Pacific Index

Issue date: 2/29/08 Section: A&E

Byron Steiger, a professor of sociology and anthropology, will retire after 34 years at Pacific University.

Steiger earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oregon.

Steiger currently serves as a Chair of the Sociology Section Oregon Academy of Sciences.

Steiger lost his doctoral dissertation drafts, notes, and all his books in the Marsh Hall fire of 1975, during his first year as a professor at Pacific.

Over the years Steiger has taught a variety of courses including Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Criminology, and the Sociology of Violence.

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