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Meet Our Team

Faculty

  • Shawna Bendeck

    • Sociology Internship Coordinator
    • Instructor
    • Sociology of Disasters
    • Community Resilience
    • Children, Youth, and Families
    • Education
    • Social Networks

  • Michael Carolan

    • Professor of Sociology
    • Fulbright Research Chair in Food Security
    • Food Systems &
    • Food Security Specialist

  • Vanessa Centelles

    • Assistant Professor
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Victimization
    • Sociocultural Factors
    • U.S. Latinas/os/xs
    • Public Perceptions
    • Criminal Legal Systems

  • Steven Dandaneau

    • Associate Provost
    • Social Theory
    • Political Economy
    • Community Sociology
    • Higher Education

  • Jason Landis Downing

    • Senior Instructor
    • Race, Environmental Issues, Social Justice, Organic Agriculture/Food Justice

  • Andrew Goldsmith

    • Director of Sport Management
    • Assistant Professor
    • Organizational Behavior
    • Ethical Decision-Making
    • Whistleblowing
    • Intercollegiate Athletics

  • James Hale

    • Research Director of Community Food Systems and Social Sustainability
    • Community Food Systems
    • Community Development
    • Sustainability Transitions
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Rural Sociology

  • Orestes "Pat" Hastings

    • Associate Professor
    • Director of Graduate Studies
    • Stratification and Inequality
    • Parenting and Families
    • Economic Sociology
    • Religion
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Computational Social Science

  • Lynn Hempel

    • Associate Professor
    • Social Stratification
    • Social Theory

  • Michael Hogan

    • Associate Professor
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Law

  • Joanne Littlefield

    • Instructor
    • Image-Based Research
    • Community Identity Theory
    • Audience Reception Studies
    • Communication Technologies

  • Jessie Luna

    • Associate Professor
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Race
    • Food and Agriculture
    • International Development
    • Cultural Sociology
    • Science and Technology Studies
    • Political Ecology

  • Pat Mahoney

    • Associate Professor of Teaching
    • Social Theory
    • Health and Medicine
    • Technology, Work and Leisure
    • Social Movements
    • Sociology of the Body

  • Stephanie Malin

    • Professor
    • Environmental and Natural Resources Sociology
    • Rural Development
    • Environmental Justice &
    • Health
    • Social Movements
    • Environmental Governance
    • Sociology of Energy &
    • Extraction

  • KuoRay Mao

    • Associate Professor
    • Green Criminology
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Environmental Policy
    • Crime and Deviance
    • East Asian Studies
    • Environmental Law and Policy

  • Chris Moloney

    • Instructor
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Green Criminology
    • State Crime
    • Police Organizations
    • Organizational Behavior
    • Leadership
    • Qualitative Research Methods
    • Crime, Law, & Deviance

  • Jeffrey Nowacki

    • Associate Professor
    • Criminology
    • Police Organizations
    • Sentencing
    • Criminal Legal Systems

  • Erin O'Callaghan

    • Assistant Professor
    • Critical Criminology
    • Gender
    • Qualitative Research Methods
    • Social Justice
    • Law

  • Tara Opsal

    • Chair
    • Professor
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Program Evaluation
    • Corrections and Reentry
    • Green Criminology
    • Gender
    • Criminal Legal Systems

  • Laura Raynolds

    • Professor
    • Director Center for Fair &
    • Alternative Trade
    • Globalization
    • Food &
    • Agriculture
    • Development
    • Stratification
    • Gender
    • Fair Trade

  • Anthony Roberts

    • Associate Professor
    • Economic Sociology
    • Political Economy
    • Inequality
    • Development
    • Labor Policy
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Computational Social Science
    • Finance

  • Joshua Sbicca

    • Associate Professor
    • Associate Chair
    • Director of Prison Agriculture Lab
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Political Economy
    • Race and Ethnic Studies
    • Social Movements
    • Urban Studies
    • Prisons

  • Staci Shaffer

    • Instructor

  • Mark Shuey

    • Senior Instructor

  • Pete Taylor

    • Professor
    • Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology
    • Water Governance
    • Environmental Governance
    • International Development

  • Janelle Ashley Viera

    • Assistant Professor
    • Racial Formation
    • Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
    • Migration
    • Social Mobility
    • Puerto Ricans
    • U.S. Latines/as/os/xs

  • Elena Windsong

    • Associate Professor of Teaching
    • Director of Undergraduate Studies
    • Intersectionality
    • Race
    • Gender
    • Community
    • Place

Emeritus & Retired

Affiliates

Graduate Students and GTAs

  • km barnhardt

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Science and Technology Studies
    • Anti-/Decolonial Methodology
    • Infectious Diseases (TB)

  • Owen Braswell

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Political Sociology
    • Political Polarization
    • Social Movements

  • Feyla Buss

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Corrections and Reentry
    • Crime and Deviance

  • Katrina Cloyes

    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental and Social Justice
    • Social Norms
    • Environmental Policy
    • Human Dimension of Global Climate Change
    • Ethical Decision-Making

  • Jacob DeBruin

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Network Analysis

  • Emma Ellison

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • M.A. Student

  • Rebecca Forsythe

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Graduate Research Assistant
    • Food Systems
    • Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology
    • Sociology of Consumers and Consumption

  • Carissa Fostervold

  • Azmal Hossan

    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Human Dimension of Global Climate Change
    • Sociology of Food and Nutrition

  • Verena Knerich

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
    • Social Networks
    • Prosocial behavior change
    • Science of Team Science
    • Intervention Design
    • Diversity

  • Polina Kopeikin

    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Social Statistics
    • Water Governance
    • Water Quality
    • Environmental Policy

  • Wuying Lin

    • Doctoral Student/Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Development Sociology
    • Gender
    • Environmental and Social Justice

  • Adrienne Miller

    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Student

  • Amber Obermaier

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Food Insecurity
    • Life Course
    • Food Systems
    • Inequality &
    • Stratification

  • Cassandra Olivarez

    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Corrections and Reentry

  • Georgia Plotkin

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Political Sociology
    • Evaluation and Research Methods
    • Social Norms
    • Environmental Sociology

  • Jebadiha Potterf

    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Sociology of Drugs
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Sociology of Deviance
    • Green Criminology
    • Sociology of the Media
    • Cannabis and Psychedelic Studies

  • Rykr Ramirez

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Criminological Theory
    • Race & the CJ System

  • Emilia Ravetta

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental sociology
    • Climate migration
    • Environmental and Social Justice

  • Noel Strapko

    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Student

  • Laney Van

    • Ph.D Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Sociology of Food and Agriculture
    • Green Criminology
    • Radical Systems Change

  • Isabel Van Dyke-Johnson

    • Doctoral Student/Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental and Social Justice
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Mycology
    • Community Engagement

  • Catherine Venegas-Garcia

    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice

  • Nefratiri Weeks

    • Instructor
    • Graduate Research Assistant
    • Sociology Internship Coordinator
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Program Coordinator
    • Political Economy
    • Inequality
    • Economic, Political, and Social Crises
    • Development
    • Fair Trade

  • Jessie Xie

    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental and Social Justice
    • Environmental Soc
    • Political Soc
    • Social Movements
    • Mental Health
    • Gender
    • East Asian Studies

  • Yue Xu

    • Graduate Teaching Instructor
    • Ph.D. Candidate
    • East Asian Studies
    • Rural and Agricultural Policy and Rural Development
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Sociological Theory

Academic Success Coordinators

Staff