All Faculty
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Daniel Kamran Afzal
Graduate Lecturer
Sociology: Health ecologies, cultural psychodynamics, critical psychology, trauma, phenomenology, medical humanities
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Jamie D. Aprile
Adjunct Faculty
Anthropology: Political economy, archaeological theory, excavation methods, lithic artifact analysis, European prehistory, Greek and Roman archaeology
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Marwa Bakabas
Adjunct Faculty
Anthropology: Conflict & Displacement, Migration, Humanitarianism, Refugees, Middle East, Global Urban Studies
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Aziza Bayou
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Anthropology: Economic anthropology, political economy, New Orleans and Caribbean region, ethnicity and identity, fair/affordable housing, segregation, inequity, colonialism, immigration and refugees, human evolution, pedagogy
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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
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Johanna Bockman
Associate Professor
Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC
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Thomasina Borkman
Emeritus Faculty
Sociology: Sociology of health and illness, organizational analysis, small group behavior, social problems, qualitative research methods
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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.
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Melissa A. Cidade
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology: Survey Methodology; Statistics; Survey Cognition; Sociology of Religion
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Jamie L Clark
Director of Undergraduate Program in Anthropology
Associate Professor
Anthropology: Paleolithic archaeology, human-environmental interaction, hunter-gatherer lifeways, zooarchaeology
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Kristina Rea Cockerille
Adjunct Faculty
Anthropology: bioarchaeology, maternal and developmental stress, enamel growth disruptions, psychosocial stress, life course theory, paleopathology, skeletal biology
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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.
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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
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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
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Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen
Instructor
U.S. immigration law and policy; legality, citizenship, membership, and belonging; immigrant incorporation; refugee resettlement; global migration management; Middle East migration
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Basak Durgun
Adjunct Faculty
Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities
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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.
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Kimberly Foecke
Adjunct Faculty
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Felicia Garland-Jackson
Adjunct Faculty
Institutions and Inequalities, Ethnomusicology, Military Family Sociology
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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
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David W Haines
Emeritus Faculty
Anthropology: migration, governance, kinship, information technology, East and Southeast Asia
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Nancy W Hanrahan
Associate Professor
Sociology: critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
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Abdallah Hendawy
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology: Social Movements, Radicalization, Insurgency, Middle East, Egypt
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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
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Yasemin Ipek
Assistant Professor
Nationalism, sectarianism, transnational Islamic humanitarianism, activism and civil society, the Middle East
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Mark D Jacobs
Emeritus Faculty
Sociology: Sociology of culture, social theory, social control and juvenile justice, public scandal
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Dae Young Kim
Associate Professor
Sociology: Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
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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
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Lester R. Kurtz
Professor
Sociology: Nonviolent social movements, Gandhi, sociology of religion, Global Social Thought
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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
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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
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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.
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Ben Manski
Assistant Professor
Sociology: social movements; next system studies; sociology of constitutions and constitutionalism; democratization; environmental sociology; federalism and municipalism; philosophy of social science.
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Patricia Anne Masters
Director of Undergraduate Program in Sociology
Professor
Sociology: Gender, social psychology, community, children and youth, family. and qualitative research methods
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Christopher Morris
Assistant Professor
Anthropology: Anthropology of medicine, environmental governance, extractive industries, indigeneity, ethnicity, colonial and postcolonial histories, im/material properties, southern Africa
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Anne Marie Marie Munson
Adjunct Faculty
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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
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Amaka Okechukwu
Assistant Professor
Sociology: Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Black Politics, Ethnography, Oral History
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Jeffrey L Parsells-Johnson
Adjunct Faculty
Gender, Social Psychology, Sociology of Attention, and Political Sociology
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Carol Petty
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology: Globalization, Global Subjectivities, Civic Engagement, Citizenship Studies, Social Inequalities, Integration Policy, Sociology of Culture, Interpretive Sociology, Sociological Research Methods, Sociological Theory
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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
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Mohammed Luftur Rahman
Adjunct Faculty
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Karleen Ronsairo
Adjunct Faculty
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Karen E Rosenblum
Emeritus Faculty
Sociology: Global and American social problems from an economic perspective; comparative stigma
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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
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Joseph A Scimecca
Professor
Sociology: Humanist sociological theory, the sociology of higher education, and the intersection of social science and religion
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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
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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
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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.
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Roberta Spalter-Roth
Senior Research Fellow
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Elizangela Storelli
Director of MA Program in Sociology
Associate Professor
Sociology: Sociology of aging, including global population aging, well-being and retirement, sociology of family, gender inequality, international development, Latin and America, and quantitative studies.
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Christian Rafael Suero
Instructor
Sociology: Sociology of education, well-being, labor, race, and class.
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Ahmet Tekelioglu
Instructor
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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
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Susan R Trencher
Associate Professor
Anthropology: American culture, the anthropology of anthropology, sociology of knowledge, anthropological theory and practice, and the history of anthropology
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Bethany M. Usher
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Evolution of Health and Disease, Growth and Development, Osteology, Diet
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James Witte
Professor
Sociology: Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan
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Janis Woodward
Graduate Professional Assistant
Anthropology: socio-cultural anthropology, urban anthropology, youth culture, aging, place, space, urban design, skateboarding