All Faculty

Denise Albanese

Professor

affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature

Amal Amireh

Associate Professor

middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality

Eric Gary Anderson

Associate Professor

American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror and Gothic studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century

Anu Aneja

Professor

transnational feminist theory and aesthetics; contemporary French, francophone and Indian literatures; feminist perspectives on mothering; and feminist pedagogy

John Carl Baker

Adjunct Faculty

Iccha Basnyat

Associate Professor

Culture, gender and health; global health communication; South and South East Asia

Aziza Bayou

Graduate Lecturer

Economic anthropology, culture and political economy, labor unions, identities and inequalities, gendered division of labor, ethnographic methods, anthropology of work, anthropology of religion, New Orleans and Caribbean region.

Amy L Best

Professor

Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation

Johanna Bockman

Associate Professor

Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC

Zofia Burr

Associate Professor

African American literature; poetry

Jack R. Censer

Emeritus Faculty

French, European social

Michael G. Chang

Associate Professor

political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial/early modern China (1500-1800); ethnicity; state-formation; court studies

Keith Clark

Distinguished University Professor

20th-Century African American Literature; African American Literary Masculinity Studies; Black LGBTQ+ Literature; African American Drama; Major Authors: James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Ann Petry

Dina M. Copelman

Emeritus Faculty

Modern British, European women, European social

Richard T Craig

Professor

Media ownership, telecommunication/media policy, media political economy, media representation of marginialized groups (race,gender, religion, etc...), popular culture

Spencer Crew

Robinson Professor

Maria M Dakake

Associate Professor

Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender

John G. Dale

Associate Professor

sociology of human rights; political sociology; social movements; corporate accountability; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and society; area specialist in Burma/Myanmar.

Shannon N Davis

Professor

Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods

Austin A. Deray

Instructor

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical University Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnography, Film and Media Studies, Masculine Theory, Spectatorship, SWANA Studies, Iranian Studies, Globalization, Transnational Bodies, Fraternity(ies), and Social Institutions

Terilee Edwards-Hewitt

Graduate Lecturer, SOC Graduate Liaison

Gender and Sexuality; mass and popular culture; social media/digital ethnography; disability, historical and modern US culture.

Eric Eisner

Associate Professor

18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory

Hatim El-Hibri

Associate Professor

Global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, platform studies, media theory and history, cultural studies

Savannah M Fetterolf

Graduate Lecturer

Austin Gallas

Graduate Lecturer

Police reform, public sexuality, undercover surveillance, sex work, New York City, social history, archives

Benjamin Gatling

Associate Professor

narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East

Tim Gibson

Associate Professor

Critical media studies, the political economy of communication, and urban communication

Gregory A Guagnano

Emeritus Faculty

Political economy of resource control, environmental sociology, social psychology of environmental concern, research methods and design, statistics, diffusion of technological innovation

David W Haines

Emeritus Faculty

migration, governance, kinship, information technology, East and Southeast Asia

Sumaiya A. Hamdani

Associate Professor

Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history

Nancy W Hanrahan

Emeritus Faculty

critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts

Tamara Harvey

Associate Professor

early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory

Mack P. Holt

Emeritus Faculty

Early modern Europe, especially France, the Reformation, the history of wine, the history of the book

Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

Professor

Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Associate Professor

Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Democracy

Jessica Hurley

Associate Professor

Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies, gender and sexuality studies.

Yasemin Ipek

Assistant Professor

Activism and civil society, crisis, political imagination, citizenship and belonging, decoloniality, sectarianism, nationalism, class, refugees and humanitarianism, migration, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Rosemary Jann

Emeritus Faculty

nineteenth-century British literature, history of science, interdisciplinary and cultural studies

Kristin Johnsen-Neshati

Professor

Matthew B. Karush

Professor

Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history

David Kaufmann

Professor

contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;

Kayla Keener

Graduate Research Assistant

Affect theory, digital media, political economy, labor, critical theory, popular culture

Dae Young Kim

Associate Professor

Immigration, ethnicity, race, second-generation immigrants, immigrant entrepreneurship, Asian American studies, K-pop reception, and globalization

Roger N Lancaster

Professor

Gender/Sexuality, Culture and Political Economy, Crime and Punishment, American Studies, Latin America

Alison Landsberg

Professor

the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, visual culture, the Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics

Debra Lattanzi Shutika

Associate Professor

Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration

Carl Leak

Librarian III, SOC Communications Chair

Labor History; Black Studies; Social Movements; Critical Archival Studies

Sam Lebovic

Professor

20th century culture and politics; civil liberties; media history; foreign relations; national security; democracy; political institutions and political economy; cultural globalization, constitutional history.

Jennifer Leeman

Professor

Spanish in the US; heritage language education; critical, antiracist language teaching; ethnicity, race, and language in censuses; language and social justice

Rachel A. Lewis

Professor

feminist and queer theory; ecofeminism and animal rights; disability studies; human rights; race and immigration; transnational sexualities; media and cultural studies.

Andrew Light

Distinguished University Professor

International energy and climate policy and diplomacy, advanced clean energy technology cooperation and development, environmental policy and ethics, risk analysis

Cindy Lont

Emeritus Faculty

Video-based production

Michael G Malouf

Professor

Modernism (Joyce and Woolf); Postcolonialism (spec. Ireland and Caribbean); Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & energy transition; theories of World Literature and Global English; Energy Law and Literature

Peter Mandaville

Professor of International Affairs

Islam, international relations, religion, development

Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

Professor

Critical Race Pedagogy, African American History, Black Feminist Theory, Critical University Studies, Black Queer History, Student Protest Movements, Critical Black Geographies, and Black Childhood History

Shayna Maskell

Associate Professor

Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.

Robert I Matz

Professor

Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality

Char R Miller

Associate Professor

Political theory, public law, political culture

Alexander Monea

Associate Professor

Internet Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Image Recognition, Computer Vision

Kylie Musolf

Graduate Lecturer

Michael O'Malley

Professor

19th and 20th century US, cultural history, history of technology

Christy L Pichichero

Associate Professor

Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student, Faculty, Staff Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.

Lisa M. Rabin

Interim Director

Associate Professor

Film history, "useful" and instructional film, mass media, political economy of culture.

Stephen Robertson

Professor

20th century US history, digital history, legal history, urban history, spatial history, history of sexuality

Christine Rosenfeld

Associate Professor

Occupation, settler colonialism, colonialism, biopolitics, indigeneity, aboriginality, cultural loss and preservation, Hawai`i, cultural and environmental resources, landscape, resource extraction

Rashmi Sadana

Professor

Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India

May Santiago

Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOC Co-Chair

Cinema studies, genre cinema theory, decolonization, Puerto Rican identity studies, queer and feminist media studies

Jessica Scarlata

Associate Professor

global and transnational cinema; incarceration and security; diaspora and migration; violence and human rights; colonialism; Indian, Irish, and Latin American film; race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality

Kelly Schrum

Professor

graduate education, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), history of higher education, digital pedagogy, digital humanities

Linda J Seligmann

Emeritus Faculty

informal economies and markets, agrarian issues, gender relations, quinoa, culture and food, Latin America, Andean region, Peru; transnational and transracial adoption, U.S., anthropological theory and methods

Paul Smith

Professor

Marxism, political economy and culture, postcolonial studies, globalization, media and technology, critical race and gender theory, art and music industries, theories of culture, Cultural Studies

Suzanne E. Smith

Professor

African American, 20th century Cultural History, History of Death in America, American Popular Music, African American Religious History

Gabrielle A Tayac

Associate Professor

Public History Native American and Indigenous Studies Museum Studies Community Engaged Methodology

Ellen Wiley Todd

Emeritus Faculty

American art history

janine Wedel

Distinguished University Professor

Anthropology of Public Policy, Influence Elites, Corruption, Central and Eastern Europe, Foreign Aid, Governance, Privatization of Policy, Social Networks

Alok Yadav

Associate Professor

Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing

Tauheeda Yasin

Graduate Lecturer

American Studies, legal and policy history, mass incarceration, comparative justice, poverty studies

Margaret Yocom

Emeritus Faculty

traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies

Andrea K. Zach

Associate Professor

Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.

Rosemarie Zagarri

Distinguished University Professor

Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history