Core Faculty

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

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

Professor

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

Kimberly Foecke

Assistant Professor

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

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

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

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: Global Social Thought, Nonviolent social movements, Gandhi, ociology of religion

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

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

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

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

Anne L Schiller

Professor

Anthropology: Identity, religion and ritual, social change, Italy, Indonesia

Joseph A Scimecca

Professor

Sociology: Humanist sociological theory, the sociology of higher education, and the intersection of social science and religion

Blake Silver

Associate Professor

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

Rick W. A. Smith

Director of Graduate Programs in Anthropology

Assistant Professor

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

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.

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