Faculty in anthropology and sociology and their interests are shown below. Contact individual faculty members via their linked profile pages.

Jon Wagner
Chair. Professor. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1975. North America, contemporary mythology, human evolution and adaptation.

David Amor
Instructor. M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986; M.A., Stanford University, 1974. Media and social change, political economy of media.

Lawrence Breitborde
Professor and Dean of the College. Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978. Anthropological linguistics, language and identity, sociolinguistics, Africa. 

Nancy Eberhardt
Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1984. Psychological anthropology, Southeast Asia, religion, gender.

Amy Singer
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Washington, 2005. Sociology of gender, popular culture, social inequality.

Jill Wightman
Visiting Instructor, Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana. Latin America, social theory, anthropology of religion.

Cooperating Faculty from Other Programs
Diana Beck
Associate Professor of Educational Studies. Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1997. Cognitive processes of science learning, theory and practice of teacher preparation, elementary curriculum and methods. 

Frederick Hord
Professor of Black Studies. Ph.D., Union Graduate School, 1987. Black Studies theory, African American literary criticism, Black psychology traditions, status of Blacks in Latin America.

Donna Jurich
Associate Professor of Educational Studies. Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2000. Teaching practices; language and ethnicity; race, class, gender and education; school restructuring.

Duane Oldfield
Associate Professor of Political Science. Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1992. American politics, political theory, comparative politics.

Lecturers
Wendel Hunigan
Carol St. Amant

Emeritus Faculty
Jack Dean Fitzgerald, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Walter Murray North, Professor Emeritus of Sociology