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University of Connecticut

Gerald Hikel

Special Lecturer & UCS Program Liason in Torrington

Contact:
(860) 626-6825
Gerald.hikel@uconn.edu
Email Contact Preferred

Office Locations:
Torrington Campus
Room 141

Mailing Address
University of Connecticut
855 University Drive
Torrington, CT 06790

Office Hours
By appointment

Gerald K. Hikel earned a joint Honors B.A. in Political Science and Sociology at McGill University, and his M.A. and Ph.D in Sociology at the University of Michigan. He was a research fellow at the Center for Research on Social Organization (CRSO), and an interviewer for the Detroit Area Study. After graduate school, he joined the faculty of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University teaching in the sociology department and law school. For three years, he served as co-investigator with Professor Albert J. Reiss on a study of prosecutorial discretion in Detroit, New York City and Boston. Later he founded the Public Opinion Research Center. He worked at IBM and United Technologies. He also ran a research organization conducting public opinion polls. Publications include "Beyond the Polls" on voting behavior, a study on prosecutorial discretion, an article on independent voters. He has developed courses on organized crime, who killed the Kennedy brothers, and computer crime.

Specialization

Criminology and criminal justice, survey research, social organization, computer security, and voting behavior