Department Head

• David R. Novack
  Professor of Sociology
  Baker 111
  540-458-8792
  novackd@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: college students’ attitudes toward gender issues, sexual behaviors, gender responsibility, and sexual assault and rape.
  
  Curriculum Vitae

Faculty

• Alison Bell
  Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  Newcomb 20
  540-458-8639
  bella@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: Using diverse sources – including archaeological remains, vernacular architecture, oral histories, and historic documents – to ask anthropological questions about 18th-and 19th-century communities in Virginia; particularly interested in questions of consumption, identity, individual agency and structural power.
  
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• Leslie G. Cintron
  Assistant Professor of Sociology
  Baker 307
  540-458-8791
  cintronl@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: cultural sociology, organizations, national culture and national identity, heritage studies, the study of work-life balance, generational analysis, cities and regions.
  
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• Sean Devlin
  Staff Archaeologist/Anthropology Instructor
  Baker 304
  540-458-8574
  devlins@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: Issues of identity construction, particularly as it has been and is used to both create and moderate social inequality, and the relationship between archaeology and local descendant communities of the present.
• Jonathan Eastwood
  Assistant Professor of Sociology
  Baker 308
  540-458-8777
  eastwoodj@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: nationalism and national identity (with a particular focus on Latin American cases); sociology of religion; sociology of literature; Venezuelan politics and society
• Sascha L. Goluboff
  Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
  Baker 310
  540-458-8807
  goluboffs@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: intersections of gender, religion, ritual, and ethnicity/race; ethnographic research on Jewish religious revival in Moscow, Russia; Mountain Jewish death rituals and lamentation in Northeastern Azerbaijan; and Black church culture in Southwestern Virginina.
  
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• Krzysztof Jasiewicz
  William P. Ames Jr. Professor in Sociology and Anthropology
  Baker Hall 312
  540-458-8790
  jasiewiczk@wlu.edu
  
  Research interests: political sociology, elections and voting behavior, post-communism, Polish politics
  
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• Harvey Markowitz
  Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology
  Baker 305
  540-458-8214
  markowitzh@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: inter-relationships among American Indian religions, landscapes, cultures, histories, and identities.

Emeritus Faculty

• John McDaniel
  Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
  mcdanielj@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: publications in archaeology, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology; primarily research primarily oriented to historic site archaeology.
• O. Kendall White, Jr.
  Professor Emeritus of Sociology
  whitek@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: sociology of religion, social movements, social organization, social psychology, political sociology, race and ethnic relations
  
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Staff

• Jacque L. Bruce
  Administrative Assistant
  Tucker 310
  Mornings: 540-458-8831, Afternoons: 540-458-8798
  brucej@wlu.edu
• Karen Lyle
  Administrative Assistant
  Baker Hall 119
  540-458-8798
  lylek@wlu.edu