University Professor of Sociology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Stabler Hall 405
Office: 501-916-5845
Email: dlbriscoe@ualr.edu
Teaching areas: Dr. Briscoe teaches Family Sociology, Experiences of Black Americans, Social Problems, Introduction to Sociology, Minority Groups, Family Violence, Senior Capstone Seminar, and Independent Study.
David L. Briscoe Ph.D., D.H.L., holds the distinguished title of Inaugural University Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is a tenured Full Professor of Sociology, Graduate School Faculty Member, Scientific Teaching Fellow, Teaching Fellow, and the Inaugural Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the UA Little Rock School of Human Inquiry. He is an Inaugural Associate Faculty member of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity. In 2020 he was commemorated with distinction into the UA Little Rock Heritage Hall at the Bailey Alumni Center. He is the 2020 University-wide recipient of the UA Little Rock Faculty Excellence Award in Public Service, and the recipient of the 2021 University-wide Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. In 2021 he received the WE Heart Our Faculty Award from the Student Government and Student body. In 2022 he was inducted into the UA Little Rock Trojans Athletics Hall of Fame, and his service to UA Little Rock spans more than thirty one years. In 2023, he was inducted into the Warren Wilson College Athletic Hall of Fame. He is a Certified Family Life Educator and a Marriage and Family Sociologist. He earned a B.A. in Sociology and an M.A/ in Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and a Ph.D. in Family Sociology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is an alumnus of the Little Rock Citizens Police Academy, and the FBI Citizens Academy.
Professor Briscoe is an alumnus of many institutions and programs. These include: the Harvard Divinity School Summer Leadership Institute, and the Harvard Divinity School Executive Education Program; Princeton Theological Seminary Institute for Youth and Theology; Yale Divinity School Summer Study Program; Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Education Program; Harvard Graduate School of Education Change Leadership Program; Yale Medical School Comer Child Development Center; and the Oxford Round Table, Oxford University. He is a 2003 Distinguished Alumni of the Department of Sociology and the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; a 2007 recipient of the Warren Wilson College Distinguished Alumni Award; a 2008 recipient of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Distinguished Service Award; and a 2009 recipient of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a recipient of the Pi Gamma Mu Scholarship Medal; a Red Earth Gerontology Scholar; a Distinguished Member of the The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and a recipient of the national Ray Sylvester Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Service Award for 2018-2019; a Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars; a Smithsonian National Associate; a Reader Registrant of the United States Library of Congress; and a Reader at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
He is a Corresponding Author of Field-Based Learning in Family Life Education: Facilitating High- Impact Experiences in Undergraduate Family Science Programs; coauthor of Plain Talk: The Future of Little Rock’s Public Schools. He is Christian Philosopher and has authored eight books in the area of Christian theology. These include: Statement of Courage, Hope, and Triumph; Reflections on the Journey of Life; Statements and Reflections: a Process in Philosophical Discourse; the Elderly, Kin Relations, and Community Services: A Study of Elderly Blacks in Northeast Carbondale; A Voice in the Wilderness; the Social Construction of Theological Inferences; and the Social Philosophy of Theological Idealism; Philosophy on the Path of Life. He was an Academic Contributor to 2018 World Book Encyclopedia.
Over the last several decades Dr. Briscoe has been recognized as having a distinguished volunteer career with the boy scout movement at the local, national, and international levels. He is past Council President of the Quapaw Area Council, Boy Scouts of America and has been a member of its board since 1994. He is a former member of the National Advisory Council and the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a former Inaugural National Chairman of the Learning for Life National Executive Board; and former Trustee and Acting Treasurer of the Learning for Life Foundation. He has been active for many years with the Boy Scouts of America International Committee and world scouting events. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Alumnus Award of the Boy Scouts of America and was selected first and only from among fifty million alumni. He is a recipient of the Scouting’s highest honor-the Silver Buffalo Award for distinguished service to youth on a national basis, an honor he shares with fifteen presidents of the United States of America; a recipient of the Learning for Life National Distinguished Service Award, and the National Elbert K. Fretwell Outstanding Educator Award.
