Rate My Professor Chadwick Menning

Chadwick Menning serves as Department Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Professor of Sociology at Ball State University, positions he has held since 2018 and 2016, respectively. He joined the faculty in 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology after earning his Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University in 2003, where he also received his M.A. in Sociology in 1999. Menning holds a B.A. in Russian from Arizona State University, awarded summa cum laude in 1994. His career trajectory includes promotion to Associate Professor from 2008 to 2016. He has assumed key administrative roles such as Interim Department Chair in 2009 and 2017-2018, Director of Undergraduate Studies from 2007-2010 and 2015-2017, and chair of departmental committees including Undergraduate, Assessment, Promotion and Tenure, and Salary.

Menning's academic interests center on applied sociology, sexual assault prevention, sociology of the family, social inequality, and quantitative and qualitative methodologies. He co-developed Elemental, a sexual assault protection program integrating primary prevention and risk reduction approaches, delivering seminars at Ball State University since 2011 and at Antioch College. His peer-reviewed publications feature in Sociological Focus, Journal of Applied Social Science, Journal of American College Health, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Journal of Family Issues. Select works include “Predicting Successful Evasion of Attempted Sexual Assault: Factors, Tactics, and Outcomes” (Sociological Focus, in press, with Mellisa Holtzman), “Developments in Sexual Assault Resistance Education: Combining Risk Reduction and Primary Prevention” (Journal of Applied Social Science, 2019, with Mellisa Holtzman), “Combining Primary Prevention and Risk Reduction Approaches in Sexual Assault Programming” (Journal of American College Health, 2015, with Mellisa Holtzman), and “Processes and patterns in gay, lesbian, and bisexual sexual assault: A multimethodological assessment” (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2014, with Mellisa Holtzman). Funding supports his research from the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2002) and multiple Ball State grants. Honors encompass the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry Fellowship (2011) and Phi Beta Kappa (1994). Menning's service includes extensive committee leadership, peer review for journals such as Journal of Health and Social Behavior and American Sociological Review, and ongoing advisement of the Ball State Martial Arts Club since 2003. He instructs courses in sociology of the family, social inequality, and graduate survey research.