All Faculty

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

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.

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.

Khaseem Davis

Instructor

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

Nancy W Hanrahan

Associate Professor

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

Sharrell Hassell-Goodman

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

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, Asian American studies, and globalization

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

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

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

Assistant Professor

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

Manjusha Nair

Associate Professor

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

Amaka Okechukwu

Assistant Professor

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

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

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

Associate 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

Jason A. Smith

Affiliate Faculty

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

Roberta Spalter-Roth

Senior Research Fellow

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.

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

James Witte

Professor

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