South Dakota Mines Selects New Head for Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

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.