Full-time Faculty
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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
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Meagan Call-Cummings
Associate Professor
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Nancy W Hanrahan
Associate Professor
critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
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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
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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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Dae Young Kim
Associate Professor
Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
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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
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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)
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
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Ben Manski
Assistant Professor
social movements; next system studies; sociology of constitutions and constitutionalism; democratization; environmental sociology; federalism and municipalism; philosophy of social science.
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Manjusha Nair
Associate Professor
Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa
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Amaka Okechukwu
Assistant Professor
Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Black Politics, Ethnography, Oral History
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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James Witte
Professor
Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan
