All Faculty

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

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

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.

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

Thomasina Borkman

Emeritus Faculty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Kimberly Foecke

Assistant Professor

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

Felicia Garland-Jackson

Adjunct Faculty

Institutions and Inequalities, Ethnomusicology, Military Family 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

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

Zachary Hawk

Abdallah Hendawy

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

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

Mark D Jacobs

Emeritus Faculty

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

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

Eric L Larsen

Adjunct Faculty

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

Mohamed Mohamed

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, Institutional Change Theory, Sociology of Education

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

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

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

Karleen Ronsairo

Adjunct Faculty

Karen E Rosenblum

Emeritus Faculty

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

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

Randall Salm

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Peace, armed conflict, child soldier identity

Anne L Schiller

Professor

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

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

Blake Silver

Associate Professor

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

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

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

Elic Weitzel

Adjunct Faculty

James Witte

Emeritus Faculty

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