Faculty & Staff
Irving May Professor of Human Relations, Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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
Adjunct Lecturer of Sociology & Anthropology
Specialties:
- Critical Political Economy
- Development Sociology
- Rural Sociology
- Environmental Sociology
- Mixed Research Methods
- Spatial Statistical Analysis
(804) 289-8067
Adjunct Lecturer of Sociology & Anthropology
Specialties:
- Social Movements and Collective Behavior
- Gender
- Sexualities
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
Professor of Sociology
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
Affiliated Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
Specialties:
- Racial Justice
- Sexuality and Gender
- Institutional Change
804-484-1656
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
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
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Assistant Professor of 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
Emeritus Faculty
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
Pre-Law Advisor, Emerita
Specialties:
- Latin America
- Legal and Political Anthropology
- Human Rights
- Anthropological Theory
(804) 287-6429