Full-time Faculty

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  • Sophia Balakian

    Sophia Balakian

    Assistant Professor

    Migration and borders, humanitarianism, securitization, kinship and family, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, North America

  • Amy L Best

    Amy L Best

    Professor

    Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation

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  • Bryan D Caplan

    Bryan D Caplan

    Professor

    Public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, economics of the family

  • Carol Cleaveland

    Carol Cleaveland

    Associate Professor

    Immigration, advocacy

  • Michael A Clemens

    Michael A Clemens

    Professor

    Migration and development, economic growth, aid effectiveness, economic history.

  • Sarah Cobb

    Sarah Cobb

    Professor

    Professor, conflict analysis and resolution

  • Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

    Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

    University Affiliate

    Professor

    Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, social movements, and human trafficking

  • Tyler Cowen

    Tyler Cowen

    Professor

    Monetary theory, financial economics, and welfare economics

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  • Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen

    Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen

    Assistant Director

    Instructor

    U.S. immigration law and policy; legality, citizenship, membership, and belonging; immigrant incorporation; refugee resettlement; global migration management; Middle East migration

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  • Benjamin Gatling

    Benjamin Gatling

    Associate Professor

    narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East

  • Justin Gest

    Justin Gest

    Professor

    Immigration policy, minority political behavior, comparative immigration politics

  • Lisa Gilman

    Lisa Gilman

    Professor

    Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.

  • Lisa Gring-Pemble

    Lisa Gring-Pemble

    University Affiliate

    Associate Professor

    Social impact, innovation, and entrepreneurship; Rhetorical criticism, argument, persuasion; Political communication and public policy

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  • Steve A. Harris-Scott

    Steve A. Harris-Scott

    Instructor

    Research: Colonial Virginia, Early Modern Atlantic World, bound/unfree labor (slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship), environmental history and history of diseases/pandemics

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  • Dae Young Kim

    Dae Young Kim

    Associate Professor

    Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization

  • Maurice Kugler

    Maurice Kugler

    Professor

    Professor, Public Policy

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  • Brian Louis Levy

    Brian Louis Levy

    Assistant Professor

    Inequality, Poverty, Mobility; Neighborhoods; Community and Urban Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Education; Social Demography; Quantitative Research Methods; Causal Inference

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  • Eric McGlinchey

    Eric McGlinchey

    University Affiliate

    Associate Professor

    Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society

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  • Kelly K. Richter

    Kelly K. Richter

    Assistant Professor

    U.S. Politics and Legal Studies; Social Policy; Immigration Policy

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  • Jonathan F Schulz

    Jonathan F Schulz

    Assistant Professor

    Cultural Evolution, Economic History, Experimental and Behavioral Economics

  • Blake Silver

    Blake Silver

    Associate Professor

    Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; race, class, and gender; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; second-generation immigrant students

  • Ilya Somin

    Ilya Somin

    University Affiliate

    Professor

    Constitutional Law, Democratic Theory, Eminent Domain, Federalism, Immigration, Political Participation/Political Knowledge, Property Rights

  • Sandip Sureka

    Sandip Sureka

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Immigration, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics

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  • Susan R Trencher

    Susan R Trencher

    Associate Professor

    American culture, the anthropology of anthropology, sociology of knowledge, anthropological theory and practice, and the history of anthropology

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  • Eric Waithaka

    Eric Waithaka

    Assistant Professor

    African immigrant health, young adults

  • James Witte

    James Witte

    Director

    Professor

    Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan

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  • Andrea K Zach

    Andrea K Zach

    Assistant Professor

    Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.