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  • 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

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  • Meagan Call-Cummings

    Meagan Call-Cummings

    Associate Professor

  • 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.

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  • John G. Dale

    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.

  • Khaseem Davis

    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

    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

  • Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen

    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

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  • Mia Hines

    Mia Hines

    Affiliate Faculty

  • Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

    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

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  • Dae Young Kim

    Dae Young Kim

    Associate Professor

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

  • Haagen Klaus

    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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  • Ben Manski

    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.

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  • Manjusha Nair

    Manjusha Nair

    Associate Professor

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

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  • Rashmi Sadana

    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

    Blake Silver

    Associate Professor

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

  • Rick W. A. Smith

    Rick W. A. Smith

    Assistant Professor

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

  • Elizangela Storelli

    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.

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  • Daniel H Temple

    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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  • janine Wedel

    janine Wedel

    Distinguished University Professor

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