Sociology Department

Melinda Milligan

Stev. 2084-F, (707)664-2254, melinda.milligan@sonoma.edu

Melinda Milligan, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Sonoma State University, specializes in the sociology of the built environment. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining SSU, she taught at Tulane University. Professor Milligan's research and teaching interests include emotions, community and urban sociology, organizations, qualitative research methods, and social psychology/symbolic interaction. Her publications have focused on such topics as space/place, place attachment, nostalgia and identity, organizational death, the architectural design process, children and museums, and the New Urbanism. Currently, she is completing a book on the social psychology of historic preservation with an emphasis on pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans.