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Department Directory

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.

    Personal Homepage | Curriculum Vitae
  • 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.

    Personal Homepage | Curriculum Vitae
  • 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.

    Personal Homepage | Curriculum Vitae
  • 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

    Personal Homepage | Curriculum Vitae
  • 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

    Curriculum Vitae

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