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Elyse M. Adams

Administrative Assistant

Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Osteology

Sara Mohammed M Aftab

Graduate Research Assistant

humanities, public sociology, political sociology, social movements, advocacy, transnational justice, reconciliation, cultural trauma, and collective memory in a post-conflict society. 

Nobuhiro Aizawa

Affiliate Faculty

Courtney Bell

Graduate Research 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

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

Graduate Research Assistant

food environments, food insecurity, food justice and nutrition education

Meagan Call-Cummings

Associate Professor

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.

Anand Panamthottam Cherian

Graduate Research Assistant

Migration Spaces, South Asia

James Condo

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

John G. Dale

Associate Professor

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.

Dhiman Das

Affiliate Faculty

Khaseem Davis

Affiliate Faculty

Scholar identities for high achieving Black and Latino males who are the first in their families to attend college,The evolution of the achievement gap,Youth leadership and development, Policy, educational opportunity, and college access

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

Graduate Professional Assistant

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

Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen

Assistant Professor

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

Fanni Farago

Graduate Research Assistant

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

Eleanor Finley

Affiliate Faculty

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

Arvind Geetha Christo

Graduate Research Assistant

Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Social Movements, Dalit politics, and Ethnography.

Raluca Grosescu

Affiliate Faculty

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

Nancy W Hanrahan

Emeritus Faculty

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

Sharrell Hassell-Goodman

Affiliate Faculty

First-generation college students, Black women in higher education, DEI pedagogy, anti-racist research approaches, social justice advocates in higher education, identity and leadership, and critical participatory action research, and anti-racist/ decolonial research methods

Abdallah Hendawy

Adjunct Faculty

Social Movements, Radicalization, Insurgency, Middle East, Egypt

Mia Hines

Affiliate Faculty

Deepika Hooda

Graduate Lecturer

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

Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

Professor

Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Jeba Humayra

Graduate Research Assistant

human rights and political violence, dissent and repression, internet governance and human rights, digital authoritarianism, and contemporary South Asian politics.

Katie Kerstetter

Affiliate Faculty

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

Dae Young Kim

Associate Professor

Immigration, ethnicity, race, second-generation immigrants, immigrant entrepreneurship, Asian American studies, K-pop reception, and globalization

Ivan Kislenko

Affiliate Faculty

Haagen Klaus

Professor

--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

Ben Manski

Assistant Professor

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.

Bethany Monea

Affiliate Faculty

Youth writing and media, Community Writing, Critical digital literacies, Participatory and arts-based methods, College transitions

Manjusha Nair

Associate Professor

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

Sarah Nidia Ochs

Graduate Research Assistant

Jeffrey L Parsells-Johnson

Adjunct Faculty

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

Kevin Nazar Pastor

Graduate Lecturer

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

Maia Punksungka

Graduate Research Assistant

Higher education; higher education administration; academic affairs; community college; college transfer partnership; institutional belonging; advanced quantitative methods; mixed methods

Karthik Ramanujam

Graduate Research Assistant

Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology

Henry P. Rammelt

Affiliate Faculty

Political Participation; Social Movements; Civil Society; Corporate Accountability; BHR

Maxwell David Rollins

Graduate Lecturer

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

Katharine Rupp

Operations Manager

Rashmi Sadana

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

Associate Professor

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

Jason A. Smith

Affiliate Faculty

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

Rick W. A. Smith

Assistant Professor

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

Roberta Spalter-Roth

Senior Research Fellow

Elizangela Storelli

Associate Professor

Sociology of aging, including global population aging and well-being, sociology of family, intergenerational networks of care, gender inequality, and quantitative studies.

Morgan Swindall

Intern

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

Emma (Vetter) Taylor

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology of Everyday Life; Digital Nomads; Social Media; Early Adulthood; Health Disparities; Housing; Popular Culture

Daniel H Temple

Professor

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

Josh Tuttle

Affiliate Faculty

Migration, religion, authoritarianism, critical theory

Maria Valdovinos

Graduate Lecturer

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

janine Wedel

Distinguished University Professor

Anthropology of Public Policy, Influence Elites, Corruption, Central and Eastern Europe, Foreign Aid, Governance, Privatization of Policy, Social Networks

Kellie S. Wilkerson

Graduate Research Assistant

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

James Witte

Emeritus Faculty

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