Faculty
Meet the Anthropology and Sociology Faculty
Faculty in anthropology and sociology and their interests are shown below. Contact individual faculty members via their linked profile pages.
Nancy Eberhardt, Chair
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1984
"I have always been fascinated with the relation between culture and mind, with how the particular cultural notions that we happen to have grown up with affect our cognitive processes more generally."
Lawrence BreitbordeProfessor of Anthropology and Dean of the College
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978
"For more than thirty years, I have been studying change in the lives of urban west Africans. Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the most intense locales for changes in the lifeways and values of people, with some of the highest rates of urbanization in the world, and extensive and complex multilingualism."
Jon WagnerProfessor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1975
"My present research interests converge on how we as a culture envision the development of social cooperation, from its beginnings in human evlution to the utopian experiments of the present and our pop-culture fantasies of the future."
Young-a ParkAssistant Professor of Anthropology-Sociology
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2006
Amy SingerAssistant Professor of Anthropology-Sociology
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2005
"My new research study, of Balinese sea salt, extends questions of cultural production and commodification, while connecting to questions of globalization, commerce, and consumption."
Maureen Mullinax Visting Instructor of Anthropology-Sociology
Ph.D., candidate, University of Kentucky-Lexington
"Working for over a decade as a cultural activist in Central Appalachia, I have connected with people in the process of creatively documenting the challenges they face through independent media production."
David AmorInstructor of
Journalism and Anthropology
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
M.A., Stanford University, 1974
"I am interested in the complex interplay among journalists and other media producers, the organizations they work for, larger social and political institutions, and the imaginative and material lives of the ordinary people who work, play, think and dream in a world saturated by the mass media."Cooperating Faculty from Other Programs
Diana BeckProfessor of
Educational Studies Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1997
"Working with two Navajo teachers on a fry bread research project and presenting it with them at the Navajo Studies National Conference was a very proud moment for them and their school-and for me."
Duane OldfieldAssociate Professor of
Political Science Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1992
"I am currently working on a book to be titled Confronting the New World Order: Labor, the Christian Right, and the Politics of Globalization. The book analyzes the ways in which social movements of the Left and the Right make sense of, politicize, and form alliances to deal with the processes frequently labeled with the term 'globalization.'"Lecturers
Wendel Hunigan
Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology
M.S., Illinois State University, 1971
Carol St. AmantLecturer in Anthropology and Sociology
M.A., University of Chicago, 1997
Emeritus Faculty
Jack Dean Fitzgerald
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Walter Murray North
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
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