Sociology and Anthropology
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Chairperson

  • Albert J. Meehan
    Ph.D. Boston University, Sociology
    Policing, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

Professors

  • Peter J. Bertocci
    Ph.D. Michigan State University, Anthropology
    political economy, religion and cultural change, special focus on Islamic societies, South Asia.
  • Judith K. Brown
    Ed.D. Harvard University, Human Development
    gender roles, cross-cultural analysis
  • Amanda Burgess-Proctor
    Ph.D., Michigan State University, Criminal Justice
    Criminological theory, feminist criminology, intimate partner violence, juvenile justice
  • Graham Cassano
    Ph.D. Brandeis University, Sociology
    Urban sociology, Theory, Labor History, Mass Media, Race, Gender & Class
  • Lisa Dalton
    Ph.D. University of Texas at Arlington, Social Work
    Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Introduction to Social Work, Field Instruction
  • Henri Gooren
    Ph.D., Utrecht University, Anthropology
    Religion, Latin America
  • Raymond V. Liedka
    Ph.D. Cornell University
    Statistics, organizations, criminology, stratification, methods
  • Karen Neuman Allen
    Ph.D. Wayne State University, Education
    social work practice, health care, distance education in social work, theory
  • Terri L. Orbuch
    Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Sociology
    Interpersonal relationships, race/gender, interrelationships between relationships, marital stability and quality, sexuality and sexual norms, account-making and narratives.
  • Jo Reger
    Ph.D. Ohio State University, Sociology
    Social movements, gender, qualitative methods, organizations
  • George Sanders
    Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, Sociology
    Sociology of Religion, stratification, research methods, theory
  • Cynthia J. Schellenbach
    Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, Human Development
    Family systems and the ecology of marriage and the family, community based prevention and intervention, sociological perspectives on adulthood and aging, sociology of youth and adolescence, individual and family ecology.
  • Gary Shepherd
    Ph.D. Michigan State University, Sociology
    Sociology of religion, new religious movements, Mormonism, The Family, The Church Universal and Triumphant and Social and Political Movements.
  • Scott J Smith
    Ph.D., Arizona State University, Social Work
    Sexual health, health disparities, international social work.
  • Suzanne Spencer-Wood
    Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Anthropology
    Feminist theory in anthropology and archaeology, nonlinear systems theory, archaeological theory and method, feminist historical archaeology, historical archaeology of class, ethnicity, market access and settlement, industrial archaeology and cultural resource management.
  • Richard B. Stamps
    Ph.D. Michigan State University, Anthropology
    Anthropology, archaeology, Chinese prehistory and 19th century North America, Chinese minorities, Asian Americans, Christianity in China, applied anthropology.

Lecturers

Emeriti faculty

 
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