact of American sex offender registries, particularly the use of “sexually violent predator” statutes that allow for the civil confinement of sex offenders beyond their court-ordered sentence.
Courses Taught
- SOC 201, “Social Problems”
- SOC 323, “Deviance and Social Control”
- SOC 332, “Law and Society”
- SOC 338, “Sex and Society”