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Sociology and Anthropology

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  • Maciej Bartkowski
  • Anderson Bean
  • Alexander V Benitez

    Alexander V Benitez

    Assistant Professor

    Anthropology: Mesoamerican archaeology, Central Highlands region of Mexico, identity along the U.S.-Mexico border, history of museums

  • Amy L Best

    Amy L Best

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Sociology of everyday life, social inequalities, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, youth and gender, sociology of food

  • Andrew Bickford

    Andrew Bickford

    Associate Professor
    Director of Undergraduate Program in Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology

    Anthropology: War and Culture, Militarization, Soldiers/Veterans, Biotechnology, Political Anthropology, Europe and the United States

  • Rachel Sarah Bobbitt
  • Johanna K Bockman

    Johanna K Bockman

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Globalization, neoliberalism, gentrification, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, Washington, DC, socialism and postsocialism

  • Alexey Boklin

    Alexey Boklin

    Adjunct Faculty

    Anthropology

  • Thomasina Borkman

    Thomasina Borkman

    Emeritus Faculty

    Sociology

  • Sean Frederick Brown
  • Andrea Burch

    Andrea Burch

    Anthropology

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  • John G. Dale

    John G. Dale

    Associate Professor
    Director of Graduate Programs in Sociology, Sociology and Anthropology

    Sociology: Political sociology; transnational social movements; sociology of human rights; globalization; community development; law and society; conflict analysis and resolution; and politics of Burma/Myanmar.

  • Shannon N Davis

    Shannon N Davis

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods

  • Rutledge M Dennis

    Rutledge M Dennis

    Professor

    Sociology: Sociology of ideas, theoretical sociology, political sociology, race and ethnic studies, urban communities, the sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Liana Amber DeNola

    Liana Amber DeNola

    Adjunct Faculty

    Anthropology

  • Chelsey Gwen Dyer

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  • Eleanor R. Gerber

    Eleanor R. Gerber

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Melissa Gouge

    Melissa Gouge

    Anthropology

  • Gregory A Guagnano

    Gregory A Guagnano

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Political economy of resource control, environmental sociology, social psychology of environmental concern, research methods and design, statistics, diffusion of technological innovation

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  • Sahar Haghighat

    Sahar Haghighat

    Adjunct Faculty
  • David W Haines

    David W Haines

    Professor

    Anthropology: Anthropology: migration, governance, kinship, information technology, East and Southeast Asia

  • Wilma J Hallock

    Wilma J Hallock

    Administrative Coordinator, Sociology and Anthropology
  • Nancy W Hanrahan

    Nancy W Hanrahan

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts

  • Cortney  L Hughes

    Cortney L Hughes

    Anthropology

  • Cortney Hughes Rinker

    Cortney Hughes Rinker

    Assistant Professor

    Anthropology: Medical anthropology, Islam, Middle East and North Africa, gender, aging and end-of-life care, reproductive technologies

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  • Victoria F Rader

    Victoria F Rader

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Social movements, student activism, social change, the construction of difference and the sociology of education

  • Jennifer B Rainer
  • Katie Matheny Rogers

    Katie Matheny Rogers

    Anthropology

  • Karen E Rosenblum

    Karen E Rosenblum

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Comparative stigma, race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/disability, American social problems, sociology of deviance

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  • Rashmi Sadana

    Rashmi Sadana

    Assistant Professor

    Anthropology: Language politics and ideologies, nations and nationalism, urban space and design, colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, India

  • Tony Roshan Samara

    Tony Roshan Samara

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: race, ethnicity and nationalism, globalization, urban studies and international development and security.

  • Ingrid Sandole-Staroste

    Ingrid Sandole-Staroste

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology

  • Joseph A Scimecca

    Joseph A Scimecca

    Professor

    Sociology: Humanist sociological theory, the sociology of higher education, and the intersection of social science and religion

  • Linda J Seligmann

    Linda J Seligmann

    Professor
    Director of Graduate Programs in Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology

    Anthropology: Agrarian issues, agrarian reform, informal economies, gender, class, ethnicity, Latin America, Andean region, Peru; transnational and transracial adoption, U.S.

  • Jason Andew Smith

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  • Susan R Trencher

    Susan R Trencher

    Associate Professor
    Chair, Sociology and Anthropology
    Director, Immigration Studies

    Anthropology: American culture, the anthropology of anthropology, sociology of knowledge, anthropological theory and practice, and the history of anthropology

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  • Victoria J Watson

    Victoria J Watson

    Anthropology

  • Thomas R Williams

    Thomas R Williams

    Professor

    Anthropology

  • James Witte

    James Witte

    Research Director, Institute for Immigration Research
    Director, Center for Social Science Research

    Sociology: Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies