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Sociology and Anthropology

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  • 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 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

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

  • Johanna K Bockman

    Johanna K Bockman

    Associate Professor

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

  • Alexey Boklin

    Alexey Boklin

    Adjunct Faculty

    Anthropology

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  • John G. Dale

    John G. Dale

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

    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

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  • Eleanor R. Gerber

    Eleanor R. Gerber

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Gregory A Guagnano

    Gregory A Guagnano

    Associate Professor

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

  • Nancy W Hanrahan

    Nancy W Hanrahan

    Associate Professor

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

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  • Dae Young Kim

    Dae Young Kim

    Assistant Professor

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

  • Lester Ray Kurtz

    Lester Ray Kurtz

    Professor

    Sociology: Nonviolent social movements, Gandhi, sociology of religion

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  • Jeffrey W Mantz

    Jeffrey W Mantz

    Assistant Professor

    Political economy, religion and the supernatural, science and technology, Caribbean, West and Central Africa

  • Patricia A Masters

    Patricia A Masters

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

    Sociology: Stratification, gender, social psychology, community, and qualitative research

  • Donna K Minnich

    Donna K Minnich

    Assistant Professor

    Sociology

  • Melissa Chantee Mitchell

    Melissa Chantee Mitchell

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Victoria F Rader

    Victoria F Rader

    Associate Professor

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

  • 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

    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

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

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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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  • James Witte

    James Witte

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

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