PEOPLE

Meet Our Team

Faculty & Instructors

  • Shawna Bendeck
    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Candidate
    • Graduate Research Assistant
    • Sociology of Disasters
    • Community Resilience
    • Children, Youth, and Families
    • Education
    • Social Networks

  • Michael Carolan
    • Professor of Sociology
    • Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development

  • Jennifer E. Cross
    • Professor
    • Behavior Change
    • Conservation and Sustainability
    • Social Networks
    • Evaluation and Research Methods
    • Science of Team Science

  • Steven Dandaneau
    • Associate Provost & Associate Professor
    • Social Theory
    • Political Economy
    • Community Sociology
    • Higher Education

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

  • Andrew Goldsmith
    • Assistant Professor
    • Organizational Behavior
    • Ethical Decision-Making
    • Whistleblowing
    • Intercollegiate Athletics

  • Orestes "Pat" Hastings
    • Assistant Professor
    • Stratification & Inequality
    • Families & Parenting
    • Economic Sociology
    • Sociology of Religion
    • Social Policy
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Computational Social Science

  • Lynn Hempel
    • Associate Professor
    • Social Stratification
    • Social Theory

  • Michael Hogan
    • Associate Professor
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice

  • Lahoma Howard
    • Instructor

  • Annabel Ipsen
    • Assistant Professor
    • International & Community Development
    • Agri-food Systems
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Political Economy
    • Gender

  • Kirk Jentoft
    • Instructor
    • Ph.D Student

  • Sneha Kadyan
    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Globalization
    • Gender
    • Education
    • Fair Trade

  • Jessie Luna
    • Assistant Professor
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Race
    • Food and Agriculture
    • International Development
    • Cultural Sociology
    • Science and Technology Studies

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

  • Stephanie Malin
    • Associate 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
    • Globalization
    • Crime and Deviance
    • China & East Asia

  • Meghan Mordy
    • Instructor

  • Jeffrey Nowacki
    • Assistant Professor
    • Director of Graduate Studies
    • Criminal Justice Organization (CJO) Advisor
    • Criminology
    • Police Organizations
    • Courts & Sentencing

  • Tara Opsal
    • Associate Professor
    • Director of Undergraduate Studies
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Program Evaluation
    • Corrections and Reentry
    • Green Criminology
    • Gender

  • 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

  • Laura Raynolds
    • Professor
    • Director of Graduate Studies
    • Globalization
    • Food & Agriculture
    • Development
    • Stratification
    • Gender
    • Fair Trade

  • Anthony Roberts
    • Assistant Professor
    • Inequality & Stratification
    • Economic Sociology
    • Global & Comparative Political Economy
    • Economic Development
    • Labor Regulation
    • Quantitative Methods

  • Joshua Sbicca
    • Associate Professor
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Inequalities
    • Political Economy
    • Race and Ethnic Studies
    • Social Movements
    • Urban Studies

  • Staci Shaffer
    • Instructor

  • Yan Shan
    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Agriculture
    • Rural Sociology
    • Survey Methodology

  • Mark Shuey
    • Senior Instructor

  • Jessie Stewart
    • Academic Success Coordinator, Special Instructor

  • Noel Strapko
    • Instructor
    • Ph.D. Student

  • Pete Taylor
    • Professor
    • Chair
    • Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology
    • Water Governance
    • Environmental Governance
    • International Development

  • Prabha Unnithan
    • Professor
    • Criminology and Criminal Justice
    • Policy Analysis
    • Program Evaluation

  • 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

  • Elena Windsong
    • Assistant Professor of Teaching
    • Intersectionality
    • Race
    • Gender
    • Community
    • Place

Emeritus & Retired

Affiliates

Graduate Students and GTAs

  • Kellie Alexander
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Instructor
    • Graduate Research Assistant
    • Crime, Law, & Deviance
    • Criminology
    • Qualitative Methods

  • Parker Arnold
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Rural Sociology
    • Sociology of Food and Agriculture
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Conservation and Sustainability

  • Kieran Barrett
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • M.A. Student
    • Critical Criminology
    • Abolition
    • Green Criminology
    • Environmental Justice

  • Rebecca Clark-Hargreaves
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Graduate Research Assistant
    • Food Systems
    • Carceral Systems
    • Social Movements

  • Jacob DeBruin
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • M.A. Student
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Environmental Governance
    • Disasters and Crises
    • Theory

  • Lauren Fosbenner
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Graduate Research Assistant, Institute for the Built Environment
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Local Climate Action
    • Community Based Research

  • Sara Gill
    • Academic Coordinator
    • M.A. Student
    • Gender
    • Race
    • Children and Youth
    • Disasters

  • Nicholas Greenfield
    • Ph.D. Student

  • Ian Greenwood
    • Instructor

  • Azmal Hossan
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Human Dimension of Global Climate Change
    • Sociology of Food and Nutrition

  • Jianheng Huang
    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Green Criminology
    • Globalization
    • Labor Regulation
    • East Asian Studies

  • Tim Jansury
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • M.A. Student
    • Inequality & Stratification
    • Food Studies
    • Race and Ethnic Studies
    • Social Movements

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

  • Benja Kromash
    • M.A. Student
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Race
    • Food Studies
    • Gender
    • LGBTQ Studies

  • India Luxton
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
    • Qualitative Research Methods
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Community Based Research

  • Austin Luzbetak
    • Ph.D. Student/Instructor
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental Justice
    • Green Criminology
    • Human Dimension of Global Climate Change

  • Adrienne Miller
    • Ph.D. Student

  • Chris Moloney
    • Ph.D. Student

  • Laurence Pedroni
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Environmental Sociology
    • Race and Ethnic Studies
    • Criminology

  • Elizabeth Plombon
    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Research Assistant
    • Natural Resources
    • Water Management

  • Chelsey Potter
    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Research Assistant
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Technology
    • Crime and Deviance
    • Social Control
    • Criminology

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

  • Juliet Seibel
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • M.A. Student
    • Environmental & Natural Resource Sociology
    • Environmental Justice

  • Shelby Sims
    • M.A. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Elijah Thunell
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Yue Xu
    • Ph.D. Student
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Globalization
    • East Asian Studies
    • Rural and Agricultural Policy and Rural Development

Academic Success Coordinators

Staff