Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Department of Sociology & Anthropology

The Department of Sociology & Anthropology combines the study of people and cultures and produces students who are not only aware of the history and significance of humankind but who are also cognizant of how our actions impact the world in which we live.

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Department News

Congratulations to Kaelyn Simone Reid, recipient of the 2023 James A. Sartain award!

Faculty opening: Assistant Professor of Sociology (000874) 

                                            

 

Deborwah Faulk awarded National Fellowship

Deborwah Faulk, assistant professor of sociology and Africana studies at the University of Richmond, has been awarded a 2023–24 Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship by The HistoryMakers.

Fellowship recipients receive a $7,500 award and the opportunity to demonstrate how faculty can creatively incorporate The HistoryMakers archive — the largest video oral history archive of the Black experience in the country into their classroom.

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Faculty Highlights

Dr. Matthew Oware
Oware Published

Matthew Oware, Irving May Professor of Human Relations, published the chapter "Battle Rap: An Exploration of Competitive Rhyming in Hip Hop" in: African Battle Traditions of Insult. African Histories and Modernities.

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Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis
Sweis Awarded

Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology, delivered a lecture on her research and book Paradoxes of Care Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt at the Yale MacMillan Center's Council on Middle East Studies.

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Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis
Sweis Awarded

Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Book Prize from the Association for Middle East Childhood and Youth Studies. (AMECYS) for her book Paradoxes of Care Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt. The AMECYS Book Award was established in 2019 to recognize an outstanding contribution on the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Learn more.

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Dr. Jeffrey Hass
Hass Awarded

Jeffrey Hass, associate professor of sociology, was named a 2022 recipient of the University’s Distinguished Scholarship Award at the annual Colloquy celebration.

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Dr. Jeffrey Hass
Hass Awarded

Jeffrey Hass, associate professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, has been selected as a co-winner of the American Sociological Association Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict’s 2022 Book Award and received honorable mention for ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for his book Wartime Suffering and Survival.

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Dr. Jan H. French
French Published

Jan French, associate professor of anthropology and pre-law advisor, published “Ethnography In-Sight: Spiraling through Fieldwork” and “Paint It Black or Red: Serious Play in Brazil’s Northeast” in The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

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Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis
Sweis' Book Reviewed

Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology, recent book Paradoxes of Care Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt has been reviewed in the May/June 2022 issue of Foreign Affairs.

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Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis
Sweis Invited Book Talks

Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology, has been invited to speak on her book, Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt at two events: University of Minnesota International Relations Colloquium, Department of Political Science and the Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies Digital Author Series.

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Scholarship Repository Readership

The University of Richmond's Scholarship Repository shares faculty publications with a world-wide audience. The map below shows where articles from sociology and anthropology faculty are being read around the globe.

Mailing Address:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
302 Weinstein Hall
231 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173

Phone: (804) 289-8067
Fax: (804) 287-1278

Department Chair: Dr. Jeffrey Hass
Administrative Coordinator: Diane Zotti