Faculty

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Jeffrey
Bennett, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Social Theory, Historical Anthropology, Revitalization Movements,
Tropes of Social and Bodily Disorder, Psychoanalysis, Portugal,
India |
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Linda M. Breytspraak,
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., Duke University
Gerontology; Medical Sociology; Life Course Development; Social Psychology |
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Burton Halpert,
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Organizational Sociology; Gerontology; Organization and Delivery
of Health Care; Sociology of the Holocaust |

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G. Derrick Hodge,
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York
Political Economy, Post-Socialism, Youth, Gangs, Consumption,
Gender; Cuba, Latin America, Caribbean, and Post-Socialist World
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Jenny Huberman, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Tourism, childhood, consumption, and labor, particularly within
the context of South Asia. |
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Shannon Jackson,
Associate
Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Social/Cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Social Theory,
Embodiment, and the Public Sphere
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Ricardo M.
Marte, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno
Social Psychology,
Adolescence, Delinquency, Problem Behaviors, Social Development
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Sookhee
Oh, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The New School
Immigrant incorporation; ethnic residential pattern; suburban
ethnic enclaves
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Philip G. Olson,
Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University
Urban Sociology; Research Methods; Field Interns |
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Clovis Semmes,
Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
African American Institutions, Culture, and Social Movements;
African American Popular and Expressive Culture; Health Systems
and Health Behavior; Alternative and Nonmedical Health
Practices; Systemic Inequality; Comparative Urban Communities;
Afrocentric Theory |
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Peter Singelmann,
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas
Latin America (Mexico); Peasants; Race and Ethnicity; Theory |
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Deborah Smith,
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Family Studies; Work and Family; Retirement; Family Policy |
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Theresa
Torres, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Catholic University
Latinos/Hispanics in the United States, particularly in the
Kansas City area, Diversity on College Campuses, Marian Devotion,
Gender Issues, History of Latinos within the U.S. Roman Catholicism,
Immigrants in the U.S., Hispanic Women and the Role of Religious
Belief within Their Social and Civic Activism |

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Ann Marie Wood,
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Race and Ethnicity; Gerontology; Social Stratification and
Inequality; Medical Sociology; HIV/AIDs
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Professor Emeritus
Joint Appointments
Staff
Graduate
Teaching/Research Assistants

Ernest Manheim
Oscar Eggers
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