Jon McQueen
Sociology Instructor, Arizona State University
Jon McQueen is a sociology instructor in Arizona State University's Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. He teaches and researches social institutions, deviance, masculinity, and the Troubled Teen Industry.
He earned a B.A. in sociology from the University of Arizona in 2012 and an M.A. from Arizona State in 2021. From about 2016 to 2021 he was director of research and business development at McQueen Mackin and Associates in Phoenix, running qualitative and quantitative work for political, nonprofit, and corporate clients.
He joined ASU as faculty of record while finishing graduate school. His courses have included introductory sociology, the sociology of dating and marriage, technology and society, social deviance, men and masculinity, and introduction to social-science research. On RateMyProfessors he has sat around 4.7 out of 5 across about 200 ratings.
Not All Masculinity Is Toxic: The Truth Everyone Needs to Hear | Jon McQueen
What happens when families in crisis hand their kids over to a loosely regulated $23 billion industry promising to "fix" them? Professor Jon McQueen, a survivor of the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI), pulls back the curtain on wilderness programs, residential boarding schools, and the devastating human cost—450+ deaths and 220,000 kids sent yearly, often starting with a middle-of-the-night "transport."
Jon shares his raw journey from Chicago kid to sales leader (real…