Associate Professor of Sociology

Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

• Social change
• Russia and East Europe
• West Europe (esp. the United Kingdom)
• Post-socialism
• War (specifically, the Blockade of Leningrad)
• Power and culture
• Institutions and Institutional change
• Economic sociology
• Political sociology
• Complex organizations

Professor of Anthropology

Professor of Anthropology

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Pre-Law Advisor

• Latin America
• Legal and Political Anthropology
• Human Rights
• Anthropological Theory

Affiliated Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology

• Racial Justice
• Sexuality and Gender
• Institutional Change

Visiting Lecturer Anthropology

• Migration
• Ethnoreligious Identity
• Racialization
• Transnationality
• Iran and Iranian Diaspora
• Middle Eastern Communities in the United States

Visting Assistant Professor

• Gender
• Sexualities
• Families
• Social Movements
• Sociological Theory

Associate Professor of Anthropology

• Islamic Medicine
• Traditional Medicine and Biomedicine in Southeast Asia and Beyond
• Mothering, Midwifery and Ethnic Identity in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
• Political Autonomy and Ethnic Identity in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Visting Assistant Professor

• Economic Anthropology
• Anthropology of Policy
• Anthropology of development; Complex Organizations
• Anthropology of Ethnicity, Women and Gender
• Transnational Feminisms
• Anthropological Political Economy; Microcredit and Microfinancialization; and the Informal Sector/Economy
• Nigeria and West Africa

Irving May Professor of Human Relations, Professor of Sociology

Africana Studies Advisory Board Member

• Race
• Masculinity
• African American culture
• Hip Hop/Rap
• Gender
• Content Analysis
• Racial Identity
• Black/Africana Studies

Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Sociology

• Political Leadership
• Digital Politics
• Technology
• Social Change in Democracies

Associate Professor of Sociology

• Education
• Race and Ethnic Relations
• Social Inequality
• Immigration
• Caribbean Immigrants

Visiting Lecturer of Sociology

• Drugs and Drug Policy
• Social Control, Governance, and Power
• The Body and Embodiment
• Health and Medicine
• Institutional formation and authority
• Criminalization and Medicalization
• Social theory

Associate Professor of Anthropology

• Egypt
• The Middle East and North Africa
• Critical medical anthropology
• Humanitarianism and global health
• Global poverty and international aid
• Structural violence and social suffering
• Transnational feminist theory
• Ethnographic theory and research methods

Administrative Coordinator