Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department
Areas of Expertise: Aging, Medical Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Program Evaluation and Grant Writing
Betty McCall joined the faculty at Lycoming College in 2004 and teaches courses on race and ethnicity, aging, health and illness, program evaluation, and grant writing. Her primary interests are applied research and community engagement. Her work includes partnering with the community action group on the Communities Empowering Youth Program to enhance capacity building with local agencies, evaluation of county AmeriCorps programs, and collaboration with PCT construction students and Lyco students in the grant writing class to assist the Lycoming County Coroner in building a facility for the storage of unclaimed cremains. McCall has also examined connections of the response to changing racial demographics within a rural community to racialization, colorblindness, and white privilege. Currently, she is working with local emergency management agencies to resolve the overutilization and high costs of medical lifts due to the increased incidence of falls.
Dr. McCall is the faculty advisor for Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society.