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  • Courtney Bell

    Courtney Bell

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    NAVIGATING INTIMACY: marriage, polyamory, sexuality, sex education, consent, women & gender studies; PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: sociology of education, qualitative research, mixed methods, documentary filmmaking, pop culture

  • Amy L Best

    Amy L Best

    Director

    Professor

    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

  • Drew Bonner

    Drew Bonner

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    food environments, food insecurity, food justice and nutrition education

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  • Jeremy M. Campbell

    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.

  • James Condo

    James Condo

    Social movements; alternative economies; urban sociology; economic sociology; political sociology; cooperative enterprise

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  • John G. Dale

    John G. Dale

    Associate Professor

    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.

  • Dhiman Das

    Dhiman Das

    Affiliate Faculty

  • Shannon N Davis

    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

  • Lili Deveneau

    Lili Deveneau

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    human rights; gender; childhood studies; (in)equality; public health; mixed methods; critical sociology; public sociology; interprofessional collaboration

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  • Fanni Farago

    Fanni Farago

    Graduate Research Assistant

    sociology of education, immigration, life course transitions, emotions, health, applied sociology, and mixed-methods research

  • Eleanor Finley

    Eleanor Finley

    Affiliate Faculty

    social movements, democracy studies, social and political ecology, anthropology,

  • Katherine Foarde

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  • Arvind Geetha Christo

    Arvind Geetha Christo

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Development, Development-induced Displacement, Conservation-induced Displacement, social movements, rural protests, indigeneity, and ethnography.

  • Eirini Giannaraki

    Eirini Giannaraki

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology: Globalization, forced migration, mixed methods research, refugee integration

  • Raluca Grosescu

    Raluca Grosescu

    Affiliate Faculty

    social mouvements, international criminal law, business and human rights, political sociology

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  • Nancy W Hanrahan

    Nancy W Hanrahan

    Associate Professor

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

  • Abdallah Hendawy

    Abdallah Hendawy

    Adjunct Faculty

    Social Movements, Radicalization, Insurgency, Middle East, Egypt

  • LeNaya Crandall Hezel

    LeNaya Crandall Hezel

    Affiliate Faculty

    Sociology of Education, Military-Connected Communities, Equity and Inclusion among Intersectionality of Identities, Institutions and Inequality

  • Deepika Hooda

    Deepika Hooda

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Globalization, global tech labor, migration, digital culture, computational social science, and social movements.

  • Cortney Hughes Rinker

    Cortney Hughes Rinker

    Associate Professor

    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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  • Ann Johnson

    Ann Johnson

    Researcher/Survey Lab Surpervisor

    Mental health and substance-use disorders, sociology of sport, race and ethnicity, labor, criminology, and sociology of aging.

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  • Katie Kerstetter

    Katie Kerstetter

    Affiliate Faculty

    Sociology: poverty and inequality, education, health disparities, and community-based and participatory approaches to research

  • Dae Young Kim

    Dae Young Kim

    Associate Professor

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

  • Ivan Kislenko

    Ivan Kislenko

    Affiliate Faculty

  • Maurice Kugler

    Maurice Kugler

    Professor

    Professor, Public Policy

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  • Brian Louis Levy

    Brian Louis Levy

    Assistant Professor

    Inequality, Poverty, Mobility; Neighborhoods; Community and Urban Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Education; Social Demography; Quantitative Research Methods; Causal Inference

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  • Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Assistant Professor

    Black Women's Health: Maternal Mental and Perinatal Health, Tobacco/Nicotine Product Use, Infectious Disease, Health Seeking Behavior, Identity Negotiation in Health Contexts, Agency & Self-Determination, Community-Based Participatory Research

  • Ben Manski

    Ben Manski

    Assistant Professor

    social movements; next system studies; sociology of constitutions and constitutionalism; democratization; environmental sociology; federalism and municipalism; philosophy of social science.

  • Mohamed Mohamed

    Mohamed Mohamed

    Graduate Lecturer

    Sociology of Religion, Politics of the Middle East, Islamism, Religious Education, Religious Institutions

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  • Manjusha Nair

    Manjusha Nair

    Associate Professor

    Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa

  • Ismail Nooraddini

    Ismail Nooraddini

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Quantitative and qualitative research methods, family and adolescence, immigration, and gender.

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  • Sarah Nidia Ochs

    Sarah Nidia Ochs

    Graduate Research Assistant

  • Amaka Okechukwu

    Amaka Okechukwu

    Assistant Professor

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

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  • Jeffrey L Parsells-Johnson

    Jeffrey L Parsells-Johnson

    Adjunct Faculty

    Gender, Social Psychology, Sociology of Attention, and Political Sociology

  • Kevin Nazar Pastor

    Kevin Nazar Pastor

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology of Globalization, Transnationalism, Human Rights, Sociology of Development, International Politics, Social Movements, Migration, Latin America and US International Relations, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, The Collective Unconscious

  • Carol Petty

    Carol Petty

    Adjunct Faculty

    Subjectivities, Social Inequalities, Civic Engagement, Citizenship Studies, Social Integration Policy, Sociology of Culture, Interpretive Sociology, Sociological Research Methods, Sociological Theory

  • Maia Punksungka

    Maia Punksungka

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology of education; higher education; community college; lifelong learning; civic engagement; quantitative research methodology

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  • Karthik Balaji Ramanujam

    Karthik Balaji Ramanujam

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Political Sociology, Critical Theory, Political Economy, Caste in India

  • Maxwell David Rollins

    Maxwell David Rollins

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Roots of Nationalism, Sub-state Self-determination Movements, the Nature of the State, Himalayan Societies

  • Katharine Rupp

    Katharine Rupp

    Office Manager

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  • Rashmi Sadana

    Rashmi Sadana

    Associate Professor

    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

  • Blake Silver

    Blake Silver

    Assistant Professor

    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

  • Deanna Smith
  • Jason A. Smith

    Jason A. Smith

    Affiliate Faculty

    race/ethnicity, media policy, media sociology, representation, civil society

  • Stacey Kathleen South

    Stacey Kathleen South

    Administrative Assistant

    bioarchaeology, queer theory, sex and gender, Indigenous theory, decolonization

  • Roberta Spalter-Roth

    Roberta Spalter-Roth

    Senior Research Fellow

  • Elizangela Storelli

    Elizangela Storelli

    Associate Professor

    Sociology of aging, including global population aging, well-being and retirement, sociology of family, gender inequality, international development, Latin and America, and quantitative studies.

  • Morgan Swindall

    Morgan Swindall

    Intern

    Global governance, civil society and government, community engagement, democratization of technology,

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  • Josh Tuttle

    Josh Tuttle

    Affiliate Faculty

    Migration, religion, authoritarianism, critical theory

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  • Maria Valdovinos

    Maria Valdovinos

    Graduate Lecturer

    Policing, Corrections, Prisoner Reentry, Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Legal System, Evidence-Based Crime Policy

  • Emma Vetter

    Emma Vetter

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Social Networks; Digital Nomads; Social Media; Housing; Early Adulthood; Health Disparities

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  • Wenjing Wang

    Wenjing Wang

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Anthropology: Social Complexity and Inequality, Social Interaction, Regional Demographic Analysis, Population Centralization and Decentralization, Quantitative and Spatial Analysis

  • Amanda Warner

    Amanda Warner

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Critical Race Theory; Immigration and Global Migration, Paradigms of systemic inequality, Colonialism; Applied Sociology

  • Michele Waslin

    Michele Waslin

    Affiliate Faculty

    immigration policy, gender-based asylum, federalism, executive authority

  • Kellie Wilkerson

    Kellie Wilkerson

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research, Globalization, Sociology of Education, Statistics/Quantitative Methodology

  • James Witte

    James Witte

    Professor

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