• Email: Wolfgang.Frese@ssrc.msstate.edu
              wf1@ra.msstate.edu
• Phone: (662) 325-7800

Dr. Frese has served as coordinator of survey research since the inception of the Survey Research Unit (SRU) in the Social Science Research Center in 1982.  The SRU has gone from a six station, paper-and-pencil telephone interviewing operation, to a 20 station computerized (CATI) mixed-mode telephone survey and web interviewing operation.  The SRU also does several mail surveys a year.  The SRU conducts local, statewide, national, and international surveys for local, state and federal agencies as well as for private corporations and individuals.  In addition, the SRU helps fund a MSU student health practices survey every three years and a Mississippi poll at least every two years.  The SRU facilities are used for teaching purposes for both graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in sociology and political science research methods classes.

Prior to coming to Mississippi State University in 1972, Dr. Frese held professorial positions at Ithaca College and Alfred University.  His research has been published in journals such as American Educational Research Journal, American Sociological Review, College Student Journal, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Marriage and the Family, The Journal of Vocational Behavior, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociology of Education, The Southern Journal of Educational Research, Southern Rural Sociology and Urban Life.  Dr. Frese is coauthor of two books, The Rendezvous: A Case Study of An After-Hours Club and Making Life Plans: Race, Gender and Career Decisions.  His current research interests are focused on research methods, health practices (especially student health practices), rural sociology and applied sociology.

Dr. Frese has taught the following graduate and undergraduate courses:  Basic Sociological Concepts, Sociology of Organizations, Research Seminar, Political Sociology, Social Role, Organizational Behavior, Classical Sociological Theory, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Change, Contemporary Social Issues, Introduction to Social Theory, Interdisciplinary Community Field Research, Social Problems, Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Social Research, Social Research Practice, Computer Applications in Sociology, Research Design and Techniques of Survey Research.