FRANK PAGE

       I graduated from the University of Utah with a B.S degree in 1969. I completed my Master's in Education in 1972. From 1972 until 1985, along with my brother, I owned and operated Page Amusement and Vending Company. From 1986 to 1989 I lived in New Jersey with my wife who at the time was working for Sesame Street. While there I worked as a musician playing the piano and singing in clubs and restaurants. After moving back to Salt Lake City in 1990, I was accepted into the Ph.D program in Sociology at the University of Utah. I finished my doctorate in 2000. My initial teaching experience was acquired while obtaining my Master's Degree in Education. At that time, I taught Psychology at the high school level for one year. Much of my early college teaching experience took place at the University of Utah. While working on my doctorate, I was an Adjunct Instructor from l992 through l997. During that time, I taught one and sometimes two or three courses per quarter. From 1998 through 2001, while  finishing my dissertation, I taught at Salt Lake Community College. From December 2002 through August 2003 I held the position of Temporary Assistant Professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. From 2004 to 2019, I was a full-time Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Utah.  During that time I taught a number of classes that included Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Social Inequality, Race Class and Gender, Deviance, Marriage and Family, Criminology, Rural Sociology, and Research Methods. In 2019 my rank was raised to Assistant Professor Lecturer, and then in 2024 to Associate Professor (lecturer). I am currently teaching Social Theory, Sociology of Religion, Social Psychology, and Sociology Through film. I proposed and developed the Sociology of Religion course, which is now cross-listed in the Humanities Religious Studies program. I am also teaching Sociology Through Film, a class I also proposed and developed. I received the Professor of Year for Teaching Excellence Award from the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah in 2009 and 2011.  In 2024 I received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Utah. I am a generalist who has embraced what C. Wright Mills called the Sociological Imagination with the goal of empowering people by making them more aware of how social forces and institutions influence what people think and do. My hope is that this understanding will help people to be more objective and compassionate when making personal and pubic decisions.