All Faculty

Daniel Kamran Afzal

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Health ecologies, cultural psychodynamics, critical psychology, trauma, phenomenology, medical humanities

Marisa Allison

Affiliate Faculty

Sociology

Jamie D. Aprile

Adjunct Faculty

Anthropology: Political economy, archaeological theory, excavation methods, lithic artifact analysis, European prehistory, Greek and Roman archaeology

Marwa Bakabas

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

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

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.

Melissa A. Cidade

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Survey Methodology; Statistics; Survey Cognition; Sociology of Religion

Jamie L Clark

Director of Undergraduate Program in Anthropology

Associate Professor

Anthropology: Paleolithic archaeology, human-environmental interaction, hunter-gatherer lifeways, zooarchaeology

Kristina Rea Cockerille

Adjunct Faculty

Anthropology: bioarchaeology, maternal and developmental stress, enamel growth disruptions, psychosocial stress, life course theory, paleopathology, skeletal biology

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.

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

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

Instructor

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

Basak Durgun

Adjunct Faculty

Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities

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

Adjunct Faculty

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

Associate Professor

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

Abdallah Hendawy

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

Hale Inanoglu

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology

Yasemin Ipek

Assistant Professor

Nationalism, sectarianism, transnational Islamic humanitarianism, activism and civil society, the Middle East

Mark D Jacobs

Emeritus Faculty

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

Dae Young Kim

Associate Professor

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

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

Professor

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

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

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

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 and constitutionalism; democratization; environmental sociology; federalism and municipalism; philosophy of social science.

Patricia Anne Masters

Director of Undergraduate Program in Sociology

Professor

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

Christopher Morris

Assistant Professor

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

Anne Marie Marie Munson

Adjunct Faculty

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

Amaka Okechukwu

Assistant Professor

Sociology: Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Black Politics, Ethnography, Oral History

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 Research Methods, 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

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

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; race, class, and gender; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; second-generation immigrant students

Earl Smith

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology: Social Stratification. Crime. Sociology of Sport

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.

Roberta Spalter-Roth

Senior Research Fellow

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.

Christian Rafael Suero

Instructor

Sociology: Sociology of education, well-being, labor, race, and class.

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

Susan R Trencher

Associate Professor

Anthropology: American culture, the anthropology of anthropology, sociology of knowledge, anthropological theory and practice, and the history of anthropology

Bethany M. Usher

Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Evolution of Health and Disease, Growth and Development, Osteology, Diet

James Witte

Professor

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

Janis Woodward

Graduate Professional Assistant

Anthropology: socio-cultural anthropology, urban anthropology, youth culture, aging, place, space, urban design, skateboarding