Sociology classes (Fall 2006 SO 226 Social Research Analysis students and 2004 SO 226 Social Research Analysis students)

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
Professor
PhD Northwestern University

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
Professor
PhD Indiana University

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
Professor
PhD University at Albany

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
Associate Professor and Dean of Studies
PhD Michigan State University

Medical anthropology; environmental anthropology; political ecology; identity politics
Area: Mexico, Latin America, Caribbean

SONIA SILVA
Assistant Professor
PhD Indiana University

Ritual and religion; material culture; African art; social memory; refugees
Area: Subsaharan Africa

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
PhD University of Michigan

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
PhD SUNY at Binghamton

Archaeology of Northeastern United States; applied archaeology; archaeology of foraging societies