Faculty & Staff
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Specialties:
- 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
(804) 289-8075
Dr. Miguel Diaz-Barriga
He/Him
Assistant Professor of Sociology/Africana Studies
Specialties:
- Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- Family
- Inequality, Poverty and Mobility
- Race, Class, and Gender
- Sociology of Education
- Higher Education
804-289-8070
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
Pre-Law Advisor, Emerita
Specialties:
- Latin America
- Legal and Political Anthropology
- Human Rights
- Anthropological Theory
(804) 287-6429
Affiliated Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
Specialties:
- Racial Justice
- Sexuality and Gender
- Institutional Change
804-484-1656
Visting Assistant Professor
Specialties:
- Gender
- Sexualities
- Families
- Social Movements
- Sociological Theory
(804) 287-6816
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Specialties:
- 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
(804) 289-8965
Dr. Olubukola Olayiwola
He/Him
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties:
- 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
(804) 289-6016
Irving May Professor of Human Relations, Professor of Sociology
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Director, University of Richmond Race and Racism Project
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Race
- Masculinity
- African American culture
- Hip Hop/Rap
- Gender
- Content Analysis
- Racial Identity
- Black/Africana Studies
Dr. Bo Yun Park
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Sociology
Specialties:
- Political Leadership
- Digital Politics
- Technology
- Social Change in Democracies
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Specialties:
- War
- Social conflict
- Globalization
- Political economy
- Comparative and world-historical methods
Associate Professor of Sociology
Specialties:
- Education
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Social Inequality
- Immigration
- Caribbean Immigrants
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Specialties:
- 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
(804) 289-8071
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Specialties:
- Gender
- Sexualities
- Social Inequalities
- Qualitative Methods
- Family
(804) 289-1795
