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Serena L Abdallah

Sociology

Rasmieyh Abdelnabi

Graduate Research Assistant

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

Elyse M. Adams

Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Osteology

Sara Mohammed M Aftab

Graduate Research Assistant

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

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

Mubarak O Alabi

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Marwa Bakabas

Adjunct Faculty

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

Aziza Bayou

Graduate Lecturer

Anthropology: Economic anthropology, culture and political economy, labor unions, identities and inequalities, gendered division of labor, ethnographic methods, anthropology of work, anthropology of religion, New Orleans and Caribbean region.

Courtney Bell

Graduate Research 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

Rae-ocean Blake

Anthropology: Bioarcheology, Forensic Anthropology, Structural Violence, Burial Practices, Human Rights Violations

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

Ruth Ann Brenton

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Mandy Brothers

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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, restorative justice

Alyssa Cazier

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: inequity, gender, race, class, queer studies, feminist theory, institutional and organizational culture, community engaged research, systems change.

Anand Panamthottam Cherian

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Migration Spaces, South Asia

Melissa Chiovenda

Adjunct Faculty

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 R. Cleland

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Higher Education; Environmental Sustainability; AI's Impact on Education and Sustainability; Food Insecurity, Sovereignty, & Waste; Qualitative Methods; Pedagogy; Critical Theory; and Evaluation

Grayson D'Alessandro

Sociology

Isabelle D'souza

Sociology

John G. Dale

Associate Professor

Sociology: sociology of human rights; political sociology; social movements; corporate accountability; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and society; area specialist in Burma/Myanmar.

Shannon N Davis

Professor

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

Dhruv Deepak

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Democratizing technology, data relations, digital globalization, community-owned data & digital infrastructure, digital 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

Animesh Dev

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Socio-spatial processes, borders formation, design anthropology, interdisciplinary research & pedagogy, qualitative methods, global south, India, United States

Lili Deveneau

Graduate Research Assistant

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

Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen

Assistant Professor

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

Paola Andrea Echave

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Immigration, Population Health, Immigration and International Policy, Labor Exploitation, Latin America, International Research

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

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology

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

Claire Arianna Fick

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Mortuary Practices of Amazonia

Katherine Foarde

Administrative Assistant

Kimberly Foecke

Assistant Professor

Anthropology: Biological anthropology, analytical methods, stable isotopes, biogeochemistry, paleoecology

Arvind Geetha Christo

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Social Movements, Dalit politics, and Ethnography.

Eirini Giannaraki

Sociology: Sociology: Globalization, forced migration, mixed methods research, refugee integration

Pamela Ramirez Graves

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology

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 Research Assistant

Sociology: Gender and sexuality studies, Activism, Urban spaces, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Development, Qualitative research methods.

Yang Hai

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Urban Sociology, Culture, Social Objects, Inequity, China, Community-based Research

David W Haines

Emeritus Faculty

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

Nancy W Hanrahan

Emeritus Faculty

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

Kimberly M Hargrave

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Health & Violence, Mortuary Archaeology, Osteoimmunology

Umida Hashimova

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: 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

Emily Rebecca Helman

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Ancient DNA; Bioarchaeology; Mortuary Archaeology; Biological Anthropology; Paleopathology; Forensic Anthropology

Katy E Hoepf

Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Aimee N Holland

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, ethics, personhood, social justice

Deepika Hooda

Graduate Lecturer

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

Veronica Hughes

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

Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

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

Jeba Humayra

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Political Sociology of Human Rights, Human Rights and Political Violence, Dissent and Repression, Internet Governance and Human Rights, Digital Authoritarianism, and Contemporary South Asian Politics.

Norhan Hussein

Anthropology

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

Maegan Jankowski

Graduate Research Assistant

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Mortuary Archaeology, Andean Archaeology, Social Identity, Intersectionality, Embodiment, Stress, Trauma, Activity Patterns, Structural Violence

Nylah S Jordan

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Tharuna Kalaivanan

Graduate Research Assistant

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

Dae Young Kim

Director of MA Program in Sociology

Associate Professor

Sociology: Immigration, ethnicity, race, second-generation immigrants, immigrant entrepreneurship, Asian American studies, K-pop reception, and globalization

Ilya Kim

Instructor

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

Director of PhD Program in Sociology

Professor

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

Judith Lewetchou

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

Huwy-min Lucia Liu

Associate 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 movements; next system studies; sociology of constitutions; revolutionary constitutionalism; democracy; federalism and municipalism; American legal history; environmental sociology; socio-economics; philosophy of social science; comparative methods; sociological intervention; public sociology.

Patricia Anne Masters

Professor

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

Jennifer Mitchell

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: human evolutionary biology, life history studies, human growth and development, human-environment interactions

Ifran Hossain Mollah

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Human Rights and Social Justice

Christopher Morris

Associate Professor

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

Manjusha Nair

Associate Professor

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

Junghyun Nam

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Democracy, Social Movements, Mass Protests, Protest Policing, Emotion, Space

Elizabeth Newman

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Digital Humanities, ideology, power

Ismail Nooraddini

Graduate Research Assistant

Qualitative and quantitative research methods

Sarah Nidia Ochs

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

J Orisha

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Omer Pacal

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Area(s) of Interest: Market formation, Peasants and Politics, State and Violence, and Political Movements in the Middle East

Juhee Park

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Social Movements, Research Methods

Jeffrey L Parsells-Johnson

Adjunct Faculty

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

Carol Petty

Adjunct Faculty

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

Maia Punksungka

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Higher education; higher education administration; academic affairs; community college; college transfer partnership; institutional belonging; advanced quantitative methods; mixed methods

Sharon Qiu

Graduate Lecturer

Governance, Informal Sector, Shortage, Socialism, Time and Space, 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

Sociology: Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology

Abbey Rodriguez

Sociology: Digital sociology within the creator economy, AI, and Big Tech; quantitative + qualitative research methods

Maxwell David Rollins

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: 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

Katharine Rupp

Rashmi Sadana

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: Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, developmental stress, 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, social change, Italy, Indonesia

Emily Schopmeyer

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology

Celeste Schultheiss

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Biological Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Mortuary Practices, Human Growth and Development, Paleopathology, Dental Anthropology, Life History Approach, Resilience Theory

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

Sam Showalter

Sociology: Language Education, Sociolinguistics, Nationalism, Migrant Students and Families

Blake Silver

Associate Professor

Sociology: Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; educational pathways

Audrey Elizabeth Smith

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Ancient Maya Societies, Forensic Anthropology, Laboratory Methods, Ancient Women & Gender, MMIP Initiative, Ethics in Biological Anthropology, Institutional Repatriation

Earl Smith

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Social Stratification. Crime. Sociology of Sport

Rick W. A. Smith

Director of Graduate Programs in Anthropology

Assistant Professor

Anthropology: Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies.

Roberta Spalter-Roth

Senior Research Fellow

Elizangela Storelli

Director of Undergraduate 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

Emma (Vetter) Taylor

Graduate Research Assistant

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

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

Sara Undeutsch

Sociology: Collectivism, community development, community building, affordable housing, community engaged (participatory) research, social movements, public and applied sociology, policy

Bethany M. Usher

Affiliate Faculty

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

Layla Villanueva

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Socio-cultural anthropology, language acquisition, heritage and identity, border lands, agricultural communities

Blake Vullo

Sociology: Transnational Social Movements, Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Sustainable Development, Social Policy, Feminist Methodologies, and Land Use

Elic Weitzel

Adjunct Faculty

Tom G. Wells

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Political sociology, social movements, historical and comparative sociology, culture, stratification and inequality, social theory, charisma

Kellie S. Wilkerson

Graduate Research Assistant

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

James Witte

Emeritus Faculty

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

Margaret Zeddies

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

Julissa Zelaya Barrera

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology