Department Chair
Andrea C. Klimt
Phone: 508.999.8831
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 393B
Interests: Socio-cultural anthropology; ethnicity and nationalism; Europe, contemporary US, & Portuguese diaspora; medical anthropology; transnational migration; history and memory
Department Secretary
Ida Almeida
Phone: 508.999.8401
Fax:508-999-8808
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392I
Faculty
Sadhana Bery
Phone: 508.999.8406
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392C
Interests: Critical race studies; whiteness; global white diaspora; colonialism, postcolonialism, imperialism; memory and amnesia (forgetting); intersectionality; social theory; critical race theory; black feminist theory; postcolonial Africa
Lisa Maya Knauer
Phone: 508.999.8405
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392G
Interests: Racial, economic, and cultural dynamics; immigration and diaspora; ethnography
Susan Krumholz (Director, Crime and Justice Studies)
Phone: 508.999.8370
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392H
Interests: Theories of justice, law and society, domestic violence, women's studies, alternative models of conflict resolution
Rachel Kulick
Phone: 508.999.8138
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399B
Interests: Visual culture; media democracy; social movements; gender and race, participatory action research methods
Yale R. Magrass
Phone: 508.999.8402
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392A
Interests: Social theory, historical and political sociology, methodology, social impact of science and technology
Larry M. Miller
Phone: 508.999.8404
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392E
Interests: Historical sociology, Meso-America, social theory, sociology of art and literature
Robin A. Robinson
Phone: 508.999.8788
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 393A
Interests: Female deviance, delinquency, and criminality, social policy, restorative justice, psychology of crime and justice, female religiosity
Isabel Fêo Rodrigues
Phone: 508.999.8408
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 396J
Interests: Cultural anthropology, ethnicity, race, gender, creolization, nationalism, colonialism; SubSaharan Africa, Afro-Atlantic, Luso-African Atlantic, and Brazil
On leave Fall 2010
Maria da Glória de Sá
Phone: 508.910.6888
Office: Library, Room M09
Interests: Portuguese-speaking diaspora in the U.S., immigration and ethnicity, ethnic and race relations, the family and stratification
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Phone: 508.910.6453
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392D
Interests: Black music, socio-political liberation movements and resistance; penology, criminological theories and the history of punishment; socio-structural analyses of institutional racism, classism and (hetero)sexism
Jack Stauder
Phone: 508.999.8400
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392F
Interests: Anthropology, marriage and family, social change, morality and human nature, environmental issues, ranching and the American West
Tryon Woods
Phone: 508.999.8765
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392B
Interests: African american and african diaspora stds; law and society; political and symbolic economies of violence and globalization
Full-time Lecturers
Colleen Avedikian
Phone: 508.999.8698
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399H
Heather Donovan
Phone: 508.999.8624
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399G
Dennis Roderick
Phone: 508.999.8624
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399G
Professor Emeritus
Roberta H. Aaronson
John E. Bush
Geraldine Gamburd
Janet Hilowitz
Donna L. Huse
Thomas K. Ranuga
Part-time Lecturers
Kathryn Caldera
Phone: 508.999.8400Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392F
Diane Quigley
Phone: 508.999.8404
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392E
Jean Robertson
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399G
Mia Rowland
Phone: 508.910.6889
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 396G
Corinn Williams
Virgilio Zanin
For office locations of part-time faculty, contact the Department secretary, Ida Almeida at 999-8401 or Email
