Sociology/Anthropology/Criminal Justice 

Faculty Information

 

Full-Time Faculty

 

Name

Caronna, Carol (Ph.D. Sociology, Stanford University.)  Areas: Organizations; Occupations and Work; Sociology of Gender; Healthcare.

Clifford, Elizabeth (Ph.D. Sociology, Northwestern University.) Areas: Inequality; Race and Ethnicity; International Migration.

Cockey, Marion (M.A. Sociology, University of Tennessee.) Areas: Corrections; Sociology of Law; Interpersonal Violence; Juvenile Delinquency; Women and Criminal Justice.

Collins, Sam (Ph.D. Anthropology, American University.) Areas: Cultural Anthropology; Information Society; Globalization; Korean Society; American Culture; Cultural Studies, Ethnographic Methods.

Dukes, Kimberly (Ph.D. Anthropology, Temple University.) Areas: South Asia; Cultural Citizenship; Exile and Displacement; Nationalism and Transnationalism; Film; Visual Anthropology.

Durington, Matthew (Ph.D. Anthropology, Temple University.)  Areas: Africa and African Diaspora; Moral Panics, Suburban and Drug Cultures; Urban Anthropology; Visual Anthropology; Ethnographic Methods. 

Elliot, Michael (Ph.D. Sociology, Emory University.)  Areas: Globalization, Political Sociology, Human Rights, Sociological Theory, Historical-Comparative.

Fisher, Vic (Ph.D. Anthropology, Union Institute and University.) Areas: Human Evolution and Prehistory; North American Indians; North American Archaeology; Eskimo Ethnography; Native American Archaeoastronomy; Pueblo Ethnography; Archaeological Method & Theory.

Garcia, Whitney (Ph.D. Policy Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore County.)  Areas: Sociological Theory; Sociology of HIV/AIDS; Social Policy; Sociology of Race, Class, and Gender; Medical Sociology.

Gorman, Brian (J.D. New York Law School.)  Areas: Criminal Law; American Judiciary; Biosecurity; Homeland Security.

Hughes, Marion (Ph.D. Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.)  Areas: Social Demography; Quantitative Methods; Family; Adolescent Parenthood; Life Course Analysis; Gender; Race and Ethnicity; Social Problems.

Kollmann, Dana (Ph.D. Anthropology, American University)  Areas: Forensic Archaeology; Criminal Forensics; Crime Scene Investigation; Archaeological Grave Identification and Exhumation; Physical Anthropological Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains; Forensic and Technical Photography.

Langdon, Jennifer (Ph.D., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University.)  Areas: Restorative Justice; Ethics in Criminal Justice; Domestic Violence; Women and Crime; Sociology of Law.

Larson, Jeff (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Arizona) Areas: Social Movements; Organizations; Culture; Social Network Analysis; Institutions & Institutional Change.

Manasse, Michelle (Ph.D. Sociology, Emory University.)  Areas: Crime and Mental Health; Prisons and Corrections; Youth Crime; Criminological Theory.

Munroe, Paul (Ph.D. Sociology, Stanford University.)  Areas: Group Processes; Social Psychology; Stratification and Inequality; Adolescence; Research Methods.

Nixon, Howard (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.)  Areas: Sociology of Sport; Sociological Analysis; Computer Applications in Sociology; Pain and Injury in Sport; Sociology of Disability and Rehabilitation; Sport and Disability. 

Pryor, Doug (Ph.D. Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington.)  Areas: Deviant Behavior; Sex Crimes; Interpretive Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Juvenile Delinquency; Fear of Crime; Criminological Theory.

Sealock, Miriam (Ph.D. Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland-College Park.)  Areas: Criminal Justice; Policing; Delinquency Prevention and Treatment; Online Victimization; Criminological Theory; Research Methods.

Tsitsos, William (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Arizona.)  Areas: Sociology of Religion; Popular Culture; Mass Media; Social Statistics.

Turé, Kalfani (ABD Anthropology, American University; M.A. Applied Anthropology, Georgia State University.)  Areas: Race, Gender and Social Justice; African-American Adolescent Drug Culture; Urban Housing Issues; Residential Space and Identity; Qualitative Research.

 

Lecturers

Name

Hartmark, Erik (ABD, M.A. Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park.)  Areas: Sociology of Education; Urban Sociology; Social Psychology.

Wall, Bob (Ph.D. Anthropology, Catholic University.)  Areas: Public Archaeology; Lithic Technology and Prehistoric Ceramics; Eastern North American Prehistory; Canadian Subarctic; Geographic Information Systems; Geomorphology.

 

Part-Time Faculty

Name
Assing-Murray, Evva (Ph.D. Sociology, American University.)  Areas: Program Evaluation; Applied Research Methodology; Survey Design; Focus Group Interviewing; Stratification; Health and Development; HIV/AIDS. 

Baraloto, Jared (M.A. Sociology.)  Areas: Policy Development; SPSS and Statistical Analysis; Database Management; Program Evaluation.

Brotman, Edith (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Virginia.)  Areas: Sociology of Race, Class and Gender; Sociology of Gender; Public Sociology; Collective Memory; Cultural Sociology; Stratification.

Buresh, Scott (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Virginia.)  Areas: Religion, Magic & Witchcraft; Islamic Religion.

Dashiell, Steven L. (M.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County.) Areas: Social Inequality; Health Sociology; Internet Social Interactions.

Feder-Alford, Elaine (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Texas.)  Areas: Ethnomethodology; Phenomenology; Social Psychology.

Fernstrom, Katharine (Ph.D. Anthropology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.)  Areas:

Archaeology; Ethnohistory; Native American and Melanesian Arts and Material Culture; Exchange Systems; Social Organization.

Hall, Charlie (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.)  Areas: Eastern U.S. Archaeology; Prehistoric Settlement Systems; Cultural Resources Management; Cultural Ecology; Geographic Information Systems.  Current Related Position: Maryland Department of Planning.

Hopkins, Jody (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago.)  Areas: Archaeology-Prehistoric and Historic; Cultural Resources Studies; Civilization; Mesoamerica; Archaeological Methods.  Previous Related Position: President of Joseph Hopkins Associates Inc., a cultural resources consulting firm.

Jackson, Walter (M.S. Criminal Justice, Coppin State College.)  Areas: Juvenile Justice System; Restorative Justice; Juvenile Justice Policy; Youth Crime and Victimization; Juvenile Probation.  Current Related Position: Maryland Department of Juvenile Justice.

Jelenewicz, Shameeka (M.A. Applied Sociology, University of Maryland-Baltimore County.)  Areas: Youth and Society; Public Health and Well-Being; Teenage Contraception; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Black America; Survey Research.
Johnson, Gerard (M.A. Social Anthropology, University of London-SOAS.) Areas: Political Sociology; Anthropology; Cultural Studies.

Knapp, Roland (J.D. University of Baltimore; M.Ed. Coppin State College)  Areas: Community Corrections; Prisons; Delinquency and Juvenile Justice.  Previous Related Position: Director, Maryland Division of Parole and Probation.

Kopelentova-Rehak, Jana (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, American University.)  Areas: Central and Eastern Europe; Political Prisoners; Anthropology and Photography.

Lyman, Brad (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park.)  Areas: Urban Sociology; Social Stratification; Societal Development; Teaching Sociology Using Technology.  Current Related Position: Professor of Sociology, Baltimore City Community College.

Mitchell, Richard (M.A. Anthropology, Wichita State University.)  Areas: Native American Indian Communities; Preservation of American Indian Cultural Properties; Anglo-Indian Relations.  Previous Related Positions: Executive Director at Mid America All Indian Center (MAAIC) in Wichita, Kansas; Museum Director, Indian Center Museum at MAAIC.

Nikolov, Boris (Ph.D. Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University; M.A. Anthropology, The New School for Social Research.)  Areas: Religion; the Middle East; East and Central Europe; Mass Culture; Cultural Anthropology.

Pfoertsch, Ingrid (M.A. Cultural Geography, Otto-Friedrich University in Germany.)  Areas: Sociology of Sport; Social Problems; Urban Planning.

Roussey, Fred (M.S. Management, Johns Hopkins University.)  Areas: Police Administration; Child Abuse.  Previous Related Positions: Detective Baltimore City Police Department Child Abuse Unit; Instructor Baltimore City Police Department Education and Training Section; Shift Commander Baltimore City Police Department Central District.

Skinner, John (M.S. Criminal Justice, University of Baltimore).  Areas: Criminal Intelligence; Prevention and Control of Violent Crime; Homeland Security.  Current Related Position: Commanding Officer, Central District, Baltimore City Police Department. 

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