Sociology Faculty

Aday, Ronald H., Professor. Areas: Aging/Social Gerontology, Family, Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research.

Amey, Foster K., Undergraduate Program Director, Associate Professor.  Areas: Demography, Quantitative Methodology, Statistics.

Austin, Benjamin S., Associate Professor. Areas: Race and Ethnic Relations, the Holocaust, Genocide, Hate Groups and Hate Crimes, Gangs, Slave Burial Practices in the Old South.

Breault, Kevin D., Professor. Areas: Deviance and Social Disorganization, Social Factors in Morbidity and Mortality, Suicide, Homicide and Violent Crime, Theory, Research Methods, Religion.

Canak, William L., Professor. Areas: Work, Organizations, Labor and Employment, Dispute Resolution, Latin America, Applied Research Methods and Program Management.

Carter, W. Craig, Associate Professor. Areas: Deviance and Social Disorganization, Criminology, Social Psychology, Social Networks.

Dye, Meredith, Assistant Professor.  Areas:  Deviance and Social Control, Criminology, Law and Society, Sociology of Punishment.

Eller, Jackie, Department Chair, Professor.  Areas: Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization, Sex and Gender, Emotions.

Hampton, Lynn A., Assistant Professor. Areas: Social Inequality, Sociology of Education, and Social Capital.

Hinote, Brian, Assistant Professor. Areas: Medical Sociology, Social Theory, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Social Epidemiology.

MacLean, Vicky, Professor. Areas: History of American Sociology, Women's and Minority Health, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Class/Gender, Social & Feminist Theory.

Mertig, Angela, Graduate Program Director and Professor. Areas: Environmental Sociology, Research Methods, Public Opinion, Social Movements, Animals and Society.

Wallace, J. Brandon, Aging Studies Program Director and Professor. Areas: Social Gerontology, Medical Sociology, Family, Social Psychology, Quality of Care in Long-Term Care.

Webber, Gretchen, Assistant Professor. Areas: Gender, Family, Intersection of Gender and Work, Qualitative Methods.

Anthropology Faculty

Berryman, Hugh, Director of FIRE and Research Professor. Areas: Forensic Anthropology/Science, Trauma, Skeletal Biology, Bioarchaeology.

Hodge, Shannon Chappell, Assistant Professor. Areas: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Chiefdoms; North America.

Leggett, Ida Fadzillah, Associate Professor. Areas: Gender, Sexuality, Adolescence, Globalization.

Leggett, William, Assistant Professor. Areas: Globalization, Colonialization, Economic Anthropology, Southeast Asia, Urban Anthropology.

Pace, Richard B., Professor. Areas: Political Economy, Cultural Ecology; Brazilian Amazon.

Peres, Tanya M., Assistant Professor. Areas: Zooarchaeology, Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Ecology, Early Agricultural Societies, Farmsteads; Southeastern United States, Panama, Mexico.

Smith, Kevin E., Anthropology Program Director and Professor. Areas: Prehistoric Archaeology; 19th-Century Historic Archaeology; Public Archaeology; Chiefdoms.