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Prof. Mike Walker
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Social Work
Fort Hays State University
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Mike Walker is the assistant director of the Docking Institute and an instructor in the department of sociology and social work at Fort Hays State University. Mr. Walker joined the Institute in 2000 as a research scientist and assumed the position of assistant director in 2006. He has been the lead researcher for dozens of labor and employment studies Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, and is currently active in strategic planning and community development efforts in Kansas. Mike is a member of the Rural Sociological Society, the Community Development Society, the Midwest Sociological Society, and the Western Social Science Association. He recently presented research findings at the Rural Sociological Society meetings in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to coming to Fort Hays State University, Mike performed ethnographic and survey research in California, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Nebraska. He also participated in archeological digs in southern Utah, completed a political internship in Washington, D.C. and served in the U.S. Army. Mike regularly teaches urban/rural sociology, community theory and development, and social research methods. He is developing courses in demography and the sociology of work. Mike received his M.S degree in sociology from Utah State University in 1995 and is currently pursuing a doctorate in sociology at Kansas State University.