All Faculty
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Rasmieyh Abdelnabi
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology: Sociology of Globalization, Social Movements, Transnational Women's Movements, Arab Culture and Society, Gender and Feminist Studies, Social Reproduction, Women's Work, Culture
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Hansel Alejandro Aguilar Avila
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology: trasnationalism, crimmigration, unaccompanied minors, deported migrants, Northern Triangle, Honduras, youth, human rights, integration, re-integration, religion
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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 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.
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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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Melissa Kerr Chiovenda
Adjunct Faculty
Anthropology: Afghanistan, human rights, genocide and atrocity crimes, refugees and immigrants, collective memory and collective/intergenerational trauma, political identity, civil society and protest movements, ethnic and religious minority vulnerability
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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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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.
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Shannon N Davis
Professor
Sociology: 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
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
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Paola Andrea Echave
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology: Immigration, Population Health, Immigration and International Policy, Labor Exploitation, Latin America, International Research
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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
Assistant Professor
Anthropology: Biological anthropology, analytical methods, stable isotopes, biogeochemistry, paleoecology
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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
Emeritus Faculty
Sociology: critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
Director of PhD Program in Sociology
Professor
Sociology: Nonviolent social movements, Gandhi, sociology of religion, Global Social Thought
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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
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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; revolutionary constitutionalism; democracy; federalism and municipalism; American legal history; environmental sociology; socio-economics; philosophy of social science; comparative methods; sociological intervention; public sociology.
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Patricia Anne Masters
Professor
Sociology: Gender, social psychology, community, children and youth, family. and qualitative research methods
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Christopher Morris
Associate Professor
Anthropology: Medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, extractive industries, indigeneity, ethnicity, colonial and postcolonial histories, governance, im/material properties, southern Africa
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Manjusha Nair
Associate Professor
Sociology: Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Decolonizing Methods, Postcolonialism, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa
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Junghyun Nam
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology: Democracy, Social Movements, Mass Protests, Protest Policing, Emotion, Space
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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
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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Anne L Schiller
Professor
Anthropology: Identity, religion and ritual, social change, Italy, Indonesia
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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; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; educational pathways
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Rick W. A. Smith
Director of Graduate Programs in Anthropology
Assistant Professor
Anthropology: Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies.
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Roberta Spalter-Roth
Senior Research Fellow
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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.
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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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Elic Weitzel
Adjunct Faculty
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James Witte
Emeritus Faculty
Sociology: Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan