
Department Faculty Listing
Department faculty have terminal degrees (PhD or M.S.W.) from leading graduate schools. Here are our faculty along with their special areas of interest:
| SOCIOLOGY | PRINCIPAL INTERESTS |
| CATHERINE WHITE BERHEIDE | Work and occupations; organizations; women's studies |
| JOHN BRUEGGEMANN Associate Professor PhD Emory University | Race and ethnicity, social inequality; historical sociology |
| KRISTIE A. FORD Assistant Professor PhD University of Michigan | Qualitative methodology; race and ethnicity; Black identity; gender and sexuality; social inequality |
| WILLIAM FOX | Research statistics; social change; folklore; sociology of culture |
| DAVID REED KARP Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Student Affairs PhD University of Washington | Criminology; community studies; social problems |
| RIK SCARCE Associate Professor PhD Washington State University | Enviormental sociology; social movements; political sociology; social theory |
| SUSAN WALZER Associate Professor PhD SUNY at Albany | Families; gender; individual in society; research design and methods |
ANTHROPOLOGY | |
| SUSAN J. BENDER | Prehistoric archaeology; human osteology; evolution; historty & gender Area: North America (US Northeast) |
| CHRISTINE GRASSI Visiting Assistant Professor PhD University of Texas | Primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. Area: Tropical forests, Madagascar in particular |
| MICHAEL C. ENNIS-MCMILLAN | Medical anthropology; environmental anthropology; political ecology; identity politics Area: Mexico, Latin America, Caribbean |
| SONIA SILVA | Ritual and religion; material culture; African art; social memory; refugees |
| EILEEN WALSH Assistant Professor PhD Temple University | Cultural anthropology; political economy; gender; development; ethnicity; nationalism; touris Area: East Asia (China) |
| JON ZIBBELL Lecturer ABD University of Massachusetts | Social and cultural theory; political and legal anthropology; urban anthropology; anthropology of drugs and addiction Area: United States; Britain |
| RICHARD WILKINSON | Research Associate in Archaeology Biological anthropology, osteology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology Area: North America |
SOCIAL WORK | |
| PETER McCARTHY Lecturer and Acting Director of Social Work Program MSW University of South Carolina | Addictions; adolescent behavior; administrative social work; group & individual therapy |
| KELLY MILLS-DICK Lecturer MSW University of California at Berkeley | Gerontology; mental health; individual and group treatment; aging programs and policy; research design and methods |
| ELIZABETH MISENER Visiting Assistant Professor PhD University at Albany | Evidenced-based practice with late life depression; mental health practice in primary care; research design and methods |
| CRYSTAL DEA MOORE Assistant Professor and Director of Social Work Program MSW, PhD UniversitY at Albany (On Leave 2007-08) | Social work atend-of-life and palliative care; communication in health care settings; caregiver issues |
| THOMAS P. OLES MSW Syracuse University Dean of Student Affairs | Family therapy; child welfare; methods and field instruction |
CONTRACT ARCHAEOLOGY | |
| EDWARD V. CURTIN | Archaeology of Northeastern United States; applied archaeology; archaeology of foraging societies |
