Diana Kendall

Dr. Kendall retired at the end of the 2023 - 2024 academic year after 27 years at Baylor University and over 47 years of teaching experience. 

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1980
M.A., Sociology, Texas Tech University, 1969
B.S. Speech, Hardin-Simmons University, 1967
B.S. English, Hardin-Simmons University, 1967

Biography

Dr. Diana Kendall is Professor of Sociology at Baylor University, where she has been recognized as an Outstanding Professor. She specializes in Sociology of Medicine and Sociological Theory (graduate). Dr. Kendall’s primary research interest is social inequality, particularly the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, age, and health status, in the twenty-first century. She always enjoys doing research with graduate students in the department and is currently writing her latest book, Rich Woman, Poor Woman: The Great Divide in American Women in the Twenty-First Century. She is also the author of The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class; Members Only: Elite Clubs and the Process of Exclusion; and Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America (1^st and 2^nd editions). Dr. Kendall has written numerous sociological textbooks, including the top-selling Sociology in Our Times (13^th edition) and Social Problems in a Diverse Society (7^th edition). Dr. Kendall received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where she remains a Life Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Recent Publications

Thomson, Robert, Jerry Z. Park, and Diana Kendall. 2019. "Religious Conservatives and TV News: Are They More Likely to be Religiously Offended?" Social Problems 66:626-644.

Books

Kendall, Diana. 2024. "Rich Woman, Poor Woman: The Great Divide in American Women in the Twenty-First Century." Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD.

Kendall, Diana. 2021. "Sociology in Our Times: The Essentials" (12th ed.). Cengage Publishing Company, New York.

Kendall, Diana. 2019. "Social Problems in a Diverse Society" (7th ed. updated). Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Kendall, Diana. 2018. “Class and the Process of Elite Social Reproduction in the United States.” In Michael S. Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber (eds.), Privilege: A Reader (4^th ed). eBook. New York: Routledge.