Dr. Kyle Knight is the new head of the Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences at South Dakota Mines.
Kyle Knight, Ph.D., has been selected as the new
head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at South Dakota Mines.
Knight comes to Mines from the University of Alabama
in Huntsville, where he was an associate professor of sociology and served as chair
of the Department of Sociology.
He received his B.B.A. in marketing from the
University of Texas at Arlington and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from
Washington State University. He is an environmental sociologist who has
published numerous research articles on topics relating to the human dimensions
of environmental problems.
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at
Mines is home to the university’s bachelor of science degree Science,
Technology, and Society and the associate of
arts in general studies degree. The department also provides study in the
fields of art, art history, communication, foreign languages, humanities,
literature, music, philosophy and western civilization. The curriculum uses a
broad-based approach, often developing valuable linkages between the humanities
and the science, engineering and technical fields that Mines students enter
after graduation.