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Judson G. Everitt, PhD

Associate Professor

Undergraduate Program Director

Judson Everitt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. He has served on the faculty at Loyola since 2009. His research examines the interconnections between organizations, culture, and socialization with a particular focus on the professions. His prior work examines teachers' professional socialization in his book, Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher (Rutgers University Press, 2018), and his additional research on teachers appears in Symbolic Interaction. He has co-authored the most recent edition of The Sociology of Education with Jeanne Ballantine and Jenny Stuber (Routledge, 2022), and he co-authored an updated edition of The Sociology of Childhood with Bill Corsaro (Sage, 2024). His recent work examines how medical students interpret and respond to institutional pressures in healthcare through the student cultures they form in medical school; this work has appeared in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Contexts, and SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. He also examines the cultural authority of medicine in a recent article co-authored with Dana Garbarski and Dana La Vergne published in Social Science & Medicine.

Dr. Everitt earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Indiana University with a doctoral minor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He lives with his spouse and three children in Warsaw, Indiana.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2009

M.A., Sociology
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2004

B.A., Sociology
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 2000

Specialty Area

Sociology of Education; Social Psychology; Cultural Sociology; Youth, Aging, & the Life Course; Organizations, Occupations, & Work; Gender, Race, Class; Healthcare Professions & Public Health; Ethnography; Teaching & Learning.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:

  • Society in a Global Age (Intro to Sociology)
  • Sociology of Education
  • Childhood & Society
  • Gender & Work
  • Self & Society

Graduate:

  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Complex Organizations
  • Sociology of Education
  • Teaching Undergraduate Sociology

Publications/Research Listings

Lesson Plans book cover

Books

Everitt, Judson G. 2018. Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (Winner of the 2020 Midwest Sociological Society’s Distinguished Book Award)

Ballantine, Jeanne H., Jenny Stuber, and Judson G. Everitt. 2022. The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis (9th edition). New York, NY: Routledge.

Corsaro, William A. and Judson G. Everit. 2024. The Sociology of Childhood (6th edition). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Articles

Everitt, Judson G., Dana Garbarski, and Dana La Vergne. 2025. “Sleep Science, the Cultural Authority of Medicine, and School Start Times.” Social Science & Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118912).

Burr, William H., Judson G. Everitt, James M. Johnson, and Lillian Wynne Platten. 2025. How your Doctor’s Debt Matters.” Contexts 24:36-41. 

Burr, William H., Judson G. Everitt, and James M. Johnson. 2023. “‘The Debt is Suffocating to be Honest’: Student Loan Debt, Professional Status, and the Social Psychology of Precarity in an Allopathic Medical School.” SSM – Qualitative Research in Health (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100304). 

Everitt, Judson G., James M. Johnson, and William H. Burr. 2022. “Why Your Doctor Didn’t go to Class: Student Culture, High-stakes Testing, and Novel Coupling Configurations in an Allopathic Medical School.”  Journal of Health and Social Behavior (https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465221118584).

Duncan, Christopher P. and Judson G. Everitt. 2022. “Instantiated Recoupling in School Principals’ Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions.”  Symbolic Interaction 45:495-516.

Everitt, Judson G., James M. Johnson, William H. Burr, and Stephanie H. Shanower. 2022. “Examining Healthcare Institutions by Bringing Qualitative Data from Two Eras into Empirical Dialogue.” Ethnography 23:559-77.

Everitt, Judson G. 2020. “The Social Psychology behind Teacher Walkouts.” Contexts 19:30-35.

Everitt, Judson G. and Taylor Tefft. 2019. “Professional Socialization as Embedded Elaborations: Experience, Institutions, and Professional Culture throughout Teacher Careers.” Symbolic Interaction 42: 564-87.

Everitt, Judson G. and Bradley A. Levinson. 2016. “Inhabited Institutions in New Destinations: Local Sense-Making and Institutional Work in Community Response to New Immigration.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45:115-42.

Everitt, Judson G. 2013. “Inhabitants Moving In: Prospective Sense-Making and the Reproduction of Inhabited Institutions in Teacher Education.” Symbolic Interaction 36: 177-96.

Everitt, Judson G. 2012. “Teacher Careers and Inhabited Institutions: Sense-Making and Arsenals of Teaching Practice in Educational Institutions.” Symbolic Interaction 35: 203-20.

Awards

  • Master Teacher Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University Chicago
  • Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Freshmen, Loyola University Chicago
  • Rated #7, 2013–2014 RateMyProfessor.com 25 Best College Professors in America