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Meet the Social Service Faculty

The interdisciplinary Social Service minor brings together the expertise of professors from a variety of backgrounds including anthropology and sociology and psychology.

Tim Kasser Tim Kasser, Chair
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1994
"My research has recently been investigating how values relate to well-being in various nations around the world, as well as what leads some people to become especially focused on different types of values."
Duane Oldfield Duane Oldfield
Associate Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1992
"I am currently working on a book ... [that] 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.'"
Tianna CervantezTianna Cervantez
Lecturer in Anthropology-Sociology
A.M., University of Chicago, 2008
Carol St. Amant Carol St. Amant
Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology
M.A., Roosevelt University, 1969
M.A., University of Chicago, 1997
"As a professional social worker, while I worked in several different fields of practice, the bulk of my professional career was in the area of public child welfare delivery."
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