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Serena L Abdallah

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Rasmieyh R Abdelnabi

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Globalization, Social Movements, Transnational Women's Movements, Arab Culture and Society, Gender and Feminist Studies

Sara Mohammed M Aftab

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: humanities, public sociology, political sociology, social movements, advocacy, transnational justice, reconciliation, cultural trauma, and collective memory in a post-conflict society. 

Daniel Kamran Afzal

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Health ecologies, cultural psychodynamics, critical psychology, trauma, phenomenology, medical humanities

Hansel Alejandro Aguilar Avila

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: trasnationalism, crimmigration, unaccompanied minors, deported migrants, Northern Triangle, Honduras, youth, human rights, integration, re-integration, religion

Aziza Ahmed

Sociology: race, epistemology, gender studies, organizational theory, DEIA, critical race theory

Marisa Allison

Affiliate Faculty

Sociology

Meredith Amato

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Colonialism

Claire Anderson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: collective/social memory and policy making; post-conflict commemoration and remembrance; post-socialist Eastern Europe; Poland

Jamie D. Aprile

Adjunct Faculty

Anthropology: Political economy, archaeological theory, excavation methods, lithic artifact analysis, European prehistory, Greek and Roman archaeology

Marwa Bakabas

Adjunct Faculty

Anthropology: Conflict & Displacement, Migration, Humanitarianism, Refugees, Middle East, Global Urban Studies

Aziza Bayou

Graduate Lecturer

Anthropology: Economic anthropology, political economy, fair/affordable housing, segregation, inequity, ethnographic methods, New Orleans and Caribbean region. Secondary: human evolution, pedagogy

Alexis Beard

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Courtney Bell

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: NAVIGATING INTIMACY: marriage, polyamory, sexuality, sex education, consent, women & gender studies; PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: sociology of education, qualitative research, mixed methods, documentary filmmaking, pop culture

Amy L Best

Professor

Sociology: Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation

Johanna Bockman

Associate Professor

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

Drew Bonner

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: food environments, food insecurity, food justice and nutrition education

Thomasina Borkman

Emeritus Faculty

Sociology: Sociology of health and illness, organizational analysis, small group behavior, social problems, qualitative research methods

Koty S Bowen

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Political Anthropology, Queer Anthropology, Tourism, Globalization

Ruth Ann Brenton

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Kristen Browne

Anthropology

Karen Bryant

Sociology: MA student interested in socioecological systems, the sociology of human rights, and social movements.

Isabella F Burns

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: sociology of education, language in society, literacy, ESL students, disparities in education institutions

Gabriella Claire Campbell

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: paleopathology; violence and peace in hunter-gatherer populations; science communication; museum curation

Jeremy M. Campbell

Instructor

Culture, land tenure, and the environment in Amazonia; Indigenous and local knowledge systems; environmental justice; sustainability science and policy; ethnography and sociocultural theory.

Alexander Robert Carle

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: spaces and functions of religion, Sikh diaspora, India (Punjab), globalization, identity, ethnographic methods and theory, postcolonialism, gentrification

Tanya Catignani

Affiliate Faculty

Anand Panamthottam Cherian

Graduate Research Assistant

Migration Spaces

Melissa A. Cidade

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Survey Methodology; Statistics; Survey Cognition

Jamie L Clark

Director of Undergraduate Program in Anthropology

Associate Professor

Anthropology: Paleolithic archaeology, human-environmental interaction, hunter-gatherer lifeways, zooarchaeology

Kristopher Ray Cleland

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Food Security & Sovereignty, Deservingness, Qualitative Methods, Pedagogy, Critical Theory, and Applied & Public Sociology

Kristina Rea Cockerille

Adjunct Faculty

Anthropology: bioarchaeology, maternal and developmental stress, enamel growth disruptions, psychosocial stress, life course theory, paleopathology, skeletal biology

Dominique Cranfield

Sociology

Camille A Cronkhite

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Grayson D'Alessandro

Sociology

John G. Dale

Associate Professor

Sociology: sociology of human rights; political sociology; social movements; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and transnational conflict; critical sociology of development; community and urban sociology; comparative and historical sociology; and area specialist in Burma/Myanmar.

Jack Dando

Sociology: Democratic Business, Military Sociology, National Security, Rural Sociology, Sociology of Religion

Shannon N Davis

Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, George Mason University, Korea

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

Dhruv Deepak

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

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

Lili Deveneau

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: human rights; gender; childhood studies; (in)equality; public health; mixed methods; critical sociology; public sociology; interprofessional collaboration

Chey Dickens

Sociology

Brianna L Dittmer

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen

Assistant Professor

U.S. immigration law and policy; legality, citizenship, membership, and belonging; immigrant incorporation; refugee resettlement; global migration management; Middle East migration

Basak Durgun

Adjunct Faculty

Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities

Terilee Edwards-Hewitt

Graduate Lecturer, SOC Graduate Liaison

Gender and Sexuality; mass and popular culture; social media/digital ethnography; disability, historical and modern US culture.

Omnia Elgendy

Mohamed Elgohari

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Political Sociology, Law, Democratization, Social Movements, Middle East, Egypt.

Melinda Elser

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Fanni Farago

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: sociology of education, immigration, life course transitions, emotions, health, applied sociology, and mixed-methods research

Alexia Ferguson

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: Sociology: Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Human Rights, Civic Engagement

Henrike Fiedler

Anthropology

Katherine Foarde

Administrative Assistant

Kimberly Foecke

Adjunct Faculty

Gabriela Maria Galeano

Felicia Garland-Jackson

Adjunct Faculty

Institutions and Inequalities, Ethnomusicology, Military Family Sociology

Arvind Geetha Christo

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Development, Development-induced Displacement, Conservation-induced Displacement, social movements, rural protests, indigeneity, and ethnography.

Amanda Lyn Goush

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: prehistoric warfare, skeletal trauma interpretation, burial practices, taphonomy, paleopathology, and forensic anthropology

Pamela Ramirez Graves

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology

Kate Gruber

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: bioarchaeology, indigenous rights, repatriation, museum collections management, ethics, genetics

Gregory A Guagnano

Emeritus Faculty

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

Debamita Guha

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

David W Haines

Emeritus Faculty

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

Guinevive Alyce Halstead-Johnson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Zooarchaeology, aDNA, genomics, bioarchaeology

Nancy W Hanrahan

Associate Professor

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

Gergana Nikolova Hardy

Sociology: Sociology of work, precarious work, feminist research methods, social theory, neoliberalism, democratically owned and operated workplaces

Emily J Harvey

Umida Hashimova

Graduate Research Assistant

International migration, Central Asia, soft power, mixed-method research

Patrick Willette Healey

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Gender and sexuality; the role of political art in social movements and public sociology; qualitative and quantitative research methods; statistical analysis

Abdallah Hendawy

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Social Movements, Radicalization, Insurgency, Middle East, Egypt

LeNaya Crandall Hezel

Affiliate Faculty

Sociology: Sociology of Education, Military-Connected Communities, Equity and Inclusion among Intersectionality of Identities, Institutions and Inequality

Katy E Hoepf

Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Deepika Hooda

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Globalization, global tech labor, migration, digital culture, computational social science, and social movements.

Jill Howard

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Veronica Hughes

Anthropology: Bioarcheology, Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology, Histomorphology and Histomorphometry

Cortney Hughes Rinker

Associate Professor

Anthropology: Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Norhan Hussein

Anthropology

Carrie Hutnick

Sociology

Diana Iarussi

Anthropology

Hale Inanoglu

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Sociology of religion, Muslims in the US, diaspora, gender.

Yasemin Ipek

Assistant Professor

Activism and civil society, crisis, political imagination, citizenship and belonging, decoloniality, sectarianism, nationalism, class, refugees and humanitarianism, migration, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Farhana Islam

Office Manager

Mark D Jacobs

Emeritus Faculty

Sociology: Sociology of culture, social theory, social control and juvenile justice, public scandal

Kenneth Kaizer

Anthropology

Tharuna Kalaivanan

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: Higher Education; Workplace; Culture; Social Stratification; Student Experiences; Lived Experiences; Race, Class, and Gender; Identity; Second-Generation Immigrants; First-Generation College Students; Asian Americans; Women; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Belonging; Educational Transitions; Qualitative Methods; Mixed-Methods; Applied Research; Evaluation.

Amber C Kalb

Sociology

Aleezay Khaliq

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Immigration, Social capital, Community engagement, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Belonging, Globalization.

Zahra Khan

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Women and gender issues, human rights, social and cultural change

Dae Young Kim

Associate Professor

Sociology: Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization

Ilya Kim

Sociology

Haagen Klaus

Professor

Anthropology: --Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, dental anthropology, mortuary analysis -- Forensic anthropology and forensic taphonomy -- Prehistoric and Historic Andean South America; organization of complex societies -- Health, violence, identity, and ethnogenesis -- Theory and methods in bioarchaeology

Lester R. Kurtz

Professor

Sociology: Nonviolent social movements, Gandhi, sociology of religion, Global Social Thought

Greta Klaudia Kühne

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Philip Lanzafame

Sociology

Brian Louis Levy

Assistant Professor

Sociology: Inequality, Poverty, Mobility; Neighborhoods; Community and Urban Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Education; Social Demography; Quantitative Research Methods; Causal Inference

Judith Lewetchou

Sociology: Globalization; Development-induced Displacements, Global South; Livelihoods improvement

Jett M Liska

Anthropology: zooarchaeology, paleoecology, human and environment interaction

Huwy-min Lucia Liu

Director of Graduate Programs in Anthropology

Assistant Professor

Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology; Political Anthropology; Politics, Economy and Religion; Socialism and Change; Subjectivity and Governance; Civil Society; Life and Death Studies; Ritual Studies; Culture and Emotion; Gender and Masculinity; China and Taiwan

Angelina Locker

Postdoctoral Fellow

Anthropology: Biocultural archaeology; migration; kinship; social complexity, legitimization of power; isotope geochemistry; ancient DNA; memory; place-making; mortuary archaeology; archaeological science; human-environment interaction; resilience; household and settlement archaeology. Geographic foci include Belize, Mesoamerica, and Romania.

Ben Manski

Assistant Professor

Sociology: Social movement; next system studies; sociology of constitutions and constitutionalism; democratization; environmental sociology; federalism and municipalism; philosophy of social science.

Jeffrey W Mantz

Affiliate Faculty

Anthropology: Political economy; inequality; religion, ritual and spirituality; science and technology; Caribbean; West and Central Africa

Patricia Anne Masters

Director of Undergraduate Program in Sociology

Professor

Sociology: Gender, social psychology, community, children and youth, family. and qualitative research methods

Kayley McPhail

Anthropology

David A. Meneses

Sociology: Sociology, Criminal justice reform

Shaun L Michel

Sociology: Computational sociology; simulation models; transit/traffic patterns

Mohamed Mohamed

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Religion, Politics of the Middle East, Islamism, Religious Education, Religious Institutions

Christopher Morris

Assistant Professor

Anthropology: Anthropology of medicine, environmental governance, extractive industries, indigeneity, ethnicity, colonial and postcolonial histories, im/material properties, southern Africa

Anne Marie Marie Munson

Adjunct Faculty

Tyler W. Myroniuk

Affiliate Faculty

Manjusha Nair

Director of PhD Program in Sociology

Associate Professor

Sociology: Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa

Junghyun Nam

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Social Movements, Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, protest, public space

Elizabeth Newman

Sociology: Group dynamics, social change, racial identity, comparative and qualitative research

Ismail Nooraddini

Graduate Research Assistant

Quantitative and qualitative research methods, family and adolescence, immigration, and gender.

Sarah Nidia Ochs

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Amaka Okechukwu

Assistant Professor

Sociology: Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Black Politics, Ethnography, Oral History

J Orisha

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Omer Pacal

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Social movements, political sociology, knowledge production, colonialism, anti-colonial struggles, and the Middle East

Juhee Park

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Social Movements, Memory Studies

Jeffrey L Parsells-Johnson

Adjunct Faculty

Gender, Social Psychology, Sociology of Attention, and Political Sociology

Kevin Nazar Pastor

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology of Globalization, Transnationalism, Human Rights, Sociology of Development, International Politics, Social Movements, Migration, Latin America and US International Relations, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, The Collective Unconscious

Carol Petty

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Globalization, Global Subjectivities, Civic Engagement, Citizenship Studies, Social Inequalities, Integration Policy, Sociology of Culture, Interpretive Sociology, Sociological Theory

Briana L Pocratsky

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Sociology: popular culture, youth, class, sociology of everyday life

Maia Punksungka

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of education; higher education; community college; lifelong learning; civic engagement; quantitative research methodology

Sharon Qiu

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Governance, Informal Sector, Critical Ethnography, Socialism, Political Economy, Cuba, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Zahra S.A Rafie

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Equity, empowerment, and inclusion, Qualitative Research, Gender Equity, Youth/Immigrant/Refugee Rights, Religious Equality/Freedom Community Activism/Advocacy and Social Justice

Mohammed Luftur Rahman

Adjunct Faculty

Karthik Ramanujam

Graduate Research Assistant

Political Sociology, Critical Theory, Political Economy, Caste in India

Jessica Redmiles

Anthropology

Samantha Retrosi

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Abbey Marie Rodriguez

Sociology

Maxwell David Rollins

Graduate Research Assistant

Roots of Nationalism, Sub-state Self-determination Movements, the Nature of the State, Himalayan Societies

Karleen Ronsairo

Adjunct Faculty

Karen E Rosenblum

Emeritus Faculty

Sociology: Global and American social problems from an economic perspective; comparative stigma

Christina Roulley

Sociology: Human Rights, Law and Society, Social Movements, Sociology of Media and Communication, Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, and Environmental Sociology

Rashmi Sadana

Associate Professor

Anthropology: Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India

Golzar Salih

Sociology: Keen focus on gender-based violence, women’s rights and roles in the Middle East.

Randall Salm

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Peace, armed conflict, child soldier identity

Jordyn Renee Salmon

Anthropology

Tony Roshan Samara

Affiliate Faculty

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

Samantha Samuel-Nakka

Sociology

Livia B Santos

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Anthropology: bioarchaeology, paleopathology, developmental stress, biodistance analysis, resilience theory, diet, phenotypic plasticity, peopling of the americas (Brazil), hunter-gatherers, marginalization, colonialism.

Regis A Saxton

Sociology: antiracism, Afrofuturism, Afropessimism, religion, whiteness, ethnography, sociological theory

Anne L Schiller

Professor

Anthropology: Identity, religion and ritual, tourism, Italy, Indonesia

Emily Schopmeyer

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Joseph A Scimecca

Professor

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

Linda J Seligmann

Emeritus Faculty

Anthropology: informal economies and markets, agrarian issues, gender relations, quinoa, culture and food, Latin America, Andean region, Peru; transnational and transracial adoption, U.S., anthropological theory and methods

Maria Locke Sellers

Graduate Lecturer

Anthropology: Anthropology: bioarchaeology, human osteology, developmental stress, migration

Jordan Shaffer

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, human osteology, indigenous studies, colonialism

Blake Silver

Associate Professor

Sociology: Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; race, class, and gender; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; second-generation immigrant students

Heather Sinda

Sociology: Military Sociology; Social Psychology; Sociology of the Family; Gender Inequality; Work Culture and Leadership; Medical Sociology, specifically pertaining to disability studies, women's health, and maternal health

Earl Smith

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Social Stratification. Crime. Sociology of Sport

Rick W. A. Smith

Assistant Professor

Anthropology: Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Imperialism; Urbanism; Plantation Studies; Queer, Feminist, and Indigenous Science Studies. My work centers on the fringes of the Spanish/Mexican colonial worlds. I primarily work in Belize, New Mexico, and Texas.

Kimberly Snyder

Sociology: religion, social networks, culture

Delia Solis

Sociology

Stacey Kathleen South

Anthropology: bioarchaeology, queer theory, sex and gender, Indigenous theory, decolonization

Roberta Spalter-Roth

Senior Research Fellow

Elizangela Storelli

Director of MA Program in Sociology

Associate Professor

Sociology: Sociology of aging, including global population aging and well-being, sociology of family, intergenerational networks of care, gender inequality, and quantitative studies.

Christian Rafael Suero

Instructor

Sociology: Sociology of education, well-being, labor, race, and class.

Sevil Suleymani

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Jae-Lynn Deanna Tavarez Brown

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Ahmet Tekelioglu

Instructor

Daniel H Temple

Chair

Professor

Anthropology: bioarchaeology, developmental stress, life history theory, hunter-gatherers, mortuary practices, biodistance analysis, children and childhood, biomechanics and activity reconstruction, diet, resilience theory and new materialism

Jaclyn A Thomas

Sam Thomas

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Stephanie Trapnell

Sociology: sociology of development, political sociology, global and transnational sociology, gender and feminist studies

Susan R Trencher

Associate Professor

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

Sara Undeutsch

Sociology

Bethany M. Usher

Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Evolution of Health and Disease, Growth and Development, Osteology, Diet

Maria Valdovinos

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Policing, Corrections, Prisoner Reentry, Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Legal System, Evidence-Based Crime Policy

Emma Vetter

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Everyday Life; Digital Nomads; Social Media; Early Adulthood; Health Disparities; Housing; Popular Culture

Blake Vullo

Sociology: Transnational Social Movements, Political Sociology, Sustainable Development, Social Policy, and Feminist Thought

Tom Gene Wells

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Ozzy Raylene Whitley

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Public folklore, ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural geography, Appalachia, American South.

Kellie S. Wilkerson

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research, Globalization, Sociology of Education, Statistics/Quantitative Methodology

Bradley Wayne Williams

Sociology: Social Movements, Advocacy, Institutions and Organizations

James Witte

Professor

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

Janis Woodward

Graduate Professional Assistant

Anthropology: socio-cultural anthropology, urban anthropology, youth culture, aging, place, space, urban design, skateboarding

Margaret Zeddies

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Children and Youth, Cultural Sociology, Globalization, Humanitarian Aid, International Development, Public Sociology, Political Economy, Postcolonialism, Study Abroad